Thomas

I was talking to a friend the other day about life hacks and he said: what if life hacks, in the end, make you a hack? No one wants to be a hack. A hack job is a job poorly done. No matter how much we glorify hacks as workarounds to success, nothing gets you there except actual work. The grind, the hustle, the hours on end putting your head down... See more

Pretty much every marketing tactic is built around treating people as a means to some end (making money). In fact, Kant struggled much of his life with the ethical implications of capitalism and wealth inequality. He believed that it was impossible for anyone to amass a fortune without some degree of manipulation or coercion along the way.

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the fingerprints of climate change

Meanwhile, our corporations are full of bodies - our offices have become disembodied and mediated via Zoom screens but our teams are still embodied and grappling with new environments.

The body becomes a clearer extension of the organization now that we're playing in emergent territory - the home is now the office and companies are now in the... See more

when we use athletic and energy language to discuss our work’s efficiency, we are drawing upon a specific and exploitive lineage in the history of energy physics and its impact on the western cultural imagination.