Sitemap - 2022 - What Is Even Happening?
Tech does not "save" society, no.
With Thanksgiving, "the chaos is the point."
We don't need more depression drugs
"My family's past" vs. "Your family's future"
Proximity bias and presenteeism are the twin engines of work
Maybe don't pay peanuts to those who look after your kids while you try to earn?
The inflation Thanksgiving -- or the price-gouging Thanksgiving?
Trump vs. Biden Round II would be so incredibly tedious
Maybe the 2022 Midterms narrative is all wrong
A three-sentence summary of recent American politics
So, are the next six years of American politics just a fight about abortion?
Why do we still care about polling?
The "tech titan" emperors have no clothes
What prevented the "Red Wave?"
Why is parenting not part of GDP?
The gradual transformation of America into Hungary
How do people legitimately find consensus?
The lesser-discussed animal of corporate concentration
Has the pretense that leaders care about appearances now completely faded?
How would "the market," which is short-term in nature, ever solve climate change?
Portland seems to be collapsing?
"Politics has not moved on from Trump."
Does the nuclear family even make historical sense?
Are we going through a "seismic shift?"
Politics has become lowest common denominator theater
Akron (and, honestly, most of the heartland) got piped
Power seems to matter more than ever before
We're all "trapped in a bubble," seemingly
The U.S. political system makes no goddamn sense
"We've crossed this line. Now, how do we walk it back?"
This isn't why Biden won, per se, but yes -- we do need the "scramble the identity narrative"
Eventually, some performative aspects of work may fade out. Not quite tomorrow, tho.
No one works that hard, really
What the hell is the point of school?
Is the goal to actually change things, or just whip people into a frenzy on social media?
Afraid of books, or afraid of thinking?
Ironically, no one cares that much about caregivers
What's measured is what supposedly matters. But like, what are we even measuring?
Larry Summers and Bari Weiss on the future of work
Literally no one seems to understand the point of modern feminism
Aggrieved needle-dicks chest-beating about masculinity
Society is evolving quickly. But have we hit the "peak?"
The middle class? What's that?
They hid the documents in Ivana's coffin
Aggrieved victimization, while constantly claiming the other side plays the victim...
"Hiring for cultural fit" has never meant anything
More evidence that the entire wellness industry is a giant fucking scam
Mitch McConnell gets hit by the Karma Boomerang
Beto calls out da motherfuckers
Did we turn Trump into a victim?
Not a civil war, no, but more lone wolves? Yes.
This is where work needs to head, per Stowe Boyd
Our era is defined by impunity and bombasity
The indignity of the Trump raid!
Like the FBI -- until ya don't
There's no reason to drive X-amount of time for something you can do at home or a coffee shop
The sad future of the dinosaurs
I thought Blue Lives mattered?
The housing crisis is cockblocking young people
Indiana vs. Kansas, or gerrymandering vs. referendum
Caring about random future citizens requires self-awareness and empathy that very few possess
Should women just embrace the sexual status quo, then?
Trump was really a fucking piece of work
Men and their "tragic level of alienation"
Should be let TV discuss important things?
Jordan Petersen has largely flown off the handle
Is murder data better than we think?
There's no "teacher shortage."
Male allyship to females isn't really happening, Dogg
How much you earn has nothing to do with how much you work. We should know this by now.
This definitely does feel like a time where mandatory service would be a win-win
Who would want to be a teacher right now? (Or a cop, even?)
Single-family income? Good fucking luck.
The speed of money from the poor to the rich
Maybe we should stop ranking kids too
The abortion stuff might engage voters
Ricky Torlincasi TCU '08 is tedious
The 1996 NBA Draft was f'n insane
Why is everyone with authority so old?
Literally not an iota of any of this productivity research should surprise anyone
Real estate porn just distracts us from the housing crisis
Housing crisis is a nightmare, but I mean, developers and investors want their nut NOW
Tudor Dixon seems like a real charmer
The rise of the home birth (well, at least for COVID)
The biz model for the media sucks
"Can't fix every goddamn thing."
People still seem really pissed off about COVID
Subdivision Sarah doesn't want any of these things to happen
Inflation and the class Cupid shuffle
Couldn't we simplify work even more?
