Labor and Joy – the exhaustive components of a full life. More on Labor later, now about Joy.
"— What's there to especially rejoice about?
— Well that, brother, I don't know. If you know how to rejoice – rejoice, if you don't – then sit there. They don't ask about that..." (https://vkvideo.ru/video-20286388_456240046?sh=4&t=5m50s)
Do you observe yourself when communicating with people? What exactly do you observe? Do you criticize yourself? For what exactly?
Let's say you're on a development team and you practice a daily standup. At this short morning meeting, everyone talks about what they did yesterday and what they will do today. So, do you observe yourself at that moment? How do you usually phrase things? "I did, I thought, I, I, I." I, me, mine (https://vkvideo.ru/video72349732_456257000?sh=4)
In the book "Memo: Secrets of Creating Characters in a Screenplay" (https://alpinabook.ru/catalog/book-memo), authors Vogler and McKenna teach that for a good story, you need to define the main theme of the work and answer the question "What does the protagonist want?" Without this, the story won't begin.
So what does our protagonist—the faithful LaborGit user—want?
"I am Working" — a phrase that justifies everything. We humbly disagree.
Hiding behind "I am Working." What is Work? What is Labor?
Work is a facade. Labor is the boost of your soul along the chain of Lives.
A slave on a galley. A real slave on a real galley, 500 years ago. Is that Labor or Work? If done with humility, it is Labor. And it is not in vain. If done with "I hate this," then it is Work.
No labor is ever done in vain.
2022-01-09
Recently on Hacker News there was a post where a guy showed some interesting graphs from logging 10 years of his life — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29692087
The guy is 27 years old, American of Asian descent. Since age 17, he logs everything, even the mode of transportation he uses. He doesn't use social media. He plays 9 musical instruments. A programmer at Duolingo. There's an excellent life-graph on the front page of his site (https://chaidarun.com).
Yegor Bugayenko (@yegor256news) believes that "there should be pay for results, not for time".
Microtasks, micropayments, "8 blocks of results to get paid for 8 hours," people as a function — pure @Zerocracy.
This is a crystal-correct but Nietzschean philosophy. With no regard for the Human.
