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Layoffs come with their own vocabulary, often used at the exact moment you're least able to look things up. Here's the plain-English version.At-will employment — Mostly a US concept. Either side can end the job at any time, for almost...
7 Minute Craft: A Conversation with Quinn Franzen and Mark Kissler
Your head and your wellbeing. If you're struggling, talk to your GP or doctor first. In the UK and Ireland, the Samaritans are free and available any time on 116 123. In the US, the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is there by call or...
hmm.......I don't have any clear shellac mixed so I used spray instead. I had 5-6(?) coats already but it didn't look like 3 brushed coats. No hurry for this and it dries super quick so I can get a bazillion coats on before I hit the...
If this guide helped, don't let it be a one-off. Every week I write Stuff that MattRs, a newsletter about work, careers, and building a life that doesn't hang on any single employer. This guide is the map for one hard stretch of road....
On 4/3/26 Ben Lynch published a good piece of investigative journalism in My London in which he disclosed that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor still held the Freedom of the City of London, an “honour” which he had acquired “by patrimony” from...
Let's end where the whole series started.The contract was always transactional. The loyalty was always conditional.Once you actually accept that, instead of feeling betrayed by it, something strange happens. It sets you free.The safe job...
John Northampton was a citizen of London his whole life, from a decent-sized family (two brothers and two sisters). He became a cloth merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Drapers, founded in 1361 and one of the Great Twelve...
Here's something nobody warned me about. The moment you're laid off and visibly looking, you become a target.Scammers watch for it. A fresh open-to-work banner, a public post about being let go, a CV newly uploaded to the job boards. It...
Here's a trap. People treat the next job search like the last one, just with more competition. It isn't. You're now searching in a market that AI is actively rewriting, for jobs that AI is actively rewriting, using tools both sides are...
There's money the state owes you when you lose a job, and a surprising number of people never claim it. Pride, confusion, or a vague sense that it's not for people like them. That's expensive nonsense. You paid in for years precisely so...
For more than forty years of living in Washington, I walked past the National Academy of Sciences building on Constitution Avenue.Many of those walks took me to or from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the reflecting pool on the...
Back in post two you worked out your runway. This post is about flying on it without doing something stupid out of fear.Here's what runway actually buys you. Time. It's the one thing panic takes away. The person with six months of...
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Erling Haaland is one of the best football/soccer strikers in the world, and by the time he’s done with his career, he’ll be remembered as one of the greatest to ever play the game. What I’ve loved about him at this World Cup, though,...