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I wrote here recently about a close friend of my son offering him some real life counsel. That was Aiden: learn to accept difficulty without being defeated by it; accept impermanence without despair. Now another close buddy, Armaan, has added his own small truth: every life is a game of Snakes and Ladders. (Before I […]

John Lloyd was, by his own admission, useless at mathematics. He made it to university, tried to study Law. In a recent interview, he told James O’Brien he got a terrible degree, which he “passed by one mark or something like that.” He then decided to do something he enjoyed and thought he could be […]

I saw a big company saying recently that it was taking a balanced approach in navigating a dynamic operating environment. What the hell does that even mean? All operating environments are dynamic. And of course you’re taking a balanced approach. Why would you take an unbalanced one? That sentence is known as a nothing burger. […]

I recently asked you to become more foolish. Today I’m asking you to be boring—all year long. The nudge came from this excellent tweet by Mark Manson: “The older I get, the more I realize that success at most things isn’t about finding the one trick or secret nobody knows about. It’s consistently doing the […]