Apparently the professionals at New York Times didn’t catch up to this story (that I blogged about a little over a a month ago) until yesterday but there’s still some good tidbits from there you may have not gotten here (AKA, more formalized writing and some more background on this woman that I didn’t know/didn’t talk…
Levison begins by telling us about an ad that seems to speak to him directly. The person must be a people type of person and (importantly), “English degree required. Ex-military preferred.” As he gets to where the job interview is (the women on the phone just tells him to show up) something seems off. People…
Recently, Richard Branson has made the “startling” claim that he wants everyone to have unlimited vacations. At first glance it seems like any and all anti-work advocate should be behind this but let’s take a closer look. First off, on that ABC link there’s a piece about Branson himself and at one point he says…
Levison is starting to unload the truck when he figures out that he was most likely hired because he is over six feet all and is able to lift things fairly easily. Or maybe it’s because the company is/was desperate. Or maybe it’s because they needed a more obedient worker. The fact that Levison keeps…
(Nick’s Notes: This series will mostly be containing my thoughts as I read this book. It’s not a book review (that will be at the end of it) but rather a chapter by chapter review, summary, analysis, etc.) Becoming an Associate The first section of this book starts off pretty great with Levison looking through…
(Nick’s Notes: You can also find this here (in article form) and here (in audio form). Hat tip to my friend Jason Lee Byas for this. Also, I know some people who follow this blog may not be a big fan of Rothbard but I find his points on full employment, the persecution of the…
Hat tip to my friend Joel Schlosberg for letting me know about this one! So I created my own party… It’s called the Sloth and Indolence Party… And I’m running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word… I’ve studied the presidency carefully… I have seen that our best presidents were the…
On my first read through I remember this twenty-five or so pager pamphlet sucking itself. So I was hoping to title it “WORKING SUCKS - SUCKS!” but on my second read through I realized that I had gotten so caught up with this title that I had mistaken what the quality actually was. It’s not…
This was a cool article I accidentally found in the Boston Globe while on family vacation last month. Here are some parts of the article that I particularly like, starting with this: The fact is, even the most responsible adults occasionally indulge in what can only be described as playfulness: pursuing delight in all its…
Wow, so first I really want to thank the people who donated! Thanks to your generous donations (over-generous, really!) the site has enough funds to not only go for another year but thanks to what is left over I’m going to add an additional year on top of that. Besides that the donations went to me buying some…