Adam Kay

money might not buy you happiness, it certainly buys you nicer stuff.

Being trusted is much more important than being liked

I noticed the interesting paradox that while you become an expert in prioritizing at work, you generally become even worse at prioritizing in real life.

beggars can’t be choosers;

But what if someone shares a ghastly factory farming video on Facebook the day before and you inadvertently witness a mass debeaking?

Besides, holding anyone to their word at that age seems a bit unfair, on a par with declaring the

‘I want to be an astronaut’ painting you did aged five a legally binding document.

a great doctor must have a huge heart and a distended aorta through which pumps a vast lake of compassion and human kindness.

They must have something that cannot be memorized and graded:

The fucking lot of them.