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Tag: work

  • The Optionality Trap

    Optionality is useful until it becomes a religion. Some people keep working not because they need more money, but because every extra dollar preserves a life they will never choose.

  • The Job Is Not the Cage. The Identity Is.

    Most people who say they are trapped by work are trapped by something stranger: the identity work gave them. The badge comes off before the self-image does.