Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A guy walks into his job and spends half the day reading or replying to the all-comers to-do list that is email, a quarter of the day in meetings, and the other quarter doing the same shit he’s been doing for years because no one wants to do anything different. Ring any bells?

It’s not that I didn’t learn a lot from every job I’ve had. To say otherwise would be a slap in the face to all the wonderful and competent people who taught me what (and who) they know...