Björn Jeffery

Wake up early. Show up. Learn how to think. Be genuine, but appear nice. Use envy for motivation instead of destruction. Do what you say you’re going to do. Ensure balance in every area of your life. Confront repressed thoughts immediately. Surround yourself with people who are better than you (but remember the thing about envy). Work out every day. Be good at what you do. Make money doing what you love. Have good friends. Never settle. This is my personal recipe for happiness and success.

“In my world, you don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and be against common-sense gun control — like banning public access to the kind of semiautomatic assault rifle, designed for warfare, that was used recently in a Colorado theater. You don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and want to shut down the Environmental Protection Agency, which ensures clean air and clean water, prevents childhood asthma, preserves biodiversity and combats climate change that could disrupt every life on the planet. You don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and oppose programs like Head Start that provide basic education, health and nutrition for the most disadvantaged children. You can call yourself a “pro-conception-to-birth, indifferent-to-life conservative.” I will never refer to someone who pickets Planned Parenthood but lobbies against common-sense gun laws as “pro-life.””

The other day I thought about media execs saying “we can’t give all our content away for free any more”. Now whether that is true or not is a separate issue. But for the sake of argument – let’s think about it in the opposite way:

We, the readers, have been giving you our time for free. We helped you launch on digital in an amazing way. Your brands are still extremely well recognized, and your web and mobile traffic is, generally speaking, very high in every market – local and global.

But now, we as readers have reached a point where perhaps we should move our reading elsewhere. We’re getting so many roadblocks, bad ads and other trouble that we might simply go somewhere else instead. Perhaps we just can’t give our time away for free any more.

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It is an over-simplification, of course. But the current rhetoric implies that the readers have been a bunch of freeloaders for 10+ years, and that is not correct. It has always been a transaction between the two. The readers have visited and thereby helped media companies to the position where they are today. A position that most companies would _kill to have.

Now, what to do with that position?

Start by appreciating it. And appreciating the readers that got you there.

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To other young people who constantly wonder if the grass might be greener on the other side of the occupational fence, I offer this advice: Passion is not something you follow. It’s something that will follow you as you put in the hard work to become valuable to the world.

The key to sustaining loyalty in employees is making sure they get to do the things that are most important to them outside of work, Mayer told Rosin.

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