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Summer Cons
Thank you to Geoff Cottrill and our friends at Converse, especially the Jack Purcell team, surprising me with these beauties. I’m wearing them starting now.
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A New Mobile Version of The Blog Is Up (Thanks For Bearing With Us)
We’ve made some changes to the mobile version of SomethingBurning, to make it easier to read and share. Thanks to Paul DeGeorges and F Train Media for hooking it all up. And thank you to everyone for all the great feedback and sharing!
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Thinking Of “Career” As Bodies Of Work
When I was a teenager, my dad handed me the book most dads hand kids who don’t know what they want to do with their careers. Twenty-five years later, I’m still slowly figuring out what color my parachute is. What we want to be when we grow up is something I talk about all the time with…
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Are You Following A Lemming?
I had lunch with some senior leaders of a large company, one we all know well. A company that’s run by people with just enough hubris to not realize they’re going to be out of work, one way or another, in the next 12 months (at most). Why? Not because they’re not smart or talented or charismatic. The fact that they’re all…
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Privacy Grave
Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Pretty sure privacy died a while back, but still…
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150 People Knitting Boobs
It was 9am on a beautiful Friday morning in Brooklyn, four years ago, the first ever Viacommunity Day, a day of service for all employees of our company. I was walking up to my wife’s art studio with several bags of bagels. She was expecting about 50 people that morning. Neither of us expected our CEO to…
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Ambition
On the rain’s third day, the ants came with purpose and simple missions. Ants who are always themselves and nothing more.
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Need To Complain About Millennials? Here’s Where…
I spoke at the inaugural DLD NYC Conference, today, where Scratch launched the Millennial Complaint Hotline. Call 1-855-SO-ENTITLED and bitch about Millennials if you want. The fact that no one will ever return your call does not seem to be stopping people from leaving hilarious messages hating on the largest generation in history.
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A Question At Dinner & A Visit To Medium
Last week, the CEO of one of the largest companies in America asked me privately how I feel about new media insurgents like BuzzFeed disrupting traditional media models. BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti was sitting right beside me. (Hi, Jonah.) The answer’s easy: Every meaningful insurgent has something to teach us. When disruptive new businesses succeed,…
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In Praise Of People Who Make Us Uncomfortable
People who don’t think like we do… make us uncomfortable. We don’t like to be around people who make us uncomfortable. The more successful we become, the less we’re forced to be around people who make us uncomfortable. The less we’re around people who make us uncomfortable, the more comfortable we become. The more comfortable…
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