3. Labor Is Not Work

"I am Working" — a phrase that justifies everything. We humbly disagree.

Hiding behind "I am Working." What is Work? What is Labor?

Work is a facade. Labor is the boost of your soul along the chain of Lives.

A slave on a galley. A real slave on a real galley, 500 years ago. Is that Labor or Work? If done with humility, it is Labor. And it is not in vain. If done with "I hate this," then it is Work.

No labor is ever done in vain.

2022-01-09

Dzen: https://dzen.ru/a/aaR8b1DyKj0FHrbP

2. Man Is Born to Work

Recently on Hacker News there was a post where a guy showed some interesting graphs from logging 10 years of his life — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29692087

The guy is 27 years old, American of Asian descent. Since age 17, he logs everything, even the mode of transportation he uses. He doesn't use social media. He plays 9 musical instruments. A programmer at Duolingo. There's an excellent life-graph on the front page of his site (https://chaidarun.com).

1. The Middle Way. How to Marry Two Extremes: Pay for Results and Pay for Time

Yegor Bugayenko (@yegor256news) believes that "there should be pay for results, not for time".

Microtasks, micropayments, "8 blocks of results to get paid for 8 hours," people as a function — pure @Zerocracy.

This is a crystal-correct but Nietzschean philosophy. With no regard for the Human.