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Month: May 2026

Summer at The Drill

Sunday, May 31st, 2026

Three live events for Lincoln Alumni (and 25% off the comedy night).   Three brilliant live shows are coming up at The Drill in early June – and as Lincoln College alumni, you’ve got an exclusive 25% discount on one of them. If you’ve not been to The Drill recently (or at all), it’s worth [Read more…]

The Reliability Dividend

Sunday, May 31st, 2026

Why Showing Up Consistently Beats Showing Off.   Ask any manager what they actually value most in their team and the answer is almost never “the most exciting person in the room.” It’s usually the one who does what they say they’ll do, when they said they’d do it. Reliability is the quiet career skill [Read more…]

Looking After Your Mental Health at Work

Sunday, May 31st, 2026

When the Job Itself Is the Hard Bit.   Mental Health Awareness Week ran 11–17 May this year. This year’s theme – chosen by the Mental Health Foundation – was Action, on the basis that awareness on its own only goes so far. With the week now done and the LinkedIn posts quietly fading, we [Read more…]

What Can I Learn From: Essentialism

Sunday, May 31st, 2026

In our regular series where we look at well-known books and pull out the practical lessons our alumni can use at work, this month we’re picking up Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown. If you read March’s piece on Cal Newport’s Deep Work and found yourself nodding along, this is the natural [Read more…]

When AI Gets It Wrong

Sunday, May 31st, 2026

How to Spot Hallucinations and Use AI More Confidently.   Last month we wrote about choosing your first real AI project at work – picking something small, low-risk, and seeing what these tools can actually do. One of the things we mentioned in passing was that AI tools are confident even when they’re wrong. That’s [Read more…]