Category Archives: Simple Life

Social Media and the attempt to be genuine

By Julie Laurin | Published: February 7, 2012

I’m tired. I am tired of good people doing well with social media and then turning around and sharing their “secrets” with everyone. Do you know what that has done? It has created a world where business executives, salespeople and marketers all try to mimic each other’s moves in the hopes of being the next [...]

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When did it become ok to be dumb?

By Julie Laurin | Published: January 30, 2012

I was thinking about this topic this morning after a long work meeting. When did it become ok for people to accept mediocre results? When did it become acceptable to just be average? When did we decide that being dumb was cooler than being intelligent? I don’t understand. I was brought up by my mother, [...]

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Year-end thoughts

By Julie Laurin | Published: December 31, 2011

I thought I’d write a little year-end post to reflect on the past year and to share my plans for 2012. For those of you who were expecting me to publish my regular “Books of [the year]” series, it won’t be happening this year. I’ve decided to move my hosting away from GoDaddy (in order [...]