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The modern workplace is sick. Chaos should not be the natural state at work. Anxiety isn’t a prerequisite for progress. Sitting in meetings all day isn’t required for success. These are all perversions of work —side effects of broken models
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“The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.”
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“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.”
― Writings of Eugene V. Debs
― Writings of Eugene V. Debs
“Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.”
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“Political freedom is great. But personal, social, and emotional freedom—when it becomes an ultimate end—absolutely sucks. It leads to a random, busy life with no discernible direction, no firm foundation, and in which, as Marx put it, all that’s solid melts to air. It turns out that freedom isn’t an ocean you want to spend your life in. Freedom is a river you want to get across so you can plant yourself on the other side—and fully commit to something.”
― The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
― The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
“Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.”
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