#412 - Better Things & Better People
What’s surprising is how little consumer capitalism has, until now, been in any way ambitious about many of the things that deliver higher sorts of satisfaction. Business has helped us to be warm, safe and distracted. It has been markedly indifferent to our flourishing. This is the task ahead of us. The true destiny of and millennial opportunity fo
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
This efficient pursuit of predictable value is the quiet dignity of the mass of working people. But if we are to solve the bigger structural, spiritual, and intellectual problems which aren’t addressed by existing institutions, someone needs to be exploring off of the established road, where there is a high probability of failing to accomplish anyt... See more
Wolf Tivy • Quit Your Job
It’s my conviction that those of us who do engage in business and financial careers carry a special burden, for it is in business and finance where most of the people in our society make the most money. Yet money itself can easily deceive us about what we do and why we do it. As René Descartes reminded us four full centuries ago, “A man is incapabl
... See moreJohn C. Bogle • Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
As social animals morality also matters.
Simon Sinek • Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
It seems to me that the words “value” and “values” have become our commonsense shorthand for how to think about such complicated questions. It’s not a terrible one. Still, even this is more an ideal of how we like to think things should work than an accurate representation of how they actually do work. After all, it’s not as if life is really divid
... See moreDavid Graeber • Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
This matters, argues economist Robert Frank, because ‘our beliefs about human nature help shape human nature itself’.