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	<title>Ryan Paugh — startup guy, community builder, borderline hipster</title>
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	<description>My life is nothing short of crazy. I hope more than nothing else that I occasionally will make you laugh.</description>
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		<title>How to handle mistakes and move on with your life</title>
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Lately I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time trying to impress my girlfriend&#8217;s parents.  I want them to like me.  I know for a fact that they didn&#8217;t like her last boyfriend and I feel like setting myself apart from this dude is really important.  So last weekend we offered to watch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask Yourself: Why do I hate my job?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m lucky to be a Community Manager.  It affords me with a wealth of opportunities to connect with motivated, interesting people.  About a month ago it provided me with an opportunity to connect with Shane Mac—driven entrepreneur, unstoppable content creator and all around righteous dude.
It&#8217;s hard not to be inspired by someone like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve never had a mentor, and that&#8217;s okay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Penelope Trunk told me that she couldn&#8217;t be my mentor.  &#8220;You&#8217;re too difficult,&#8221; was what she said.  At the time I didn&#8217;t care because I thought that I hated her.  Emotions run high in early-stage start ups.  Ours was no exception.
Over time I realized that I didn&#8217;t really hate Penelope.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On thinking that I&#8217;m going deaf, and confrontation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I almost always cut the first paragraph out of each blog post.  I do this because my first paragraph rarely accomplishes anything other than self absorption.  Writer&#8217;s masturbation, if you will.
I&#8217;m telling you this because you might spend a lot of time beating around the bush, too.  Sometimes we end up hurting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A lesson in being stuck, and getting unstuck</title>
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When I adopted Charlie, it fit.  I&#8217;m the type of person who likes having someone to take care of, and when I was working from home I felt less lonely.  I had always loved having dogs, and this was going to be the first dog that was all mine.  Up until last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting my act together in 2010, I&#8217;ll be blogging here again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to tell you about my New Year&#8217;s resolution.  I know a lot of you hate the idea of resolutions, but honestly I don&#8217;t understand why.  It&#8217;s all about rebirth.  That&#8217;s what the Babylonians thought when they first came up with it.  And who are we to question the Babylonians?
In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We launched the new Brazen Careerist today, and why bigger does mean better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This summer has been packed with change for me.  I moved into a new apartment—the nicest place I’ve ever lived.  As we speak my girlfriend is moving in with me.  Huge changes. 
“Bigger and better things,” is the first phrase that come to mind, though I don’t think that bigger is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Inauguration Day stranger, Memorial Day promises and the inconvenience of change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four months ago, I was sitting in a bar with Ryan and Dan Healy, and Penelope.  It was Inauguration Day.  We watched our country make history swearing in the 44th President of the United States.
The room was a can of sardines, but more optimistic.  Tangled in a motley web of businessmen, congressmen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bar Scene Teaches Us About Using Social Media The Right Way</title>
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The coolest thing about being a community manager is that I get to socialize all day.  It’s a big part of my job to create genuine conversation.  And it reminds me a lot of starting good conversations at the bar.
Social media is a lot like being out in the bar scene.  And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why This Struggling TV Show Has Generation Y Written All Over It</title>
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A new chapter of NBC’s Heroes started last night. And while most people were cringing to see what offbeat plot twists the writers could possibly err on this year, I was still sitting on the edge of my seat.
Heroes is my guilty pleasure.  Even though the ratings suck and critics are cutting the show [...]]]></description>
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