Apparently, 2025 was the year people started flirting with the idea of breaking up with the internet. Analog bags are a thing now. Phone-free parties. Digital sabbaths. People announcing publicly, online that they are logging off. Which is ironic. But also understandable. Because the vibe has shifted. The […]
Why do you blog? So here we are. This marks my 199th blog post in a row. Yes, 199! That’s consistency, dedication, maybe obsession, or maybe just the quiet sanity I get from tapping out my words in this cozy corner of the internet. Honestly, a few years […]
Every once in a while, I find myself in conversation with someone, whether a colleague, an old friend, a friend of a friend, and they say something like: “Oh yeah, I read that in your blog.” Cue record scratch.Wait… You read my blog? It never fails to amuse […]
More than a decade ago, when I first started blogging, I used to dissect society and the workplace through a psychological lens, weaving intricate thoughts together. I traveled a lot back then, writing in depth, layering insights much like the ruins of the places I visited. Fast forward […]
The psychology of writing about the workplace: The Premio Dardos Award When I first started this blog a couple of years ago, I did so somewhat on a dare for work. I wrote a few posts here and there and all of a sudden I started […]
Someone reached in and it was a rock lobster: Oh wait it was a Liebster award Today things are a bit wacky. My office floor is a hot mess and my desktop is even more of a mess. I have twenty applications open while I work on […]
I don’t know if this occurs in the corporate training world, but in non-profits, almost all trainings start off with an icebreaker. These can run the gamut from telephone game to unraveling a big ball of twine with your fellow training comrades-in-arms. These are meant to build rapport […]
On a whim, close to a year ago, I decided to start a blog. I started it as a practice run for a then upcoming work assignment. I have always been a storyteller but I didn’t know about this blog thing. It seemed vaguely exhibitionist-like and that it […]
French sociologist Jean Baudrillard, no doubt with a typically French sneer, once commented, “Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth”. Well, compared to Europeans, we do indeed have wonderful teeth, but in addition to that we have learned the fine art of living without […]
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