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" In every job and position, there are valuable lessons to be learned. Even in a nasty, abusive, toxic workplace, you're being taught precisely how not to run an organization. "

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" In June 2007, I finished up school for the year. I didn't know it at the time, but I was done with college forever. By the end of the summer, I had dropped out and would not return. "

" The best kind of marketing messages are the ones that don't seem like marketing messages. Because it means that the viewers' defenses are down. "

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" The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don't control the world around you, you control how you respond. At 19, that's very empowering. "

" Don't move to New York. Find your own city and your way. "

" The reality is that the economic situation for millennials is not a good one. "

" Here's the thing I've learned about ideas: It's your job to have them. "

" Growth hackers are typically computer engineers that build great marketing ideas into the product during the development process. "

" You can't believe your own marketing. "

" People love stories; they use stories to make sense of the world. "

" It angers me to see armed defenders at the bottom of Lost Cause statues, adding a renewed threat of violence to icons that are themselves part of an ideology of violence and intimidation. "

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" Even people who despise ego and aspire to humility, who plan to be humble once they are successful, are worried that actually enacting those beliefs would sentence them to a life of obscurity or weakness or failure. "

" What people often forget is that for the parties involved, the media game is a vicious contest. "

" It's your job to find a release and an outlet for the stress and the feelings. Never forget: the crazy stays at home. "

" There has to be something about your business that gets you excited. Otherwise, you probably wouldn't have spent your precious - irreplaceable - time on it. "

" When work impedes on sleep, poor planning is to blame - not superior will power. "

" We need to separate marketing messages from content. We need to enforce a clear line between 'editorial' and 'advertising.' "

" If you run a business that isn't cutting edge or doesn't naturally stick out of the crowd, it's your job to be different and get attention. "

" When I lived in Louisiana, 'Django Unchained' was shot at my neighbor's house. They shot a Sly Stallone movie in my gym. "

" As someone responsible for my own fair share of marketing stunts, I am suspicious and cynical - I'll disclose that right up front. "

" If you need to fudge the facts a little bit to make your narrative work, there is nothing anyone can do to stop you. "

" In Los Angeles and other cities, being around immigrants is inspiring. They are touching the American Dream and reminding you how much you take it for granted. "

" If it comes as a constant surprise each and every time something unexpected occurs, you're not only going to be miserable whenever you attempt something big, you're going to have a much harder time accepting it and moving on to attempts two, three, and four. "

" The news is notoriously inaccurate, and our memory of it is even worse. "

" My advice to young people would be this: Don't move to New York. It is not where you will find yourself. "

" If you ask most smart or successful people where they learned their craft, they will not talk to you about their time in school. It's always a mentor, a particularly transformative job, or a period of experimentation or trial and error. "

" In 2007, I went to work in Beverly Hills as an intern at The Collective, a talent management agency. I'd been scouted for the job because of a blog I'd started in college and because the blogger-turned-author I worked for, Tucker Max, was producing a project with the company. "

" The news as entertainment is the real danger, because the truth or accuracy of what it is reporting becomes irrelevant. "

" Online journalism has always had a sourcing problem. From using unverified 'anonymous tips' to repeating whatever rumor or speculation people are chattering about, the general ethic is, 'We'll publish just about anything.' "

" I don't play videogames and generally think that online activism is a giant waste of time. "