A Reminder of the Ugly Side of Blogging

Opinions are like butts. Everyone has one.

Yesterday, I Truemored the case of Paul Tilley, an advertising executive from Chicago who recently committed suicide. Rumours are rife that the suicide attempt may have been linked to malicious, anonymous posts from the blogosphere that referenced Tilley’s management style.
We will never truly know what drove Tilley to take [...]

Oxytocin and The “Self-Imposed” Glass Ceiling

I read a rather interesting article published in The Times last week, about Susan Pinker’s new book, about the hormone oxytocin.
It talks about a lady who was offered a high-powered promotion in her company, but turned it down because the position would destabilise her family. This sounds like a perfectly reasonable basis for turning down [...]

“There Is No Spoon”

The sub-title of this blog is “There is No Spoon.” For those who don’t know what that means, shame on you, you are clearly not geeky enough to be reading this blog. ;
It’s a reference to one of my favourite films of all time, The Matrix. It basically implies to “think outside the box,” but [...]