Silicon Valley Newcomers Are Still Dreaming Big - www.nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/us/silicon-valley-newco...ST_FB
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But technical skills are not essential. The rise of social media, with its more human face, has drawn graduates in history, psychology or music, and a slowly growing number of women and minorities.
Morin Oluwole, 27, grew up in Nigeria, moved to California in high school and graduated from Stanford with a bachelor’s degree in biology and Spanish, a master’s in sociology and a strong interest in fashion. Now she works in strategic partnership development at Facebook, helping fashion designers"engage online.”
"What I’ve done is to turn my personal interests into what I do for a living,” she said.
Ms. Oluwole’s salary and benefits, she said, allow her"to live more of a wider-range lifestyle,” to travel and go hiking in Argentina and travel to other cities for events.
"You just have more disposable income to have an idea and actually act on that idea,” she said.
#Tech #Silicon #Valley
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The Incomparable Etta James.
Another great artist has gone on. She will be missed.
Etta James Lover Is Forever - YouTube:
#jazz #blues #Etta #James
http://chumly.com/n/fb0e44
Etta James Lover Is Forever - YouTube:
#jazz #blues #Etta #James
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A Self-Published Author's $2-Million Cinderella Story : NPR
www.npr.org/2012/01/08/144804084/a-self-published-...=1008
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Hocking has some advice to share. She says she got it off a video from Mark Hoppus of the band Blink-182.
"He said that it's not enough to have a passion — you have to have a work ethic," she says. "That's been the most life-changing advice that I got, because I had a passion for writing — and I know a lot of other people do, too — but it's not enough to just want something, you have to be able to work for it, too, and put in the hours and the time."
#Self-Publisher #Amazon
http://chumly.com/n/f46857
(snippet from the article)
Hocking has some advice to share. She says she got it off a video from Mark Hoppus of the band Blink-182.
"He said that it's not enough to have a passion — you have to have a work ethic," she says. "That's been the most life-changing advice that I got, because I had a passion for writing — and I know a lot of other people do, too — but it's not enough to just want something, you have to be able to work for it, too, and put in the hours and the time."
#Self-Publisher #Amazon
http://chumly.com/n/f46857
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