Month: October 2019

• October 11, 2019

  Depth

  When we say that somebody “lacks depth,” what do we mean? I take it we mean (a) that this person is, in a certain sense, thoughtless, (b) that he or she hasn’t suffered or hasn’t suffered much (or, more likely, hasn’t registered that suffering), and (c) that he or she hasn’t struggled. Take first glimpses of my…
• October 10, 2019

  The Limits Of The Entrepreneurial Mindset

  Everyone Is a Solopreneur… I recently finished Yvon Chouinard’s Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman, a book that recounts his journey to becoming an entrepreneur as well as the birth and success of Patagonia. There is much to praise in the book, not the least of which is Chouinard’s, and Patagonia’s, central commitment…
• October 9, 2019

  You Are Not What You Think You Are

  You’re alone tonight, and you don’t like being alone. Ever, let alone tonight. For you, there’s nothing worse–or almost–than being alone with your own thoughts. Because these thoughts and these emotions are painful. Your self-talk–that is, your self-referential talk–pains you. “I hate myself.” “I’m not good at anything.” “I’m not a good X-er and X-ers…
• October 8, 2019

  Psychotechnologies Of Self-transformation

  To avoid the existential threat to the human species, the late Stephen Hawking warned, in 2017, that we would need to begin the process of interplanetary colonization. Other, more sanguine prognosticators, not starting from the risk of total annihilation of homo sapiens, have come to a similar conclusion. Mars, they say. Onward and upward. Not…
• October 7, 2019

  Total Work Newsletter #45: Announcing The Serial Publication Of The Total Work Manifesto

  I’ll be publishing The Total Work Manifesto: A Critique of the Idolatry of Work in serial fashion. To learn more and to participate, you can read the latest issue of my newsletter, Total Work Newsletter #45.