relationship with work
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relationship with work
We cannot talk about work as calling without contending with the fact that there are those who have been denied choice, equity, and dignity in their work.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
choice as a precursor for meaning?
Systems and individual change matters.
humans are, or ought to be, more than just their work. If you don’t diversify your life, if you put it all on work, you have just one fragile pillar to carry that heavy load of a universal purpose. Develop a few more, and a rainy day in one area of your life won’t spoil the whole parade.
-DHH
A Theory of General Well-Being
pluri.substack.com
Learning about the lives of hunter-gatherers confirms a suspicion that our modern lives are fundamentally at odds with human nature, that we have lost some kind of primordial freedom. […]
‘A fair case can be made that hunters often work much less than we do, and rather than a grind the food quest is intermittent, leisure is abundant, and there is mo... See more
‘A fair case can be made that hunters often work much less than we do, and rather than a grind the food quest is intermittent, leisure is abundant, and there is mo... See more
Our metrics of progress have continuously abstracted: from the tangible bushels of wheat in agricultural economies (with natural physical limits), to industrial-era efficiency metrics (units/hour, machine uptime), to the nebulous productivity measures of knowledge work. Each evolution has moved us further from human-scaled, naturally bounded metric... See more
Tina He • Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective
Vocational Training for the Soul: Bringing the Meaning of Work to Schools - Chalkboard Review
Matt Batemanchalkboardreview.com