Tag: work
Time to truth
Trust is in short supply. People claim to be transparent, but most CEOs rate their confidence at reading the company … More lint
leisure: the highest human virtue
Aristotle suggests the highest human virtue is leisure.
Not producing (or consuming) is when you can self-reflect and pontificate.
Every … More lintburned out
“Burned-out” is a linguistic reference to rockets.
Today burnout implies you have a weakness: a stressed gasket or aorta, an … More lint
not working is work
There was a time (before cell phones) when you could sit for 10 minutes doing nothing. Today we convert all … More lint
Your crafty behavior
No one is forcing you to behave this way. You have chosen it.
Our behavior is goal-oriented but often comes … More lintsolidarity in refusal to work
Solidarity is found in work, in manifesting a shared purpose. Workers can also find communion in refusing to work, shifting … More lint
We are paid to test our foresight
The work begins before the work.
Most of the work is knowing what to prepare for, which comes from former … More lintIndividuals are Unequal
Karl Marx, in 1875, critiques seeing workers as only workers, diminishing them through categorization and ignoring their diversity of human … More lint