Are you available?

Riky Bains
4 min readNov 16, 2018

Firstly, let’s learn that the very word ‘available’ used to mean beneficial. As time passes by, definitions erode from their original formation and wear new uniforms; available now simply means to be accessible. The reason I bring up the etymology of the word, besides my fervent infatuation with all things nerdy and historical, is because I feel we have forgotten the value of just being available and in business this is a costly, loss of memory.

Recently, I watched a short news clip about an obscure man in an even obscurer part of Scotland who happens to be the voice behind many famous TV…

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