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I originally published this piece on Patreon on July 24th of this year. Whenever I'm on YouTube and see clickbait titles and photos, I wince. You know what I'm talking about...

What even is company culture anyway? When I was working for other people in an office — or worst of all, a so-called “bull pen” environment — it was awful. I’m sorry, I can’t sugarcoat it to avoid hurting anyone’s feelings. I hated it. Being...

[buzzsprout episode='11388670' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 9/26 - 9/30. ✔️ Russell Brand is moving his content to Rumble. I predicted on Saturday Broadcast 16 that he'd be slapped down and censored soon. Happened even faster than I thought. (And yes, I finally got a hype man to announce my...

-https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/29/jobless-claims-hit-five-month-low-despite-feds-efforts-to-slow-labor-market.html "There's no such thing as a winnable war / It's a lie we don't believe anymore...

[buzzsprout episode='11328447' player='true'] Where is the threshold for when positive thinking and optimism become toxic? Or perhaps worse than toxic - downright cruel ? Key topics: ✔️ Lauren Berlant's book Cruel Optimism. ✔️ What if a dream of "the good life" is actually holding you back from living a good life? Or...

Photo by Marten Bjork on Unsplash "GM delays return-to-office mandate after employee backlash." -https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/27/gm-delays-return-to-office-mandate-after-employee-backlash.html You mean people don't actually wanna go back? Imagine that! "The company’s senior leadership team on Friday said corporate workers would be required to return to physical locations at least three days a week, beginning...

Image by AndyPandy from Pixabay A couple of years ago, I was on the Pirate Broadcast with Russ Johns. One of the things we talked about was how email used to be exciting but then it turned into a cesspool of spam. I remember he said something like, "Marketers...

[buzzsprout episode='11341390' player='true'] Recently, I read the article "Why Successful People Don’t Teach Success: Gurus, income experts, and business coaches preach personal success systems" by Jim Clair.  Unfortunately, some of these personal success systems don't actually help you achieve that success...

‘I think it’s very important to look at the number of job openings,’ Julia Pollak, chief economist at ZipRecruiter, told CNBC. ‘The question is how steeply they will fall, how sharply they will fall, if they go back to 7 million [job openings], the level...

[buzzsprout episode='11347293' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 9/19 - 9/23. ✔️ It's funny that these cities are telling people to have bug out bags but then at the same time acting like "nothing to see here, no big deal, no need to worry." What?! ✔️ It's also funny...