Mostly Matt

by Matt Jacobson

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Welcome to Mostly Matt, where you will read about a variety of topics including interactive marketing, social media, sports, technology and harmless addictions. It will be legendary.

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Over time, I’ve really come to enjoy the writings of Malcolm Gladwell, a staff writer for The New Yorker and bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers. I have my favorite ESPN columnist, Bill Simmons a.k.a. The Sports Guy, to thank for introducing me to Gladwell in several of his columns. Gladwell is [...]

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Some people don’t play nice in the sandbox

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

A coworker casually threw this quote out the other day: “Some people don’t play nice in the sandbox.” It was funny at the time, but then I started to think about how it basically explains all the difficult interactions I’ve had with people throughout my life. You know, the power hungry colleague or the condescending [...]

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Look ma, new blog!

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Ok, so I have a blog now.  I feel slightly relieved.  But I also feel like the guy that showed up late to the party and all that was left of the taco dip was soggy lettuce and diced tomatoes.  So many topics have been talked about, written about and tweeted about — what can [...]

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