The Tuesday Morning Discovery I used to think rituals were for people who needed more structure than I did. Then I noticed something odd about my Tuesday mornings. Every Tuesday, without fail, I’d wake up feeling slightly untethered, like I’d forgotten something important but couldn’t name what. It took me three months to connect this …
The Philosophy Professor Who Ruined Small Talk I used to think deep conversations happened naturally, like some people were just born knowing how to skip past weather commentary and dive into the meaning of existence. Then I read “The Art of Living” by Epictetus in a cramped campus bookstore, mostly because the cover looked serious …
The Pendulum Has Swung Too Far We’ve all watched the productivity conversation swing from toxic hustle culture to what feels like an equally extreme rejection of ambition itself. “Quiet quitting” emerged in 2022 and still dominates workplace discussions four years later. It became a rallying cry for doing the absolute minimum. Meanwhile, studies of four-day …
Here is the thing I keep coming back to on this. The topic of personal productivity and the anti-hustle backlash rewards more careful attention than the typical coverage provides, and the reason is not complicated once you know where to look. What I find most interesting, and I think you will too, viewed through the …
Here is the thing I keep coming back to on this. The topic of personal productivity and the anti-hustle backlash rewards more careful attention than the typical coverage provides, and the reason is not complicated once you know where to look. What I find most interesting, and I think you will too, is four-day work …