Month: January 2018

• January 23, 2018

  ‘Life hacks are part of a 200-year-old movement to destroy your humanity’ My Work At Quartz Piece

  My latest Work At Quartz piece begins: The quest for achieving peak productivity is now akin to a religion, one consisting of high priests (time management gurus, life hack specialists, productivity coaches, headlining management professionals), various teachings (apps, tools, approaches, methods, reminders, workstation re-designs, forms of discipline), and millions of willing aspirants (early adopters, workshop participants, testifiers,…
• January 9, 2018

  My Big Think Interview: The Worship of Work: How Our Obsession With Productivity Makes Us Less Human

  Total Work, a term coined by the philosopher Josef Pieper, is the process by which human beings are transformed into workers as work, like a total solar eclipse, comes to “occult” all other aspects of life. In this interview with Big Think, I talk about the nature of total work: To sign up for my “Total Work Newsletter:…