I’ve moved desks, houses, rooms and workspaces a nearly-uncountable number of times. My life on the move has treated me brilliantly, but the travels of a first world vagabond are not conducive to carrying the large canvases, framed artwork and wall-spanning tapestries I dream of. Instead, I’ve grown familiar with the art of the inspiration board.
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Although New Year’s Eve is still a few weeks away, I’d like to bid 2011 adieu a little bit early. This year has been a whole lot of things, but boring certainly wasn’t one of them. A new job, new apartment and a whole lot of other new’s have come with both the delightful and the [...]
Well, my darlings, I’ve got a bit of very exciting news to share. On July 25, I’ll be joining Smarterer, a Boston-based tech start-up, as their Community Manager.
“What is Smarterer?” you ask…
Smarterer provides people a simple, fun, and authentic way to show what they know. It’s a platform designed to [...]
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Recently, my darling friend DJ and I had a brainspill session over a few drinks at the classic Eastern Standard Kitchen. A few blue sky daydreams, a number of big ideas and a handful of half-baked if-only’s later, we’d landed on a few ideas worth a napkin scrawl. One of which, quite simply, boils [...]
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In a perfect world, we’d all effortlessly learn, adopt and seamlessly integrate new technology into our lives. Admittedly, and unabashedly, this is less often the case than we’d like. Understanding a technology and its value is easy, but finding real, practical ways to use it and realize value can be difficult.
Twitter, [...]
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In her studies of culture and behavior in a social working environment, University of Pennsylvania Professor Sigal Barsade has unearthed a psychosocial phenomenon called emotional contagion:
Emotional contagion is a process in which a person or group influences the emotions or behavior of another person or group through the conscious or unconscious induction [...]
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