Well I was going to write about how your job is (likely) pointless and how that happens… But this is so much better! The snow cares not for your deadlines, your happy hour plans, your scheduled C-section. It wants only to fall on the ground and lie there. And it wants you to, too. Needless…
The Atlantic recently put out an article that had been making the rounds called Why Americans Work So Much. This article gets to the point faster than the last article I looked at that tackled similar themes. The article concludes that income inequality accounts for why we in the US have had increased production but…
The Rehtinking the Job Culture Facebook page shared this article by Gary Gutting called, What Work is Really For. Now, there’s a lot going on in this article. Gutting makes some great points about leisure, work and the nature of capitalism. But he also makes some mistakes on all three of these things as well.…
In late August, Barry Schwartz a professor of psychology wrote an article for the New York times called Rethinking Work. Anything that’s going to get us challenge our contemporary notions of work is going to interest me. But sadly Schwartz’s article isn’t so much challenging things like the Puritan work ethic, the obsession with fast-living,…
The title is actually a line I say (or something close to it anyways) when I’m at work. The computer I use to deal with sales, the lottery machine I use, the safe I use to keep the money in, etc. They all invariably break down, make a mistake or sometimes (but of course only…
So I don’t know when it happened but somehow Abolish Work has become popular enough to surpass The Abolition of Work Wikipedia Page! Now, I’m not exactly sure what dictates these sorts of things. Is it the hits? The frequency of visits? The new and improved site? I mean it can’t be the consistency of…
Mr. Kreider was gracious enough to allow me to reprint this in full. My many thanks to him for that and this excellent article. If you live in America in the 21st century you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. It’s become the default response when…
Given my penchant for slacking I thought it was only appropriate to finally getting around to watching Richard Linklater’s cult classic, Slacker. I wasn’t sure what to expect as I had only heard some details. I only really knew that it was more vignette based and that there wasn’t a singular plot that the movie…
(Nick’s Notes: This post was originally written in June 2014 but was never published and that was part of the reason why I stopped working on this individual blog at C4SS. I’m perfectly happy just doing op-eds, features and book reviews anyhow. I think that’s enough work for me! Plus, this is my own individual blog and…
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…