Life & Culture

The benefits – and dangers – of optimism

Why you should (almost) always look on the bright side of life

Moving beyond a primary career requires deliberate preparation: reprioritising core values and intentionally crafting a lifestyle that continues to inspire and challenge.
SWITCHING LANES

Retirement isn’t a cliff’s edge

It’s an evolving invitation to prepare, test and ensure each path we take aligns with our current definition of a life well-lived

The Swatch and Audemars Bioceramic Royal Pop Collection launches on May 16.

Swatch is seeking a Royal Pop from Audemars Piguet hype

While the collaboration is risky for Audemars, there is far more at stake for Swatch

Beware the emoji minefield at work.

Welcome to emoji school

OK boomers! Your questions answered

Planning begins with honestly answering the question: What kind of lifestyle do I want to have?
SWITCHING LANES

Start planning your life, not just retirement

Don’t wait till your work life ends to live out your priorities

A growing chunk of ticket sales does not accrue to the people we pay to watch onstage or the companies that put them there.
THINKING ALOUD

The ‘Squid Game economics’ of being a fan

As bots and greed hijack the ticket trade, the law is intervening where the free market has failed

In acting, as elsewhere, the elites are accruing ever more riches, and the rest face uncertain prospects.

What nobody clutching their Oscar this weekend will tell you

AI, streaming and media fragmentation are changing the economics of acting

Bikes now make more than twice as many journeys as cars in Paris.

How Paris beat the car

Though chaotic, the city’s transition has become a global role model

Retirement is a phase we have to invest in by preparing well for it. It is not something that just happens because we are getting too old for the economy.
SWITCHING LANES

Lessons from ‘pretirement’

Take a sabbatical to stare the reality of retirement in the face – if you can afford one