"And then the firework shot shot across the way into someone's apartment!" "What! Where were you?" "Oh, this was something on Instagram." Hearing this, the bottom dropped out of the anecdote for me. While this firework incident a was no less real for having been captured on video and posted to social media, it felt … Continue reading On sharing stuff you saw on the Internet
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On the pros and cons of a job where you “wear a lot of hats”
When asked, it's a phrase I'll use to describe my job: "I wear a lot of hats." It's a silly metaphor, of course, but the silliness is important: you can't possibly look good or credible wearing every hat. My first job in A/E/C marketing was as a "proposal jockey," as we jokingly called it. Ninety … Continue reading On the pros and cons of a job where you “wear a lot of hats”
On doing the right thing poorly instead of the wrong things perfectly
Oh no. Have I been doing the wrong things? I fight the instinct to do what everyone else does. After all: do I really expect to do the same things everyone else is doing better than everyone else? Better to do something else that no one else is doing poorly. For example, in my industry, … Continue reading On doing the right thing poorly instead of the wrong things perfectly
On letting go of LinkedIn
When I tell people that I've quit social media, I'm not being completely honest: I'm still on LinkedIn. For years, I made an exception for LinkedIn, because I considered it an outlier: a social media network that felt useful. And "felt" is the right word, because was it actually useful? It seemed like there was … Continue reading On letting go of LinkedIn
Taylor Coe 