Kate Matsudaira | Blog on Technology, Management, Fashion, Style and Life in General

My Visit to Zappos and New Infatuation with Tony Hsieh

Recently I took to trip to Las Vegas and went on the Zappos Culture Tour. Its free and definitely worth the 2 hours (they will even provide a shuttle to and from the strip). It was pretty interesting and definitely gave you a good look at their company culture and some of the “different” things [...]

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Travel, Reflection and Change

Over the last week it seems like a lot of exciting things have been happening. I posted my first blog on SEO (which is a mild indication I am progressing above novice and really starting to understand our users and audience – and that is super important if I am going to be successful in [...]

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A blog post on another blog!

Today/tonight I posted my first work related piece of content on SEOmoz’s blog. It was a high level overview article on choosing a video strategy for your web site. I combined some of of knowledge from work at my last job at a video platform company where I was exposed to lots of different video [...]

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First Meetings – Lessons I Learned from The Millionaire Matchmaker

Lately I have been catching episodes of the new season of Millionaire Matchmaker during my workouts, and while certainly being entertaining, there are a lot of interesting take aways pertaining to human interactions. One thing you see a lot of is first meetings between people (via introductions, try outs, or even setup dates). After watching [...]

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My Mid-Life Crisis

I have a big birthday coming up in <2 weeks. Like New Years and other “milestones” this one, too, has me thinking (a dangerous past time). Once again I am reflecting on my life – what I have accomplished, what I had hoped to accomplish by now, and also realizing what I was missing in [...]

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Confirmed: Being Unavailable Increases Attraction and Value

When dating women are often give the advice to “not be too available”, since it will decrease your perceived dating value. And a lot like basic economics when something is scarce the value goes up – I believe that to apply to human interaction. And today I have yet another social experiment to prove that [...]

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Spreading the Love – being thankful for great customer service.

There are very few times in my life when I have complained about customer service to the establishment. I think part of the reason, is that even though I can be very in-your-face assertive, my innate nature is that of the shy, geeky introvert who shies away from confrontation–especially in public settings with people I [...]

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New Year – New Year’s Resolutions!

Happy New Year! Its 2010 and that means a start of a new decade. As I have said previously, I heart New Years. I love fresh starts. The whole idea of turning over a new leaf and making things better than last year is such a great and inspirational feeling–it really gets me going. So [...]

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The Importance of “Doing”

G often accuses me of getting on a soap box when it comes to giving career advice. Perhaps it is because a large part of my job is to coach and mentor the people around me that I have taken it upon myself to do this to other people in our lives too. While being [...]

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Happy Holidays!

Well I hope everyone has had a very Merry Christmas, or whatever holiday you may be celebrating this season. I have been such a bad blogger the last several weeks. Between learning my new job (which has been keeping me so pre-occupied) and my new project of fixing up the house (there isn’t a much [...]

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