Category: philosophical counseling

• 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.
• April 10, 2018

  The idea that Everyone Should Have a Job is so Common we Forget to Question it

  My latest piece for Quartz at Work begins this way: Martin Luther King Jr. once said that “We must create full employment or we must create [basic, guaranteed] incomes.” More than 40 years later, we talk a lot about the last half of that statement: Technology entrepreneurs like Y Combinator’s Sam Altman and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes…
• March 29, 2018

  ‘I work therefore I am: why businesses are hiring philosophers’ Guardian Piece

  I’m interviewed in this Guardian piece on philosophy and business. An excerpt: A philosopher can nudge and question, take leaders on uncomfortable journeys, even be a disruptive force – and they should, suggests US-based Andrew Taggart, who consults for organisations in Silicon Valley on how to use philosophy in a practical context. “Doing philosophy as a…
• March 12, 2018

  The 70-hour and Four-day Work Weeks are Both Rooted in Christian Philosophy

  My latest Quartz at Work piece begins: The trend toward intense 70-hour work weeks is well-documented. Yet even as it has become standard in some industries to work until midnight on most weekdays, there’s also a trend in the opposite direction. German union IG Metall recently negotiated an agreement allowing workers to work 28 hours (with adjusted pay) instead of…
• January 23, 2018

  ‘Life hacks are part of a 200-year-old movement to destroy your humanity’ My Work At Quartz Piece

  My latest Work At Quartz piece begins: The quest for achieving peak productivity is now akin to a religion, one consisting of high priests (time management gurus, life hack specialists, productivity coaches, headlining management professionals), various teachings (apps, tools, approaches, methods, reminders, workstation re-designs, forms of discipline), and millions of willing aspirants (early adopters, workshop participants, testifiers,…