Watching the latest revision of Robin Hood, one is invited to disgust with the way Americans keep consuming stories that alleviate the responsibility to innovate, to create, to contribute – to be extraordinary. Latent in it one finds work without significance, for the vast majority of people – just contented drudgery relieved by dancing, screwing, [...]

I’m not going to say that I’m in favor of not giving kids any money, or shelling out a measely allowance, but I think fewer kids than ever are learning to work for money at an early age – that too many kids are getting 100% of their needs met by asking parents for cash. [...]

I had a garage sale recently, designed to reduce possessions to only those things we need and are using. It was wildly effective, and what I didn’t sell, I donated. The result is an empty garage and a home that finally echoes again, and feels big. When I sell things, I interact a lot – [...]

I really like it when someone correctly identifies the nexus between work and schooling. We spend all this effort talking about how the world of work has become unacceptable, as we’ve conceived it, but very little on the fact that traditional schooling is the mechanism for creating precisely this world of work, and for conditioning [...]

Classic avoidance behaviors are those things we’re doing when we say, “I really need to study”, or “I should be focusing on my writing”, or “One of these days I’ll get around to my marketing.” Students find reasons to do almost anything – the list is endless – which tells me that either school is [...]

First, let me say that the desire to make a living for oneself on the internet is a noble goal. The internet represents independence, freedom of information, free expression. That’s why there’s such a concerted effort to install cut off switches, blacklists, and bans in the US and China, because otherwise it’s the realm of [...]

Holy Rollers showed twice at the Tulsa United Film Festival 2011. We’ll talk about it here, because it’s a film, fundamentally, about work. ‘Rollers is about a large network of fundamentalist evangelicals that are professional black jack card counters. They have investors, managers, and players, and they take casinos for a lot of money. Now [...]