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“Yet for some reason, we as a society have collectively decided it’s better to have millions of human beings spending years of their lives pretending to type into spreadsheets or preparing mind maps for PR meetings than freeing them to knit sweaters, play with their dogs, start a garage band, experiment with new recipes, or sit in cafés arguing about politics, and gossiping about their friends’ complex polyamorous love affairs.”

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Book:Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
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“Society often sells us a narrow definition of meaning, equating it with productivity or status. ... But a meaningful life is often built from many small purposes. Enjoying a hobby, listening to a friend, tending to a garden, laughing with family, learning a new skill... these everyday activities can cumulatively create a deeply meaningful existence”

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Author:Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World"
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“Vocês acham que alguém vai se lembrar de nós? Quem se lembra daqueles que nunca nasceram, e mesmo assim ainda estão vivos? No sonho, sou um esqueleto dançando junto às biocortinas. Abro a boca e sorrio para mim mesmo com meu queixo saliente. Quero muito ser um bom funcionário, quero fazer boas escolhas. Mas como posso saber se estou seguindo o programa corretamente? Algumas ações podem ter consequências, que em alguns casos só se manifestarão num futuro tão distante que para mim se tornam insondáveis. Devo continuar trabalhando sabendo que minhas ações têm o potencial de neutralizar o programa? Ou o programa me deixa tão assoberbado que, não importa o que eu faça, sempre agirei de acordo com seus comandos? Serei eu a mão do programa? No entanto, existem erros nas atualizações, é bem verdade. Pode não ser essa a intenção do programa. Caso eu, sem me dar conta, execute uma ação que comprometa a boa execução do programa, não conseguirei deixar de me odiar por esse erro. Uma vez que não sei se estou agindo de forma comprometedora, porém, como poderei de fato saber se mereço ser odiado ou não? Devo me odiar antecipadamente? Onde posso descobrir quais ações são contrárias aos comandos do programa? A quem devo procurar para pedir perdão? É preciso submeter algum tipo de formulário? Gostaria de solicitar que providenciassem um material sobre quais ações requerem perdão. Pode ser um pensamento, por exemplo? Um pensamento demasiado ruim? Posso pensar que vocês estão sujeitos a falhas, que há algo de errado com vocês, mas então sinto raiva de mim mesmo e acho que o errado sou eu. Por que todos esses pensamentos me ocorrem se estou aqui sobretudo para executar uma tarefa essencialmente técnica? Por que tenho essas ideias se minha função é, antes de mais nada, aumentar a produtividade? Em que perspectiva esses pensamentos são "produtivos"? Ocorreu algum erro na atualização? Neste caso, gostaria de recomeçar do zero.”

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Book:The Employees
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“In an era when Fear of Missing Out has its own universally understood acronym, recuperative rest and relaxation are not always regarded as the intensely worthwhile pursuits that they are. Instead, we are harrassed into believing that we must be constantly available to be of value, that peak productivity and performance are directly related to presenteeism, and that to snooze is to lose. This couldn't be more wrong.”

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Book:Happy Inside: How to harness the power of home for health and happiness
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“Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values--that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind, and no work is creative if done by a blank who repeats in uncritical stupor a routine he has learned from others--that your work is yours to choose, and the choice is as wide as your mind, that nothing more is possible to you and nothing less is human--that to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions and borrowed time, and to settle down into a job that requires less than your mind's full capacity is to cut your motor and sentence yourself to another kind of motion: decay--that your work is the process of achieving your values, and to lose your ambition for values is to lose your ambition to live--that your body is a machine, but your mind is its driver, and you must drive as far as your mind will take you, with achievement as the goal of your road--that the man who has no purpose is a machine that coasts downhill at the mercy of any boulder to crash in the first chance ditch, that the man who stifles his mind is a stalled machine slowly going to rust, that the man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap, and the man who makes another man his goal is a hitchhiker no driver should ever pick up--that your work is the purpose of your life, and you must speed past any killer who assumes the right to stop you, that any value you might find outside your work, any other loyalty or love, can be only travelers you choose to share your journey and must be travelers going on their own power in the same direction.”

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Book:Atlas Shrugged
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“Find the beauty and the stories that inspire you and those around you. They will add tremendous value to your work and everyone else’s.”

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Book:Don’t Chase The Dream Job, Build It: The unconventional guide to inventing your career and getting any job you want
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“Inevitably we find ourselves tackling too many things at the same time, spreading our focus so thin that nothing gets the attention it deserves. This is commonly referred to as "being busy." Being busy, however, is not the same thing as being productive.”

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Book:The Bullet Journal Method: Track Your Past, Order Your Present, Plan Your Future
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“You can’t truly move forward if you don’t know where you’re going (or if you don’t know why you’re going in that direction). If that’s the case, you’re not really moving forward—you’re just moving. It’s like pushing papers or doing busy work; your hands are busy but you’re not getting much accomplished.”

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Book:Self Care at Work: How to Reduce Stress, Boost Productivity, and Do More of What Matters
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“My gig is the care and feeding of engineers, and their productivity is my productivity. If they all leave, I have exactly no job. Part of your credibility as a leader is your public and repeated declaration that it’s your job to help your team succeed.”

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Book:Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
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