Month: August 2017
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Silicon Valley wants to sell us solutions—but are we sure there’s a problem in the first place?
Is the world writ large just One Big Problem to be solved? I say no in my latest piece for Quartz. Here is the opening: In Matt Damon’s 2016 commencement speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he tells graduates that “this world has some problems we need you to drop everything and solve.” He rattles off…
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Philosopher Bringing Wisdom to Everyday Life
Here’s my podcast with Laura Coe who hosts the Art of Authenticity. We discuss philosophy in the modern world. Have a listen!
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How To Care Less About Work–But Not Do Less Of It
My piece on total work recently appeared in Quartz. I’m including the opening paragraph below. * We live in an age of “total work.” It’s a term coined by the German philosopher Josef Pieper just after World War II—describing the process by which human beings are transformed into workers, and the entirety of life is then…
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Can Total Work Really Be What We Worship? A Video Essay
In these video essays, we’re illuminating the process by which human beings are transformed into workers, the entirety of life into work. This series, not itself work, is a playful activity undertaken by Daniel Kazandjian and Andrew Taggart.
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‘Caring Less About Work, We Open Ourselves Up to the Vertical Dimension of Life….’
We live in an age of total work. Consider the successful startup CEO who puts in 100 hours a week while transforming the rest of his life–sleeping, eating, meditating, working out, commuting, socializing–into a work-like means for enhancing productivity. Or the drug abusing lawyer working for a prestigious Silicon Valley law firm found dead by…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 