I run a small business. As a result, we have fairly straightforward vacation policies — run your time by me, make sure things aren’t going to happen during those dates (launches, media trainings, and so on), and then let me know how it goes. I do not need a reason…

Every day or so, I receive 3 or 4 notifications about the same article, usually from the New York Times or CNBC.com. For the most part, they’re annoying but harmless — Kevin O’Leary is annoyed at quiet quitting, or some sort of piece about why the office may or may…

In 2022, Yankees Left Fielder Joey Gallo was traded from the New York Yankees to the Los Angeles Dodgers. He’d had a rough time in New York, and without going into vast amounts of detail, he’d just been plain old bad swinging the bat and hitting the ball to the…

If you’ve been reading my newsletter or reading my tweets or speaking to me in any meaningful way in the last week, I’ve been furious at the idea of “Quiet Quitting.” It’s a term that literally means “doing your job and being paid for it” that’s being mangled into some…

WeWork, the unprofitable office startup that had roughly 4 happy customers at any given time, fell apart years ago after it became painfully obvious how terrible a business it was. The founder, Adam Neumann, took WeWork from a $47 billion valuation to a failed IPO in just a month, and…

Do you like your car? How much do you like your car? Would you potentially drive your car toward a child to prove that your car is the best, safest car on the market? If the answer is no, you have successfully passed the “normal person” test that Whole Mars…

When I was a kid, I was diagnosed with a condition called dyspraxia — a motor-coordinational learning disability that means that writing by hand, while also incredibly hard to read, is both physically and mentally painful for me. Every time I pick up a pen to write something longer than…

After waiting several months and coming up with at least 4 different justifications as to why I “needed” another games console, I finally received my Steam Deck from Valve. The Deck is a portable PC that resembles a Nintendo Switch, but with two weird little touchpads that can be used…

I was on a brief vacation last week, and while talking with a friend I’d met there, I heard them talk about how their friends were from work, or from where they grew up, or through their family. It was a nice, normal conversation until I was asked where I…