This essay is written in collaboration with Startup Edition – find this week’s essays here. The startup life seems glamorous from afar, and sometimes from up close. There are rebels, pirates, and ninjas here. There are rags-to-riches stories and others who fall from grace after flying too close to the sun. In short, there are all of the…
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They found me through Quora? An Unexpected Job Opportunity
Quora is a great place to post questions to knowledgeable folks and to answer questions that are interesting to you. So when I wrote an answer to Twitter: Is Twitter an effective customer service tool? (by the way—it’s awesome for that) I had no idea that a post I wrote in March about customer care…
It’s time to work yourself out of a job.
Imagine if one day, you walked into your office (or opened your email or received a text message or a phone call with the following information: Congratulations! You’ve worked yourself out of a job. Now, what will you do next? I don’t mean to make light of this situation totally – if it’s a layoff…
Why I love working in Seattle
Pioneer square Originally uploaded by gregmeyer Working in the city of Seattle in the Pioneer Square area is a bit gritty. It’s nothing like gliding to work in the gleaming eastside office towers of Bellevue, pulling into the parking garage, and going up 16 floors of a LEED certified building. Instead, it’s a bus ride…
Information Maven 