Any job that can be measured for productivity probably should be eliminated from the list of jobs that people do.
—Kevin Kelly
C.J. Chilvers counsels the first world on its issues.
Posts tagged work:
Free Time
Most people will tell you the thing they want most is more free time. But they never keep it free once they get it. Work to live.
From this week’s Roderick on the Line:
Merlin: “If you’re talking on the phone at lunch you’re not a powerful person. A powerful person is allowed to eat without doing work.”
John: “Most people’s concept of what a powerful person looks like only goes up so high - to middle management. Most people, the highest they can conceive of is the middle manager, so they emulate the middle manager’s taste in clothes in cars, in houses, in music and culture. The middle manager is the aspirational unit for the vast majority.”
I snapped this during a road trip across Illinois about a month ago. It’s the workspace of President Ulysses S. Grant in Galena, IL. A rather simple space considering its time and occupant.
