Month: August 2019
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Perhaps It Is The Hardest Thing Except For Death
Most of us can’t bear being alone with ourselves–while non-doing. Someone between jobs in finance is frantically looking for his next job. A solopreneur is bored and worn out by the dog days of summer. Another, an entrepreneur, is almost 40 and terribly lonesome. You can think of many others. I say most of us…
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Total Work Newsletter On Substack & The Philosopher Is Not Present
Two pieces of news to share with you: 1. I’ve moved my Total Work Newsletter over to Substack. You can view old issues and sign up to receive new issues here. If you’ve already signed up (when I was using Revue), then you needn’t sign up again. You should have received the latest issue, #44…
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Asking THE Question That Cuts Straight Through The Confusion
You’ve been vacillating for a while. You don’t know what to do, and you tell yourself that by now you’ve thought of everything. Everything. Your friends and colleagues tell you you’re overthinking the damn thing. Some advise you to take a leap of faith. But you don’t. Because you don’t know and because you know that…
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The Calling Can Kill
Callings in secular modernity are very bad but also very sticky ideas. Bad because harmful. Sticky because like beautiful yet bloody siren songs. Remember: in the middle ages, callings were reserved for priests and monks only. Monks were called to follow Jesus and thus to renounce family life. To be called to be a monk…
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Ikigai, The Great Unthought
Ikigai, a Japanese concept, refers to one’s reason for being or to one’s reason for getting up in the morning. One conception of ikigai has been making the rounds on the Internet: My target in this post is not Ikigai the broader concept but Ikigai as it’s represented in this pretty graphic, the one that entrepreneurs,…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 
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