Shouldn't this study imply we need to make education more than just a race to the best subdivision?
Google is sharpening the layoff axe
Political footballs that don't even matter
Maybe we should be more like Scandinavia on transgender teen issues
Transgender transition is a culture war issue, not something about helping teens
Does politics benefit people anymore?
Women should not play WITHIN the system
What if the end of Roe means LESS people will mobilize to vote?
The world's first suicide hotline
White Woman's Instagram holds up well
It's so simple. I should have thought of it.
The push and pull of "leadership"
Facebook sux, and is best used to rile up people
The culture warriors get all the attention, but maybe some Republicans can govern
How would you describe "American democracy?"
Zuck is getting serious because his windfall and legacy are on the line now
THE NEW HOME MARKET IS IMPLODING!!!!
Are executives compensated or bonus'ed on any of these things?
"I want my kid to be Michael Phelps"
Yes, a lot of progressive stuff has a naming problem
American healthcare is way too obsessed with pills that maybe don't work
The working class party? Nope. The party of grievances.
Forced work socialization is ridiculous
The current "right" of politics seems so intent on never having to change anything at all
Anxiety balls wired for productivity
Increase harm without changing behavior
Literally nothing matters anymore except Culture Wars
"These are not police problems."
Facebook wants your eyeballs to sell ads against; "connection" now an afterthought
People think "Sodom" was a sin about homosexuality, but in reality it's about not helping the poor
Utterly unsurprising that the head of SHRM is such a fucking snake
Rubber and road on immigration
Kamala Harris doesn't seem "Presidential," moreso "a tool to help win an election."
Good life questions to get yourself semi-right
There will soon be a Silk Road for abortion pills only, you gotta assume
Americans maybe finally understand vacations more now
The GOP needs to take over in "expertise"
Possible response to COVID learning loss
Men don't really parent, and this frustrates women
What topics shape our cultural norms the most?
If you think you're an Alpha Dog, you probably vote for the red team
Traditional gender roles, Trumpism
Guys from Bain confuse "make work interesting" with "Um, you're getting automated out."
Big Tech ain't got no consistency around remote
What if streaming ... is/was a fad?
"Could use some help on this project" is almost insultingly vague
"Highly responsible" is novel, but shouldn't be your identity either
We're all left behind, but we shouldn't be playing the victim either
Climate change is going to pipe all of us
It's impossible for any politicians to do anything these days; all power thus is in the courts
The Senate is a bunch of old rich white guys who can read from teleprompters well
Jon Haidt discussing teen depression and social media use
"You risk turning your anxiety into resentment."
North Carolina is a political bellwether
Baltimore Museum of Art seems to get it
The existing world vs. the encroaching world
Maybe inequality is ... improving?
Religion needed power because it organically faded
The only way we will ever have success on climate change is when it's tied to economic losses
How are Boomers going to get their house equity nut?
The church's "unofficial position" back when on abortion
"Turn our attention to the wombs we can control."
The whitest metro areas in the United States
Who appears in the most U.S. monuments?
Some ways the Democrats could win things again
"But I want a bigger house! I wanna get my nut!"
Is "growth at all costs" even logical?
Access to power usually means more than your values do, right?
Here's the part of the Uvalde report more people need to care about or think about
COVID and wealth tipped the scales on everything
"Kissed their wives, lit cigars, and posed for pictures."
If you're a football hero that kisses the ring, you can do anything that you want, really
Boost the supply, reduce the division
"Show me on the doll the parts that are Republican-owned."
A flat-screen TV vs. college debt-free
Ken Griffin doesn't care until it's about his nut
"Cultural flashpoint issues are the only identification point of each party now."
Women SHOULD have sex for pleasure; makes society more functional
Hybrid work maybe killed the downtown core
White-collar summer Fridays are a joke, so this stat shouldn't surprise anyone
The ideal 2024 Prez candidate?
Democrats should build more stuff
Do companies give a flying fuck about diversity?
The "atta-boy" isn't that powerful honestly
Where do you think Gameday will be every week this year?
Why transparency doesn't matter at work
Is Trump a brat, a child, or both?
