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Criticism, to me, is ultimately a practice of paying attention.
Anne Helen Petersen • "Taste Hierarchies Like These Stink"
protective routines
Anne Helen Petersen • The Glorious Return of ADVICE TIME
But what if…we don’t ever go back?:
Anne Helen Petersen • I Don't Feel Like Buying Stuff Anymore
It’s not that people don’t want to work. It’s that their jobs feel, for whatever reason, unsustainable: unsustainable for their mental and physical health, but also unsustainable for their family, and their longterm survival. Many people actually really like the work that they do, if they were, indeed, allocating the bulk of their time to doing tha... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • The Expanding Job
I get asked a lot about “tips for alleviating burnout,” and if you’ve been reading this newsletter for awhile, you know I have a few: put your phone on airplane mode before you go into the bedroom; don’t listen to podcasts on walks; dedicate time to hang out with your own mind. But the biggest one is something I first heard from fellow burnout scho... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • what great inconvenience
The term bedrotting screams the quiet part aloud: when the ability to work is cherished above all else, rest has to be framed as abject.
Anne Helen Petersen • Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting
Anne Helen Petersen in her book Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, “we’re prevented from thinking of what we do as what it is: a job, not the entirety of our lives.”
Simone Stolzoff • The Good Enough Job: What We Gain When We Don’t Put Work First
our most venerated heroes are those who (ostensibly) “did it themselves,” even if they absolutely did it, whatever it is, with the invisibilized labor of women, or exploitative and racialized labor practices, or the benefits of familial wealth.