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Ball • Gonzo Culture Report Part 1
I’m the one writing it, though, because I will slowly die if I can’t write. It’s what makes me me.
David C. Baker, Emily Mills, • Secret Tradecraft of Elite Advisors: Covert Techniques for a Remarkable Practice
Good Enough | Sam Adler-Bell
thebaffler.com
when an outwardly successful, hard-charging attorney fails to show up for a family dinner, or his child’s school play, it’s not necessarily because he’s “too busy,” in the straightforward sense of having too much to do. It may also be because he’s no longer able to conceive of an activity that can’t be commodified as something worth doing at all.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
All I did in the essay was to pursue this insight: whenever you find someone doing something in the name of economic efficiency that seems completely economically irrational (like, say, paying people good money to do nothing all day), one had best start by asking, as the ancient Romans did, “Qui bono?”—“Who benefits?”—and how.
David Graeber • Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
As this modern mindset came to dominate, wrote Mumford, “Eternity ceased gradually to serve as the measure and focus of human actions.” In its place came the dictatorship of the clock, the schedule, and the Google Calendar alert; Marilynne Robinson’s “joyless urgency” and the constant feeling that you ought to be getting more done. The trouble with
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The Millennial’s Lament
By River Clegg
June 5, 2024
The Millennial awakens. His alarm has not gone off. He wakes up this early now, naturally. He sighs. He hums the first few notes of “Rolling in the Deep,” a song that he believes came out four years ago. He sighs again.
He walks. I am no longer young, he thinks. Being young was my identity—my whole
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Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
And it leads to the insight that meaningful productivity often comes not from hurrying things up but from letting them take the time they take, surrendering to what in German has been called Eigenzeit, or the time inherent to a process itself. Perhaps most radically of all, seeing and accepting our limited powers over our time can prompt us to
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