When Reese Witherspoon suggested that women needed to start using AI more or risk being left behind, the internet reacted exactly as you’d expect. Some people nodded along, others rolled their eyes, and a good number positioned themselves somewhere between mild irritation and full-blown outrage. It was, depending on your perspective, either practical advice or […]
For years, working from home was treated like a cheeky perk. A nice-to-have. Something you earned after proving you were “serious” enough about your job. Preferably male. Preferably child-free. Preferably with a wife at home. Then the pandemic happened and suddenly the whole economy discovered that work did not, in fact, collapse when parents logged […]
For most of modern working history, the world has worshipped one thing above all else. Hard skills. Numbers. Logic. Analysis. Systems. Spreadsheets. Code. The stuff that looks impressive on a CV and sounds impressive in a boardroom. We were told that if you wanted to get ahead, you needed to be more technical, more data-driven, […]
After years of glorifying “always on” culture, something deliciously ironic is happening. Being human is suddenly in vogue. You heard me. Human connection. Real presence. Eye contact that lasts longer than a TikTok clip. It’s all making a comeback. We’ve spent the last decade bingeing on technology like kids left alone with a box of […]
I’ve always believed that being around beauty, a painting, a garden, a well-timed sunset, does something to the soul no mindfulness app can touch. And now, science is finally catching up. King’s College London found that viewing original works of art can reduce cortisol (our stress hormone) by 22%. Twenty-two! That’s not “feel slightly better […]
I have written before about a colleague who reached out to me after a meeting because our boss had wiped the floor with me when I dared to pipe up an opinion that was somewhat different to hers. The colleague made me realise she noticed what happened. It wasn’t okay. Her action stopped me from […]
Somewhere along the line, society decided that breadwinning was the ultimate badge of honour. “He provides for his family,” they say, with chest-thumping pride, as if emotional labour, child-raising, and elder-care just magically take care of themselves. Here’s the thing: breadwinning only matters because it enables caregiving. You earn the bread so you can feed […]
Last week and for most of the weekend, I lost hours of my life to spreadsheets. Hours I’ll never get back. By the end, I was cross-eyed from formulas, cranky from numbers, and ready to chuck my laptop out the window. My accountant got the figures, but at what cost to my sanity? So when […]
Imagine this. You’ve got an employee who disappears for a year. In that time, they’ve basically signed themselves up to the Harvard Business School of Real Life. They’ve learnt crisis management, time-boxing, negotiating with irrational stakeholders (toddlers, anyone?), and running operations 24/7 with zero budget and minimal sleep. Then they show up at your office […]
Let’s get one thing straight: without parents, society simply doesn’t function. Full stop. Forget about AI, forget about innovation, forget about your favourite oat latte barista, if parents weren’t putting in the hard yards every single day, there’d be no “next generation” to fill offices, hospitals, classrooms or even the pubs on Friday night. And […]