(Nick’s Notes: This article is a response to this piece by John Dishwasher on Medium) In my quest to get better caught up with the backlog of what I want to talk about, post on and share on this site I’ve now finally read an article recommended to me a while ago by a friend entitled Some Advice…
Do what you love is something that’s been challenged elsewhere but I want to re-open this challenge via an article from Inc.com called “The Danger of Doing What You Love“. Here’s the main point: I raised my company. Nurtured it. Watched it grow. It taught me lessons that I never would have learned otherwise, and for…
This is part of a longer segment that I didn’t find as essential to share and also objected to some of it but in this shorter clip of it I think, on the whole, Rogan raises some solid points about the job culture we live in and it’s worth a listen:
Nick’s Notes: You can find this article here. As for when part two will be up that is entirely in the hands of Charles W. Johnson (AKA Rad Geek) who helps run the fair-use.org site. The least treated problem of libertarian action in a statist context is that of institutional employment. More often than…
My book review on C4SS is coming along nicely so I thought now was a good time to link this. Also, laziness. There aren’t many videos of Iain around but here’s one I was able to find. It has French subtitles but hits on some points that I think most of us will be all too…
Now, I’m not necessarily totally on board with New Work (it’s more or less a reform effort at giving us less hours, having us pursue what we love and doing that more sustainability through what Frithjof Bergman calls “community production”) but it’s interesting and worth checking out at any rate. Here’s the short introduction for those who…
I’m gonna be looking at some various things this weekend so I can get back on the saddle and write a few more original pieces for next week. The book review of Working Stiff’s Manifesto should be one of them that I’ll be working on next week! Until then, enjoy this nice song I got…
Alain de Botton has some interesting things to say about work. Largely through personal stories and experiences. I’ll be taking a look at his book at some point in the future. But for now, videos!
Nick’s Notes: Strap yourself in, folks! This chapter is the biggest chapter in the entire book at 60 pages and as such I’m going to try to split it up as event-based or as dramatically as I can…or every fourteen pages. Whatever works, really. So expect this part of the chapter reviews to be at least four parts. When…
Levison has now gone from working in a restaurant to working on the road with a friend of his named Jim. Jim is a truck driver who goes all around the US moving furniture for other companies and needs Levison’s help because the people they usually get aren’t dependable. Five-hundred a week is enough to…