Idle Hands Are the Dreamer's Tools
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Idle Hands Are the Dreamer's Tools
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#2Something went horribly wrong when we started demanding never ending work weeks and 24/7 attention to work.
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#3Something went horribly wrong when we started demanding never ending work weeks and 24/7 attention to work.
No one ever did that ... and a dreamer is only a last person with creativity
You must be results driven ... even theoritical physicist understand a test os required to back up their claims
Stop being lazy engineers ... but only work 5 days a week , quit if your pm cant organize projects correctly
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#4Something went horribly wrong when we started demanding never ending work weeks and 24/7 attention to work.
As McKenna said: culture is not your friend.
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#5Something went horribly wrong when we started demanding never ending work weeks and 24/7 attention to work.
I'm reading Michael Bloomberg's autobiography, and he describes working his last day as a partner at Salomon Brothers, a twelve hour day, to end fifteen years of twelve hour days, six day weeks. He was not unhappy in his work.
What I find confusing, is the extension of work into outside hours, on call.
9-5 office workers are supposed to be able to complete only 2 hours undistracted work during their day. This figure comes up time and time again despite the original study of American workplaces was long before we had computers and modern distractions universally.
Is there a acknowledgement of the value of the on tap working capacity, implicitly in this insidious invasion of outside life from work?
Because I have been understanding the constant on call expectations of employers to be in effect a admission of the end of necessity for offices.
As in, "sure I'll make sure to respond to your demands 24/7, now I just won't commute four hours a day costing me £7,000 for the train tickets, to only spend a couple of hours a day doing actual work for you!"
This is quite the indictment of the way we manage our business, is it not?
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#6A million times this! As they say: "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time". This quote is usually attributed to Bertrand Russell, but he didn't say it (https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/11/time-you-enjoy/), he has written a good essay titled "In Praise of Idleness", though, https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/. However, I think there he was talking about idleness as the opposite of work forced on you.
Nowadays it's clear that the enemy is not this type of work ("morality of the Slave State", as Russel puts it), which, since explicit, can always be fought against, but "fun-work" that you are tricked into doing: browsing the internet/HN/FB/Instagram/Spotify/etc. continuously to get your daily kicks. Even in the restroom! My son's room is packed with all kinds of cool mind-expanding toys, he's usually flustered about which one to play with.
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#7Something went horribly wrong when we started demanding never ending work weeks and 24/7 attention to work.
As McKenna said: culture is not your friend.
“What civilization is is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation. And yet you can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love, and the community to produce a kind of human paradise.” - Terence McKenna
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#9A million times this! As they say: "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time". This quote is usually attributed to Bertrand Russell, but he didn't say it ( https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/11/time-you-enjoy/ ), he has written a good essay titled "In Praise of Idleness", though, https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/ . However, I think there he was talking about idleness as the opposite of wo…
> Even in the restroom!
This line stands out as one sits down.
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#10Something went horribly wrong when we started demanding never ending work weeks and 24/7 attention to work.
As McKenna said: culture is not your friend.
From someone who had to google that:
http://highexistence.com/culture-is-not-your-friend-terence-...
>McKenna saw modern culture as a sort of engine detached from the interests of the individual and serving the manipulative, power-focused agendas of various institutions and wealthy individuals.
That said there are quite a variety of cultures out there that you can choose to be part of. I'm currently in a yoga culture area and maybe as a counterpoint to "demanding never ending work weeks and 24/7 attention to work" I've hung a bit with landlord types who have bought a house, do it up buy another etc. If anything they tend to suffer from the opposite problem of not being very occupied much of the time. Plus awkward tenants - nothing's perfect.