The Children of Snobs
Given how pejorative the term is, we’re understandably keen to locate snobs somewhere far from us. They are the people in the newspaper, or the ones who live in the other…
The Nature and Causes of Procrastination
Introduction The history of every life is made up both of the life we lead, and the richer, more ambitious one we dream of leading – but never quite do… because…
How Parents Get in the Way of Our Career Plans
For most of human history, what we did for a living was decided for us by our families. We would either directly copy what our parents did, or else we would…
The Need to Keep Believing in Luck
We don’t anymore nowadays much believe in Luck – or what was, in earlier ages, known as Fortune. We would think it extremely suspicious if someone explained that they had been…
Why Modern Work Is So Boring
One of the overriding reasons why modern work is so boring is that we keep having to do more or less the same thing every day. We have to be specialists,…
The Sorrows of Colleagues
One of the most frightening aspects of working life is that we will, unless we are the beneficiaries of extreme good fortune, be required to have colleagues. The colleague is a…