Author: The Gentleman

Maybe the Slack notification appeared and you had thoughts like “Oh, I will just reply to it.” Perfectly normal, nothing surprising. For most of us who are younger than 35, a phone call is the equivalent of the phone call our grandparents feared most – a text message. Here’s something you should know about communications…

Sometimes, there is this sort of special silence which appears after the poor delivery of an apology. All of us know about it as it contains this sort of feeling of realization of our fault which only worsens the situation. It seems that apologizing is one of those skills that men are pretty bad at…

You have a look at your closet in expectation of it owing you something. It tells you to look “smart casual,” and you feel that it is not an explanation but a challenge. In other words, it is the dress code riddle wrapped in the vague e-mail, and you should not come dressed like you…

Probably, you think that punctuality involves on-time arrival to various places. However, the problem lies much deeper and represents your professional image. Being a middle manager of your late twenties or thirties, you have no margin of error. You have passed the entry level stage but are still struggling for the corner office. In your…

Would you like to be the one to ruin the atmosphere of the dinner party with your monologue about your semester in Prague? Well, we have listened to enough stories that got us totally lost because of a great detail. The good news is that making a proper toast is more about knowing how to…

President John F. Kennedy used to devote hours to locking nine hundred Petit Upmanns in a special room before putting the Cuban trade embargo signature on paper. And this is the kind of passion for tobacco that you don’t need any national emergency situation to enjoy a cigar. All you need is a credit card…