Soakin' Up San Francisco

Having endured - no, adored - my first 90 days as an official resident of my new city, I can happily reflect upon the things I’ve observed, learned and realized throughout my time here. On both the best of days and the most homesick of days, I’ve begun to see the best of my routines revealed to me... little by little.  In the years since graduating from college and while living between West Hollywood, Newbury Park and now the Bay area, I’ve slowly toyed with the question of what makes for the perfect day, the ideal weekend - the best kind of week? These ideas have evolved and somersaulted through the different periods of the past three years - in times of work and during weekends of play, in both my former retail realm and my now more regular, corporate lifestyle.  A dear friend and new colleague at LinkedIn, Stephanie, recently posed her wisdom regarding the need for both spontaneity and routine in her “perfect day” - a juxtaposition to which I whole-heartedly rela...

The first ten days of the most recent chapter of my life has officially concluded. It was exactly one month ago that I received the offer that would change my career and flip my 2014 upside down; It was one week ago Monday that I drove to the cliched heart of the Silicon Valley over the Dumbarton bridge and landed in Mountain View, CA -- only to flirt with my neighbors Facebook and Google and, ultimately, go home with and to the renowned professional networking and talent tool, LinkedIn.  I've said it daily and I'll say it today: I love this city. A big part of this stems from the interactions I've had with people over the past week. So fittingly, one of LinkedIn's primary values states that Relationships Matter. This means a great deal to me, as I've considered relationships a high priority in both my career and personal philosophy for a long time; I am now reading a non-fictional piece by LI founder Reid Hoffman that echoes the sentiment, stating that relationship...