According to a survey, the amount of time American office workers say they devoted to their actual duties declined from 46 percent in 2015 to 39 percent in 2016, owing to a proportionate rise in time dealing with emails (up from 12 percent to […]
Author: Toontje
Assertive Debater (ENTP-A) vs. Turbulent Debater (ENTP-T)
Debaters often express their vibrant personality type differently depending on whether they have a Turbulent or Assertive Identity. These personality traits tend to most affect confidence, self-esteem, susceptibility to stress, and emotional reactivity. How Debaters show these effects can be seen in several areas […]
Paulo Coelho reflects
“In 100 years, we will all be buried with our relatives and friends. Strangers will live in our homes, which we fought so hard to build, and they will own everything we have today. All our properties will be unknown to those who have […]
Welcome to “The System”
“You tricked me.” “No. I didn’t trick you. Problem is, you still don’t get it. The system’s greater than both you and me. It makes us save banks from going bust just so they don’t repossess our homes. The system prescribes us antidepressant so […]
Companies are looking for profiles, not for people.
“This employer may use an artificial intelligence algorithm to provide an initial comparison of an applicant’s education, experience, and skills against the education, experience and skill requirements in the job description. This analysis produces a Profile Relevancy score, which is intended to be one […]
Social mercylessness
Strikingly, it is among the young in particular, among those most thoroughly inculcated with the ideology of anti-hate, that social mercilessness reigns supreme. The ‘cold-blooded grasping’ in certain youthful circles – ‘a hunger to take and take and take, but never give’, ‘a massive […]
When ideology meets reality
Helen Joyce, author of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, has described it, homosexuality is suspect now, because in acknowledging the reality of same-sex attraction’ it also ‘indirectly (acknowledges] the reality and importance of biological sex as a driver of attraction. And this contradicts the […]
Sometimes i’m impressed. This impressed me.
Jail before crime, jail because of speech
In 1984, George Orwell coined the term thoughtcrime. In the short story “The Minority Report,” the science-fiction author Philip K. Dick gave us the concept of “precrime,” describing a society where would-be criminals were arrested before they could act. Now Canada is combining the […]
Transgender woman says she’s happy she kept her penis – ‘because she enjoys sex with women more’
Jolene Dawson says she’s had to come out to her parents for a third time after realising that she is a lesbian. A transgender woman who spent thousands of pounds transforming her body has revealed the reason she’s kept her penis – because she […]
Heresy
The constant churn of political correctness – or cancel culture or wokeness or intolerance or whatever we’re calling it – represents not just an over-the-top clampdown on speech, but a crisis of Enlightenment. Every enlightened idea – science is real, race is not, women […]
This message does not exist
It can only be discarded I received an intriguing notification in the Microsoft Outlook 365 web interface: This message can’t be saved because it no longer exists. It can only be discarded. Make sure you copy the contents of the message before you discard […]
When your most passionate employees become quiet
After eight months of working in her new role as a senior associate, Sarah begins to notice a change within the organization, and it’s making her very uncomfortable. Now, if you know Sarah, she loves her job; she is the spark and energy of […]
The dominance game
Prestige and dominance behaviours are ‘underpinned by distinct psychological processes, behaviours and neurochemistry which were selected for distinct evolutionary pressures. We tend to hold ourselves differently when inhabited by each version of us: when in a dominant, second-self mode we take up more space, […]