"One of the many lessons out of all this is starting on day one it was from the very first moment, assume you're going to succeed and don't do anything that gets in the way." The thoughts of Ken Mattingly, Nasa astronaut and famed lifesaver of the Apollo13 moon mission.

"At certain Silicon Valley parties, tech bros have started introducing themselves with their names and “p(doom)” numbers, their personal estimates of the likelihood AI will destroy humanity." Trendspotting of London Times columnist James Marriott last week. Expressed as numeric probability anywhere between zero and one, it could be a

I came across this military adage from a former British army officer. It is apparently Napoleon’s dictum of war. Who did have at least his final six years on St Helena to mull that one over. In the modern-day context that we "will probably cite Ukraine as one of

The 5am Club. Runaway 2018 self-help lifehack manual by Robin Sharma. I am not buying it. It comes from a long line of quasi-science pop authors all preferring the morning lark route beats that of the night owl. To achieve “productivity, prosperity, performance and impact” on the scale of “superstars,

What is the opposite of a life coach? More downtime doomscrolling, another supposedly boundary pushing clickbait slant on personal improvement. In part I clicked through in the slim hope I'd learn about a new emerging cohort of 'coaches'. Having magically unearthed how they can enrich lives. Freeing the frustrated from