"The silence around medium friendship is intended to protect others' feelings. Someone refers to you as a 'work friend,' and you privately huff, 'I thought we were closer than that.

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"There's a real camaraderie that comes from fixing things together and feeling useful. We often go to the pub afterwards as our repair gang, too, though we have to hold back from fixing anything that's broken when we get there!

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From populist politicians to holistic wellness influencers, anyone interested in power is able to weaponise thought-terminating cliches to dismiss followers' dissent or rationalise flawed arguments.

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"All those bright, shiny aphorisms that are spoon-fed to young employees, like 'follow your dreams' and 'know your worth' and many more? Well, the truth is that they don't really work at work.

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"We don't know how long we're going to live; we don't know what the interest rates will be; we don't know what the stock markets will do; we don't know what inflation rates are. Every one of us when we retire is on a unique journey of insecurity.

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"a spiritualized gloss on the same deluded logic that suggests that poverty is a choice

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"It may be a relatively cost-effective way to cast the company as pro-worker at a time when millions are worried about losing their jobs to generative A.I., whose release has helped supercharge Microsoft’s share price.

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"There is one very clear parallel between the digital spreadsheet and generative AI: both are computer apps that collapse time.

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"We like to pretend that momentous events have big causes, but science says otherwise.

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"People don't believe in pseudoscience in a vacuum. They come to it because it offers something of value to their lives, and the last thing I want is to be seen as a thief of joy, a killer of comfort, and a destroyer of value.

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"I have yet to meet a chief executive who reads regularly. Many skip newspapers, and magazines are a stretch. They don't have time, they say. It's inefficient; they can get the information they need from those around them.

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