What is it about motorcycles? The likelihood of me ever revving up a bike to find out is slim to none. That's not keeping me from devouring Matthew Crawford's Shop Class As Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work. I'm sure I'll have more to say down the road. Here, I cannot resist sharing a quote:
The simulacrum of independent thought and action that goes by the name of "creativity" trips easily off the tongues of spokespeople for the corporate counterculture, and if we're not paying attention such usage might influence our career plans. The term invokes our powerful tendency to narcissism, and in doing so greases the skids into work that is not what we had hoped.
Ooooh, this is good reading.
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