Humor: Craft

A consultant advising a carpenter? Humor, courtesy NewYorker.

Humor: Outsourcing?

Outsourcing your life? Courtesy: New Yorker.

Humor: Whack a mole

Typical work day? Courtesy: New Yorker.

Humor: Old school workout

Workout routines before Peloton? Another good one from the New Yorker.

Humor: Works real goal?

Clarity of goals is important. (Courtesy: New Yorker)

New techniques meet real world

I’m not sure if others do, but I try to spend part of the Christmas break thinking about what to do differently — different hacks, different time management techniques, new tools etc. Then reality hits when you get back to work. It was in that vein that I laughed out loud when I read this satire in the Economist a few weeks ago about exactly this. YMMV.

Humor: Growth projections?

Growth projections from a consulting team? Another good one from the New Yorker.

Humor: Motivation at work?

Another good one from the New Yorker. Could apply to fighting between partners in consulting!

Humor: Office meetings

ELT meeting? Another good one from the New Yorker.

9 to 5 –> 9 to 10

We all know work is getting longer and longer but now we have some numbers from a Microsoft study. Apparently it’s about an hour longer than “normal”, with three peaks.