Work + Economy

How mindfulness got stripped from its Buddhist roots and sold back as a productivity hack for corporate America.

The harder you chase something, the more it evades you. Alan Watts' backwards law and the paradox of effortless action.

The cult of productivity is a trap. You cannot life-hack your way to meaning. A critique of optimization culture.

The entire internet runs on software maintained by exhausted volunteers. That's not a feature; it's a crisis.

The distinction between working hard and trying hard. One builds, the other burns you out.

You can't grind your way into flow. That's the whole point. Why trying to manufacture flow defeats the purpose.

Worker-owned businesses survive longer, pay better, and don't require exploitation. The barriers are political, not economic.

The workers who extract, transport, and burn fossil fuels are the same ones who'll build what comes next. Climate transition requires labor organizing.

Historical and contemporary evidence that withholding labor is the most effective leverage workers have. Strikes aren't outdated; they're suppressed because they work.

What union drives actually look like. It's less dramatic and more possible than you think. The practical reality of workplace organizing.

Uber didn't invent precarity. It rebranded it. The gig economy is piece-work with an app, a return to pre-labor-law conditions dressed up as innovation.

Clock-discipline is a historical invention, not a natural law. The tyranny of the schedule costs us more than we realize.

The empirical case for intentional technology usewhat peer-reviewed studies support, what's oversimplified, and what remains genuinely uncertain.