“Instead, it is because we have invented a bizarre sadomasochistic dialectic whereby we feel that pain in the workplace is the only possible justification for our furtive consumer pleasures, and, at the same time, the fact that our jobs thus come to eat up more and more of our waking existence means that we do not have the luxury of - as Kathi Weeks has so concisely put it - "a life," and that, in turn, means that furtive consumer pleasures are the only ones we have time to afford.”
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
“Mental health is not your fault, but it is your responsibility.”
― The Last Book On The Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History’s Most Notorious Serial Killers
― The Last Book On The Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History’s Most Notorious Serial Killers
“You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. Besides, it took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen.”
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