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I Hate To Interrupt, But Maybe I Should? (A Featured Post on Brazen Careerist)

I really detest being interrupted while I am trying to have a conversation. I hate when people jump to another subject before I am finished my point. I hate it when people believe they know what the end of my sentence is going to be and finish it for me. And in general I hate …

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Why “In Real Life” is a Convenient Fallacy for the Cold and Lazy. (A Featured Post on Brazen Careerist)

I read this post today over at Comma N’ Sentence about excessive online openness and the subsequent superficiality it tends to attract. Laryssa is certainly not the first person to address this issue, (and oddly, several of my online colleagues have of late started to adopt very similar views over the last two months), but …

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Who Do You Love? (A Featured Post on Brazen Careerist)

I think most people must be far more careful with saying “I love you.” I do not refer merely to romantic love, or eros or whatever the hell you want to call the kissy-kissy kind. I mean any kind of love, for none of them are really as insignificant as we sometimes make them out …

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Don’t Always Be Selling. (A Featured Post on Brazen Careerist)

Malcom Forbes once said that he judged a man by how he treats those that can do nothing  for him, nor to him. I know nothing of Malcom Forbes outside of this quotation. But it is more than enough for me to appreciate the way he thought. Volumes and volumes have been written by Gen-Y …

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Facebook and the Lack of Public Privacy

I realize that the ultimate super blogger would link to about five million different articles, blogs, and videos that backed up any point he made. But let’s be honest here; the Facebook privacy controversy is in essence ubiquitous these days. If you slung a dead cat in a coffee shop, it would hit a lap …

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