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“Banner ads will be the new junk mail. More and more, reputable companies won’t be buying up the space around the Web sites you visit. Clicking these ads will become less and less legitimate as brands will endeavor to do things that add more value to you in the social-media and customer-service space.”

“It does not pay to be the nice guy at work. Being agreeable is correlated with lower earnings for both genders. That may be because being agreeable is associated with being passive. It’s all the more surprising, then, that being an extrovert does not have a significant relationship to wages, for either gender. But being an adaptable employee is consistently rewarded. Workers open to new experiences tend to receive higher wages, regardless of gender.”

“Life is not perfect. It never will be. You just have to make the very best of it, and you have to open your heart to what the world can show you. And sometimes it’s terrifying and sometimes it’s incredibly beautiful. And I’ll take both. Thanks.”