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Hardcore Defined

O-oh. Our Bru Elon. His mid-November midnight missive to Twitter staffers featured this widely reported nugget; "Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mean long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance

ID Unsustainable Situations

Rudi Dornbusch, German economist whose final post was teaching at MIT, passed on plenty of acclaimed insight. Like this, later recounted by one of his students who became a Harvard professor; "Unsustainable situations go on for longer than you think. And when they collapse, that happens faster and harder than

Enduring Functional Partying

Breaking news alert may not be necessary. Men have fewer friends than women. Married men overwhelmingly leave it to their wives to curate their social diary. Men prefer (sometimes transient) groups, women more long-lasting one-on-one friendships. Apparently. Here's one such commentary I read around this. Drawing on Aristotle’s classification

Job Cull via Video Call

American newshounds NBC see their exclusive Facebook bonfire footage plastered across feeds this week. Above, its screenshot of Mark Zuckerberg. Announcing that because of his over-ambition, 11,000 of his staff are now to be fired. One in eight of his entire workforce. Wonder if he ever saw 2009 Oscar-nominated

Your Selling Name

More an internal moment of levity, this. Yet I couldn't let the continued terrorism of infrastructure disrupting, precious artwork soup smothering, and road blocking of a hysterically unhinged self-appointed elite go by. They've long since stopped being 'activists'. Now they are a deranged, criminal cult. Hated, yes truly, by the

Wall of Wine Penetration Possibility

London wine journalist Victoria Moore sums up wine aisle angst well when shopping; "The phrase “wall of wine” was coined long ago to describe the impenetrable feel of a display of bottles in a shop. Because where do you start? Without pulling the cork or unscrewing the cap, it’s

Highway To Hell

No, not the AC/DC hard rock classic. And that from a once obsessed New Romantic synthpopper. Blogging a couple days back on the big climate talking shop in Egypt this week, I couldn't help but also reference the opening address of the UN General Secretary. Here's his soundbite which

Empty Chairs

Quite the phrase du jour. And not related to the swathes of unoccupied desks due to en masse commute reluctance when WFH can continue as an entitlement. Instead, 'empty chairs' is a manifestation of how difficult it currently is in Blighty to recruit. The Great Resignation and work/life balance

Your V20

Feel free to Skip, if you've no desire to read on the 'green' debate ... Let me state from the start, as non-controversially as possible, I consider myself a bit of a Greenie. Not of the loony, cult zealotry, cave dwelling Marxist kind. But from what I'd suggest is the nuanced

Elon Can't Kill The Video Star

The 'tumultuous' takeover complete, the world's richest person looks set to fire half of all Twitter staff. Hot on the heels of sacking the entire Board "for cause" (meaning no golden goodbyes), perhaps garnering less 'shocked' twitterati 'ratio-ing', is Musk's other pronouncement this week. That he's ending WFH. Everyone to