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Don't Dream Of Labor: Why Must We Optimize For Everything?

Can't life just be ... a little off-task?

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Ted Bauer
Sep 02, 2024
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Picked my friend up at the airport yesterday. On the way there, I listened to this April 2019 podcast from Ezra Klein about how “work is identity, and burnout is lifestyle.” The two guests are

Anne Helen Petersen
, who wrote a BuzzFeed article about millennials becoming the burnout generation — and Derek Thompson, who wrote the “workism” article in The Atlantic.

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