How Do We Know We're Doing It Right

Friendship works best in tandem, when one is a little more up (to pep) and the other is a little more down (to be pepped)

Graeber divides bullshit jobs into five categories: flunkies (employed to make others look important), goons (employed to be aggressive or coercive), duct tapers (employed to paper over the cracks in a business), box-tickers (employed so that a company can pretend it is doing something that it is not doing), taskmasters (employed to get other people to do their jobs) and complex multiform bullshit jobs (it’s complicated). I’ve identified as at least two of those in my time (though never, thankfully, as a goon).

physically intensive roles,

live in an on-demand culture, a short-cut society, where we expect to have the best and be the best, and to value ourselves for our output rather than our motivation or conduct.

-hour contracts, self-employment and the ‘gig’ economy.

takes myriad forms.

How could we have decision fatigue when there were no decisions to make? But this is the great hoax of the pandemic.

In this short Life

That only lasts an hour

How much – how little – is

Within our power