How to drink from garden hoses
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How to drink from garden hoses
I don’t think I realized how much I hated this until I became self‑employed and immediately stopped spending any time hacking tests.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
An insightful narrative piece that eloquently describes an experience of corporate work that feels alien to the self—and the subsequent break, burnout, and escape to a better way of being.
Claire Simonis • Death of a Salesgirl
We work gigs (the artsy phrase is not a coincidence), and even though a lot of work seems as rote and pointless as ever, we try hard to follow the instructions Steve Jobs bestowed upon the Stanford graduating class of 2005: “do what you love.”
Samuel W. Franklin • The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History
The desire for fulfilling work — a job that provides a deep sense of purpose, and reflects our values, passions and personality — is a modern invention. … For centuries, most inhabitants of the Western world were too busy struggling to meet their subsistence needs to worry about whether they had an exciting career that used their talents and nurtur... See more