Welcome to 100%: The Corporate Future That Never Lets You Power Down

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They’ll sell it to you as “wellness.”

Not the soft kind with yoga mats and playlists. The corporate kind: a sterile smile stapled to a spreadsheet, the kind of wellness where your nervous system becomes an underperforming asset and your burnout is a “capacity planning issue.” They won’t call it slavery, obviously. Slavery is a word with history. They’ll call it optimisation, which is slavery with a product manager and … Read the rest

A Long Night’s Journey Into Day

Content advisory 18+ F. Scott Fitzgerald (author of “The Great Gatsby”) was, like many artists, an unstable person and drunkard. He was never among my favorite authors; nevertheless, amid his many collapses and psychological crack-ups (having Hemingway as a ‘friend’ probably didn’t help), he came up with a single line I always remember. He said: “In a real dark night of the soul, it is always 3 o’clock in the … Read the rest