Saved by David Sherry and
Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
He didn’t come home at seven at night with his shoulders down like he had just put in another day at the salt mine. His work didn’t drain him; it drove him. I wanted to be like that.
Willis Johnson • Junk to Gold: From Salvage to the World’S Largest Online Auto Auction
Finding work you want to keep doing, says author Stephen Cope, is “the great work of your life.” Cope’s biggest fear is that he might “die without having lived fully.”5 This impulse drove his curiosity as he sought out wisdom in books, reading upwards of three hours a day. Eventually, he wrote The Great Work of Your Life to explore the unique qual
... See morePaul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
In the midst of the unfolding crisis with work – a fundamentally spiritual problem – it seems to me that we desperately need new cultural metaphors to describe labour. What, actually, is this thing called “work”? Why do we do it? What does it afford us? What can’t it afford us?
For now, I find solace in the metaphor of work as trace. In a world whe... See more
For now, I find solace in the metaphor of work as trace. In a world whe... See more