Published via L: 2013-04-18 22:51:12
Unfortunately, I had not been properly socialized for life inside a big corporation. As the son of a new left radical (who later completely switched sides), I was combat trained. If somebody said something that I didn’t agree with, I wouldn’t hesitate to attack them ruthlessly, call their ideas stupid or personally insult them. I couldn’t help it. It was how I was raised. It was like I was Huey P. Newton and everybody else was The Man. I am quite sure that I would have and should have been fired several times, but for some reason Ken Coleman took an interest in me and smoothed things over whenever I got myself into trouble. He was my personal guardian angel. He helped me to build my life and career doing what I loved.
My Two Cents
The Old Friend of a Friend of a Friend referral system worked for Ben Horowitz back when he was a sophomore at Columbia with a great guy named Ken Coleman according to Ben's post. This system has worked for most of us in different ways. We all need a Ken Coleman in our lives. In different ways, we all have Ken Coleman's in our lives. Thank you to the Ken Coleman's! Hopefully we all pay it forward and become our own version of a Ken Coleman!
