Natasha Hurley-Walker > Recent Status Updates

Dying of pretentiousness overload... might come back to this later.

"Even if we concede that there is no higher purpose to life, we need to ascribe meaning to our actions in a way that transcends them."

Finding this hard going because I can't read it just before sleeping (when I normally read) because it leaves me thinking about work, which makes me too stressed to sleep. I also can't help feeling icky reading a book with the word "marketing" in the title.

God, this is dull. It's killing me to finish this. WHEN WILL SOMETHING BLOODY HAPPEN?!

Finding this hard going because I keep shouting at it for being patronisingly oversimplified on the one hand and wrong on the other. Not to mention cherry-picking its statistics and ignoring actual historical events. Sigh. Must get through it...

I temporarily had to put this down because I became so incredibly angry about how a book like this can exist for decades, and yet an entire generation of knowledge workers be forced to work in loud, open-plan areas with no space and no privacy, hurting their own creativity and the overall progress of their projects and therefore companies/universities. Kafka would love the Furniture Police. What more can I say?

I temporarily had to put this down because I became so incredibly angry about how a book like this can exist, and yet an entire generation of knowledge workers is being forced to work in loud, open-plan areas with no space and no privacy, hurting their own creativity and the overall progress of their projects and therefore companies/universities. Kafka would love the Furniture Police. What more can I say?

I temporarily had to put this down because I became so incredibly angry about how a book like this can exist, and yet an entire generation of knowledge workers is being forced to work in loud, open-plan areas with no space and no privacy, hurting their own creativity and the overall progress of the company. Total insanity.