Responding to the Contagion of Burnout Energy
I saw a reel earlier that made me notice how burnout spreads. An entrepreneurial self-help influencer told followers to demand more power, money, and visibility…
David Bowie’s Search for Life, Death and God (with Peter Ormerod)
Peter Ormerod is a journalist and writer who has written extensively about culture and faith for The Guardian, and he is also an arts editor…
Why You Can’t Articulate a Five-Year Plan For Your Life
Where do you see yourself in five years? Does that question fill you with excitement, or a sense of dread? We are wired differently. For…
11 | Look on the Bright Side (Coming To Our Senses)
Exploring the Theme: Look on the Bright Side This issue of Coming To Our Senses brings together some of what we’ve been reflecting on, including:…
Choose Your Own Price Coaching – What I’ve Learned and Why I Still Do It
I realised earlier this week that it’s been three years since I first adopted a “choose your own price” model for Pick The Lock coaching…
The Cost of Loyalty
A theme that’s dominated 2025 for me (and for many) has been price rises across many subscription-based platforms and services. My correspondence with companies has…
The hope kills us…sometimes
There is the kind of hope that sustains and the kind that exhausts. As I write this, we are in the middle of an Ashes…
Do Algorithms Create a Culture of Narcissism?
I hadn’t planned to revisit The Culture of Narcissism so soon, but a small niggle pulled me back into the subject. With Spotify Unwrapped everywhere,…
The Urge to Explain, Justify, and Tidy Feelings
When do you sense the urge to explain, justify, or tidy what you feel? This was our question for the week, and in this week’s…
The Culture of Narcissism and Modern Self-Help
We hear a lot about “Narcissism” these days. Is it because there is more of it around? In his 1979 book, The Culture of Narcissism:…