Nick’s Notes: The following is a letter I sent in an email to the New York Times piece, found here. The question is fundamentally mistaken from the get-go. I don’t think we should be focusing on what can make us employed but rather what provides value for ourselves and our communities. The question of jobs…
Joining other posts on this site (here and here) dedicated to one person who decided to make a difference, here’s this: More than 100 train passengers were left stranded in Spain after the driver decided to down tools and disappear when his shift ended. … “The driver said he had finished his work shift and…
A friend of mine linked from a site called The Body is Not an Apology: Radical Self-Love for Everybody and Everybody and specifically an article entitled “You Do Not Exist to Be Used:” Dismantling Ideas of Productivity in Life Purpose, by Gillian Giles. All of these are fairly click-bait-eque titles with your usual social justice…
Nick’s Notes: This is the speech (slightly edited for publication) that I gave throughout the second half of my book tour. Work - The constrained performance of some skill (cognitive, emotional, physical etc.) in return for substituting your own ends with an economic reward, or in the ultimate hope of receiving some such reward. Constraint…
There’s a lot of ambiguity surrounding the meaning of the word “work”. By now I’ve concluded rather strongly that most people have a different sense of the word than I do. But that’s OK given that I don’t think anarchism is synonymous with chaos, or that capitalism is synonymous with free markets or that polyamory…
I want to, as organically as possible, work in the terrifying world that I feel like I am living right now. I don’t want to make every post somehow about Trump or about fascists or about how liberals are totally inadequate to deal with these challenges as they have always been. Much like other projects…
I live in the United States if you haven’t figured that out and if you also haven’t somehow noticed, the president-elect is a total fucking fascist. So we’ve got our work cut out for us in terms of what we can and should be doing to oppose the rise of fascism in this country. I…
Health concerns aren’t a new topic on this site and certainly stress isn’t either. But this time around we have even more data to support the obvious: Stress kills in the long-run and stressful jobs are a locus of stress, therefore working too hard and too much can damage our health and in the long-run,…
Alright, I know it’s weird that I’m reviewing this movie for my anti-work site but hear me out. It’s number 9 (Chef was number 10) of the Top 10 Movies That Will Make You Want to Quit your Job by WatchMojo so I decided to check it out and see how true that was. Granted,…
Personal Update(s) / Introduction October was quite the monumental month for me in many ways. Not least of which a collection I edited was published, I went on a book tour that spanned the North East and then some, made a lot of connections and sold tons of books! In the end, I fell short…