Mike "Bagel"

@bagelpuc

Small Business Counselor, Podcaster, Writer, Connector

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This is why I love my team and the people I have been lucky enough to find in this life 😜

Every sports story is a labor story, and this one dates back to 1965 when the fledgling Major League Baseball Players Association began to strengthen in response to the owners’ threat that they would cancel the players’ pension plan. Since then the sport has seen nine work stoppages, some $270 million in owner fines after the players proved the... See more

MLB’s Uniform Fiasco Is About More Than See-Through Pants

⚾️ there’s no cryin’ in baseball

“They’re at the vanguard of a movement that’s leveraging the disruptions of the pandemic to question so many more of the arbitrary assumptions that have come to define the modern workplace.”

Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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Wendi Aarons • Humor, Satire, and Cartoons—The New Yorker

humor in politics

is consumerism dying?

Thus our strange relationship with the pain of grief. In the early days, we wish only for it to end; later on, we fear that it will. And when it finally does begin to ease, it also does not, because, at first, feeling better can feel like loss, too.

Maria Popova • Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All

death & grieving

To embrace slow productivity, in other words, is to reorient your work to be a source of meaning instead of overwhelm, while still maintaining the ability to produce valuable output.

Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

What has been helping:

Regular sessions with my wife and a therapist who is a trained zen guy - for giving a bit of guidance to both of us, because she can understand what my experience up to a certain degree.

Books and online resources on „Spiritual Crisis“ that focus on easing into the process and giving a positive outlook (please no doom

Waking Up with Sam Harris - A New Operating System for Your Mind

non-dual awareness

what we really need—more so than righteous disdain or brash new policy—is a slower conception of what it even means to be productive in the first place.