The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

Supercharge Your Productivity,” which helps “highly-skilled professionals get more done without working longer hours or hacking together tools.”

Of the many reasons Americans work so much, there is one constant that transcends industries: the culture of American management. And the culture of American management—one in which managers meticulously track workers’ hours—is

“Do what you love and you’ll work super fucking hard all the time with no separation or any boundaries and also take everything extremely personally.”

“Sense of Urgency”

Whether your work requires putting out physical or figurative fires, knowing your place on the integrator-segmentor spectrum might help you set healthy boundaries or articulate your preferences to your manager. For example, segmentors may prefer to stick to a predetermined schedule for working hours, while integrators might prefer to intersperse pe

Psychological research shows that when we invest, as Divya did, in different sides of ourselves, we’re better at dealing with setbacks. In contrast, the more we let one part of who we are define us, the less resilient we are to change. For

In the words of author James Clear, “It’s hard to change your habits if you never change the underlying beliefs that led to your past behavior.”

The office itself is a technology, a tool that ideally helps people get work done. But like any piece of technology, how it’s used matters far more than what it can do.

“The compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship,” David Foster Wallace says in his iconic speech “This Is Water,” “is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.”