It was Sunday night—a Sunday night just like this one. But back then, things were different. In the early afternoon I’d started to feel a slight discomfort. Heart palpitations. A little sweatiness of the palms. A strange taste in my mouth. Depending on how much caffeine I drank, this could get a lot worse. On …
Fame is obligatory – Hank Norman That quote is the most important thing on Twitter right now. Fame is obligatory. There is no other game in town. Why? Because fame means that you’re known. People have a perception of you, a sense of what you’re like. Maybe they feel like you’re a friend, even if they’ve …
Like modern politics, the corporate world is crammed with terms that either don’t mean what they are usually intended to mean, or mean something else entirely. An example of this is ‘creativity’. In the corporate workplace this word is chucked around with the same giddy abandon that monkey chuck feces around their enclosures at the …
Everyone wants to be a creative these days. That’s why Soho offices with bean bags on the floor and white boards on the walls and pool tables in the corner, and free beer on Fridays, are filled with earnest millenials in designer trainers and thick-rimmed glasses tugging at their beards and harrumphing over this or that …
Whenever anyone leaves a corporate job by choice there’s normally a whip round and they’re given a card and some sort of leaving gift. After the presentation has been made, and the person’s boss has mumbled some platitudes about what a great worker they were, it is the turn of the deserter to make a speech …
Corporate work is a huge timesuck: this is not breaking news. Everyone is aware of this fact. Instead of spending your time doing something you love, or even something that you are kind of ‘meh’ about—but at least it’s your something on your own terms—corporate work demands of most people that they do something they …
Our actions, the way we think and the way we perceive reality are all strongly influenced by cultural conditioning. Perhaps this seems obvious, but spending just a month outside London in Europe really brought this home for me. As regular readers will be aware, I’ve been outside of the UK for the last few weeks. …
