# Creative, Curious, or Passionate

By [The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman](https://paragraph.com/@nickgrossman) · 2012-08-07

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Last week, I hung out with my old friend [Nate Jaffee](https://twitter.com/natejaffee).  We played a bit of tennis (on the hottest day I can remember in recent history), had the standard and depressing discussion about how we both peaked athletically at age 16, and then got down to the important business of having a few beers and talking about the internet. Nate has spent the past several years working on social media marketing campaigns, first for [Mountain Dew](http://www.facebook.com/mountaindew) and now for [Puma](http://www.facebook.com/Puma), and has spent much of that time trying to figure out how people engage with Facebook pages.  It was really interesting to hear, because I spend most of my time talking to, and thinking about, people who build the tools that Nate is a user of.  Weirdly, I don't actually know that many people at big (or small) brands who are on the buying end of the social web marketing & advertising. Anyway, Nate made a great point about the internet which I want to repeat here.  He said, offhand, that "anyone who is creative, curious, or passionate loves the internet".  I'll repeat that, in big letters, because I think it's pretty powerful:

> **_Anyone who is creative, curious, or passionate loves the internet._**

I thought that was so great and so right, and it really stuck with me.  So I'll just leave it at that.

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*Originally published on [The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman](https://paragraph.com/@nickgrossman/creative,-curious,-or-passionate)*