I have a friend whose ostensibly good at his job. He gets paid week after week, looks dead tired most of the time and constantly complains (and rightly so) about the pressures he has to handle. Recently he told me that his boss offered him working two jobs at once with only a marginal pay bonus.…
If you know me, then you know that I daydream. I mostly daydream when I’m at work or when I don’t have anything particular to do or anything that I’m interested in doing. Those are all different states of being but they tend to revolve around similar things: Fantasies. Almost inevitably my daydream will go…
The second thing I wanted to note about Abe Walker’s essay on Google was a section where Walker mentions a social scientist named Amitai Etzioni. Etzioni identifies three prominent methods that organizations use to achieve work compliance in 1975 in his work A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations (1975): Coercive compliance involves the implicit threat…
Sometimes I think there are certain movies or bits of entertainment from the past that I’ll never fully enjoy because of their historical context. The movie Alien is a good example and so is Full Metal Jacket both of which are movies that are highly acclaimed but I’ve never felt as engaged with them as…
Nick’s Notes: I have republished this under a Creative Commons License that Abe himself used and also reached out to Abe to see if he was explicitly okay with republishing. As of the time of this being published he has not gotten back to me but if he tells me anything differently I will remove…
Some people these days have a notion of, instead of trying to abolish work to just simply balance it more perfectly with the rest of their life. This means that instead of quitting that job you hate with the boss that disrespects you you may just be more inclined to just give less of your energy and time to…