“MY MAIN WORK TOOL: MYSELF” AAAAAAAAAAAAAHhttps://twitter.com/syswarren/status/1177207445556518913 …
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan
I am a human and I matter, but there’s a lot I’d like to see manifest in the world, and I know the only way to get there is by taking action. This is how I understand the OP’s use of the word ‘work’. Is there a better word?
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Replying to @made_in_cosmos @QiaochuYuan
Uf, this is a big flaw in the English language right now. Work sometimes means "dedicated practice" and sometimes means "required misery for money." I like using "operate" (root word connected to "opus") to describe working gracefully, but it doesn't always work in context
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Reflected in the title of the book "Making it All Work", which seems either like a friendly suggestion to integrate, or horrific and dystopian.
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see also
@andrewjtaggart:https://andrewjtaggart.com/2019/09/02/you-were-born-into-a-mystery-whose-name-is-total-work/ …1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
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Replying to @aulderic @QiaochuYuan and
It might help to know that the post above is a poetic attempt to describe how Total Work has become, by my lights, the modern Weltanschauung. As Wittgenstein once said, "A picture [Bild] held us captive." For a very brief take in plainer prose: https://aeon.co/ideas/if-work-dominated-your-every-moment-would-life-be-worth-living ….
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love this, andrew, it all really resonates with me
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