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VisiBone is a small company, about as small as you can imagine. I'm Bob Stein, programmer and writer by trade. Making useful things is boundlessly rewarding to me. Things actual people actually use. I stumbled on this quite unintentionally. I want to spend more time with customers and collaborators as less time in all other working relationships. Scott Adams' second most important contribution to civilization I suggest (after Dilbert) is the concept of one-off. The gist: direct is better than indirect. Helping a living, breathing customer is better than writing a memo about helping customers. Extending the concept to relationships, I've had the biggest gas with customers. I call these relationships zero-off. They're my well of purpose and inspiration, and now sustenance. It's fun working with the printers and suppliers. These people get their hands on product. Those relationships are one-off. No comparison to customers but still very important and enjoyable. I often say "we" thinking of these good people. It's been another kind of experience working with the infrastructure, the ISP's and purveyors of various technologies and services. These relationships are crucial, but of a different order. Then there are the three-off's and four-off's, the banks and the governments. God bless 'em, I love them all. Couldn't live without them. But the spectrum of relationships is very wide. Ocean, raindrop, water molecule. I'm oh so gradually working my way back to the source, down to zero-off: working with trusted friends, making useful things. I interact with some individuals on many levels. The relationship is what I mean to emphasize. I have the most fun when we're talking about something useful. In the history of man it seems possible to maximize zero-off relations to a greater degree now than ever before. I'd not have been able to go this far as a one-man-band even five years ago. Perhaps what you're up to now, you couldn't have pulled off five years ago either. The internet is not what's happening the earth is what's ...