Category: <span>OPINION COLUMN</span>

📌 Friday mood post 📌

Yesterday, I laughed like a dying seal at the CFO’s terrible joke.

Not because it was funny. But because everyone else was laughing.

And that, folks, is competitive-level FOPO: Fear Of People’s Opinions.

That little voice in your head that makes you:

– Validate absurd projects that are “purpose-driven”
– Fake enthusiasm for kraft paper ice-breakers
– Pretend you’re passionate about design thinking

Your reptilian brain still thinks being rejected by the tribe = ending up naked in the forest negotiating territory with an existentially-confused wild boar.

Today, it’s just called “not being aligned with team dynamics.”

Dr. Michael Gervais even created a fancy acronym for your office paranoia. Because in 2025, even anxiety needs to be optimized.

But don’t worry: there’s an experiential workshop for that. Eco-friendly tote bag included.

Spoiler alert: the solution might not be in yet another personal development smoothie…

👇 Thread breaking down this new gourmet mental fatigue

📌 Friday mood post 📌

What if the biggest lie in the modern workplace boiled down to a single word?

Not “synergy.” Not “agility.” Not even “co-construction” or “productivity.”
The real poison is subtler. It smells like lavender, wears a smile, and proudly sits on every HR slide deck.

Its name is HAPPINESS.

Welcome to the 21st-century workplace, where you’re no longer expected to think, let alone produce.
You’re expected to be aligned, centered, inspired… all while juggling four projects, three pointless meetings, and a “mindful check-in” with your agile manager who’s too busy perfecting his inner Japanese garden between two slides on empathic synergy.

In this world, competence is a glitch to be corrected. Quality work? A reactionary relic.

What really matters is your SMILE RATE in the open space, your 360° observable zen level, and your fluent use of corporate doublespeak—like saying “strategic alignment” when you actually mean “total chaos.”

You thought you had a job?

No. You’re living in an emotionally therapeutic fiction, complete with tight budgets, blurry KPIs, lukewarm detox juices, and a group breathing coach every Wednesday.

#ZenCorporation #CompassionateBullshit #SmileyOrDie #MandatoryKindness

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💡 Corporate transparency? Come on, who still buys into that?

Every year, it’s the same charade: 247 pages of polished jargon, a PDF buried somewhere on the website, and pastel-colored charts explaining that everything’s going swimmingly, nothing to see here.

Everyone’s happy, aligned, inspired, fulfilled… well, except those we haven’t yet sent to a “cultural realignment cell” between the foosball table and the meditation room. But hey, that doesn’t fit in the infographic.

👉 In the wonderful world of corporate bullshit, transparency has become an art form. A precisely choreographed dance between managerial storytelling, emotional pie charts, and coaches who explain life to you… without ever having lived it outside of keynote presentations.

I wrote this little opinion piece on the subject.
Spoiler: I don’t talk about the coffee machine. Well, maybe a bit.

#TransparencyOnTheCheap #WindowDressingHR #BullshitCoin #GalaStorytelling

📌 Friday mood post 📌

🧙‍♂️ Alchemists spent their lives trying to turn lead into gold.
💼 Modern consultants have no such obsession — they turn gold into procedure… and bill you for the VAT on top.

Take a bright idea, a real spark of inspiration.
Drop it into an Excel spreadsheet, sprinkle some lukewarm jargon, toss in three vague KPIs and a “deliverable” for good measure…
🎯 Congrats, you’ve just created a SMART goal: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-bound.
✨ A brilliant acronym to standardize genius and organize boredom.

By trying to frame, model, and rationalize everything, we’ve pulled off something quite spectacular: we’ve neutralized creative thinking — without even needing censorship.
All it takes is a process, an evaluation grid, and a good old “kick-off meeting”.

And what if the real, honest, street-level definition of SMART was actually something like this:

– Simplify the complex
– Make meetings meaningful (or at least long)
– Annihilate all originality
– Reduce ambition
– Turn drive into reporting

😂

In this little mood piece, I explore, with a wry smile and a touch of arsenic, how our obsession with deliverables slowly strangles the unexpected, the absurd, and sometimes even… genius itself.

📌 Spoiler: These days, Newton would’ve had to open a Jira ticket for his apple.
And he’d get a Slack reminder to “think inside the box.”

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🦵💸 €350 for half a pant leg and a full-blown loss of meaning? Yes, it’s real. And no, it’s not a joke.

There was a time when fashion aimed to elevate the body. Today, it’s content to chop off a leg—in the name of creative boldness. At that price, you’re not buying trousers, you’re buying a stance. Half a pair of jeans, a whole marketing strategy. And it works. Sold out.

Genius, really: invent nothing, sell it at a premium, and convince people it’s profound. Welcome to the age of proudly worn absurdity, 2025 edition.

What’s next? You’ll laugh. Or cry. Or click add to cart.