Category: philosophical counseling

• October 2, 2018

  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…
• September 12, 2018

  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!
• July 30, 2018

  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.…
• June 22, 2018

  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…
• May 9, 2018

  My TEDx Talk: How Work Took Over the World

  Here’s my TEDx Talk, which was given in front of a packed theater at SUNY-Binghamton on March 25, 2018. I hope it helps you to think more deeply about the place of work in your own life. To learn more about total work, visit my website, totalwork.us, which is devoted to investigating this topic.