Welcome to the 21st century, the age of “limitless potential”, meaning unlimited choices. There really isn’t a facet of our lives, from toothpaste to marriage, where we are now faced with a functionally infinite number of choices. As a society, we have let the perfect become the enemy of the merely excellent, and in doing [...]
The Cult Of Work
I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.
When I was young, my parents read me Aesop’s fable of ”The Ant and the Grasshopper,” wherein, as everyone knows, the [...]
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