Co-Founder & CEO of Teleport. Writer of Goodwill Hunting, a newsletter hunting the best pre-loved fashion finds, insights, and jobs. 11+ years of buying no new clothes.
if you present yourself as someone who is genuinely earnest, curious, open to listening, non-judgemental, etc, people tend to share their thoughts and feelings. If you make an effort to perform little acts of service, encouragement, support, people will love you
Agency is the drive to play a game you created. Chart your own path. Forget politics. Work when, how, and where you want. Lean in—to your unique “why.”
The board of directors is the most important part of a startup’s management structure. The direction the startup takes will depend in many ways on the board’s decisions, from fundraising and acquisitions to who belongs in the C-suite and what the budget limits should be.
The bind experienced by the “nouveau riche.” Although these upwardly mobile individuals may have the economic capital to adopt elite culture, they continually reveal their social origins by the “mistakes” they make in their execution of taste, or the insecurity of their conduct
“When you look at the history of the internet,” says Jeremy Morris, associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “a lot of the early spaces for communities also became places where people would either trade or barter.”