In his excellent piece on Everton’s failed recruitment strategy (paywalled), Oliver Kay of the Athletic makes an interesting point – that players seldom do well when they move from a bigger club to a smaller club. During his time in charge at Arsenal, George Graham used to say that the key to building a team was…
Housewife Careers
This is something I’ve been wanting to write about for a very long time, but have kept putting it off. The ultimate trigger for writing this is this article about women with children in Amazon asking for backup child care at work. Since this hits rather close home, this is a good enough trigger to…
Scott Adams, careers and correlation
I’ve written here earlier about how much I’ve been influenced by Scott Adams’s career advice about “being in top quartile of two or more things“. To recap, this is what Adams wrote nearly ten years back: If you want an average successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to…