Kit Prine

Every company I have joined has a three week onboarding plan and the actual onboarding is one person who has been there …

The plan covers what is written down. The value of the six-year person is entirely in what is not, which is why they cannot be replaced by a document.

Try watching a match with the commentary off. It is a completely different sport and you notice about twice as much.

Works for football and falls apart for cricket, where half the information is what the ball did and you genuinely cannot see it.

Renting is not throwing money away, and I say that as somebody who spent eight years feeling ashamed about it. You are b…

The freedom is real and it is worth something. I took a job in another city on three weeks notice, which I could not have done owning.

Open-plan schools, hospital targets and the gig economy will look like the same idea wearing three hats — measure the th…

Every one of them measured the bit that was easy to count and then quietly redefined the job as the bit that was counted.

Polarisation gets the blame, but the lasting damage from social media might be flattening — every subject arrives at the…

Newspapers did this too — front page, same size headline for very different things. What changed is the volume, not the flattening.

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

Depends on the city. The framing matters though — one implies a planning fix, the other implies a wages fix, and they are not the same politics.

Being late is a decision that your time is worth more than mine. There is no version of it that isn't that, however plea…