This is quite a chapter title and, as it implies, it’s got plenty for an anti-work thinker to chew on. Unfortunately we start off with a mixed bag and then go on to something okay and finally onto something great. It’s a bit of a roller-coaster ride when it comes to this chapter and the…
I could never claim to love sports. I’ve always been bad at them except for dodgeball which is a sport I relish in of itself and how I viciously mocking others for missing me. I flirted briefly with a love of football that year the Patriots went almost 19-0 but lost in the Superbowl to…
During his life, economist/philosopher F.A. Hayek was concerned about socialism. Born in 1899, he grew up seeing the economic chaos that resulted from World War I- and the central planning which was adopted as a solution. The Weimar Republic, which ruled Germany from 1918 to 1933, had become infamous for its hyper-inflationary policies which caused…
To celebrate my return to the site, I’m just making a quick post about the last section of this chapter. I’ll be back on Tuesday for an original post on my new job, unless I get inspired to do something else. Until then, enjoy this shorter than usual chapter commentary! Bill Talcott (Organizer) I don’t…
Whether it’s just a contributing factor or the main reason, much of the time our jobs can convince us that life is meaningless or that we don’t contribute much. I had a co-worker yesterday who told me that they felt useless even though they hate the job. Our jobs can convince us that we’re useless…
I’ve talked more than a few times about creativity and its relation to boredom as well as technology. Heck, I’ve even read and reviewed a whole book about that called Autopilot. There’s a lot to this newer notion about boredom that it’s helpful, necessary and gets the creative juices (via your default mode in your…
Doreen’s Notes: This is the third (see here and here) time we’ve heard from Nietzsche on the site. I found this gem while going through Walter Kaufmann’s wonderful The Portable Nietzsche which I am still reading. Citing this doesn’t necessarily mean I agree with all of it, but it’s certainly an anti-work/work-critical quote I enjoy.…
I remember the first time I saw Clerks was in 2015 while I was in a dysfunctional relationship and needed to get away for a weekend from my partner. I felt closed in, trapped and heartbroken but yet I also wanted to fix everything and make it better as well. I remember feeling like I…
André Spicer, a professor at the University of London has an interesting article on Aeon about whether any of us have the time to just stop, think and relax. And in a world built on busyness, exhaustion, stress and deference to those “above” us, it’s certainly a fair question. But the article also runs into…
Articles can have great titles but then go off into tangents that make you go, “What the heck? Why is this article comparing a conflict over Pokemon with Muslims and Jewish people?” Okay, so most articles don’t make me specifically say that…but this one did. Before we get to that though, let’s start at the…