Glue work considered harmful
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Glue work considered harmful
How could any self-aware person who works in technology not start to organize their disappointment? It’s gotten to where several of my peers are floating half-hearted speculations about their next careers. This isn’t good: you want the talented and mindful people to stick around, not get husked out, then leave frustrated, exhausted, and conflicted.
Frank Chimero • Frank Chimero · The Web’s Grain
How much of our work exists because we ‘think’ we have to do it?
Matt Klein • Self-Sabotaging Innovation: The Art of Doing Dumb Shit
Job titles can mess you up. Job titles, if they’re taken too seriously, will make you feel like you need to work in a way that befits the title, not the way that fits the actual work.
Austin Kleon • Keep Going
Work is a chance to do art. Good art is useless and banal. No one crosses the street to buy good art, or becomes loyal to a good artist.
Seth Godin • Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
why give a fuck about work? Why love your work? It won’t, of course, love you back. It can’t. Work isn’t a thing that can love. It isn’t alive, it isn’t and won’t ever be living. And my answer is: don’t. Don’t give a fuck about your work. Give all your fucks to the living. Give a fuck about the people you work with, and the people who receive your ... See more