http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/statingtheobvious http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/statingtheobvious "Fire people who are not workaholics.... come on folks, this is startup life, it's not a game. go work at the post office or stabucks if you want balance in your life." — Funtrepreneur Jason Calacanis. After a bunch of other bloggers whined at him, Calacanis rewrote the line to a politically correct "fire people who don't love their work." By that standard, I'd have been continuously unemployed since 1977.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=365592&view=rss&microfeed=true National editors and radio producers are hounding me to "weigh in" on the obscure business mistakes made by Yahoo's rotating cast of forgettable characters. Why bother? Just look at the site's cluttered, tacky, fat-download pages. The shrieky, out-of-tune verbiage and garish illustrations resemble my friends' failed attempts to write books for children. I don't know what it is about the Yahoo Messenger smiley that makes me want to punch it in the face, but there's your brand promise right there: Hit me.

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