In case you're wondering what I'm thinking...

constantly rearranging goals. 

organizingthesoup:

brianvan:

wrt something I just emailed to Katie Bakes, I did not know that both Drew Brees AND Carson Palmer were born in 1979. Then I saw that John Krasinski and Mindy Kaling are also on that list, and suddenly I’m having this weird moment where the pace for achievement in life (until now mostly set by actors who started as teenagers) is suddenly that much higher. Well, maybe higher than Carson Palmer. 

BTW, is there a term for “the perceived but meaningless relation among people born in the same year?” Someone should invent that.

Coworker, last week, pausing in the middle of counting out loud: “Do you do that thing where you calculate how old someone was when their first book came out?” “Well, no, but NOW I will. Thanks.”

Hmmm. I don’t agree with this sentiment. In fact, what does “monetize” even mean in this sense? Ask for a transactional fee to introduce two people? That just makes you an asshole. Instead, bank that favor. To use a term I’ve learned recently: “social capital.”

It’s not “Monetize, ladies. It’s “Work it, ladies.”

Also, this:

Another time I was trying to get a job working for the hedge fund manager Stevie Cohen. He wanted me to share a few trades with him as I was doing them. We IMed back and forth a bit during the trades. One trade didn’t work out and I was ashamed of it. So I stopped IMing him. After a few days of this billionaire IMing me with, “Where’d you go?” I blocked him on my IM list and that was that.

khuyi:

changetheratio:

…and is the skill that women most often give away for free (probably related to how often it’s assumed/requested as a “favor” that you’d obviously do to be “helpful” even though it makes everyone else “money”). Monetize yourselves, ladies and connectors all. 

The 9 Skills Needed to Be a Super-Connector [TechCrunch]

awesome post