Category: Best-of
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The Enervation of Social Platforms Continues…
Why Artifact is of the past and what does “social” mean tomorrow? … All along the watchtower, princes kept the viewWhile all the women came and went, barefoot servants, tooOutside in the distance a wildcat did growlTwo riders were approaching, the wind began to howl 1 … Social Networking is 20 years old. Friendster in…
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Covid Made Me Do It: Life, Love & Work
Purpose. The Only Road 2020’s Dumpster Fires Led Us To and Why! By good rights I ought not to have so much Put on me, but there seems no other way. Len says one steady pull more ought to do it. 55 He says the best way out is always through. This post has been…
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Time for Stories: The Next Era Of Social Media is Now!
12 years. 3 Startups. LinkedIn & Twitter are two of the startups in social tech, I’ve been a part of. Here’s my third – Firework.
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On CEOs: Good to Great
3 Lessons I Learned from Jeff Weiner at LinkedIn My five years at LinkedIn 1 is the best experience of my career. One of the biggest reasons: Jeff Weiner. Here’s my thoughts on what made Jeff the best CEO I’ve ever worked with, as he transitioned his role a month ago to Ryan Roslansky after…
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2020: Reflections on a Year Gone Wrong!
How I escaped my worst year and what it taught me about 2020 It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. 2020 was the worst of times! Table of Contents 2020: Reflections on a Year Gone So Wrong! How I escaped my worst year and what it taught me about 2020…
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Write like the President’s Speechwriter
Remember, President Obama’s triumphant “Yes, We Can” speech, or the hopeful New Hampshire concession speech or most recently the comforting Newton tragedy speech… Words matter and a President’s words carry meaning to hundreds of millions of people; it helps sooth, comfort, and uplift a nation. So there’s a lot we can learn about writing from…
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Bad Communication, according to Larry Page
I’ve written about great communicators like Steve Jobs, I’ve called out lame attempts by Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos who tried copying the master and failed, and I now gotta write about bad communication, courtesy of Google CEO Larry Page. Scott Edinger’s recap of Aristotle’s three rules of rhetoric helped me pull together the three elements…
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Why I blog and why you should too
The toughest part of blogging is keeping up the urge to blog seven days a week. This post, inspired by Orwell, started out as my quest to find out why I blog, but it kinda evolved into an outline on why you should too. Trust me on this one: blogging’s tough to keep up with, there’s no…
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Find your Inner Blog.
“Don’t censor yourself. Don’t go along with the crowd. Don’t be greedy. Don’t be cheap. Young as you are, play dead — so that your eyes will stay open.” – Nadine Gordimer Thus ends Jeffrey Eugenides’ advice to 10 Whiting Award winners this past year. Words that resonate strongly with me during this holiday season for…
Notes from Nothing 