Sitemap - 2023 - Alicia McKay

FF: Balancing micro delight and macro despair

A Friday Stream of Consciousness

Friday Flurry: People eat takeaways because they're tired, not because they're lazy.

Friday Flurry #18: We're different now. COVID's changed how we feel - and it might last a while.

Friday Flurry #17: Stop listening to dude-bros tell you how to be productive + controversial football thoughts

What Sets Employees and Entrepreneurs Apart?

Friday Flurry #16: The Art of Perspective: Harnessing the Power of Perception

What to do with criticism: who to listen to, and who to ignore

Friday Flurry #15: The creator economy, cannibalism, and speed painting

How to live your values

Friday Flurry #14: Inlet photos, thoughts on running and a life of projects and art

What you need to do to make brilliant work

Friday Flurry #13: You can't read the label from inside the jar

You've made more progress than you realise

Friday Flurry #12: The rich got richer, and social media somehow got worse

Most things can be undone

Friday Flurry #11: AI content is just a less nuanced version of our existing bullshit.

Don't worry about the competition

Number 17

Friday Flurry #10: You're a person, not a brand

Yelling into the void

Friday Flurry #9: Smug old racist pricks with control issues who seriously need to read more

The joy of instability

Friday Flurry #8: From here to there and back again

Beginners Journey Thread

Take big bets on a vague long game

Friday Flurry #7: Bad books, organised books, books-in-progress

Don't stumble over something behind you

Gaslighting at work

Friday Flurry #6: Grief, family and temporary communities

Why I'll never work in a job again

Friday Flurry #5: Knitting

Are you on the right side of history?

Friday Flurry #5: Saving Time

On being done before you've started

Friday Flurry #4: Guilt, fashion and general dread

Remember who it's all for

Friday Flurry #3: Lesbian fiction and learning containers

You aren't uniquely shameful, problematic... or lazy.

Stop being so damn nice

Friday Flurry #2: Timelessness, accents, AI and medical mistrust

Why women are so bloody exhausted right now

It's never too late to start something new

Do you want to start your own consulting business?

Books

Friday Flurry #1 - Travel, skin, and being a kid

Share your works in progress

WTF, Netflix?

Gyms are weird

Introducing: Current Fad

Reasons, seasons and changing jobs

People are opting out of corporate bullshit

Data Entry: A Poem