Don’t believe what you have achieved 

It’s easy for the world to brand you as a success or failure – depending on their mood and the inflation rate (insert any other irrelevant metric here)  It is equally easy for you to fall in that trap.  “I did it” or “I fucked...

Coding is the future 

There was furor recently on a TechCrunch article that not everyone needs to know how to code.  And then (thankfully) there was a response – everyone should  I agree Just as the past century has been about managing people and how to get work done from...

Who defines success? 

I take a course at a business school. And there is no final exam for that course. Just one question instead  “List at least 3 things you learnt during the course” All those who list 3 things fail the exam.  “List at least 3 things you...

This is so pretty, I love it!

No one says this about Facebook. Or Amazon. Or Craigslist. People hated the new logo of Uber – but no one is complaining now. Unfortunately – we have been hard wired to believe that looks matter. Because we have seen people get away with that, for a large...

Whose truth do you value?

A stranger writes in to you “Hey, i just read your blog. I don’t agree with it. You came across as full of yourself!” For most people their first reaction in their head will be “fuck off. He doesn’t even know me to say what he said....