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by Diane Tate

Discordance

In college I did a spring break “experiential learning” program where we explored homelessness. We even spent one night at a homeless shelter. When it came time to share what our main take-aways of the week were, I shared this pearl:

” I learned that I never…ever….want to be homeless.”

Fast-forward to a few months ago, when I participated in a “peer coaching” group through my business school. The peers? A bunch of unemployed MBAs. Though I was employed, it certainly left me with a very similar feeling I had all those years ago in college (simply replace “homeless” with “unemployed”).

This is why I am bristling at the thought of outplacement services! Hanging out with other unemployed people + a chipper, theoretical organizational development ‘professional’ rather than with real, productive, employed people somehow does not feel helpful to me…

Perhaps akin to locking up felons up with other felons and expecting it to be “correctional”?

I love you, Mike Judge. You get discordance.

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by Diane Tate

I said it first

In my utter shock at yet more millions (as in, 40, that biblical #) being injected in already-cash flush Facebook by Chinese Li Ka-shing, I exclaimed “Ka-shing=Ka-ching”. Then 3 more posters after me repeated it. Don’t I get the credit?

But really, onto my real point: when is enough enough? How can one firm of less than 400 employees possibly spend all that money … at least, spend it WELL? Has anyone been to the offices of that overfunded adult sandbox, Linden Labs? It’s amazing what a surplus of cash, in shielding one from market forces, can do to take the edge off. How did Solomon know??

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by Diane Tate

Partying takes work

A few months ago, I pontificated on how things in Web 2.0-land were starting to feel a little, well, frothy. A different take on this came today in this Techcrunch post ; while not necessarily vindicating the degree of frothiness that I’d feared, it does vindicate my marathon-esque search for the “right” startup:

It’s so cheap to create Web startups these days that we are going to be seeing a whole lot more of them. Many will be inane, redundant, or half-baked. But a few will rise up from the froth and create something lasting. Bubble or not, it’s worth keeping an eye out for those game-changers. We just might have to wade through a lot of junk to find them.

Of course, that concept of “weeding through a lot of junk to find the right one” sort of plays into my other theory….

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