Cass Business School Talk
I did a talk with Cass Business School last week. The format was fast and focussed – a quick 25 minute hit on what work is going to look like in the near future.
I did a talk with Cass Business School last week. The format was fast and focussed – a quick 25 minute hit on what work is going to look like in the near future.
I’m joined by Daniel Zhao, chief economist of Glassdoor, who talks me through their new rankings of the best places to work in 2026. It’s an intriguing list, is a car wash really better than some of the most famous tech brands in the world? The ranking allows us to explore what we want in…
Are you touch starved? Do you feel a touch hunger in your life? Michael Banissy is a psychologist whose work focusses on the importance of physical connection between people, he styles himself as part of a group of ‘scientists who stroke’. Touch has become sigmatised by the actions of those who have misused it, to…
The mental toll of trying to keep everyone in the loop is creating a burden that for many of us is making work increasingly stressful. Should we be thinking of reconfiguring our workplaces to make them less intense. This writer believes it’s time to let everyone fall out of the loop. A few years ago…
Delighted to post this small conversation with Nick Shackleton-Jones. Nick posts brilliantly witty rants on TikTok that are just the best things I hear about work and the futility of bureaucracy. TikTok is a fame machine and if creators drop a banger they can end up reaching a vast audience. Nick has posted some content…
I was recently a guest on Jay Shetty’s phenomenal On Purpose podcast. The show is the number 1 health podcast in the world so it was a great honour to bump heads and discuss how to make work better Listen on Apple Podcasts or on Spotify.
Last week I re-listened to an interview between Matt Mullenweg and Sam Harris about the future of work. Mullenweg is the founder of WordPress, the technology that powers between a quarter and a third of all the websites in the world. He was talking about models of autonomy for knowledge workers – and how this shows us…