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You Are an Idiot and I Can’t Say It to Your Face: Working With Difficult People
Everything that runs through my head when dealing with wilful incompetence, and why none of it gets said.
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Back to School: The First Day Back After a Holiday
Two weeks of sun, food and ocean, then the desk, the inbox, and a marriage conducted across time zones.
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And It’s a Wrap: Surviving a Reorg at Work
A division-wide reorganisation, a tired team, and what a year of relentless change does to a leader.
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Where Is Louis Vuitton Cheapest? The Answer Is London Heathrow
If you live outside the EU, LHR is the cheapest place to buy an LV bag. Here is the maths behind the detour.
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Adjusted for Inflation: Fighting With Your Spouse About Money
One expensive holiday booking, one furious husband, and what money arguments in a marriage are really about.
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You Carry the Burden: On Diversity Training and Hidden Bias
A workplace session on inclusion, and the comment from a colleague that showed how little we know ourselves.
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Uniquely Yours: An Anniversary Nine Time Zones Apart
Nine years of marriage, much of it long distance, and an anniversary that ends before it has properly begun.
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Shopping Addiction: What 400 Square Feet of Stuff Taught Me
A friend’s studio packed to the ceiling, and the buying pattern I started noticing in everyone, myself included.
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Drowning: When You Become Everyone’s Sounding Board
Year-end chaos, endless requests to chat, and the quiet cost of being the person everyone leans on.
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Two Meals Out for $15 in Downtown San Francisco
How to eat out twice in one of the most expensive cities in America without spending a small fortune.
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