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Just to add a morbid tone. Back in 2012 a pallative care nurse wrote a book about the most common regrets people had when they were dying. "Working too hard" was the second biggest regret.

I remember a very interesting article by an anonymous wife of a city trader just after the whole crash and bailout fiasco (where they were being widely castigated). I thought it would be more a contrarian piece but it was really sad. Essentially they are rich and will never want for anything but...

Bit of a bugbear of mine, the idea of protein=grow bigger is highly simplistic. If you are at that stage in training where you think you need protein powder the chances are you don't. It's much the preserve of elite athletes, you can easily get the protein you need for training from a decent...

New business jargon words I have heard over the past week or so: granular (I think in the context of detail, but I'm not sure) sunset (getting rid of something "we're going to sunset the project/system") decompose (again, I think something to do with detail, it's in the same context as 'deep dive')

in terms of office jargon the verb 'to land' has arrived in full where I work. "where are we landing with this?" "when will this / will this land"? I listened to an interesting piece on R4 once all about management spiel. One point I clearly remembered was how there can be no negatives in the...

on a bit of a tangent but how come they were able to take all their leave in one go so early in the year? I'm probably missing something but where I have worked you normally can't take more leave than you have accrued? Common sense can be applied to the above, but if I went to my boss and said...

If Isis were serious they'd bring the UK to a standstill by resetting the thermostats in all the workplaces. I have had this issue at work recently, the temperature does fluctuate but sheesh, the exaggerations I've heard. Whitechapel - some of those were Pilkington-esque!