JonnyTran

Dear Dia(na|ry)

I smelled your scent again for the first time in years. I didn’t think that memory was still in me. I can no longer recall it at will. It’s understandable that people would die for that kind of scent. Kill for it.

I miss you. I do.

4 Lies about social media | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Potential employers like LinkedIn because they can glance at your LinkedIn profile and get a sense of how connected you are and how much money you make. (Yes, large networks correlate to large salaries.) That’s the utility of the scorecard.

If I’ve recently invited you to connect on LinkedIn, it’s b/c I respect you, and I want to help you make more money.

You should connect with me on linkedin here.

London (via gatekeeper)

Creating Passionate Users: The future is not in learning…

“The future is in how fast you are at unlearning.”

The Business Life Cycle of Rules [pdf]

by Dave Wheeler (via Creating Passionate Users: F*** the rules!)

I wanted to be like you

All my life, I have been plagued by the fear of not being good enough. This has driven me into seclusion against my will.

Someone smarter than me once said that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. If I have ever once made an attempt to spend time with you, it was b/c I thought more highly of you than myself, and I wanted to be like you.

Somewhere along the line, my strategy for getting to know people became assimilation. I ask enough questions to get the other person talking, listen with my entire being, and absorb. Absorb, absorb, absorb. Absorb what you say, what you think, and how you behave. You lead. You choose what we eat. What we listen to. What we do. And I become you.

The mockingbird. Like me, it restlessly stays up late at night searching for its identity, singing the song of every other bird, yet never settling on one of its own.