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The business card does not fully reflect who we are. We are being judged, we feel, in a humiliating way. We feel there is so much in us that has not g...more

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The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually gets up to together over a lifetime has much more in ...more

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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

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It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their wor...more

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A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

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Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly.

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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

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Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will ...more

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It is according to how we are able to answer the question of what we do (normally the first enquiry we will have to field in any new acquaintance) tha...more

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When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others. Though we are often taught to think of ourse...more

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...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are ...more

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What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only dist...more

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There is something improbably about the silence in the [subway] carriage, considering how naturally gregarious we are as a species. Still, how much ki...more

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Yet our world of abundance, with seas of wine and alps of bread, has hardly turned out to be the ebullient place dreamt of by our ancestors in the fam...more

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Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering wh...more