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The Distant Future: Is Your Business Remote Proof?
Remote working is a double-edged sword. More efficiency at the price of the loss of work-life balance and a sense of cohesion and identity.
Todd Mei
Nov 2, 20205 min read


Has Your Workplace Turned into Brains with Faces? Here's a Fix
A virtual meeting or event that works is one where personalities are able to be on display in order that the others can attune to them
Todd Mei
Oct 5, 20205 min read


Remote Working: How Do You See Others?
Remote working conditions are often not organic enough to allow for co-worker visibility. But that can be fixed.
Todd Mei
Aug 10, 20204 min read


Can You Be the Change? Love It or Lockdown Again
How can wearing a mask be a normal habit as opposed to an awkward imposition?
Todd Mei
Jul 17, 20204 min read


Hard Conversations
The difficulty about hard conversations is not the inability to compromise, but the biases and assumptions we hold from the start.
Todd Mei
Jul 2, 20205 min read


All Work and No Play Makes Jackie a Dull Void
Seeing employees as a means to an end inevitably creates a culture in which practices and tasks treat and reinforce people as merely means.
Todd Mei
Jun 24, 20205 min read


Protest as Suffering (Not Just Civil Disobedience)
It is tempting to conclude civil protest is merely civil disobedience. But it is also an expression of suffering.
Todd Mei
Jun 3, 20204 min read


Can Ethical Consumerism Make a Difference?
It's easy to forget that the things we buy are made by humans. Ethical consumerism helps to avail of us of this oblivion.

Guest Author
Jun 2, 20205 min read


Quarantine, an Existential Perspective: A Self without Others
Our dependency on others is a part of who we are, which means that recognition of others is key to a healthy society.

Riss Müller
May 21, 20204 min read


Making a Habit of Respecting Workers
Can we keep alive our newfound respect for the workers keeping things open and running during the pandemic?
Todd Mei
May 14, 20205 min read


COVID-19: The Diet Effect, the Misery of Company, and Other Tales from the Misanthropic Side
The Diet Effect is a sense of complacency after initial success. Pandemic precautions can suffer from this and create further problems.
Todd Mei
May 2, 20206 min read


Fairer Housing Access
The pandemic has brought many of us to question the status quo. We're spending more time at home, and we need to rethink issues about access
Todd Mei
Apr 25, 20203 min read


Is Labor Really a Business Cost?
It seems like paying for labor is a cost of business. But a simple thought experiment shows otherwise.
Todd Mei
Apr 23, 20204 min read


Does the Collection of Rents Contribute to the Economy?
Rents do not contribute to the growth of the economy. It takes a simple thought experiment to see why.
Todd Mei
Apr 14, 20204 min read


COVID-19: Who’s Afraid to Exercise Outdoors?
In lockdown conditions where non-essential activity is prohibited, it may be confusing to know if exercise is permissible. Here's a guide.
Todd Mei
Apr 6, 20205 min read


Total Exhaustion: On Switching Passions from Climbing to Windsurfing
Total exhaustion is the experience of a fulfilling fatigue from sports. There's nothing quite like it. So what's involved?
Todd Mei
Apr 4, 20208 min read


The Housing Market Is Looking Worryingly Like a Pyramid Sales Scam
Don't be fooled! The housing market is not a ladder to be climbed! It's a pyramid that can only collapse a key moments.
Todd Mei
Apr 4, 20201 min read


Why the Collection of Commercial Rents Should Be Suspended During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The collection of rents during a pandemic is parasitic upon the economy. Why? There's no production to meet the demands of rent.
Todd Mei
Apr 4, 20204 min read
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