Table of Contents

All the small things
Your happiness is your business
Dumbing up
Buying happiness
The me generation
It won’t make any difference
The future isn’t what it used to be
Tough love
Not great men
Speak your brains
A world of snark
Work–life madness
Literature’s return on investment
How to be bored
Bad boredom
Are you sitting forward?
Explosive disorders
Think less and do more
In two minds
Hotties and notties
Never enough
Lost in the forest
Bollocks to unhappiness
Make love, not rules
In vino veritas?
They aren’t out to get you
No excuses
What they aren’t telling you
It’s not me, it’s you
Don’t panic
Man or manipulator?
You are what you are
Leave it all out there
On having a hobby
The joy of appetite
Too much of a good thing
Not just a talking head
No one likes me
Too much, too young
Badge kissers
Having it all
Power and tenderness
You never call
In defence of call centres
Lifelong learning
A higher purpose
The price of obsession
Strategy and tactics
When really bad stuff happens
Effort, not resignation
Resignation, not effort
The stream of life

About the Author

Tim Phillips (London) has been a freelance journalist since 1990, writing about business, technology, social change and innovation. He has written for the Wall Street Journal Europe, the International Herald Tribune, The Times, the Sunday Times, the Observer, the Independent and the Daily Express among others. For two years he was a technology and Internet columnist for the Guardian. Tim is also author of Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince (9781904902836) and Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (9781905940912).