Look at how the left and right side of the equation talk about America's biggest problems
Looks like tech companies are slowing down the hiring
Why performance reviews ultimately make no sense
The rise of the "conflict entrepreneur"
"But I'm so busy with the kids!"
The federal government is about to have its own "Great Resignation"
"Atomized households kept in line through market discipline"
When you lose a parent to COVID
Krugman invites people to make up their own bullshit about the economy (which everyone already does)
It's fine for offices to be inefficient? What the fuck?
A large majority of Twitter feels psychotic
Money continues to mean very little
The police in Uvalde didn't seem to do much
The gerrymander creates the extremes
Herschel Walker on ... gun control, maybe?
Most labor productivity stats are complete lies
Tech companies are hardly employment nirvana
So long as executives are focused on numbers, managers will be made to be focused on numbers/tasks
Change in tone, but not substance
Self-deception, inertia, and myopia: "The Paradox of Preparedness"
Have we "weaponized" social justice?
Most humans spend over 82,000 hours of their life at work. Are these "universal values" met?
Seeing your colleagues as whole people
"I want to get a dog someday..."
Laura Wasser debunks "the kids are the most important thing"
Are we more accepting of divorce now?
Trump has actually become more popular, contextually, since the Insurrection
Why are all our leaders so old?
What even is "The American Dream?"
"People like you will be disarmed."
George Will makes a generic argument on millennials, but it's not wrong either
This is from the El Paso shooter manifesto
"I shouldn't have to argue with you."
Why did we remove the word "woman" from reproductive rights discussions?
Stop hiding behind how "busy" you are.
People seem to have a net-negative view of feminism
People want attention, and sometimes that manifests in bad ways
Indifference drives mass shootings
The Biden "in the moment" problem
Three forms of corporate office park
"Jobs are designed to keep you too tired to do anything else."
"The bomb cyclone of our discontents"
Bad police clearance rates might just be an issue of community trust
The suburban office park rose, and then died, quite fast.
What impacts firearm-homicide rates, per David Epstein of "Range"
The unraveling of "The Big Lie"
Has our sexuality become more liberal?
Is public education truly and consistently doing its job?
Is it time to show the carnage?
Not events, but patterns of behavior
Here's a paragraph about work-life balance that goes against every tenet of human psychology
How many people truly understand what the office is really for?
After shooting events, conservatives shift the narrative
Yes, it does feel like we're in a recession
What about the freedom NOT to conform?
Educationally, the pandemic gutted us
Inflation is actually worse than we think
"We didn't realize anywhere could include here."
Contribute to help a toddler orphaned by the Highland Park shooter
"We never see these shootings coming."
The current American GOP's model is Hungary (DeSantis/Vance ticket?)
Larry Ellison has also been divorced four-five times.
Crazy to see gender and gun narratives collide
Fear is the breeding ground for a lot of bad things
The rise of Christian nationalism
When you're more efficient, your job becomes worse for you.
Tucker Carlson with the self-own topic bar
SCOTUS was its most conservative since 1931
Someone said the quiet part out loud in "the war on sex"
"Natural, moral, and ... holy."
Show us the Maxwell client list
Here is where democracy begins to collapse
A nuanced point on polarization
The war for flexibility falls at the feet of "Well, I need a paycheck..."
Is "church and state" now over?
Seems like Republicans want women in the kitchen and not many other places
There is no greater analogy for Trump than "mob boss"
Companies are shit at tracking time and productivity
Why is every current mom seemingly named "Lindsay" or "Sasha?"
Roe's piped, so Trump's piped?
"Get everyone involved" feels like a good data strategy, but would threaten lots of top dogs
As the affluent chase control and order, they usually lose empathy along the way
Should we be talking more about deepfakes?
The demise of Trumpian loyalty
What do radical left ideas have in common?
The Boomer Blockade is a huge problem in politics
The death penalty reaches ambivalence
Steven Pinker on wokeness and approach to change
Will the woke make us all go broke?
Because they just want to say "Make money."
It's staggeringly rare to see managers ask "How can I support you?"
Two paragraphs that summarize most of the core issues with DEI "initiatives"
A mommy blogger says the quiet part out loud
The hell that is a know-it-all corporate leader
Sex is a class privilege now, mmmkay?
