Category Archives: Work

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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My tribute to Steve Jobs

By Julie Laurin | Published: October 6, 2011

I’m not a Machead. In fact, I had sworn to never own an Apple product, mostly because I felt that that Apple products were too proprietary. In my youth, I enjoyed taking computers apart and replacing their parts and buying the best hardware I could find. But with a Mac, I couldn’t do that. So [...]

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Choosing to rise above mediocrity

By Julie Laurin | Published: May 29, 2011

I just finished watching “Public Speaking“, a documentary about Fran Lebowitz, directed by Martin Scorcese. Admittedly, I knew nothing about Lebowitz until I saw the film and now I’m very interested in her work. In this movie, she’s quoted as saying that there’s too much democracy in culture, not enough democracy in society. She talks [...]