Preface I’ve been hearing about Scott Santens for a while. I think I’d even read one or two of his articles before I started digging into his handy FAQ. A month ago or so I read over a few posts by his, mostly on the subjects that personally interested me and the questions I have…
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 an essay by an anarchist named Charles Johnson entitled Libertarianism Though Thick and Thin which discusses different complimentary features of the ideology. Should libertarians care about anti-racist struggles? Or is property rights and non-aggression the only things that matter? This is a great discussion and I encourage everyone who thinks that libertarians can’t be…
For a while I tried to program and thought I could do it. I remember trying to do it a year ago or so and learning C++, a programming language, through an online course. I just couldn’t keep with the program and I have a weak background in math. The latter of which led me…
A piece by the Guardian UK’s Peter Fleming called Work is no cure for illness - the 24/7 culture is making us sick makes many interesting points while highlighting a then recent story. Ian Smith, a conservative party politician announced back in the summer of 2015 that he planned on having people fund their own…
As I mentioned before, I had been brought up on an episode of a podcast called, “Srsly Wrong”. The mention came in the form of a Facebook friend of mine commenting on my anti-work stance co-existing with a pro-market stance. The article I just linked goes into how I (briefly) rectify these two stances…a rectification…
I was tipped off to this interview by the podcast Srsly Wrong with Thaddeus Russel a while back but didn’t manage to listen to it until today: Around the 12:00 minute mark I’m mentioned as someone who is trying to reconcile “anti work” and “pro market” ideas. One of the hosts seems pretty skeptical and…
I’ve written before about so-called “flexible work”. This is work that while is intended to help the worker is usually not decided by the workers themselves. Instead, we have systematic patterns of authority and abuse going unchecked. All in the hopes of reforming things seen as bugs rather than features. Getting more flexible schedules would…
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…
Not too long ago Margaret Heffernan, a former CEO of multiple businesses, gave a talk during a TED conference about the “pecking order” of various businesses. Places where getting to the top, competing against one another, being the most productive and so on are valued above all else. There’s little (if any) time for talking…