Nobody Cares - But You Should

Everyone had a -possibly welcomed- break from hearing from me of late. Nothing like a book deadline and running a software company at the same time to focus the mind. That said I have to share some things with you.

It seriously shouldn’t surprise the creator of the concept of HumanDebt but it still does. It’s not until I started dissecting:

• It seriously shouldn’t surprise the creator of the concept of HumanDebt but it still does. It’s not until I started dissecting:
• How technology needs collaboration and communication and a host of other skills it lacks
• The crisis of mental health and burnout and the ever-present lack of psychological safety
• How prohibitively costly it all is and how many thousands of data points and studies are being ignored to protect a claim of blissful ignorance
• and the many other nuances of these for the book, that it occurred to me that confusion alongside lack of genuine interest reign frightfully supreme in most organisations.
• 4-days weeks, protected times and novel policies around hybrid are being passed as “flexibility” when they are really just a half-born attempt that frames its lack of substance.
• A generalised sense of “not my problem” when it comes to mental health at nearly every level just as every news source declares 2023 “the year of well-being at work”.
• Lip service to radical candour while we keep being afraid and hiding our true thoughts.

How technology needs collaboration and communication and a host of other skills it lacks

The crisis of mental health and burnout and the ever-present lack of psychological safety

How prohibitively costly it all is and how many thousands of data points and studies are being ignored to protect a claim of blissful ignorance