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How to hit a wall at work, with grace | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

Write about how to find autonomy at work, about the farmer, about how to network and build a community. Keeping one's critical thinking capacity on all the time – not hiding it behind laws or rules of polite discourse – is key to doing anything different or better. Write more. It's fascinating.

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How to manage a college education | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

Most people get jobs from their network, not from a career center. And social media is the fastest, most effective way for you to build a network. It used to be that people only did writing and critical thinking for school. So they needed school to teach them communication skills and critical thinking skills.

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Martin Luther King Day Special: Racism is alive and kicking.

Penelope Trunk

My company, Brazen Careerist , just launched a company section in our social network. And Jeremy Owyang, from Forrester Research reports that, "In approximately two years social networks will be more powerful than corporate web sites. Brands will serve community interests and grow based on community advocacy."

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