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Get To Work

“A Strategic Plan to Get To Work:

-Don’t study art. Use your education to prepare for a lifetime of work. 

-Never quit a job until you have another one. Take work seriously. 

-Never know when you’re out of milk. Bargain relentlessly for a just household.

-Get the government you deserve. Stop electing governments that punish women’s work.”

“Books, magazines, blogs all are bursting with suggestions, like the one in a recent letter to the Times, that we ‘restructure the architecture of the work place.’ For what? To accommodate women in their role as caretaker of the patriarchal family? Why should the patriarchal workplace be bulldozed and the patriarchal family left untouched? It’s perfect madness. Don’t get into the perfect madhouse to begin with, and if you’re there, get out.”

“...The position that women’s choices are unworthy of moral analysis raises the ugly possibility that women’s choices don’t matter because women don’t matter.”

“There’s no such thing as a perfect job. Condoleezza Rice actually wanted to be a pianist, and pianist Gary Graffman didn’t want to give concerts. Don’t look to work for love.”

“I’m always worried about a flourishing life in which men refuse to participate.”

--Linda Hirshman, Get To Work

Just reread this in preparation for impending life change. It still hits a nerve. 

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A private citizen who becomes a ruler out of sheer good luck needn't make much effort to take his state but will have to sweat if he is to hold onto it...Like anything that appears suddenly and grows fast, regimes that come out of nothing inevitably have shallow roots and will tend to crash in the first storm.

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"There are emotions you don't often hear about in connection with death. The first is the novelty. This is real, you think. This is happening to me." --Herman Koch, Dear Mr. M

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"I don't know how that works for you, but I rarely have fun while I'm reading. Fun reading makes me think of someone who slaps his knees in mirth as he turns the pages. A reader reads a book. If it's a good book, he forgets himself. That's all a book has to do. When the reader can't forget himself and keeps having to think about the writer the whole time, the book is a failure. That has nothing to do with fun. If it's fun you're after, buy a ticket for a roller coaster." --Herman Koch, Dear Mr. M

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“Finishing a paragraph or section gives people a micro-burst of accomplishment and reward. It helps them chunk the basic insight together and remember it for later. You want people to be going – “okay, insight, good, another insight, good, another insight, good” and then eventually you can tie all of the insights together into a high-level insight. Then you can start over, until eventually at the end you tie all of the high-level insights together. It’s nice and structured and easy to work with. If they’re just following a winding stream of thought wherever it’s going, it’ll take a lot more mental work and they’ll get bored and wander off.

Remember that clickbait comes from big media corporations optimizing for easy readability, and that the epitome of clickbait is the listicle. But the insight of the listicle applies even to much more sophisticated intellectual pieces – people are much happier to read a long thing if they can be tricked into thinking it’s a series of small things.”

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