Employment

1. Culture

Businesses make a huge deal about their culture. They want you to read their culture page (spoiler, it looks the same as every other one) and they list “great culture” as a benefit on their careers page.

It’s all a lie. Because culture is NOT what you say it is. Culture is what you do every single day. No amount of platitudes will change that. In fact some of the places I have worked that had the WORST culture were the most vocal about the imaginary one.

1. Star Trek

I grew up watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was one of those rare things that I could convince my parents to allow me to stay up to the very edge of my bedtime for. Like any young nerd in training I was there for the cool spaceships, the android, the aliens. The normal science fiction things that, I suspect, initially draw most of us to the genre. There were a lot of things that I didn’t appreciate back then, and not only because due to the vagaries of broadcast television and the episodic nature of the show making it hard to even conceive of, much less piece together, a grander story arc in my young brain.