Toil We Must

So instead of focusing on "not working hard," I wish we would spend more time learning how to "do hard work well." How do people find work they love? How do people set boundaries for what they are and aren't okay with? How do they communicate those boundaries? How do they motivate themselves when they're afraid? How do they become more self-aware o... See more

The evolution of our relationship with work has evolved dramatically in what feels like a very short period of time. We've gone from "Greed is good" to "Rise and grind" to "It's just a job."

startups represent the wizardry of building something out of nothing. That is hard to do. And to do it very well is harder than the average job.

somewhere along the line we morphed "bad working environment" and "hard working environment" together and transferred the sins of the former to the latter.

Maybe one of the biggest problems with the internet is we post what we think we see and then cite ourselves as the evidence that that thing is reality.