Tahirah Hairston (@ridiculouslittlethings)
my life became a lot more fun once i realized work can literally be anything, if i know how to sell it
(this month i'm paying rent by writing mothers day poems for tech employees to mail their mom) https://t.co/UA8X2WujOl
The basic idea of a portfolio life is that instead of thinking of your work as a monolithic activity, what if you chose to see it as the complex group of interests, passions, and activities it is? And what if instead of identifying with a job description, you began to see the whole mass of things you do as one portfolio of activity?
Jeff Goins • The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do
To me, the ideal life is to take the 20 percent of my time that make me feel most alive and see if I can cut everything else out until that fills everything. Then do that again, cutting the “worst” 80 percent of the best. This is the inverse of how many companies operate. There the ideal is often “growth,” which they take to mean “say yes to all
... See morein this situation, how do you decide where to spend your time and energy? if you are prioritizing labor-of-hours-for-money, than it'd be hard to silence the voice that clearly distinguishes between "paid work" and "unpaid work" (as if all creative work lives so easily in this binary dichotomy of capitalist-defined worthiness.)