Re-posted from here. This essay was a big part of my own essay on anti-work that I presented at the 2014 Boston Anarchist Bookfair. I seem to work a lot. At least, I think I work a lot. Like many in the modern world, I find it pretty hard to tell the difference between work…
See the text version here.
Hey everyone, as the title implies this is just the text version. The audio version of my presentation will be put up tomorrow and will be via my Youtube channel. Thanks! Introduction My name is Nick Ford and for around a year now I’ve been running a site called AbolishWork.com. In that time I’ve been…
Think your job interviews went poorly? Well, at least you’re not these guys…
The Boston Anarchist Bookfair will be going on this Sunday and the Monday after and I figured it’d be good to let you guys know that we’ll be there through a talk (Sunday, 4:45-5:45) as well as our handouts (which are pictured above). And by “we” I of course mean me but there should be other…
Here we are, the last chapter, it’s all been building(?) up to this, let’s see where Levison is left after so many failed attempts at being a working stiff. Um, apparently pretty damn depressed is where Levison is left, not that I can blame him, of course. But take a look at this: There’s no dream…
Apparently, Medium holds a three month exclusive license on people’s work, otherwise I’d just post the whole damn thing, it’s too good not to! This essay deals with a lot of how we think about what makes us productive vs. what actually helps us do the things we want to get done, done. Norton travels to…
This is a song I was shown a few days ago, very relevant of course:
Here at Abolish Work we not only want to non-vigorously oppose work (vigor is too much effort for us) we also want to non-vigorously talk about alternatives from time to time. We’ve highlighted play via the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky here and here as well as some research from a Boston Globe article and finally a friend of mine, William…
When Levison returns to Seattle the world has changed in the time has been gone. The internet (remember that still being a tiny thing, kids?) has now led to people being able to do their own businesses and get a lot of money without doing as much work to make that money. Sounds like a…