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Six or so months ago I had dinner with a close friend in the midst of a career transition. The company he’d been working for in X industry went through a round of lay-offs giving him the push he needed to pursue the next thing. The problem was that there wasn’t a next thing. A. no one was hiring, and B. even if they had …
…or, the I’ve-got-the-first-week-back-to-work-blues… By my basic calculations, the American workforce is comprised of three types of people: people who are appropriately paid and appropriately worked – they make just what they deserve for the amount of time they put in people who are over paid and under worked – they make way too much and do way too little. And people who are under paid …
One of the most annoying things about being an adult is that you have to “be an adult about it” all the freaking time. When we were kids we were “just a kid.” We could throw temper tantrums and hit other kids and lie and cheat and steal and eat random candy and fall asleep wherever we wanted and ask people inappropriate questions and cry …
Lately I’ve been feeling a lot like a consumer brand that’s conflicted over how to focus the messaging priorities of an integrated media campaign to best match their overall business objectives. Anchor into one idea and laser focus everything you do around that direction? Establish several different objectives and go into market hoping to just hit one? Screw it all, and just go celebrity? Much of …
In this town you hear people say “she’s got a lot of hustle” – not “she can hustle” or “she’s a hustler” – it’s that she is possessing of hustle. They also say “take a meeting” instead of just have one and “there’s some heat around it” if something looks promising, so the L.A. lexicon is an overall issue. For another day… What they mean …
From their webite – TEDTalks began as a simple attempt to share what happens at TED – a non-profit dedicated to spreading ideas in Technology, Entertainment, and Design (T.E.D.) – with the world. Under the moniker “ideas worth spreading,” talks were released online. They rapidly attracted a global audience in the millions. Elizabeth Gilbert is the some-word-better-than-best selling author of Eat, Pray, Love and a …
It wouldn’t be entirely fair to blame Britney Spears; Christina Aguilera, Mandy Moore, and Justin Timberlake were all the same age. And we can’t even say it was modern media whores and over-achievers who put the pressure on. Michael Jackson was pre-pubescent when his first (slash let’s be honest all) albums went platinum… But the idea of child prodigies we can handle. It’s almost dismissible because it’s …
William H. Macy recently told my friend Kim that if she kept working hard, getting herself out there and not burning any bridges she’d know everyone she needed to get anything done by the time she was 31. No. Not via twitter. Backstory: My friend Kim, witty Kim, is a reporter for Broadway.com. As such she interviews stars of the stage like “Call me Bill” …
Back after quite the hiatus is the famed Sexism series. Joining a long line of debates include Phone Behavior and Leading People On is this — It’s best to just paste this as the convo went down Yesterday, approx. 11am – gchat Geanna: millie* has been working for the bicycle festival Jessie: haha Geanna: no it gets better Jessie: oh Geanna: so she’s been all …
Also — I recently spent a month with famed publicist Lizzie Grubman on an experiment about how long it can take one nobody to go from unknown to A-list. The nobody was me Four weeks ago, I was just another blogger. Now-thanks to a makeover by New York publicity powerhouse Lizzie Grubman-I might be the next Tina Fey. Or something like that. One month ago, …