The Corporate Therapy Doctrine: When the Workplace Adopts the Language of Psychology
Walk through the internal communications of many modern companies and a pattern quickly becomes visible. Corporate language increasingly draws from psychology and psychotherapy. Employees are encouraged to develop emotional awareness, practise resilience techniques, and engage in structured conversations about mindset, behaviour, and personal development. At first glance these initiatives appear supportive. They promise healthier workplaces and more empathetic leadership.
The Promotion Trap: When Skilled Workers Become Unprepared Managers
Across many organisations, promotion into management is often treated as a natural reward for strong individual performance. A technically capable employee, a reliable engineer, or a high-performing analyst is elevated into a supervisory role with the assumption that competence will automatically translate into leadership ability. In practice, this assumption frequently proves incorrect.
War, Faith, and Strategy: Questions Around the U.S. Department of Defense and the Conflict with Iran
Modern wars are usually explained using the language of security, strategy, and international politics. Governments typically describe military action as necessary for defence, deterrence, or protecting allies. Yet in the current confrontation involving Iran and Israel, some observers have noticed something unusual in the public messaging coming from senior leaders inside the United States Department of Defense.
The Illusion of Systems: Power, Ideology, and the People Who Actually Govern
Political systems are often presented as defining forces in how a country operates. Democracy promises representation and accountability. Capitalism promises economic freedom and opportunity. Communism promises equality and collective ownership. These theories are taught as structural frameworks that determine how societies function.
Are the U.S. Strikes on Iran and Venezuela Legal?
In early 2026, the United States carried out two major military actions abroad. One involved coordinated airstrikes on Iran alongside Israel. The other was a military operation in Venezuela that resulted in the capture and removal of President Nicolás Maduro. Both actions were defended politically as necessary for security and stability. But a different question quickly followed: were they legal under international law?
When Power Becomes Procedure: America’s Expanding Latitude for Force and Pressure
Recent reporting describes a United States leadership style that is more direct, more punitive, and less restrained by the slow habits of diplomacy. The visible pattern spans domestic enforcement controversy, major foreign strikes, and unusually blunt pressure on allies.
The Social Justice Mask: When Corporate Morality Is a Marketing Strategy
Walk through any corporate website today and you’ll see the same language: diversity, inclusion, equality, sustainability, community.
Modern corporations don’t just sell products. They sell virtue.
in austria on a skiing holiday, what’s up with the banks?
Ok, not really any of the subjects I’d speak about, but hey!
I live in Germany usually, but with the family in Tyrol in Austria. And I don’t ski… so I’m the ‘designated’ driver sorta situation.
I have a bank account with Sparkasse in Germany. I can go into a store or any place that takes an EC card (it’s a debit card for the bank account) and use it without charge. And that’s in Germany and Austria.
But if I go to a cash machine in Austria and try to get money out, I get charged! And I get charged from a Sparkasse cash machine (well the Austrian flavour).
about getting on that horse
Yes, it’s a life story about me. Well, not a life story, just a little snippet.
So, about 8 years ago, I was in Seattle… On a business trip. And as you know business trips involve going to a baseball game. It was fantastic and the photos of it were amazing.
I went back to the hotel, and on my way back I must have fell over.
it’s hard getting back on the horse
Yeah, that’s the coding horse of course. I’ve only spent 4 or 5 months out of real coding, and I’ve forgotten most of it. Well to quantify that, most of…