A riddle for writers
Published: Wed, 06/18/25
Riddle me this: What do Mark Manson, Seth Godin, Morgan Housel, Michael Neill and John Bejakovic all have in common? If you said “OMG! Are they…
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How to slip past someone's mental defences
Published: Tue, 06/17/25
A short story you might like if you want more sway in your day-to-day life: I’ve written about my love of magic many times in these daily emails. The…
Why I’m promoting John Bejakovic’s new book
Published: Mon, 06/16/25
A couple of weeks ago, daily email maestro John “Bejako” Bejakovic fired off a call to arms to his newsletter subscribers. I’ve written about John…
My Greatest Email Hits
Published: Fri, 06/13/25
This newsletter is 3 years old today. As the champagne chills on ice here at Fort Grundy, it’s a good time to pause and take a look back at some of my…
How to use your day job to fuel your side hustle
Published: Thu, 06/12/25
Over the last few days I’ve been re-reading Scott Adams’s How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. You might know Scott Adams as the…
How I conquered my fear of presenting on Zoom calls
Published: Wed, 06/11/25
Here’s a DM I got the other day from a colleague who’s taking part in my Mindset and Clarity workshops at work: ***I found yesterday’s session…
Wild Courage (my interview with Jenny Wood)
Published: Mon, 06/09/25
Today I’m publishing a short interview with former Harvard Business School researcher and e -Google E ec, Jenny Wood. Jenny founded a program called…
Rob Wringham calls me a hooligan?
Published: Fri, 06/06/25
Updated: Fri, 06/06/25
Today I’m promoting a Kickstarter for New Escapologist. New Escapologist is a print journal run by author and comedian Rob Wringham, all about the art…
“What does a good work/life balance look like for you personally Tom?”
Published: Thu, 06/05/25
Updated: Thu, 06/05/25
That’s the question a colleague asked me during the Mindset & Clarity workshop I ran last week at work. It’s a great question. Not least because how I…
The 5 stages of de-stressing at work
Published: Wed, 06/04/25
At least, based on how it looks to me. But after 13+ years of taking grenades in the trenches in my banking job, then finding a way to turn down my…