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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. "

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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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" Leveraging community intelligence and making connections is a key component to being a growth hacker. "

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

" The risks of speaking extemporaneously are apparent the first time you wing it and promptly put your foot in your mouth. "

" Like most reasonable people, it saddens me when I see Americans celebrating a heritage they don't understand. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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" Every job carries occupational hazards. "

" Watching well-meaning authors follow in the footsteps of someone going in the wrong direction breaks my heart. "

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" We want things to go perfectly, so we naturally tell ourselves that we'll get started once the conditions are right or once we have our bearings, when, really, it would be better to focus on making do with how things actually are. "

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" Work hard, take it seriously, embrace your ambition. And when you're not doing that, do something - whatever it happens to be - that taps into the part of you that makes you forget about all the rest of it. "

" 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. "

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

" Understanding how the media actually works is critical. Because editors depend on ignorance and media illiteracy to ply their trade. The fact that many readers expect fact checking, editorial oversight, and ethics actually makes it easier for the media to be lazy. "

" Pretty much everyone's career starts the same way: with grunt work. Not just the cliched fetching of coffee, but other lowly tasks: taking notes in meetings, preparing paperwork, scheduling, intensive research - even flat-out doing our bosses' work for them. "

" Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men and women of action. "

" If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions? "

" 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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" You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life. "

" As I discovered in my media manipulations, the information that finds us online - what spreads - is the worst kind. It raised itself above the din not through its value, importance, or accuracy but through the opposite: through slickness, titillation, and polarity. "

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

" 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. "

" I wholeheartedly agree that many media 'standards' can feel disingenuous or, in fact, be a cover for less-than-honest behavior. "

" Anyone who faults Romney or Obama or any public figure for demanding quote approval is missing the point. The journalists were no abused weaklings here. They made a bargain for access to these newsworthy figures that they thought was in their favor - they're only complaining because they got caught. "

" In my experience, marketing is best when it proves the product it is supporting. "

" Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well. "

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

" 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. "