The twenty-something I’m calling Marco – after the famed explorer immortalized in the swimming pool game – took COVID and the collapse of the traditional white collar workplace as a call to adventure. An invitation not to bunker down, but to journey out. Why? And what happened? Are there lessons to be learned for others?
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If you’ve somehow avoided melting into a simmering puddle of human grease this summer, chances are you’re seizing on the season’s final weeks to get away and recharge. Great idea! Here are some examples.
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Frank was real. Or in the watchword of the day, ‘authentic’ – heck, he put in the ‘awe’ in authentic. Born with a lot, he also gave a lot. For many of us, he was at his best when he gave’em hell.
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The CEO of Twitter recently received a reply to a Tweet from Elon Musk: a poop emoji. Here are three things you can learn from Elon’s use of that imagery.
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Billy Warden is a writer, marketing exec and multimedia producer based in the Research Triangle, where he co-founded the p.r. agency GBW Strategies. He’s a regular contributor to WRAL TechWire. Today he goes one-on-one with one of the Triangle’s most successful and legendary venture capitalists Mitch Mumma of Intersouth Partners.
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So, now that I’m recovered, we’re done here, right? Ha! COVID is a reminder that all our misadventures – in love, business, medicine – are but prelude to more misadventures. COVID came out of the blue, and there’s still lots of blue out there. Let me share my latest experience …
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In this digital age, headshots often our first impression of a new colleague, business associate, candidate etc. And yet, even with piles of advice on corporate and personal branding out there, many headshots amount to, in the words of globetrotting photographer Justin Kase Conder, “a guy in a blue suit and a white shirt and the same tie posed against a gray background looking like he’s been stamped out of a machine.” So I asked some consummate clickers to offer some snap judgements and advice.
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Like punk provocateur Johnny Rotten, Raleigh-based Laurie knows how to get your attention. Like punk poet laureate Elvis Costello, she’s an astute reader of people and situations. And like take-no-crap Chrissie Hynde, she’s self-possessed and seemingly unstoppable. She goes one-on-one with TechWire’s Billy Warden in an exclusive Q&A.
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AppleTV’s “WeCrashed” is the latest in a pipeline of movies, series and books fixated on how entrepreneurs and other alphas talk, posture, succeed and take a tumble. In another sense, how they seduce and get their just desserts. Let’s take a look.
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