I stumbled across an interesting question on Quora today: “Which makes a better leader, a person who communicates well with other people, or a person who gets the job done?” While I think the author was hoping people would say that charismatic leaders aren’t as important as specialized professionals/strategists/work horses, the comments surprisingly went in… Continue reading Q: What Makes a Great Leader? A: Communication
Category: My musings
Stop Trying to Chase Success
There’s a fantastic thread on Quora that’s been grabbing some attention lately. The thread in question, If I haven’t succeeded in my mid 20s, could I be successful in the rest of my life?, hits hard on the human need to be someone special… to be important… to matter. Of course as you’d expect, the… Continue reading Stop Trying to Chase Success
If You’re a Straight Guy Living in LA or SF, the Dating Scene Isn’t in Your Favor
If You Have the Means, I Challenge You to Match My Donation to Fight Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is a disease that is estimated to kill 10 million women over the next 25 years. That is something we can’t allow. After writing about the “I Like It On” Facebook campaign to raise awareness about the isuses surrounding breast cancer, I committed to a commenter that I would make a donation of… Continue reading If You Have the Means, I Challenge You to Match My Donation to Fight Breast Cancer
Jumping Out of a Plane for Charity
I’m late adding this to my blog, but I still want to note it. Two weeks ago, I agreed to help out the Leap for Life campaign to raise money and awareness for cancer research. To do this though, I did something I have never done before; I jumped out of a plane. You can… Continue reading Jumping Out of a Plane for Charity
Health and Your Body When You Sit In Front of a Computer All Day
I’d like to take a moment to point to a great post Mashable’s Jolie O’Dell wrote on her personal blog: Fat Bloggers: My Own Weight Loss Journey. Here is an excerpt: Here’s the graphic point I’m trying to make: Bloggers live a fundamentally unhealthy lifestyle. We are bound to our office chairs, chained to our… Continue reading Health and Your Body When You Sit In Front of a Computer All Day
What Does a Co-Editor Do, Anyway?
While I spend a lot of time on entrepreneurial projects (two iPhone apps and a novel I’m trying to get picked up), I am best known as the Co-Editor of Mashable. I started writing for Mashable in 2009 before becoming Associate Editor in March 2010. Now I am the Co-Editor of a nearly 30-person company,… Continue reading What Does a Co-Editor Do, Anyway?
I'm Back to Blogging (on My Personal Blog)
After a few months of hiatus (and a very broken blog), BenParr.com is (mostly) back, and so am I. Whether because of time or lack of effort to fix my blog (it got hacked), I haven’t maintained it. This weekend though, I got BenParr.com back up and running, and I’m going to take a different… Continue reading I'm Back to Blogging (on My Personal Blog)
Don't Rely on Anecdotal Evidence to Prove Your Point
The definition of Anecdotal Evidence, via Wikipedia: (2) Evidence, which may itself be true and verifiable, used to deduce a conclusion which does not follow from it, usually by generalizing from an insufficient amount of evidence. For example “my grandfather smoked like a chimney and died healthy in a car crash at the age of… Continue reading Don't Rely on Anecdotal Evidence to Prove Your Point
Introducing: The BenParr.com iPhone App!
A few days ago, I wrote on Mashable about a new service called iSites, which lets you create your own, self-branded iPhone and Android app. For $25, you can have your blog, Twitter, and social feeds wrapped up into mobile form. As part of the write-up, iSites was kind enough to help me build my… Continue reading Introducing: The BenParr.com iPhone App!