I was recently chatting with my sister about the company her husband founded, a clothing start-up I thought the world didn’t particularly need. Fumbling about, I asked her should it not launch as well as planned if he might schedule an appointment to take it behind the shed and shoot it, which went over about as well as you might…
Author: Chris Bond
Drifting Off Course
To know Scott Galloway is to love to hear him speak. One can do so in myriad ways: through his online courses, multiple podcasts, and various talking-head guest appearances. (CNN’s stellar Saturday morning host Michael Smerconish wears his Galloway man-crush on his sleeve.) The NYU Stern School of Business professor’s latest is the coffee-table worthy Adrift: America in 100 Charts…
But I Don’t Even Really Work Here
Aristotle opined that work makes one a worse person, given how much time it would take, robbing commoners of the ability to focus on their social and political obligations. This view shifted throughout Northern Europe during the Middle Ages and Renaissance with rising expectations that all citizens get their hands dirty at least some of the time, culminating in the…
On Cover Pages and TPS Reports
Maybe it’s got something to do with the bitterness of Boston. Like Dan Lyons, author of the riotous Disrupted and Lab Rats, fellow caustic local Ken Kupchik exposes the absurdities of the modern workplace in his new book, I Hope This Email Finds You Never. Covering everything from the red-letter day of the job offer to the pink slip thud…
Taking the Bull by the Horns
“I felt like I was part of a family,” writes Jamie Fiore Higgins in her brand-new memoir. And as you were undoubtedly reminded over Thanksgiving, that isn’t always such a great condition to find oneself in. The book’s called Bully Market and the abusive (her term) family in question is the New York office of Goldman Sachs, where the author…