I was surprised to find that, in this leadership interview with VMWare CEO Paul Maritz, he cites "self-awareness" as a key quality when hiring employees. He shares that his favorite question to ask in an interview is, taking a project they've done in the past, "Thinking about it now, what would you have done differently? What did you learn from that?" If the answer ends with a lot of blame placed on someone else, for example, you can conclude that the person didn't learn much from the project and that they're not very self-aware.

I won't even attempt to deny I'm not a marketing geek. One of the things I loved about Kyle James' blog post "Jokes: 36 Reasons You Might be Addicted to Social Media" was "#6: You own the Google search results for your name." That definitely held true for me.

Scott Kirsner of the Boston Globe came by our offices to talk to Brian Halligan, HubSpot CEO, to talk about how people can find a job (in or out of a recession, really).

I love Twitter for a lot of reasons. One is that I get great links to articles and stories and all sorts of interesting things to read and think about. That's exactly what happened to me today, when I was checking out some of my new followers.

HubSpot is in the process of yet another office move (same building, different floor), so today all of us are working from home. It's my first real taste of what it would be like to work from home full-time.

In school, I think you're taught to write the body of a paper first and then go back and write the introduction and title. I could never do that. I needed to write the title first, and then the introduction, to frame my thoughts and prepare myself for writing the rest of the paper.

My Mom: "Why aren't you reading my child's blog?"

I've officially been tagged in my first (correction: sixth - see below) photo meme by Mike Volpe.

The blogosphere / social mediasphere has a lot of angry and irritable people. Well, the world has a lot of angry and irritable people. And the Internet makes it that much easier for them to crap all over the rest of us.

1. I can become incoherent late at night.  I make typos, spelling and grammar erros, and generally make a lot less sense.  (Case in point.)