“If you are a professional, coming to understand the political nature of what you do, as part of an honest reassessment of what it really means to be a professional, can be liberating. It can help you recover your long-forgotten social goals and begin to pursue them immediately, giving your life greater meaning and eliminating a major source of stress. It can help you become a savvy player in the workplace and reclaim some lost autonomy. And, ironically, it can help you command greater respect from management and receive greater recognition and reward, without necessarily working harder.”
Source: Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives
“I am Sunai,” he said. “I am holy fire. And if I have to burn the world to cleanse it, so help me, I will.”
Source: This Savage Song
“AI is not just software—it’s infrastructure, people, and responsibility.”
Source: A Smaller Generation, A Greater Responsibility: America's Strength in an Age of AI, Infrastructure, and Workforce Change
“Work that is congruent with personal principles is a source of energy. Work that sacrifices personal principles drains personal energy.”
Source: The Loyalty Effect: The Hidden Force Behind Growth, Profits, and Lasting Value
“Among the unexpected features of AI has been a lot of thinking about what a "job" is (versus a task). In an ideal world, we'd all end up working less & earning more money--yet somehow I have my doubts we'll structure things that way.”
“If everyone realized how unimportant they actually were and how easily they could be replaced, they might be a bit nicer to each other.”
Source: El descontento
“I’ve never wondered if tomorrow was going to show up. Rather, what I’ve wondered is what I was going to do with it that made its showing up worthwhile.”
“Augustine’s acknowledgement toward the genius of the damned presages what only later becomes a hallmark of Catholic theology, the adage that grace perfects nature and does not destroy it. The futility of our natural powers only gains its requisite dignity with the order given to it by God, not by the arbitration of our fallen wills or a lust for death shared with lifeless machines. The bourgeois affinity for parochial labor and the polity’s need for mobilization both resound in the twilight of antiquity, when Augustine reads in Virgil’s Georgics the same poetic condescension and misplaced praise. Labor properly so called belongs to the free man and in fact makes a man free. Salvation, like work, both sets us free and enrolls us in the civic responsibility of a polity. Work, like salvation, enjoys both a metaphysical and an economic status.”
Source: The Invention of Work
“It isn’t just the US: the half of the world’s population that lives in urban areas generates more than 80 percent of global output, while 600 cities that account for just one-fifth of the global population generate more than 60 percent of global output. Urban living is also healthier for the environment as it tends to involve less travel and smaller housing. Add to that the fact that urban dwellers are ideologically different from their rural counterparts: comparatively liberal, international, trade- and migration-loving, in favor of gender equality and gay rights, environment-defending, and open-minded in matters of religion. The city is progressive—and it’s where progress happens.”
Source: The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
“Faith Forward Leader’s view the workplace as an ideal community to demonstrate care as they provide opportunities and resources for people to grow in their faith.”