Hands up, anyone who has never cheated in their life. At cards, on someone, whatever. Not many. Yeah, that checks out. Because we’re human. Born to stuff up.

My hand is down. I’ve been a cheater. The guilt I carried is gone, replaced by regret and gratitude that I learned a lot about the world and myself. And that I could absorb those lessons in private.

Then-chief executive of Astronomer, Andy Byron, and the company’s chief people officer, Kristin Cabot, at the Coldplay concert.Credit: Aresna Villanueva

It takes time to admit you did something shithouse. To work out what got you there, and no, the answer is rarely too many cocktails. That’s probably just the tipping point. You need to go deep, be super honest.

Which is why the global infamy of Jumbotrongate – the Astronomer colleagues Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot caught hugging on the big screen at a Coldplay concert – has made me reflect. Sure, and be briefly obsessed. I’m not nearly that good a person that I can’t relish a gotcha moment.

But what’s still bugging me a week later isn’t the alleged cheating or that a corporate guy is held to a higher standard of values than the US........

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