REVISITING THE YEARNING OCTOPUS

I don’t even really know how to start this one. I had almost forgotten about the octopus. To a certain extent, through PD, networking, self-reflection and work in general, I felt like I reached a flow-state, where I was following my career path almost algorithmically. We visited the topic of The Yearning Octopus back in […]

Worms Eye View

A worm’s-eye view, also known as a frog’s-eye view is a description of the view of a scene from below that a worm might have if it could see. It is the perspective inverse of a bird’s-eye view.[1] In corporate, we’re often asked to answer questions and present information on a “high level”. A high level can simplify and trivialize important issues while […]

Seeds

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant”. Theres a lot to be said about instant gratification in todays world. Modern technology allows one to enjoy the worlds content all from a click of a button or touch of a screen. This kind of thinking extends itself […]

Age of Empires

An empire is a large political entity, or a collection of states and territories, ruled by a single supreme authority, often an emperor, and controls diverse peoples and lands beyond its original borders through formal annexation or informal domination. Depending on who you ask, the Roman Empire lasted some 500-1500 years. While the specific duration and […]

Luck maxxing

“It’s better to be lucky than good” Luck is the phenomenon and belief that defines the experience of improbable events, especially improbably positive or negative ones. The naturalistic interpretation is that positive and negative events may happen at any time, both due to random and non-random natural and artificial processes, and that even improbable events can happen by random […]

Too Lit to Politic

Office politics are a natural part of working inside any organization. Politics (from Ancient Greek πολιτικά (politiká) ‘affairs of the cities’) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of status or resources. In the workplace, politics can be positive or negative. Positive politics includes behaviours designed to influence others with […]

wired, tired or fired

As I become more intermediate in my career, I start to gain a different perspective on what work even is. I live in two realities. On one hand, I try to I focus on the present moment, in the office every day. 2024 is an election year so the media cycle is naturally more political. […]

Et tu, brute?

A core component of a relationship in any setting is trust. Trust is the willingness of one party to become vulnerable to another party on the presumption that the trustee will act in ways that benefit the trustor. In psychology, trust is believing that the trusted person will do what is expected. The odd part […]

future of work

The intentions behind starting this breakfast club in 2019 was to facilitate a healthy exchange of ideas and experiences that we come across within the workplace. The workplace has dramatically changed. When I first started to work I was fully subscribed to the hustle culture and grind. At the time, I was convinced that the […]

master plans

Back at the end of 2019, we had a breakfast on the topic of goal planning and setting. The intention being that the turn of a decade seemed like an appropriate time to set some moonshots. Boy was I wrong. January 2020 was probably the worst time to set any type of master plan into […]