Lifehacker has featured so many of Amit's hacks over the years that I started going over to his blog regularly a couple of years ago. Especially for his Google Apps Scripts and other tricks relating to Google products. Although he doesn't post as often as Lifehacker, I check both blogs daily to see what new tricks he…

So does this work if you dont have a land phone service but an unactivated outlet in your residence?

Will it work if you don't have service with the phone company? I think its still connected but probably no dial tone, so I'm guessing it has no power.

who cares if something already exists? do it better. do it different. just do it. everything already exists.

well you're asking a very practical and intelligent question. Do a venn diagram between what can support you and what you can do well and what you want to do well and you'll find a next step in your career there. make sense?

You don't have to be original - in fact new ideas rarely make money, it's those who refine and commercialize it that make it. Pick what you like, ideally something that you think isn't being done well enough, then do it better than everyone who's doing it now.