I have more personal projects than I can realistically work on right now. A shoe rack out of plywood, a decorative fence to hide the air conditioner, low voltage landscape lighting, enclosing the patio under the back deck, smart home automation, software tools I've wanted to build for years.
Last month, Yum Brands announced that it's selling Pizza Hut to LongRange Capital, a private equity firm, for $2.7 billion. The deal splits the brand in two - LongRange gets everything outside mainland China for about $1.
Nobody enjoys being on the receiving end of bad news. That part is obvious. What's less obvious is how much worse bad news gets when the person delivering it optimizes for their own comfort instead of yours.
Everyone lies. That's not a controversial statement and I don't mean it as a judgment - it's just an observable fact about how people operate. But not all lies serve the same purpose, and I think most people don't spend much time asking themselves who a given lie is actually for.