I’ll start by suggesting some definitions: work is aimed towards effortful accomplishments, while play is aimed towards effortless experiences. 1
- Peter Limberg
stoicism Hustle
Invite us to unite two seemingly incompatible ideas - Stoicism and hustling - to see if we can find coherency in the notion of a Stoic hustler... I think that, if we combine the hustler impulse with Stoic detachment, a healthy and noble hustling could be born, one that will allow us to play the Metagame well.
- aggressiveness and opportunism from hustling
- detachment from stoicism
- emerges at an intersection of calmness and aggression
- tranquil proactivity
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Links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festina_lente
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- Work is whenever you’d rather be doing something else.
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- Work less. More specifically: toil less.
- Two types of work]
- The distinction is this: There are two distinct types of work, which I call crunchy and squishy. The thing that distinguishes them is what makes them hard when they’re hard.
- Crunchy work is work that is hard because reality fights back at you in some way. This might be physical, it might be logical, but the point is that when you’re struggling with it it’s because you’re up against something that will not budge just because you ask it to. STEM subjects tend to be crunchy - mathematics, software development, sciences, etc. you all end up struggling with the basic facts of the world in order to do the work.
- Squishy work on the other hand is work that is hard because people are complicated and messy, have conflicting needs and preferences, and need to be treated as subjects in their own right who can make their own decisions that you have to work with rather than just problems to be solved. Management, negotiation, coordinating groups, all tend to be squishy work, but so is e.g. philosophy, most writing2, psychology.
- The distinction is this: There are two distinct types of work, which I call crunchy and squishy. The thing that distinguishes them is what makes them hard when they’re hard.
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