I’ve been traveling off and on for the past month and I’ve noticed something pretty distinctive. If you know about malls or plazas where there are a lot of different stores you might notice kiosk vendors. Usually these vendors have a product that their selling or their offering some sort of niche service. Maybe they…
Recently, Watch Mojo had a top 10 Rube Goldberg Machines in Movies. In it, there was an interesting trend that I noticed. The first movie scene they show (even before they get to the countdown) is a morning orientated Rube Goldberg Machine (RGM for short). And the countdown itself is nearly dominated by morning orientated…
There’s some data here about what sort of organizations millennials might prefer. It involves more sharing of information, less hierarchy and less of the usual rat-race. I haven’t dug into the data but if so, it seems promising. It’ll at least make some of the worst parts of capitalist less harmful and thus perhaps inspire…
Earlier today a friend of mine who I care about deeply and respect said something like: …work is only boring to boring people My point isn’t to pick on them per se’ or get some sort of passive aggressive and smug feeling from responding. But their comment made me realize that our culture really punishes people…
I’ve linked to Miya Tokumitsu’s piece In the Name of Love that was featured on Jacobin, as well commenting on the issue of “do what you love” myself (see here and here). More recently Tokumitsu has published another excerpt from her book called Do What You Love: And Other Lies About Success and Happiness titled,…
You know how I was trying to be positive about Sweden and its chances for a 6 hour work day last week or so? “Why Sweden is a long way from six-hour days” …Fuck.
Not too much to add here but it’s definitely an interesting list worth looking into more for future Abolish Work articles!
I know I can be a bit grumpy about the world. But cut me some slack, huh? It’s hard to be positive about the world when your ideals for it are so far against most of what it currently is and has been for most of human history in one form another. I want a…