Notes From a Small Mind

There are places we all frequent regularly, where the social contract is so fragile that one wrong move can shatter it entirely. A quiet train carriage. A lift with only two people in it. A Post Office queue. But nowhere is the contract more delicate, or more terrifyingly easy to violate, than men’s changing rooms at a gym or swimming pool.

I saw a quote online a few years back, and it went something like this:  at some point, you picked up your child for the last time and didn’t know it was the last time. Amongst all the guff I see on the internet, that particular thought genuinely caused me to pause. Not because it’s sentimental, but because it’s true. One day, you scooped up your child without a second thought — they were crying,...

We talk about tax as if it’s money. It isn’t. It’s time. Every extra pound you earn costs a portion of your life. Getting up earlier. Sitting in traffic. Staring at screens. Missing things you’d rather be doing with the people in your life who matter. That’s the trade: your time for money. For more information about Keith A Pearson, visit his website - www.keithapearson.co.uk

Nobody asked for another podcast. I know that. You know that. There are more podcasts than there are thoughts worth having — and yet, here we are. Here's why I think this one might be worth your time. I'm a novelist. I spend my days inside the heads of fictional people, which is as strange as it sounds. This is where I step outside those heads and talk about the stuff that actually keeps me up at...