Workplace
Notes from the Mind Palace.
Listen to Cheated Hearts. by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. There is a specific, sickening frequency to being done dirty by someone you trusted. It isn’t just a simple disagreement; it is a profound violation that completely rewrites the reality of the space you inhabit.
By Syl De'Vil17 days ago in Confessions
I Took Credit For My Coworker's Idea. It Got Me Promoted. She Just Found Out.. AI-Generated.
AI disclosure: This story was written with the assistance of Claude (Anthropic), an AI writing tool. The idea wasn't even fully formed when she told me about it. We were the last two in the office on a Thursday, and Mara was venting more than pitching, sketching out a rough concept for restructuring how our team handled client onboarding — something about cutting the handoff between sales and support down from five steps to two. She said it the way people say things they're not ready to defend yet, half joking, "someone should just build this," and went back to her monitor.
By Seb Jaa29 days ago in Confessions
Recovery... isn't linear
This last week has been challenging for me and my family. Deadlines are coming up. Questions have been left unanswered. We are still transitioning from a recent change that put us back in survival mode, but we are on our way back to thriving mode.
By Adora Hooper29 days ago in Confessions
Beach Canaries
Introduction This is another story on Seven Days In that is getting a lot of attention, and I noticed most of my recent fiction has been quite dark, and I wanted something that wasn't dark so this is a placeholder that will not disturb anyone.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 months ago in Confessions
The Conversation I Didn't Know I Needed With Josh
Josh has been my workmate for a couple of years now. He’s one of those guys who quietly became a real friend at some point, and I looked back and went, "hang on a minute, he's a proper mate" well after the fact. My car died on the side of the road once in the middle of nowhere and he drove twenty miles to come and pick me up.
By Dadson Wanjohi 2 months ago in Confessions
The High-Altitude Trap
My wife and I have a pretty noticeable height difference. I'm a whole foot and a half taller than her, which you'd think would just be a normal part of life. But in reality, it shows up in some pretty mundane ways, like when I reach the top shelf for pantry stuff, grab her coat from the closet, or change a lightbulb without yanking out the step stool. All pretty standard taller-spouse chores. Although it wasn't until pretty early on in our marriage that I started to catch on to a little bonus that came with being the taller partner.
By Dadson Wanjohi 2 months ago in Confessions
Best Memory or Worst Mistake
I had a best friend at 17. She was that one person in my whole life that I was closer to than my own family members. We'd sit together at lunch and text each other about nothing until one of us fell asleep in the middle of a conversation. And the times when she'd laugh at something absolutely ridiculous I'd just said, I would feel like I won something. I never felt like I needed a girlfriend, really. She was taking up that space in my life, and I felt like something good would come out of it.
By Dadson Wanjohi 2 months ago in Confessions
The Strategic Value of Patience in Business Growth
By Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners Inc. / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures --- We live in a business culture that celebrates speed. The language of growth is urgency: first-mover advantage, velocity, run rate, scaling. Patience, by contrast, is rarely held up as a strategic virtue. It sounds passive, conservative, risk-averse. In many business circles, it sounds like an excuse.
By Scott Gelbard4 months ago in Confessions
Lessons From Advising Businesses Across Three Continents
By Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners Inc. / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures Twenty-five years of advisory work across North America, Europe, and Asia has given me a particular kind of education. Not the kind you get from reading comparative business literature or attending international conferences — though those have their value — but the kind you get from sitting across from a family business owner in Stuttgart, a private equity-backed founder in Singapore, and a third-generation entrepreneur in Vancouver, and trying to give each of them counsel that's actually useful for their specific situation.
By Scott Gelbard4 months ago in Confessions
