The ability to distinguish who is and isn’t your friend. Friends will change and try to take advantage of you. Others will talk behind your back or even try to defame you. The world will start to become a lonely place. The only way to minimize these risks is to be prepared before it happens. … Read more
Background information from the person that asked this question: I’m 25 years old. I was raised as a member of the middle class. My parents do not come from wealth, and we were not at all wealthy (by Silicon Valley standards) when they were raising me. My parents ended up starting a couple of companies … Read more
I’m eating a cheeseburger and I can’t stop thinking about tacos. What should I do? Simple. Go eat a taco. Or in this case, go back to your ex. It’s unfair to the cheeseburger for me to not divulge my whole heart into the meal, if I can’t even fully enjoy my meal. It’s also … Read more
It has allowed me to discover how to become more patient and not to associate my self worth with how much money I earn. It has also allowed me to learn how to stretch a dollar to approximately three times its worth and how important it is to save. I would say that it has … Read more
“I trust you.” I find that to be the best compliment anyone can give or receive. — Originally posted on Quora. Leonard Kim consults startups and writes books like The Etiquette of Social Media: How to Connect and Respond to Others in the World of Social Media
Take baby steps. That’s what I did. I watched everyone on Quora for a month and five days before I did anything. Then I thought, hmm, let’s give it a shot. Let’s try something out. Let’s see if it works or not. No one cared that I wrote anything, so I went back into hiding … Read more
Post was written by May Busch When I was starting out in my corporate career, the idea of personal branding hadn’t yet come into being. So I did what any self-respecting “nice Chinese girl” would do: put my head down, worked hard to learn and become excellent at the job, and waited for someone to recognize … Read more
From the little things in life, such as the birds and the bees and the trees and squirrels and hummingbirds. The most amazing thing I saw in New York this past weekend on my vacation was this squirrel doing tricks and stunts on a tree with branches that were about half an inch wide. It … Read more
This is a guest post written by Sandra Christie — Believe it or not, more than 50 million pictures are being uploaded to Instagram every day. The iPhone changed digital photography in 2007 and Instagram revolutionized it. For six years the purpose of the app has remained consistent; still, Instagrammers have made it more sophisticated. … Read more
This is a guest post written by Katrina Razavi. Free three-video mini-course: How to Shut Up that Inner Voice & Beat Awkward Conversations — I used to think networking was bull****, until I actually put some effort into it and the following things happened: I raised $100k in capital for my startup I got a $20k … Read more