Author: Andrew Taggart
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My Latest Quartz at Work: WeWork and Google Offices are a lot like Exploitative Company Towns of the Past
The piece begins: At VideoAmp, a software and data platform, CEO Rory McCray “encourages an environment where his employees practically live at the office,” the BBC reported in February 2017. Personal trainers, yoga instruction, meals, and games are all provided at the Santa Monica office, and employees come in early, get “addicted to productivity” and often stay…
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My Latest Quartz at Work: How Workers Killed the Liberal Arts
My latest Quartz at Work piece begins: “Work is fundamental to who you are and who you will become,” Bates College president Clayton Spencer told freshmen who had just arrived at the small liberal arts college in 2013. And, she continued, “I hope you realize by now that you have been working all of your life.” These…
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Boundless Podcast: Andrew Taggart, Practical Philosopher, on the “good life” and how “total work” has taken over our lives
My interview with Paul Millerd of Think Boundless can be heard here. Enjoy!
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My Big Think Interview: What makes for an excellent human life?
Here’s an except from an Big Think interview with me: Is that an intellectual pursuit or an experiential one? For example, should we be juxtaposing philosophy and meditation? I think that philosophy begins with a convulsive experience; experience that shakes you out of your own certainties, out of your way of being in the world.…
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My Latest Quartz at Work Piece: Our Time Famine
The article begins as follows: There’s just not enough time. You’re busy, hurried, harassed by What’s Next and by What Else. As you struggle to keep up, you vacillate between subscribing to more life hacking and throwing your hands up when faced with what you ironically call “the futility of life.” The nervous laughter you…
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