I live in Texas, but I’m actually fairly liberal. In general, like most of us, I also don’t enjoy douchebags. They seem to be everywhere these days, though. Driven by deification of the workaholic and the myth of the high achiever, we’ve come to believe you must be a hard-charger…

From data based on 41,641 American, Canadian, and British college students: Between 1989 and 2016, college students’ levels of self-oriented, socially prescribed, and other-oriented perfectionism all increased by statistically significant amounts. Recent generations of young people are more demanding of themselves, perceive that others are more demanding of them, and…

We’ve been talking about the importance of education since virtually the beginning of time. Is the idea waning, though? Hopefully not, but it might be. Let’s walk through the importance of education and its shifting narrative. This is a blog post. It’s meant to be somewhat brief, and there have…

That tweet response, and this article, do a good job of underlining the hypocrisy in the whole “pro-life” game (and yes, there’s hypocrisy on both sides). Much like work is largely about control, the pro-life movement is largely about control as well — it’s a trope now to say “of…

I’ve written about the standard western world work week a few dozen times by this point. I’ll sprinkle some of those links later on in this post. Here’s the basic deal with the work week: it makes absolutely no sense. In July 2016, about 125.51 million people in the United…

I was just doing some research on keywords around management skills — seems like something I discuss often — and the volume on searches is higher than you’d think (about 1,900/month), yet every article that’s popular around management skills is complete bullshit and fluff. My site isn’t great for SEO…

One of the most amazing things about humanity/networking would be this: almost everyone leads with “So, what do you do?” Despite the fact that you will be asked that question probably 8,000+ times in your life, many people (myself included) do not have a good answer for said question. I…

That headline was a little bit drastic re: command and control management, so let’s kind of outline the steps before we reach the conclusion. First off, you need to know what “command and control” management is. Usually it refers to a very “old school” type of management, although in reality…