Sitemap - 2023 - Alicia McKay’s Current Fad

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

The difference between employees and entrepreneurs

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

The Human Hands Behind AI’s ‘Magic'

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?

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