Good to hear these stories when you're going through fertility issues
Do the Democrats have "a play" now?
I had never heard of "the baby shower" as an office perk until now
"Ketchup dripping down the wall" is a perfect summary of 2016 to 2021.
Beware "socially prescribed perfectionism"
"Be vulnerable about our own journeys?" Some managers would rather leap onto a turnpike.
How many "leaders" actually DO understand this?
The rich and powerful do NOT like to be outed as perverts
For two decades, the alarmists have usually been right
"Joe Biden, crime, and gas prices."
"Pro-life," or, well, until the baby is actually born
There is almost nothing in this paragraph that most leaders could do successfully
There's often no difference in behavior on the far left and far right, honestly
Affluent women attempting to be "progressive" are one of the worst subsets of society
"The only exception is..." Why is there ONLY one exception in these cases about women?
As you'd expect, politicians have no clue how to deal with the homeless (background/empathy/et al)
You know a lot of wealthy, privileged people willing to "lean into discomfort?" I do not.
And we wonder about the origins of our modern problems
"More faith" doesn't necessarily mean "less shootings."
Does anyone truly know when life begins?
A decent and half-logical way to discuss abortion issues, morally and logistically
We fall behind on semiconductor technology because of bureaucracy
We have a SCOTUS for our times, i.e. highly-polarized and big on Culture Wars bullshit
Unfortunately, many people think that "mobilizing" means "posting on Instagram a few times."
This is one of the best summaries of the Anita Hill to Joe Biden to Donald Trump time arc
Susan Collins got drilled like Brittany after the SAE Formal
The problem is, a lot more people care more about rising gas prices...
And, anoooooother double standard perhaps?
Double standards do seem to be the new norm...
Stop chasing heroic individualism
F3 Nation GrowRuck looks like some crazy, intense fitness stuff
Most industrialized nations are having less children
So much of addiction treatment is about blaming the user, which makes them feel more alone
Maybe we need to start with the "why" of addiction
Mental health is the NORM, not the EXCEPTION
"A failure of morals or willpower."
"Outrageousness confused with intrepidness"
Since we currently deem everything racist as is, how about interest rates, too?
How many managers view themselves as making work into a "place of solace?"
Gun culture became a palpable form of identity, and we all suffer for it
In a recession, this guy Nathanson wouldn't have a job. Executives would scoff at this bullshit.
Clarence Thomas will likely go down as a bad-ish dude historically
Mass shootings attack community itself
Guns aren't an instrument for people; they're a goddamn fucking major belief
The hidden (to many) struggle of infertility
More proof that literally no one conclusively knows what "strategy" is or means
Some advice for the future of masculinity
Illinois is collapsing at the seams
We all need to advance and advertise our identity, right?
"Attention, emotion, and energy."
How would a billionaire be a "disruptor for the working man?"
Liberals and conservatives talk past each other on crime
Inflation is even harming charitable stuffs
Culture Wars stuff is just starting to sound really stupid
What is the "social movement" role of companies?
Managerial thinking is the literal definition of myopia
Management stays the same because no one tries to make it better so long as we're making revenue
Seems like the cops in Uvalde had some issues
"I don't want to be your friend anymore unless you do this." (LOL)
When identity matters more than anything, we inherently live in a self-absorbed time
Feminism sold its soul to Instagram
Not all childhoods are happy, no, but this is still a mostly good quote
Don't think "a good career" is "good work."
It's not even a remote vs. non-remote issue. Just schedule less meetings, guys.
Adam Grant would get stoned to death at a MAGA rally
Does the arc of the universe truly bend towards justice?
Women beat the shit out of each other for no logical or good reason
Mainstream feminism is about Instagram personal branding, and people see through it now
Movie violence really isn't that realistic; it's shoot and drop.
Is it more fun to destroy, or unify?
More evidence that "The Great Resignation" is the wrong narrative; it's "The Great Reconsideration"
I myself was unaware that Publix is helmed by alt-right insurrectionists
Management by bullying and seeking your own personal brand
All history is contextual, fam
"Leaders" often don't see any real urgency because, well, they're old and already taken care of
The Big Lie still has a lot of steam
Minority wealth distribution will never work, because it opposes the "bootstraps" theory
"Who cares if Miami is underwater in a century? I want to get my fucking nut NOW."
