Month: August 2014

“Bright and shiny”

My best friend in high school used to compare humans to seagulls, always getting distracted by bright and shiny objects. A new client, in the midst of a career transition, was discussing her latest company, with whom she had abruptly parted ways, as one of those “bright and shiny” distractions; she had believed the hype…
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August 7, 2014 0

Ambitious Mondays: Finding Your Place Edition

I was originally going to write about the importance of finding your (emotional) niche in the work world, in order to have any lasting chance of success, approaching the problem from the POV of recent college graduates, and then I thought, “How many grown people in their 40s or 50s have found their niche?” Therefore,…
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August 4, 2014 0

A true story guide to using Twitter, in 2 steps!

It’s Saturday, a day that many social media experts (The Onion understands social media “experts” perfectly) will tell you, that owing to extremely high online traffic, is a GREAT day to update your blog, tweet, put some content on Facebook and sell,goddammit SELL, I mean, change the conversation. Some people are surprised that so many…
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August 2, 2014 0

On LinkedIn and life lessons

I don’t want to talk smack about LinkedIn, because, in my opinion, the problem isn’t LinkedIn so much, as the depressing ways people (mis)use it. So much of people’s mistakes on LinkedIn arise, I believe, from people’s insecurity, their self-loathing, their inability to believe in themselves or their abilities. There’s a lot of people on…
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August 1, 2014 0