"Ask not for whom the web trolls, it trolls for thee"
“NGOs that are really good and efficient should survive and grow, and those which really don’t add value and can’t be competitive should wind up. You’re wasting money that could be applied to the poorest people in the world in a much more efficient way. Unless you can do it efficiently, I don’t think you…
If your taxi driver had been awake for the guts of 57 hours, would you be happy to let him drive you home? No? What about if your doctor had been awake for 57 hours – would you let them take out your appendix? Didn’t think so. Sunday Business Post, August 07, 2005 Working around…
Every now and then you do a piece that catches you in the throat. This piece stemmed from an interview with a blogger who was tackling some intensely personal stuff on his blog about his own self-harm, which he has now ditched as he has stopped harming. Result. Sunday Business Post – Jan 26, 2006…
Last week I took a bunch of college students back to school. After three hours of poker, I stood up and walked away with 70 of their softly-bludged euros. It was a rare, rare win. While I was busy fleecing them, we got talking about work, and the fact that I’m back freelancing again. The…
It’s not easy to like a man who says things like that. Even less when he fills a book with similar throwaway phrases and sundry self-aggrandising sop, and you have to read the whole thing and turn in a review at the end. I like reading books. I count book reviews as a perk of…