This morning, yet another post on LinkedIn about a C-suite executive quitting to focus on his family. This makes my blood boil. It may be an executive, a business owner or a politician, it annoys me so much with the self-righteousness and lack of self-awareness of it all. Don’t get…

Hard work! Work hard! The catchcry of liberal economists, management and business owners everywhere. Seemingly unaware of the close link to the Nazi slogan ‘arbeit macht frei’, ‘work makes free’, so many preach the idea that hard work will make you successful. …

Throughout history, the seasons have been celebrated far more than the years. The seasons are definable when working off the movements of the earth, the passing of years is more arbitrary. Even before the equinoxes and solstices were known and measurable, the seasons were felt by people. The warming of…

One of the rare good things to come out of the pandemic was the shift for office workers to work from home. What many had campaigned years for — the ability to log on and do work at home during work hours — was suddenly put in place system-wide in…

$5 for a single iceberg lettuce!? Crazy. But that is the news this week around Australia, made even more prominent by the election campaign and the start of a cycle of increases to the official cash rate. Life is getting more expensive. While the cost of an iceberg lettuce isn’t…

Whether it was intentional or unintentional, or somewhere in between it doesn’t matter. They got it right when over a period of time they changed the way we work and by extension, damaged our lives. Go back into the not so distant past and life was very different. People knew…

One of the big changes of these COVID-19 times has been the massive shift for most office workers from working in the office to working at home. The risks of large numbers of people working in a confined space along with the packed public transport system were deemed too large…

Why buying a home espresso maker is the best investment you’ll ever make. Addiction is such a dirty word. I would say I am passionate about coffee. …

It won’t change your life but it can ruin it. Debt, money lending, banking, finance. I like to call it the second-oldest profession. Imagine the oldest profession just starts up, two guys in the street. One says to the other — ‘can I borrow five clams?’ …