Confessions of an Instagram Influencer
You, too, can be an Instagram influencer!
Just get up on your chair (don’t fall!), take an aerial photo of your granola and latte, get a few hundred thousand followers, and then hire an agency to feed you lifestyle photos so that you don’t have to risk falling off your chair anymore.
Be Kind
Boz on some learnings at facebook:
Being kind is fundamentally about taking responsibility for your impact on the people around you. It requires you be mindful of their feelings and considerate of the way your presence affects them.
Being kind hasn’t hurt my effectiveness at all. Being thoughtful about the emotions of my colleagues hasn’t made me any less right or wrong, it has simply made me more likely to be asked to help in the first place. Being invited to more conversations has allowed me to scale my impact in a way that would have been unfathomable on my own.
Local bounty
The New Yorker in 2003:
When my mind wandered during the flight from New York, I could picture one of those impassive delivery boys from a Manhattan Chinese restaurant trying to make it up a nearly perpendicular San Francisco hill, his determination unaffected by breathlessness or leg cramps or the fact that the weird angle has already caused a container of hot-and-sour soup to burst open on his trousers.
In San Francisco the burrito has been refined and embellished in much the same way that the pizza has been refined and embellished in Chicago.
Jessica Lawrence on Organizations
Jessica Lawrence talks about what she has learned about leadership from early teenage miscues through her tenure with the Girl Scouts of the USA and on to running NY Tech Meetup, the world’s largest meetup with over 40,000 members.
Homelessness in Silicon Valley
She was leaving the city where she and James had known people, the city where James had died, the city where she’d grown up and near where she’d raised her own daughter. It was the city where she knew where to go, where she’d figured out how to be homeless. It was the city where she knew the drill.
December 24, 2015 homelessness san francisco the new republic