No District Attorney can do what they need to when the focus is completely on ideology now
This is the reckoning we are now seeing.
Let's destroy the environment over vague notions of "in-person collaboration"
Indeed, the late-2015 GOP was THIRSTY for some white nationalism
Where I live is basically torched
THOSE DAMN LIBERAL DISTRICT ATTORNEYS!!! Wait...
Maybe politics is just ... an at-scale blame game?
Everybody THINKS they have "the full picture." So few people really do.
What is the point of higher education?
The left screams pretty loud, but ideological process? I dunno.
"I can now tell others what to do."
"We need Hitler. He was a doer."
The good ol' Founding Fathers didn't see the assault rifle coming
{to the tune of "Won't you be my neighbor?"} -- > "I don't know my neighbors."
"We're years into this, and still having an uninformed conversation about social media."
Are we blaming too much stuff on social media?
Some core problems with "senior leaders"
"Do the math, and there's the future."
Piketty is a smart dude, but if you love Trump, you'd despise the dude
Human issues are pretty universal, yes, and we protect our in-groups
More evidence we care about the concept of "motherhood," but not really "supporting mothers"
Violence against tax collectors?
Honestly, one of our problems might be how much personal fulfillment we do seek out
Climate change will likely make us dumber, which is nice to hear and know
Progress is important to remember
This wouldn't be such a bad campaign ad, honestly
Companies helped bankrupt the middle class, but we still somehow deify "job-creators" and execs
For all they built, elder Boomers do seem to prioritize despair as a narrative
Blaming shootings on single moms is an attempt to grasp at some narrative
"The bad guy sits at the center of the narrative."
People are not smart enough to figure out the current division model of society
"It's never about protection; it's about control." The masculinity myth.
This is why turnover is lip service and cost-cutting gets you a bigger beachfront house
"Ideal world?" "Carefully and holistically?" ROFL.
Not sure there is a bigger moron in the world than Ron Johnson
Would it make sense to post gruesome death photos of young shooting victims?
Guns, division, and a general lack of purpose
I honestly doubt the fights about masks and mandates and all that will end anytime soon
Return to office + inflation = you're screwed
Get DeSantis on Line 1; Trump is just a spiteful old mob boss these days
Isn't everything kind of on the states now, since the federal government is just theater?
We want the gun debates to be "data-driven," but they're almost entirely ideological and emotional
MAGA accuses weeping libs of being the problem, but MAGA loves to play the victim card
Most of the gun discourse is lies and limited transparency
We don't care remotely about teachers, but when confronted, we hastily claim how important they are
Columbine was 8,441 days ago. We still trying to figure this shit out.
How long would it take to build the Empire State Building today?
Americans have the attention span of a goldfish and get easily overwhelmed by being busy
Eventually, school shootings don't resonate because everyone ... just goes back to normal
People don't want the "position of authority" to help others. They want it to help themselves.
A lot of motherhood is performative
"Whoever invented guns needs to stop."
"Bad guy with a gun" = stop him with empathy and love earlier in life
Einstein wasn't trying to "stack bills," no
In moments like this with the courts, remember Trump didn't even win the popular vote. LOL.
Kinda hard for execs to sign climate pledges when they're forcing people back into offices, no?
Harden these targets ... or home-school?
Uvalde was "ready," and it still didn't matter
This "how elites think" paragraph encapsulates some modern American problems pretty well
At least the neighbor tried to help a bit
What do gun owners and non-gun owners agree on?
Is this the public health approach to guns that we need?
Does changing words make you "a change agent" or "progressive?"
The duty of care is the highest calling of a human
"I mean, fuck it, Amsterdam has been underwater forever!"
Stacey Abrams is no doubt a political climber, but a middle-aged white guy shouldn't be saying this
Would agree this is a better definition of "success"
Wokeness is bad, but so is storming a Capitol. Can't we agree both far-leaning sides are bad?
Culture wars are damaging the Fed too
It feels fun to yell at people on Facebook, but ... it's killing us
Why do people marry off, if marriage can cause so much pain?
The Trump fade is much closer than we think
The problem is, most other executives have no idea what the Chief Diversity Officer does...
