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Will 2023 Bring Back Personal Blogging?

As we head into the new year (Happy New Year! 🥳), hot on the heels of my own decision to re-commit to a personal blog and owning my own content, The Verge has posted an interesting article called Bring back personal blogging. One section addressed owning your own content and platform:

I Tried Emailing Like A CEO And Quite Frankly, It Made My Life Better

Came across this BuzzFeed News article by Katie Notopoulos and it really resonated with me. The gist is to essentially treat email more like text messages. Respond quickly and succinctly whenever possible. The way she described her previous approach to email really resonated with me: What trips me up most

Finding Your Passion at Work

I really enjoyed this article from the Wall Street Journal (warning: paywall ahead) about getting burned out at work and following your passion. It gave me a chance to reflect on my own career path that brought me to where I am today. I started with a job at a

Nilay got his mom a Chromebook Pixel

Nilay Patel is the editor in chief at The Verge and recently faced a predicament that many tech-savvy children of less tech-savvy parents face: Getting them a new computer. In many ways, now is the best time in history to buy a new computer. Never before have such powerful machines

Exclusive: Zappos CEO Responds To Reports Of Employee Departures After Radical Management Experiment

In case you missed it (which I did, apparently), there's been some recent press speculating about turnover at Zappos. Greg Ferenstein got an interview with CEO Tony Hseih and "non-titled executive" Fred Mossler. The entire post is worth a read, along with this article which goes into the details of

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