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“We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life,” wrote Nietzsche, “because to us it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.”
— Jan 10, 2025 07:18PM
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Time as a network good reminds me a lot of college, people often make themselves busier simply because the people around them are busy. Free time seems to have less worth if had alone, and also there seems to be some status in being less reachable than those around you.
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But there is something heartbreaking about the nineteenth-century Massachusetts textile workers who told one survey researcher what they actually longed to do with more free time: To “look around to see what is going on.”
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“By way of a cautionary tale, consider the case of the worst boyfriend ever, Franz Kafka,…”
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Jan 10, 2025 07:20PM
I wrote this book for myself, as much as for anyone else, putting my faith in the words of the author Richard Bach: “You teach best what you most need to learn.” So true
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As the law professor Daniel Markovits has shown, even the winners in our achievement-obsessed culture—the ones who make it to the elite universities, then reap the highest salaries—find that their reward is the unending pressure to work with “crushing intensity” in order to maintain the income and status that have come to seem like prerequisites for the lives they want to lead
Convenience, in other words, makes things easy, but without regard to whether easiness is truly what’s most valuable in any given context.
