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…
First published at HRD Connect During the summer of 2020, I found myself in Lebanon. My partner is from Beirut so we were delighted to escape from the COVID-stricken shores of Britain to make a trip back to the city for a week’s holiday. Little did I know, we’d be leaping out of the frying…
Today’s guest is Dr Damian Scarf, he teaches at the University of Otago in New Zealand. I saw him do a short and impactful TED talk: Dr Damian Scarf’s TEDx Talk Very much like Dr Jill Bolte Taylor who did that wonderful lecture about having a stroke, Damian uses his psychology to diagnose what went…
Over the last week we’ve all watched far too much footage of the horrific scenes of the US Capitol being stormed. A mob of thousands of people charged in to the seat of American democracy intent – depending on how forgiving you intend to be -with either staging a coup or forcefully registering their disapproval….
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