And… does it have to be this way? — Although I love my job and the company I work at…. my personal assessment of corporate America is that 90% of corporate america is shit. 90% of jobs in corporate America are horrible, toxic, go-nowhere jobs and most people in these jobs know it. 90% of managers in corporate America…

Some thoughts on the great resignation — Lots of interesting articles on Medium about the great resignation, how work sucks, bosses suck, and how many people simply refuse to go back to work. As usual, it gets politicized. The red people say shut up and get a job, and they say we should cut all unemployment benefits…

You already knew that, but here’s more scary info to ruin your sleep — Almost everyone agrees our two party system is failing us. We have more anti-government skeptics than we did 20 years ago, and more people claiming to be apolitical when really they’re apathetic, confused or disenchanted to the point of no longer caring. And those who still cling to their fading…

And yet…. I just cancelled half the Medium authors I don’t want to see anymore — Yeah, sorry. I’m bored. I keep reading idiotic headlines coming from angry positions of uninformed, exiled and disenfranchised people who nevertheless claim to know something the rest of us don’t, and who can’t wait to enlighten us. They actually believe they are smarter than everyone else, even though their careers…

OK. Do your thing. You be you. I’ll be me. I know you hate that. — I think I’ve read 100+ Medium articles from people who don’t want to go back to work. Fine. You hate work. You hate managers. You hate business owners. You hate large corporations. You tried starting a business but it’s hard ain’t it? Damn, it’s hard. …

They voted Trump 2016, Biden in 2020, now deserting us because of the progressives — Is it possible that defectors from the Democratic Party’s tent are swinging a little too far to the right in response to their bad experience at the hands of the far left? I am a Joe Biden democrat. I can’t be a republican: no church dictatorship for me. No closed-shop…

Or… maybe that’s not the point — One of your company’s goals is to increase diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), or at the very least, keep it at the “pretty darn good” level it’s running at this year. It’s not just lip service to a fake initiative. Every smart company genuinely believes you get a better, healthier…

Right when we needed some adults in the room…. — Yes, your rabid dog right winger friend has just delivered a 6 minute rant about how evil the liberals are. Thank you, Bubba John. We’re all wiser now that we’ve listened to your enlightened account of Bill Gates’ evil schemes and countless other wild stories. The thing is, Bubba John…

I fell in love with San Francisco but I miss all my previous homes — I’m one of those annoying multilingual internationalists you love to hate. I was born in Kenya, spent my childhood in Rome, my teens in London, and my twenties in Switzerland. That’s not all. We’re Irish, both parents from Dublin area, and we spent Christmases and summers in our ‘home’ home…