Sometimes something happens that is like a gift from God. In this case, it was a very complimentary post from Dan Hull over at our sibling corporate blog, What About Client? entitled, Our Wunderkind in Berlin — referring to me. What happened? I realized, after making a couple self-glorifying posts onto my two blogs, that Dan’s post wasn’t simply celebratory, it was also cautionary:

‘Learn a lot, grow a lot, get famous and make money. You have our permission. As long as you “serve somebody”, like the man from Hibbing said, it’s your world. To keep level, read T.S. Eliot, some Flaubert and maybe The Upanishads. But watch a little, too.’ — Dan Hull

As long as you serve somebody. Service is so important and I always forget to do it daily as a habit and a way of life.

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I am too deep in online brand promotion. When I read a story in the Wall Street Journal about a professional basketball player dissing his yet unreleased signature shoe on his blog, all I can think is that this sort of antisocial behavior is an amazing stealth marketing strategy. From “I hate this ballerina shoe” to check out my cool shoe in no time! Coincidence? I think not!

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