Promotions that feel like punishments. “Congratulations. You now get to drown with a better title.” Glen emerged from his military career as a Major. Nice dude. He was surprisingly “unmilitary” in bearing. We reminisced about trivial shared experiences like inedible…
Hi David, Today is 22 July, 2002. I want to say something simple. I don’t think you did a good job today. Not as a manager, and also not as someone who wants to grow or learn. You tried to…
https://youtube.com/shorts/eVC2P6VWuCs?si=Nq8p7x5YL8-eV1J1 By the way, Sergeant Baker did quite well! Go check out his responses. Others fail terribly when confronted with a camera.
Yeah, I experience Sunday anxiety because it drills into my mind, saying, “You need to do something now. Why are you resting?” Somewhere, the term linear dread surfaced. It’s an insidious message calling me to action. What the hell? Who…
The bright oncoming headlights blinded me. So much so that I squinted. I couldn’t even retaliate, because the high beams were off and the lights weren’t even angled up. It was just the tech. Similarly, LinkedIn posts began blinding me.…
Work-life balance is a cliché, and a sad illusion. Most people at work will never truly have it. But once you know that, you can actually do better for yourself. That’s the glimmer of hope. Proportion is what matters, not…
If you get slammed in the trend where “influencers” are punching down on normal people working and earning a living, get a reply ready. This helps you frame it objectively while working on ways to exit, if you even want…
HAPPINESS: So you can never be happy, and that’s good. We all chase the idea of happiness. We chase a word. Ask someone to define happiness in clear, universal terms and they’ll stare like a deer caught in the headlights.…
The old question, when a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody around to hear it, does it make a sound? has an answer. The tree does not make a sound. Sound is a human construct. It’s arbitrary. When…
Some time ago, I met a cool dude online. Joel. His videos reonated deeply. They fueled the MATTLR Engine Room. I asked Joel to share his story and I proposed a few anchor-questions. The reply was sterling. Thanks mate, for…