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43Folders.com is Merlin Mann’s website about finding the time and attention to do your best creative work.

Custom Titles

You are permitted and encouraged to make up your own "title" as a user here. Just go to the "Personal" area of your profile and give yourself a swanky one.

I especially like the corporate angle a few of us have taken. For example, I'm "Chief Handwaving Officer" and I notice the Josh is "Vice President in Charge of Index Cards."

I think this is funny, and it would delight me if you'd consider a Corporate President, VP, Director, or C-Level title that reflects your habit, obsession, or worst characteristic. :)

See you in the steam room, you magnificent bastards.


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Tinjaw's picture

I would imagine that somebody...

I would imagine that somebody around here will be willing to put off doing real work by creating a Web 2.0 AJAX-enabled Official Office Title Generator that outputs to XML or TXT.

Robert Daeley's picture

Never mind Ajax, just Google...

Never mind Ajax, just Google 'corporate titles' for many fine inspirational starting points. ;)

Laura M.'s picture

See you in the steam...

Merlin wrote:
See you in the steam room, you magnificent bastards.

What? Merlin, I think I'll need to auto-proclaim me Chief Gender Sensitivity Officer or whatever it's called. (Hey, whatever doesn't sound bad)

two.olives's picture

That was a nice touch...

That was a nice touch Merlin.. way better than the canned ones most boards use tied to your number of posts.

patrickrhone's picture

I never knew a message...

I never knew a message board could be this fun! Check mine:

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Merlin's picture

That was a nice touch...

two.olives wrote:
That was a nice touch Merlin.. way better than the canned ones most boards use tied to your number of posts.

Creating an incentive for raw volume of posts is like rewarding the employee who generates the most email. :)

guerom00's picture

I'm not very imaginative :(...

I'm not very imaginative :( :lol:

jethro.'s picture

Run!!! Run For Your Lives!!!!!!!!! <---...

Run!!! Run For Your Lives!!!!!!!!!

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Merlin's picture

Nota bene, friends: that although...

Nota bene, friends: that although we've massively upgraded the board to vBulletin, you still have the ability to make your own title (and I still very much encourage you to do so). The defaults, as you see, are cheesy and based on number of posts rather than imagination :(

After you login just go here and fill in your "Custom User Title."

Let me know if you encounter any problems. Thanks!

lolindrath's picture

I had to request a...

I had to request a new password, my old one wasn't working for some reason but everything is peachy keen now and custom title is set!

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