Replace your boredom with a world-class business education. — It starts with restlessness, then boredom. Maybe a little cleaning. A sudden urge to cook new things. Occasionally, you stand by the front window and dream about actually leaving the house. Maybe you eat traffic with sock puppets. You know that feeling… it’s that intolerable longing to explore you get…

Are you the Christmas magic? — Think about the holiday season very carefully and ask yourself where the division of labour falls in your own house. Is it on you? Christmas is looming. In the US, Thanksgiving is already on your doorstep. Kids everywhere are super excited. And yet, women are stressed. Holidays are so MAGICAL…

And a fair split of child benefits too — I’m a dreamer. I like to think of all the ways the world could be a better place. Lately, I’ve been pondering child maintenance and child-related benefits and how the system is really messed up, in the UK at least. Everything about the UK system is designed to give one…

And why is the UK government interfering? — YouTube pulled the plug on Russell Brand being monetised via its platform and now other social media sites are being pressured to do the same. But is it right to even do this? Let’s first preface this whole discussion with a brief background. Russell Brand has been accused by four…

And why I’m still angry after finding it — What if I told you there was a service designed to help you if you can’t find childcare? I recently found out about a fascinating little thing: childcare brokerage. How I didn’t know about this before is absolutely beyond me. Why? Well it seems like the exact sort of thing…

Including how to rewrite your CV to get your next big job interview — I recently decided it was time to rewrite my CV — and the process of doing the CV upgrade completely sucked. When you plan out how to rewrite your resume, you realise that it’s hard to make sure you position yourself in a good light to prospective employers, cover all…

How I built a better writing system — If you had a time machine, what would you teach yourself? If I had a time machine, I’d go back to my high school self and teach her all about personal knowledge management and how to write essays and articles using that knowledge. Why? Well, I think about all those…

Tips for setting up your PKM for academia before you start. I got started with personal knowledge management late. Well, sort of. I didn’t use a reference manager until I started my MBA, having instead used Delicious (an online bookmark manager) for my entire undergraduate degree and for years afterwards…

Are you trying to work between 10–2? — “I’m thinking of retraining to be a teacher because I can’t work outside of school hours with my kids.” It was yet another doomed parent in the school yard resigning themselves to studying for a career they never wanted just because they can’t get childcare hours to do the work…