Beyond channeling the spirits of the thousands of generations of makers and doers, who as faithful servants of that trickster god entropy have found satisfaction through giving their idle hands and restless minds work to do, the purpose of this book is somewhat less prescriptive. One aim is to reveal how our relationship to work—in the broadest sense—is more fundamental than that imagined by the likes of Keynes. The relationship between energy, life, and work is part of a common bond we have with all other living organisms, and at the same time our purposefulness, our infinite skillfulness,
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