From my time working for a big consultancy, this rang excruciatingly true:

De Rond has also seen a kind of “existential” boredom manifest in professional services firms. “That’s not a result of having nothing to do — they have nothing worthwhile to do.”

So much better to be working to change the world by saving the Shire.

(via Rui Carmo)

Let your conversation possess a clarified conciseness, compacted comprehensibleness, coalescent consistency, and a concatenated cogency. Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement, and asinine affectations. Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility, without rhodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all polysyllabical profundity, pompous prolixity, and ventriloquial vapidity.

While on holiday last week I was trying to elucidate a fear I have been contending with for the last six months or so.

The best decision makers are the ones who know when not to trust themselves.

Such a beatiful article, lifted my day.

Absolutely hilarious, a must read from my mate Billy.

Don’t let the football bias in this article fool you: the potential upheaval here is enormous. It may well change the way rights for broadcasts, music and video and even intellectual property are sold across the whole of the European Union.

"Now, in fact, the insurgents increasingly are responding to our operations rather than vice-versa"

That sounds like great progress, it is encouraging that the General published it in writing for all to see on NATO’s ISAF website.

I can’t even remember who forwarded this link to me now (thanks and apologies to whoever you are), but it is one of the most concisely interesting talks I have seen in quite a while.

I don’t normally do posts about my work, but this is such a good read, such an accessible technical article and so relevant to so many of us that I couldn’t resist.