The work is never just “the work” | Are.na
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The work is never just “the work” | Are.na
It’s helpful to work as if the project you’re engaged in is bigger than you.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
The best work shapes the maker as much as the audience. The goal is to make something heavy, something with weight earned through genuine effort.
In the midst of the unfolding crisis with work – a fundamentally spiritual problem – it seems to me that we desperately need new cultural metaphors to describe labour. What, actually, is this thing called “work”? Why do we do it? What does it afford us? What can’t it afford us?
For now, I find solace in the metaphor of work as trace. In a world... See more
For now, I find solace in the metaphor of work as trace. In a world... See more