Noah is a Cocky Bastard

I had a meeting with a pretty cool company for Facebook today and afterwards realized how rude I was to their two representatives. So I am writing this post to bring me back down to reality.

“I don’t think we will work with you.”

After touching on last week’s writings about importance I guess I was the one who really needed advice. I think my ego started growing or toasting (bad joke related to ego waffles, anyways) after getting a dream job at Facebook, meeting new Amazing people all over Bay Area, helping coordinate a very successful conference and other random stuff. Does any of this give me the right to be rude to someone today or treat people differently? F, no!
“Constructive criticism is much better when its constructive.”

So what did I personally do? I called Marti who has known me forever and made him criticize me for about 5 minutes which he did quite easily. Then I realized how I want to be treated and how I SO detest rude or cocky people. Oh, and I called the two reps tonight to apologize for my behavior. So now I am deflated and back to normal, yay=)

noah with ipod nano lcd guards

Cool Part: FREE STUFF. I received a free LCD Guard for an iPod Nano from Bestbrands (*Note: Noah is not included). My buddy Igor hooked it up. What does that mean? You post a comment about how you were either really cocky or did a good deed and you get it. Winner announced Friday.

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7 Responses to “Noah is a Cocky Bastard”

  • dreams
    January 31st, 2006
    6:56 am

    Personally I don’t think ‘criticism’ can really be constructive. The word itself implies taking someone down a notch.. in a not so nice way. I’m all about feedback though!

  • Cap
    January 31st, 2006
    7:58 am

    Noah. Dude.

    why do you look different in every other picture you post up. Don’t need the guard but um, I’ll add one to the frey.

    at one local bank’s presentation/dinner to woo local investors… I couldn’t stand half the room busy talking among themselves (where I couldn’t hear the speaker) so I sat up and yelled out loud, saying something like “Hey sorry can you repeat that, I couldn’t hear you its too noisy around here.”

    and half the room of about a hundred people shut up.

    afterwards for the dinner, everyone looked at me like I was an arse.

    the speaker thanked me for trying though.

  • Damon Z
    January 31st, 2006
    9:14 am

    It takes a real man to own up to his mistakes especially publicly. Bravo!

  • Aditya Agarwal
    January 31st, 2006
    10:32 am

    Cheers for recognizing your mistakes. Not easy to do.

  • Shivani
    January 31st, 2006
    11:30 pm

    yea, a real man to own up to his mistakes, and yet still a cocky bastard to go around telling the world of his good deeds. I’m glad you feel better about yourself, but I’ll believe the deflated ego when I see it.

  • Wen
    February 2nd, 2006
    12:50 pm

    self-love is ok, as long as you hide it well, or at least die trying.

  • somebodyyouknow
    February 3rd, 2006
    3:26 am

    sometimes the “we don’t want to work with you” approach is important for the receiving end. otherwise it leaves them wondering if you were trying to be polite and let them off, or were actually interested. of course you should follow up with an explanation of why you can’t work together- and at least allow for some reconsideration

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