Harry, thanks again for reading my stuff. It's a long one and these can get boring after 1200 words or so. It' s part of a series I put together on ethics in business that I'll be sharing over the next few weeks.

Also, you're right. Ethical leadership is not very common. After all, capitalist systems require us to forgo our humanity in order to turn a buck. Ok, individuals might say, no, I would never do that. But where the corporate imperative takes over minds of people, those people numb themselves to the impact of their collective actions. "I was only doing my job" is a common response when hands get caught in jars.

We occupy a period in the development of humanity where little holds more importance to us than how we are perceived. The image we present through our words, physical appearance, and behaviour tells the world who we are and what we stand for. It moulds and shapes our self-concept and…

Since I first discovered Bukowski a few years back, I have become increasingly drawn to his thoughts and ideas. He hadn’t outlined any particular philosophy as far as I can say, regardless his views are easy to spot in his writings. These ideas I’m sharing I take from his private…

“The gods have blessed me by not making me famous,” Bukowski wrote in a letter to Harold Norse in 1967. “I still shoot the words out of a cannon, which beats drippings from a limp cock,” as he put it in his usual abrasively sexualised tone. …

…the only difference in what Bill had to say in his speech and what I see today, is that in our everyday sense, the actor doesn’t know they act.

It’s the pretence that drives me crazy the most. There’s nothing I can do about it, or that anyone can do…

I was 15 years old when I began under the hammer. I mean really working, not your summer job kind of half-arsed teenage working. Although I did that too from age 13. Before that time, I have no sense of who I was. I must have been someone, but that…