“Speed without wisdom is not helpful in the long run. Efficiency without care can ultimately harm people. And progress without pause risks becoming regression.”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“Along with whatever other hardships work brings-difficulty, danger, dullness, unfair pay- loners who labor any way besides alone endure one more. It is a hardship nonloners don't even know exists, cannot conceive of.”
Source: Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto
“Household Work Is Everybody's Business - Figure It Out Yourself.”
Source: The Slynx
“Handle with care.
Me.
You.
All we do.
It doesn't mean do everything for anyone
or something for everyone
but
it does mean to do it
the most care-fully you are able.
I strive for that
each moment--
fail miserably much of the time,
but still try--
whether work, play
loving, writing--
to do it as care-fully
as I might--
for myself and those I love, yes,
but also for the ripple effects--
the butterfly-wing-flapping effects--
in places unknowable and unknown.”
“I don’t want Humans to work for me, I just want them to be free.”
“You need rest to work, and to rest, you need a certain level of income to live comfortably.”
Source: Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
“Today, white-collar job insecurity is no longer a function of the business cycle--rising as the stock market falls and declining again when the numbers improve. Nor is it confined to a few volatile sectors like telecommunications or technology, or a few regions like the rust belt or Silicon Valley. The economy may be looking up, the company may be raking in cash, and still the layoffs continue, like a perverse form of natural selection, weeding out the talented and successful as well as the mediocre. Since the midnineties, this perpetual winnowing process has been institutionalized under various euphemisms such as "downsizing," "right-sizing," "smart-sizing," "restructuring," and "de-layering"—to which we can now add the outsourcing of white-collar functions to cheaper labor markets overseas.”
Source: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
“But the white collar workforce seems to consist of two groups: those who can’t find work at all and those who are employed in jobs where they work much more than they want to. In between lies a scary place where you dedicate long hours to a job that you sense is about to eject you, if only because so many colleagues have been laid off already.”
Source: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
“Robert Jackall’s book [Moral Mazes] impressed on me that corporate dress serves a far more important function than mere body covering. “Proper management of one’s external appearances,” he writes, “simply signals to one’s superiors that one is prepared to undertake other kinds of self-adaptation.” By dressing correctly, right down to the accessories, you let it be known that you are willing to conform in other ways too—that you can follow orders, for example, and blend in with the prevailing “culture.”
Source: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
“The career coaching industry can only expand. Whether or not the economy improves. And this is because the corporate world has changed. Today, in the wake of the last recession, companies are intent on being permanently lean; they churn people in and out as needed, so that the average executive or professional can expect to hold—what?—about ten or eleven jobs in a lifetime whether he or she wants to or not. And it’s interesting, isn’t it, that our society is so unprepared for this change. College, for example, prepares people for jobs, but not for the trauma of job change.”
Source: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream