Yeah.
I admit it. I know I’m not the only one, too.
My mood rides on my social share count. It always has.
While I tried to be cool and say this didn’t matter, after a period of unpopularity, I totally know that’s bullshit.
I enjoy it when posts get read, liked and shared by you.
I feel like a success when you retweet, and like I bombed when you don’t.
Yeah, that’s pathetic, and I know it. But so true.
I have TweetEsteem(™) issues.
Like me (please?!?!?),
Geoff
A cloud hangs over Manhattan
A forthcoming Columbia University and University of Pittsburgh study shows that surfing on Facebook with close friends lowers inhibitions towards self control. The study says that with an inflated positive self caused by ego-stroking on Facebook we feel more inclined to take license.
So now we know the medium is toxic. Does that give us license to behave poorly?
In recent weeks, I’ve seen and received direct feedback from several folks that we all act like assholes and b&^ches online.
That’s true.
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Olympians Missy Franklin, Katie Ledecky and me at last week’s USA Today 30th Birthday bash.
Fathering a child, starting companies, writing books, getting work done, working out… Finding time for all of these things requires discipline and focus.
That’s why over the past couple of years and in particular recent months, I have eliminated distractions wherever possible.
Here are six things I have intentionally nixed from my day-to-day life:
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Now Is Gone: A Primer on New Media for Executives and Entrepreneurs
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