"Life isn't all fun and games." Not with that attitude it's not
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What I'm *not* saying is that every single thing a person does can be the direct cause for a new moment of Perfect Uncomplicated Bliss. But the many rote things we do to make life work do feel very different when doing them in service of a chosen & fully enjoyed life of the mind
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AFAICT it requires a practiced intuition to figure out which rote things need doing & which we do out of habit for purposes that don't make much sense. But the better the intuition gets, the more enjoyable these things get. Most tasks aren't "objectively" unenjoyable
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The idea that life is divided into fun thing (earned, relatively rare, & expensive) and not-fun things (done in exchange, common, & necessary) is the mindset of an alcoholic culture. We accrue torture tokens & soothe ourselves w/ what we can buy with them. We have to reject this
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If this sounds anti-capitalist, that's really not the point. The kinds of work most people do are relatively new. Figuring out how to organize around them is tricky & good workplace cultures are fragile. The pace of change is always throwing us off. Lots of room to play with this
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We've managed to get to a spot on the map where we worry about e.g. rudimentary machines replacing human workers who, statistically, have levels of despair you might expect for a person who knows what they do could be done by a rudimentary machine. But we don't have to stay here
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Many of my tasks at work would be very interesting if not for the giant ticking clock overhead, and the damn question "how long will this take?"
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