Liam Mullone

Stress point

All I need is a clear job description, mastery of my space, and the absence of a ‘team’ that is ‘on my side’

issue 23 April 2016

In the 1920s, the anthropologist Margaret Mead studied the people of New Guinea. She noticed that they hunted birds and squirrels but not flying squirrels. The tribesmen explained that they didn’t like flying squirrels: a thing should be either a bird or a squirrel. They wanted nothing to do with the dirty things.

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