by Mark O'Brien | Aug 19, 2019
Okay. Come on. Admit it: You were on the verge of losing faith in Harvard Business Review (HBR), weren’t you? You just didn’t think, after all the blatantly obvious and trivial inanities it’s published, it could continue to maintain its stride, right? O, ye of little...
by Mark O'Brien | Aug 12, 2019
I’m a guy who believes in the evolution of consciousness. The paper pills in the pocket of Dr. Reefy in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, published in 1920, for example, were a literary device created to suggest the lunacy of Dr. Reefy. Just 48 years later,...
by Mark O'Brien | Aug 5, 2019
As a result of existential, ontological, teleological, and epistemological phenomena I can no longer ignore, I’m creating a new philosophy. Perhaps it’s more accurate to say I’m founding a new school of philosophical thought and action. It’ll be called, familiarly,...
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 29, 2019
We came across a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article from March 7, 2016, entitled, “Actually, You Should Check Email First Thing in the Morning”. Since we like to check our email first thing in the morning, we were heartened when we read this: My new...
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 22, 2019
Please take a look at this infographic. If it disgusts and horrifies you as much as it does me (it should) — and if you’re up for a little perspective — take a look at this, this, and this. That infographic is disgusting because it shows the extent to which some...
