Often learned the hard way. — Reflecting on my career, it would be fair to say I’ve had some “hits and misses”. But let’s face it, it’s all relative and I’m not complaining. I’m one of the most fortunate people I know. This story is about my mental checklist of “workplace truths” that no one ever…

Why I write about what I write about. — Sometimes I think the most successful thing I ever did in life was secure the Andrew.Tiernan@gmail.com address before any other Andrew Tiernan did. Sometimes I also think my threshold of personal achievement is set too low. The guy who probably should have got it, and probably deserves it more, is…

A guy told me this in our first week studying together in Taipei. — This story is not a sad story, nor political, nor cringy to borrow from Elie Levine’s article on how-to-self-promote-without-turning-people-off. This is a story about wanting to write and finding the courage to do so. Elie wrote: “Maintaining a personal brand doesn’t have to be cringey In the age of working…

A love letter to the past 15 months. Facebook tells me it has been 15 months since I was having my last official “holiday”. We were on the slopes of Whistler Blackcombe with a group of friends we had met in Hong Kong many years before. Of the eight bunking…