A few weeks ago, I asked readers to send me some words to describe my daily emails.

Various words filtered back into my hungry inbox.

Words like playful, light-hearted, philosophical, different, useful, hopeful, funny, interesting, challenging, low-key, friendly, inviting, entertaining, quirky, warm, generous, wise, joyful, whimsical, relatable, engaging, provocative, punchy and humorous.

But one word a loyal reader sent back made me raise a suspicious eyebrow.

That word?

Inciteful.

Now, I know my daily emails poke at a few sacred workplace cows. You won’t find many CEOs subscribing to my dangerously sensible ethos that clear thinking is the #1 performance lever. Nor will your mentor likely agree that before you climb the career ladder, it pays to check your ladder is leaning against the right wall. And I’m almost certain that Compliance won’t be thrilled with my suggestion to trust your judgment over their latest snazzy process.

But I didn’t realise my emails were actually inciting a full blown workplace mutiny!

So are my readers suddenly leaving the office at 5pm on the dot? Are bosses up and down the country being confronted by staff who seem suspiciously calm? Or has it got even more out of control? Has my newsletter incited employees to commit the ultimate act of workplace rebellion: 

Treating work as something they do rather than something they are?

I emailed the reader back and asked him what he meant by “inciteful”.

You'll never guess what.

Turns out there’d been a small typo.

He meant insightful, not inciteful.

Although thinking about it now, I wonder if there’s even that much difference.

Once you start thinking for yourself about work, you realise there’s more than one way to do it. And once you realise that, you’ll start looking for the way that works best for you.

So perhaps “inciteful” was more insightful than the reader realised.

Whatever the case, if you’d like to read about a few people who’ve done just that (i.e. ignored the usual workplace scripts and built work their way instead), you might like the new guide I’ve put together called How To Work Your Way.

For the avoidance of doubt, this is NOT a guide about how to quit your job. 

If anything, it’s the opposite. 

It’s a collection of conversations with some of the most interesting and unconventional thinkers on work I've come across. Thinkers like NYT bestselling author & pilot Jenny Wood, neuroscientist & ex-Googler Anne-Laure Le Cunff and founder of the underground journal New Escapologist, Robert Wringham.

All of whom share ideas to help you find more freedom and fulfilment in the office.

I’ve been talking up this guide for the last few days.

But today, these emails stop. 

Come Thursday, my first ad to promote the guide hits a major newsletter (100,000+ subscribers – I’m very excited!) in an attempt to lure people onto my daily emails just like cheese in a mousetrap. 

So if you’ve been reading my emails with a mild curiosity or even a nagging itch but you haven’t got around to pulling the trigger, just hit reply, say “Work My Way” and I’ll send the guide straight over to you for free.

This is last chance saloon.

Tomorrow, something different.

To fulfilment,

Tom