This Week - Aug 23, 2013

As much as we would like to believe that we can have a completely independent persona online that is separate from our business one, it just isn’t the case, and that goes double for people who found and operate their own company.

— Startup founder bites San Francisco, San Franciscans bite back – A lesson in social media (BizJournals)

We were the Boy Scouts of the 1%: fortunate beyond belief and making the most of every moment, plunged at once into bare nature and high living to explore the essence of life, perhaps.

— Setting Sail: A Journey to the Channel Islands (Gear Patrol)

You can't be a compassionate man, a guy without a mean bone in his body, and also a brilliant man. The public doesn't have room for that—at least not in Joe Biden.

— Have You Heard the One About President Joe Biden? (GQ)