Dan Pink is a mas­ter of cre­ative swip­ing, which is MBA-speak for “he steals other peo­ples’ ideas.” Which isn’t to say he’s not a clever chap. And we cer­tainly guys like him, crafty writ­ers who aren’t put off by research, who weave the lat­est ideas into pithy, punchy, com­pelling nar­ra­tives. Cer­tainly, for every artic­u­late Dan […]

A doc­u­men­tary on liv­ing hap­pily recently aired on PBS. A lot of the clips from the show (called This Emo­tional Life) are avail­able on YouTube (here). Here’s an inter­est­ing one on inti­macy: This par­tic­u­lar insight (from Eliz­a­beth Gilbert) was inter­est­ing to me partly because I’m read­ing her book Eat, Pray, Love at the moment. The […]

** Spoiler Alert: This post is bet­ter read after you’ve watched the movie, prefer­ably right after. ** Yes­ter­day I watched the movie Julie and Julia. (It’s Christ­mas hol­i­days, don’t judge.) And it was rec­om­mended by my friend the diplo­mat, so I was watch­ing it for Queen and coun­try. For the most part it is a […]

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