Month: August 2019

• August 2, 2019

  But Taskification Is All We Know

  Making each day of your life into a function of the number of tasks you can get done I call “taskification.” It’s a bad idea. A bad idea that spread around the world. The metaphysical picture? One’s life is one great plan or one monumental To Do List. Which is not only weird but genuinely…
• August 1, 2019

  Slogginess, Our Curse

  Burnout is just one symptom of a larger phenomenon I call Total Work, the 500-year-plus-old process by which human beings were slowly transformed into Workers and nothing else as more and more aspects of life were transformed into work. Today Total Work manifests itself in all of the following forms: “time famine,” the belief that…