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Jack of all trades, master of none – total tosh
“Jack of all trades, master of none”. Total tosh. When I was on my Foundation year at Art school we got to try out lots …
What if we eliminated all of the BS Jobs?
There’s a new scourge in town. “BS Jobs”, as made famous by David Graeber. BS Jobs are basically jobs that not only lack any meaning for …
“It’s not failure you should fear” by Rob Long
Let me ask you a question: if someone gave you, say, 50 million dollars today, would you think that’s a lot of money? I’m …
How empathy won the beer wars
Back in the 1990s, the two biggest beer brands in the US were Bud Light and Miller Light. When it came to advertising budgets, they …
We Only Control How We Respond – Ryan Holiday
The single most important practice in Stoic philosophy is differentiating between what we can change and what we can’t. What we have influence over and what …
Was it worth it?
Musicians, when you get to LA, prepare for a rude awakening. You see, the clubs there don’t pay you to play there. Au contraire, you …
Are you just surviving?
The fact that we exist at all is pretty amazing. It’s a crazy universe out there. And yet we forget that far too often. We …
Remote Work as an Opportunity to Create a Positive and Compassionate Company Culture by Jo …
As we settle — as best we can — into a new normal work life that includes remote/virtual offices, I want to speak a …
This new book will help you become your future self
The following is an excerpt from Dr. Benjamin Hardy’s new book (released today), Personality Isn’t Permanent, published with Penguin Random House. Dr. Daniel Gilbert, a Harvard …
Find Your True North
We’re all trying to find out what our “True North” is. That mythological one thing that makes this short, painful life thing worth it, somehow. And …
Wanna turn back the clock?
It’s not just that the new world is starting to feel normal. For many of us, we’re starting to forget what the old world felt …
Feeling Depressed?
Angry? Confused? Scared? Fed up? Depressed? Numb, even? We know what the bad news is. COVID, the lockdown, injustice, racism, the recession, the upcoming election, …
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