I was reading this and thinking 'huh'?: Your work is not your god: welcome to the age of the burnout epidemic.
Because, surely, or maybe it is no longer the case these days, or for that demographic represented by the writer, there are things people do with their time when not working that are not a state of mindless collapse or drinking themselves ( Read more... )

I am all for rediscovery of genuinely neglected, or at least 'under-recognised' and interesting writers of the modernist period who didn't perhaps fit neatly into the high modernist canon for reasons to do with issues around class, gender, race, etc: but I'm not altogether happy with the 'an Intellectual Ahead of Her Time' label here, because she ( Read more... )

I'm sure this is admirable, and people deciding to take their roads previously untaken even if they are no longer youthful is entirely excellent -
A stunning second act! Meet the people who changed course in midlife - and loved it.
But, I am just a bit, well, isn't this a bit like those people who throw up a steady job to 'follow the dream', and ( Read more... )

I am so there for this: Efficiency is the Enemy: There’s a good chance most of the problems in your life and work come down to insufficient slack. Here’s how slack works and why you need more of it. Yes, absolutely, the need for wiggle room and redundancy in systems.
But I am also here for this: Embrace the Grind: 'The only “trick” is that this ( Read more... )

Maybe it's just me, and those recent thoughts about the Tyranny of Structurelessness as embodied in the laidback no actual rules here workplace (so you don't know what the boundaries and limits are), but this, in yesterday's Ask a Manager, Thikkt Blud with Cold: The company I work for is very emotionally oriented and feelings-driven so none of us ( Read more... )

Came across this yestereen while scrolling through Twitter: Scott Rudin, As Told by His Assistants A portrait of a toxic workplace.
And apparently even though they heard all the stories, eager young people signed up to this because they thought they would be gaining valuable experience and it would look great on their resumes -
- and I came away ( Read more... )

My attention was drawn, I think via Twitter, to this the other day: Against “Feel Free To Take Some Time If You Need It".
The person writing that appears to be a freelance, but it did resonate with me with those places which do not have Designated Leave Allowances but employees (do they even call them employees or some more happy-bunny term?) are ( Read more... )

Piece in today's Guardian about the toll that the long hours working culture is taking on people (I could do without the focus on lurrrhve and rOHmance, because there are all sorts of other things that are being erased in people's lives by this culture - including things that might, perchance, in due course, lead to courtship and mating, but that's ( Read more... )

Barely has the Wallace Collection had a reprieve, than this comes down the turnpike: Vast cuts at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) are feared to be imminent, with curators and conservators in the line of fire “The selection of those people was made by three individuals who don’t have any curatorial or conservation experience, the head of human ( Read more... )

Wallace Collection library and archive no longer at risk of closure: The library and archive of the Wallace Collection are to remain open to the public following an internal consultation. The west London museum had proposed closing both facilities to the public to cope with the financial impact of the Covid pandemic. The closure would have resulted ( Read more... )