Hi, I'm Jonathan Fields.

Tune into my podcast for conversations about the sweet spot between work, meeting, and

joy.

And also listen to other people's questions about how to get the most out of that thing we call work.

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LinkedIn News.

From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Humpel and this is Hello Monday.

It's our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us.

I started in business journalism writing about the people who grew up to be lions in Silicon Valley.

In fact, I spent a good part of my early career writing about Mark Zuckerberg.

I think most people who knew Mark could say that he didn't think like everyone else.

My first interview with him was back in 2005 when he was on leave from Harvard

living with friends and a house in Palo Alto. Even then I understood him to be a

remarkably clear thinker who wanted to solve the problem of communication

with something beyond just a piece of software. I still have the cassette tape on which he says

that he envisions a social utility.

Look at Facebook today.

Or rather Meta as it's now called.

It's an 800 billion dollar company and it's still growing.

So how do thinkers like Mark achieve these larger than life ambitions?

Some might credit intellect, call them geniuses. Others would say they are

visionaries. Also, pretty lucky. Our guest today simply calls them geeks.

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