‘Never trust a hippy,’ an establishment-baiting punk rocker once famously said. This is still relevant in the current age, except I would change it to ‘Never trust a Thought Leader’.

The Oxford English Dictionary’s first reference to ‘Thought Leader’ is as far back as 1887 but it feels it is in the last five years that the term has become a thing. Or ‘gained traction’, as a true Thought Leader might say.

We toil away at jobs in companies that do stuff, but that stuff is often unglamorous and in the dark moments on the winter commute can often seem in the overall scheme of the universe rather pointless.