I cannot do a phone call any more and I genuinely do not know when that happened.

Running a car costs most people about four hundred a month once you count everything, and almost nobody has ever counted everything.

Meetings are not the problem. Nobody distinguishing a meeting for deciding from a meeting for informing is the problem. Half the frustration in any organisation is people arriving in different modes and spending an hour discovering it, then booking a follow-up to do the thing they came to do.

Shah rukh is indeed the last of the stars. Prove me wrong ✌🏻

A cricket match that ends in a draw is a better result than most wins and this is the single hardest thing to explain to anyone who did not grow up with it.

Renting is not throwing money away, and I say that as somebody who spent eight years feeling ashamed about it. You are buying the ability to leave.

Why is every app now trying to be a social network? I want the thing to do the thing.

The four-day week only really works if your job is thinking. Every pilot anyone quotes was an office, and nobody ever ran one in a warehouse.

Health advice aimed at women is still mostly either about being thinner or about having children, and it is genuinely strange how little else there is.

Index funds have made markets less efficient — half the money in the room is now buying without an opinion about anything.

Living in a city is greener than living in the countryside, which reliably annoys everyone who moved out for the fresh air.

Everyone I know is one broken boiler away from a genuinely bad month and we have all agreed not to bring it up.

We treat mental health at work like it is about resilience training when it is mostly about workload and whether your manager is a decent person.

Make voting compulsory. Australia manages it, turnout sits around ninety percent, and nobody there appears to be living under tyranny.

Statistics should be taught instead of trigonometry. I have needed one of them roughly weekly since school and the other precisely never.

Startups are a worse deal for employees than they were ten years ago. Same hours, same risk, a much thinner slice, and the exit that justified it happens far less often.

Remote work has made engineering teams worse, and the bit that broke is the part nobody wrote down: juniors learning by overhearing.

The number of people I know who have quietly cut something out of their diet and never mentioned it to a doctor is, now I think about it, most of them.

Genuine question: has anyone actually changed their mind because of something they read online? Not softened, not "considered" — changed.

Calling it phone addiction misses it. Most people are bored at work, and the phone is the only thing that isn't.

Olympic sports get worse as they get more professional. What people actually miss is the amateurism, and it turns out that was most of the charm.

You can love the work of someone appalling. I have never once met a person who manages it consistently, but in principle you can.

Every messaging app eventually turns into a bad email client. Threads, then search, then folders, then somebody adds a rules engine and we are right back where we started.

A thing I have noticed after fifteen years of interviewing people: almost every interview process is measuring how comfortable someone is being evaluated, and then reporting that as a measure of how good they are at the job. The tell is that the same candidate performs completely differently depending on the room. Give someone a whiteboard and three strangers and you learn how they handle being watched. Give them a real problem and an afternoon and you learn something about how they think. These correlate weakly, and we have built an entire industry on assuming they correlate strongly. What makes it hard to fix is that the noisy signal is cheap and the good signal is expensive. An hour of whiteboarding costs an hour. A realistic work sample costs a day of the candidate's time and half a day of yours, and multiplied across a funnel that is a real budget line that somebody has to defend. So we keep the cheap test and then add stages to compensate for its noise, which is how a process ends up with six rounds that are each individually indefensible. I do not have a clean answer. I have stopped pretending the current thing measures what we say it measures.

Peer review does more harm than good at this point. Two anonymous strangers, no accountability, eighteen months, and a result nobody will ever try to reproduce.