I recently spent twenty minutes staring at a draft of a LinkedIn message, my thumb hovering over the ‘send’ button, feeling like an absolute fraud. I was trying to reach out to a Senior Director at a logistics firm—let’s call it Maersk, because it was Maersk—and every sentence I wrote felt like I was trying …
The 40-hour workweek is a scam. It was invented a century ago for factory workers who stood at assembly lines, and yet here we are, sitting in ergonomic chairs staring at pixels, pretending that the same math applies to us. It doesn’t. I realized this back in 2018 when I was working at a mid-sized …
I spent three hours last Tuesday archiving 142 emails just so I could see that little picture of a hot air balloon on my Gmail screen. It felt great for exactly nine seconds. Then I realized I hadn’t actually written the project proposal that was due at 5 PM. I work in logistics—I deal with …
“Follow your passion” is the most expensive lie I ever bought into. It’s the kind of advice people give when they’ve already made it, or when they’re trying to sell you a $497 online course on how to become a nomadic life coach. It sounds poetic. It looks great on a Pinterest board with a …