With all the noise overwhelming our lives and our social streams it’s easy to miss the good stuff. Here’s my effort to provide a little signal by curating some of the best/most interesting/funniest posts (and videos) I read during the month of June. I do the hard work so you don’t have to.
The Way I Work: David Karp of Tumblr – Liz Welch (Inc.)
Can Simmons Win the Big One? – Jonathan Mahler (NY Times)
Conscious Spending Sets You Free – J.D. Roth (Time)
The Professional’s Platform – Seth Godin
The Shaping of the Social Media We Know – Amber Naslund (Brass Tack Thinking)
What Are Some Stupid Things Smart People Do – Lee Semel & others
35 Smart Social Media Business & Consumer Insights — Lee Odden/Brian Solis
Show us the Data (It’s Ours, After All.) Richard Thaler (NY Times)
The Best Investment You Can Make – Umair Haque
If You’re Going To Work… – Seth Godin
The More Friends You Have, The More Unpredictable Your Life Is—And That’s a Good Thing – Michael Ellsberg
The Seven Performance Metrics that Matter Most – eMarketer
To Viral or Not to Viral is Not Even a Question – Peter Novelli
Quotes:
“Satisfying work is the intersection of what what you like to do, what you are good at, and what an organization values.” – Penelope Trunk
“We happily give up our freedom and our income in exchange for having someone else take responsibility for telling us what to do next.” – Seth Godin
“Haters are your daily confirmation that you’re doing something interesting. They are to be cherished.”- Lisa Barone
“Some brands are over-obsessed with fans. As an industry we need to move away from that.” — Carolyn Everson, Facebook VP
“For work to be satisfying there should be: autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward.” – Malcolm Gladwell
“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Great leaders know their job is to create the right conditions. Not command and control.” – Sir Ken Robinson
“It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.” – Bertrand Russell
Funny:
Why We Don’t Let Grandpa on Facebook Anymore
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