The "big lie" about the 2020 election IS essentially the ENTIRE GOP platform now
The greatest vehicle of social mobility became a debt machine
No one in hospice is chasing more spreadsheets
Ginni Thomas needs a shorter tag line on her phone
More proof that culture wars are the main (only?) thing mattering these days
Seems like we're already IN a recession...
Did Johnny Depp somehow manage to help kill #MeToo?
"Difficult to impossible to hold the center"
"The lack of regard for community"
"Special role in human history?" Huh?
The potential PA Governor in 2024 is something to watch out for
Not "replacement" so much as "renewal"
We have way too many contexts and definitions for "racism," which clouds true discussions
All the tea leaves are there on mass shooters
As with every one of these situations, the Buffalo shooter had a "switch flipped"
We care about the old more than the young (think about COVID too)
People need to realize that the goal of companies is to make money, not help new parents
The bloated nature of "Big Strategy"
12 guys at three firms control most of the U.S. economy and heck, maybe the global one too
Can't we just admit women often like to fuck, and that's OK?
Pessimism as a flavor of the month!
Now the problem is ... economically, we're doing too well?
Change the terms of service for social media companies
Life is not a battle between "good people" and "evil people," but often seen that way
The kids sure as shit ain't all right
When conventional masculinity attacks
Pregnancy is not easy in America, no (unless you rich!)
What do you think about at 3am?
Will Roe spike the culture wars?
"Without regard for their individuality."
Do execs care about "change exhaustion?" Normally they just say "Do more with less, kid."
Politicians don't care about students; they care about getting re-elected.
Remember when Vance was right about Trump, then he got in bed with Trump?
For how much it dominates discourse, the far-progressive left doesn't win that often
What if Roe isn't consequential to midterms because our attention spans are so bad?
People seem to forget who wrote the Constitution, contextually
"Rights of the pre-born?" Ain't it about the women?
Democrats have a brie and chablis problem
Like everything else in America, abortion policy has become more extreme
Roe vs. Wade overturn would be huge, but for most people, it'd be secondary to paycheck issues
We're all ultimately pretty similar, which is weird how we fight about so much petty stuff
Give the sheep what they want, each and every minute
Just because you're rich, are you thus a hero?
An interesting work parallel: Abusive relationship
We all know politicians don't do anything. So we want them to at least recognize us.
Why is everything "winner-take-all" these days?
This is the most perfect paragraph ever written
Is there a fundamentally correct parenting model?
The far left and the far right are the same people
The third demographic transition
Employee loyalty isn't a complex topic, no
Twitter in many ways is Elon Musk, i.e. the problem masquerading as a solution
This chart slaps you in the face pretty hard
"See through the narratives that falsely anoint billionaires as heroes."
Nationalism is great for the marginalized (well, until it isn't)
Politics has nothing to do with solutions for real people; it's about firing up a base
School Boards as the front-line of culture wars? And away we go.
It's time for the Dems to get in the mud
Mallory McMorrow deserved to go viral, no?
What if some people in prison ... aren't complete monsters and want/deserve another chance?
HR is paid by the execs. They work for them. Why is that the place you report toxicity to?
Until the outcome of this paragraph is different, nothing at work ever changes
Is it truly possible to see COVID as anything BUT class warfare?
Center life around people, not work
Super-Zips vs. heroin users: The core American fissure
Corporations love getting their nut
Not a culture war so much as a brawl against phantasms
It's just easier for a whole generation of dudes to blame things on "lack of black fathers"
Why do we think anyone has a coherent ideology that never shifts?
Are we largely lonely and sad because we feel some vague need to "optimize" our lives?
We need to stop inventing new terms for trauma
Inflation as a precursor to homicides
SCOTUS is busted. And why are they lifetime appointments, anyway?
All that really matters anymore is tribalism
Managers are horrible at knowing where to focus their time; it's all about tasks, not anything real
We can, and will, endlessly debate the role of traffic stops in policing
Companies pat you on the head instead of giving you real perks and benefits
The Patrick Lyoya shooting in Grand Rapids was an execution
Data is never the only part of a puzzle
Hybrid work's impact on downtown cores will be ... intriguing
Kushner seems dirtier than Hunter Biden, no?
