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Working To Live Often Means Giving Up Your Life
You can’t have work-life balance when work dictates the balance.
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TPS Reports All Day Long
Have technological advances left many of us with jobs devoid of meaning? Are we bullshit?
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If You Want to Be Productive, You Have to Rest
In a recent thought-provoking review of research on the default mode network, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang of the University of Southern California and her co-authors argue that when we are resting the brain is anything but idle and that, far from being purposeless or unproductive, downtime is in fact essential to mental processes that affirm our […]
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Working 9 to 5: A Reading List About the Way We Work
The lines between my life and these lists blur often, and this week is no exception; I begin a new job tomorrow. 1. “Workin’ 9 to 5 (What a Way to Make a Living).” (Megan Reynolds, The Billfold, April 2014) “I can’t shake the feeling that the 9-to-5 grind carries the one hallmark of adulthood—obligation. […]
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Working 9 to 5: A Reading List About the Way We Work
The lines between my life and these lists blur often, and this week is no exception; I begin a new job tomorrow. 1. “Workin’ 9 to 5 (What a Way to Make a Living).” (Megan Reynolds, The Billfold, April 2014) “I can’t shake the feeling that the 9-to-5 grind carries the one hallmark of adulthood—obligation. […]