Career paths that make you miserable are destroying society.

If you were born before 1990, chances are you fondly recall the swansong of 20th century cinema and one of the most important films of our time, Office Space. Our lovable anti-hero Peter Gibbons loathes not just his corporate job at Initech, but his whole career, so much that he just blanks when his friends […]

So what do they REALLY mean by “fake it til you make it”?

I see the phrase “fake it til you make it” plastered everywhere followed by all the screeds about how you shouldn’t do just that. I think both pieces of advice are misinterpreted as well as  misapplied. Obviously, don’t fake having specialized skills: would you want to be in need of open heart surgery and the […]

What beautifully terrible movies can tell us about refusing to give up on our dreams

Not that long ago, I was browsing LinkedIn which has devolved mostly into a Facebook kind of free-for-all with tons of stupid and irrelevant images and quizzes floating around. Normally, I just disregard them while trying to find something interesting or see what old colleagues are up to but then I stumbled across one of […]