Rupert Murdoch's son appears ready to grab the reins
How many people do you think really understand how to have effective conversations?
Shouldn't abortion be a personal issue more than a government one?
How do more people NOT view Instagram as a total joke by now?
War and work as a recursive loop
It's not a Great Resignation so much as a "Great Reshuffling"
Why do we need four years of school after high school, honestly?
Unsurprisingly, due to work being about control, the pandemic scaled up the amount of work meetings
Sarah Palin returns to a world she helped create
Yes, what happens when other countries get more educated than the USA?
The problem is, many men still bristle at the idea that wealth is inherently "collective"
Stop chasing self-care, Mr. Corporation Man
The necessary ritualization of friendship
Political society does seem to be getting pretty extreme
I don't really mind paying people to stay off drugs if it saves money long-term. Do ya?
We write off Apple constantly, but it's a juggernaut
The great re-districting of America
What if people just don't really like collaborating with others that much?
What's funny is that Tucker Carlson will eventually tear FOX News apart
Various reactions to the Will Smith slap of Chris Rock
The vocabulary around diversity creates in-groups and out-groups
Hands-off management benefits utterly no one, but is increasingly common
Unfortunately, the "heckler's veto" is societally normative these days
"Our present obsession with identity markers."
Politics is increasingly about one-upmanship and petty grievances
The mental health of children is not a pandemic problem; it existed before, and will in the future.
"Modern heterosexual dating culture is an emotional meat grinder."
The "American Dream" is increasingly about renting now
America is about getting your nut. Parenting is, of course, "women's work."
But what IS the point of public education to many?
When people discuss Kyle Rittenhouse these days, the narratives are almost too confusing
Both of Dick Vitale's title game teams were eliminated on ... Day 1
The government needs to learn to spend money responsibly, right?
Trying to rake the first African-American female nominee to SCOTUS over the coals won't end well
What percentage of leaders can "own their own bias?"
Differences are a source of value. But in the modern moment, how many embrace this?
Work-wise, maybe we're all chickens
Flexibility is the white whale of modern work
"Recession chances are not particularly elevated."
No normal people understand inflation and interest rates, but virtually all claim to
The DeSantis vs. Trump feud proves we're living in a simulation of some kind
Do executives really care about any of the reasons that people are quitting jobs?
GPAs rise as more "lawnmower parents" complain to teachers, but test scores ... are stagnant
"The winners are exempt from the questions."
I still wouldn't think most Americans can even find Ukraine on a map
"We're data-driven" is just something people say. The reality of executing it terrifies so many.
Saying there's "no going back" on remote work is elitist and ignores 47% of people working today
Various ways in which Trump sucked as a President
Will society truly shift in the next 20 years, or is it just more of the placated same?
How long do we think we'll debate COVID restrictions and best practices?
The far-right keeps getting crazier -- and breaking fundraising records
We keep treating teachers like crap and giving them no recourse professionally
The entirety of life is really about belonging
Are we discussing the threat of social isolation in broader society enough?
America loves to cancel people, but we still have free speech in tangible ways
Is there a bigger joke than the "corporate wellness industry?"
I bet half the dudes that blurt out "WHAT ARE YOU?" at co-workers are SVPs
Do we think a study of ONLY Harvard MBAs is representative of ... well, anything?
It doesn't seem as if the USA is good at teaching "digital literacy," right?
The longest-term repercussion of COVID won't be all the ideology crap; it will be mental health
It's interesting how ideological discussions of our safety have become
Maybe William Bryan's daughter was dating a black dude BECAUSE of how racist her dad is
Assholes who talk too much and suck the air out of meeting rooms become SVPs
Trump is a joke of a con man and always has been
Data cannot make "better managers," because managers typically ignore it and "trust their gut"
We seem very quick to cancel people of late
People seem to hate Biden, but people also put too much emphasis on the President
"Absurdly attenuated sense of sin" = the woke
Did COVID force most of us to admit that public school is essentially just child care?
Executives masquerading as "leaders" tend to use people and then discard them
No one still seems to really understand what "Critical Race Theory" is
A better way to think about the office
Our intuitions about happiness are flawed