Mike "Bagel"

This sudden interest in workplace experimentation is both welcome and needed, as much about how we work in the knowledge sector today is ossified into tradition and conventions, some of which are arbitrary and some of which are borrowed from different, older types of work. The proposals making waves at the moment, however, feel somehow insufficient

The workers eventually—inevitably—fought back against this grim situation. They pushed for reform legislation, like the Fair Labor Standards Act (passed by the US Congress in 1938), which fixed forty hours as the standard workweek, limiting the fraction of the day that could be snared in monotonous effort without extra pay. They also formed labor

Like John McPhee waiting on the picnic table for insight on his article structure, Zuiker’s efforts point toward a definition of meaningful and valuable work that doesn’t require a frenetic busyness. Its magic instead becomes apparent at longer timescales, emanating from a pace that seems, in comparison with the relentless demands of high-tech

Except the scaring of the doggy and the waking of the baby is sort of the whole thing. We’re terrified of life being interrupted by the stuff of actual life. That’s it.

Maybe I’ll make a game called “Bark Bark Doggy And Wake Up Baby Let’s All Gather In The Bathroom for Poop Poop Toddler and Burp Burp Baby and of course Dad Dad Daddy.