R U OK? Day is a good prompt, but checking in on someone you actually love shouldn't need a date on the calendar to happen. If someone's been on your...
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The Blys Journal
A salon's growth ceiling used to be set by how many people happened to walk past a particular shopfront on a particular street, which is a strange way to cap...
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Every platform's homepage says provider-first, which is the corporate equivalent of a stranger insisting they're a really nice guy, technically possible, but you'd like some evidence before taking their word...
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A card signed by twelve people who spelled his name three different ways is not, technically, a gift. Father's Day is an easy one to acknowledge properly at work without...
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Carrying a capsule car seat through an airport, up a flight of stairs, and into a Sunday brunch is basically a strongman event nobody trained for and everybody's expected to...
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Watching forty percent of what you earned disappear into a commission split before you've even bought lunch has a way of sharpening a person's thinking about their career options. That's...
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Nobody hands you a clear signpost when you're deciding between the two, mostly because the actual answer is it depends, which is the least satisfying sentence in the English language....
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Getting a job request for a venue you'd rather not take is a small, recurring annoyance that adds up faster than anyone expects. Whether it's a festival gig that sounds...
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Somewhere in the last decade, gig work stopped meaning a friend's band playing pub covers on weekends and started meaning an entire generation's actual career path, sore shoulders and all....
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A five-star review that just says great! is the verbal equivalent of a thumbs up emoji, technically positive, completely useless to the next person trying to decide. Ratings and reviews...
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A bad massage at a spa means an awkward walk past reception, hoping nobody asks how it was. A bad mobile massage means the provider's already left, and it's properly...
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Somewhere between a stranger bringing you a burrito and a stranger driving you home at 1am, society decided strangers showing up to help with things is fine now, actually good,...
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A spa visit comes with its own miniature wardrobe change, a robe, slippers, a locker key you'll definitely misplace, before you've even had the massage. Convenience is the obvious reason...
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Anyone can slap the word verified on a homepage. The actual test is whether a platform can tell you what that word involved without changing the subject. If you're about...
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Letting someone you've never met into your home to touch your bare back is, on paper, a strange amount of trust to extend to a stranger, which is exactly why...
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