‘Productivity’ is a funny old concept. We like to imagine that as humans we’re designed to work non-stop from 9-5, stopping only to eat or drink coffee here and there. In fact we’re so attached to this idea of virtuous productivity that we use it as a standard to measure ourselves against, even though for
Vero, Latin for ‘truth‘, is a new-ish social platform looking to do things differently. It has been on my radar for a while now – its founder has called it’s development “the slow cook approach” – but like all social media, a platform is only as good as its user base, which for Vero was
Poor Elle Darby. I watched with dismay this week as her pitch to a Dublin-based hotel and pub went viral on twitter, after the owner shared her pitch email with ridicule. Whatever the rights and wrongs of this case ( social media bullying of a 22 year old girl is never acceptable, and the owner
We climbed off the damp and steamy 82 bus and hurried home under a shared umbrella. My Grandma lit the false flames of the gas fire, pulled out the smallest of her nest of tables and set down a tray of cups, biscuits and her favourite teapot. Outside, a genie’s lamp of silver engravings; inside,
A few weeks back, in the interval at an event where I was speaking, I bumped into a woman I knew. She’d been a student on The Insta Retreat so this was our first time meeting in real life, and we did that strange thing where you slide straight from ‘hello, my name is…’ into the
If there’s one plea I hear more than any others right now, it is from people saying ‘help! I’ve been shadowbanned on Instagram‘, and asking what to do. Unlike the incident earlier this year, where it was only a handful affected, now it seems to be much more widespread – and affecting a greater range
When I was aged 7 or 8, I fell in love with a hideous sundress. It was in this store my mother dragged us around on a weekly basis – an outlet for cheaply-priced factory seconds and unsold stock from larger highstreet chains. We didn’t have a lot of money and my Mum had 3
This post is in collaboration with and sponsored by Lenovo, but all thoughts are my own, unchanged and unedited. My previous life in the NHS For most of my time working in speech therapy, I didn’t have a child of my own. I was clued up on child development and had clocked up hundreds of