Added up, work will take up a full 14 years of our lives – that’s 14 years of 24/7 work. And during those 14 years our employers and clients expect us to occupy ourselves with whatever they deem important or necessary. And considering the amount of time we’re expected to do work, it stands to…
So, what will it take?
“There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.” Thomas Merton We have all felt it. That feeling of certainty coursing through us. A certainty in our abilities to achieve anything. A vital energy that convinces us that we’re ready to turn the impossible into reality. Those…
Science’s shortcomings
I have to start off by saying that I’m double vaccinated and plan to receive a booster shot in December. I’m convinced climate change is real and is caused by humans. And I’m an atheist who wholeheartedly subscribes to the theory of evolution. But (you must have seen it coming), I am also of the…
How to think for yourself
I started my advertising career at Berry Bush BBDO, in Cape Town, a couple of weeks after Rory. Rory was in account management with me, and we serviced the same client. Thing is, Rory didn’t like me, and I can’t blame him as I wasn’t all the fond of myself at the time either. Rory…
How you see the world dictates how you live
“Making money is not a thing that you do – it’s a skill that you learn.” Naval Ravikant Many wealthy people say that making money is a skill anyone can learn. They claim that if they were dropped in the middle of a strange city with no money that, as long as they spoke the…
Human connection is messy, deal with it
I’m in the car listening to a news radio program. The host is interviewing a tech expert about Facebook’s rebrand to Meta. They discuss how the rebrand is an attempt to distance the Facebook holding company from the negative associations people have with the social media platform. The guest touches on the fact that Facebook…
A case for why we can do better than democracy
I was almost expelled from boarding school when I was 16. I broke into the apartment of one of the teachers who stayed on campus. He had confiscated a video I’d rented (long story) and had promised that he would give it back to me on Saturday morning. I knocked on his door after breakfast…
Be more reckless with your life
I was 32 and I hated my job. I hated it so much that I would drive to work in the mornings and wish that a bus would drive into me. Hard. I wanted to be injured seriously enough to end up in hospital for a few days but not so seriously that there’d be…
Where to find stories worth telling
I’m a liar. It started in my teens. I would tell the most outlandish lies and expect people to believe them. At one point I told my friends at school that my mother kept cyanide capsules in one of her rings and that we had a 50-metre pool in our backyard. Between the ages of…
This is why you’re lonely
Despite having an extraordinary wife and two children whom I love very much I still sometimes struggle with crippling loneliness. There are times when I feel like there isn’t another being on the planet with whom I can share some corner of who I am. And there are moments when I gaze into face of…