Listen to the whole playlist Amazon announced its earnings last week – and saw its share price hit a record high. Announcing that they’d surpassed 200 million Prime members was just one of the milestones that the company was able to celebrate in a blowout performance. The company’s sales – no doubt helped by a…
Sign up to receive this newsletter each week Male-dominated firms are more likely to insist on workers going back to the office My mind has been blown this week with some analysis that someone sent to me. An anonymous female contributor, working in Melbourne, Australia, sent me a dataset that I spent some time analysing…
Rutger Bregman’s Humankind was my favourite book of 2020 and it comes out in paperback next month. A brilliant read (that also works wonderfully as an audiobook) it will appeal to fans of Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens or anyone who wants a provocative, thoughtful summer read. To mark the paperback release I spoke to him about…
In 2021 Ramadan starts on 13th April and ends around 12th May. (I say ‘around’ because such are the rules of the Holy Month that someone has to observe the moon and this can lead to arguments…) My good friend the poet Hussain Manawer offered to write some guidelines of how to be a good…
Go deep with the whole playlist What a guest today. I’ve tried to speak to Professor Robin Dunbar for 4 or 5 years. Robin has a new book out called Friends which is the sort of book you can lose yourself in on a holiday (if anyone lets you have one). I enjoyed it for…
A recording of a Twitter Spaces discussion with Scott Galloway. We talk remote working, why cities will never die, why working hard is Scott’s top career advice. Along the way we talk about the power of touch, Goldman Sachs, missing humans and what will come next for work. The Twitter Spaces app also blings a…
Buy A World Without Email I’ve talked a lot about Cal Newport’s provocations about abolishing email (and Zoom calls) [find them here and here]. And in fact, I had someone last week astonished when I suggested we should try to limit video calls to eight hours a week. They thought I’d lost my mind. How…
Over the last few weeks dozens of people have got in touch with me. ‘I know that you’re saying that the world has changed its views and home-working is here to stay, but my boss doesn’t agree and we’re going back 5 days a week when the vaccines drop’. They normally sign off with…
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