• THE LIFE WE POSTPONE: The 40-Hour Surrender

    THE LIFE WE POSTPONE: The 40-Hour Surrender

    Most of us must exchange a huge proportion of our lives for the money required to survive. But why did forty hours become the default, and how much of life should work reasonably be allowed to occupy?

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  • THE LIFE WE POSTPONE: Professional Until We Die

    THE LIFE WE POSTPONE: Professional Until We Die

    We spend decades working, performing competence and acting appropriately professional. But when did responsibility start requiring us to surrender humour, personality and ordinary enjoyment?

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  • Move Your Fucking Bag

    Move Your Fucking Bag

    Bags on train seats. Speakerphones. Blocked pavements. Trolleys across aisles. When did being considerate start meaning waiting until somebody asks us to stop inconveniencing them?

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  • THE ALGORITHM BETWEEN US: You And I Are Not Seeing The Same Internet

    THE ALGORITHM BETWEEN US: You And I Are Not Seeing The Same Internet

    Your feed is not the internet. Adam Fox investigates personalised algorithms, filter bubbles and what happens when two people increasingly encounter different versions of the same world.

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  • THE DEFAULT LIFE: Is There A Better Way?

    THE DEFAULT LIFE: Is There A Better Way?

    Agency isn't rebellion or working less. Adam Fox explores the habit of questioning defaults, testing alternatives and asking one deceptively powerful question: is there a better way?

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  • THE DEFAULT LIFE: Enough

    THE DEFAULT LIFE: Enough

    How much money, work, growth or success is enough? Adam Fox explores sufficiency, rising aspirations and why ambition needs a point where more becomes optional.

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