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.

Small talk gets a terrible press, mostly from people who have never had to sit next to a stranger for two hours.

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

I've come round to thinking most productivity advice is just a way of feeling organised for about a week.

We built an entire economy on the idea that people will keep buying things they already have, and then act surprised when the things are designed to stop working.

Everyone I know is on their phone in bed and everyone I know is tired. I am not saying it is causal. I am saying it is a hell of a coincidence.

Group chats replaced forums and we lost the thing where a stranger's answer from four years ago was still there when you needed it.

The best thing about a newspaper was that it ended. You got to the back page and you were done and nobody suggested anything else.

Cities keep building cycle lanes that stop. Just end, mid-road, and you are in traffic. What is the point of ninety percent of a cycle lane?

Self-driving is a much harder problem than anyone selling it admits. The driving was never the bit — it is the one situation in ten thousand that nobody wrote a rule for.

Every government IT project fails the same way and everybody involved can describe the failure in advance, which is the part I cannot get past.

Half the arguments I have with my partner are about the same four things and we have never once finished one. I am not sure that is a problem, which is new.

Reading a hard book slowly is not the same activity as reading an easy book slowly, and treating them as one thing is why reading targets are useless. Counting books is like counting meals — the number is accurate and it tells you almost nothing about whether anything was absorbed.

Every job I have had contained about four hours of real work a day and an enormous amount of theatre around it.

Everyone I know who is good with money either earns a lot or was quietly given something early. The budgeting apps are for the rest of us to feel busy with.

A university degree is now mostly a signal about who your parents were, and only incidentally about what you know. The tell is that employers screen on institution rather than transcript, and institution is set by admissions, which is set by schooling, which is set by money.

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.

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

"Trauma" now stretches from genocide to a bad line manager, and somewhere in that stretch the word stopped doing any work at all.

Your council decides more about your actual week than Parliament does — the bins, the buses, whether the road gets fixed — and you probably can't name a single councillor.

Every popular fact you know about the brain is either wrong or from 1985. The ten percent thing, left brain right brain, learning styles, all of it, still being taught by people who mean well.

unpopular opinion but most "food deserts" are actually time deserts. the shop is there, people are working two jobs.

Most people who say they want honest feedback want accurate praise, and the two are easy to confuse until the feedback is actually negative. You can watch the switch happen in real time: the request is sincere, and then the first genuine criticism arrives and the next twenty minutes are spent supplying context.

Weather forecasting got quietly, enormously better and nobody noticed because we only remember the times it was wrong.

We are going to spend the next ten years discovering which parts of the internet were being held together by people doing it for free.