{"id":17873,"date":"2025-06-26T12:12:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=17873"},"modified":"2025-06-26T12:13:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:13:30","slug":"june-26-2025-the-deep-history-of-meaningful-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/june-26-2025-the-deep-history-of-meaningful-work\/","title":{"rendered":"June 26, 2025: the deep history of meaningful work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Thinking about how to think about work.<\/strong>  Quotes are pithy, but that&#8217;s why they can hold such power. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewschool.ca\/blog\/a-forest-of-77-quotes-about-work-that-inspire\">There are 77 to choose from here<\/a>. You might find one that helps you get through the day today. Or perhaps you&#8217;re better off making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesreeves.co\/instructions\/\">your own list of instructions <\/a>and inspiration like James Reeves did, which inspired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesreeves.co\/heavy-metal-instructions\/\">Peter Rukavina to turn them into a little book<\/a>. Gifts of wisdom and advice made beautiful by the giving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t squander the gifts.<\/strong> It took us 13.5 billion years to evolve these brains we have, 60,000 years of living with them in their current state and <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthinkmedia.substack.com\/p\/the-sapient-paradox-why-did-prehistoric?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=2863167&amp;post_id=166418205&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=3ikjv&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\">10,000 years of organizing ourselves<\/a> in way that requires us to list quotes and instructions to ourselves to remember what really matters.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>History is much more complex than that of course, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theintrinsicperspective.com\/p\/the-gossip-trap\">this amazing article about &#8220;the gossip trap,&#8221; <\/a>which is also about the myriad ways that our species has chosen to organize, or not organize itself, reminds me that I still haven&#8217;t read <em>The Dawn of Everything<\/em>. Anyone familiar with my idea that almost everyone in a complex systems has access to the constraints of connection and exchange will probably anticipate how delighted I am by the retrospective coherence I find in this piece!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about how to think about work. Quotes are pithy, but that&#8217;s why they can hold such power. There are 77 to choose from here. You might find one that helps you get through the day today. Or perhaps you&#8217;re better off making your own list of instructions and inspiration like James Reeves did, which inspired Peter Rukavina to turn them into a little book. Gifts of wisdom and advice made beautiful by the giving. Don&#8217;t squander the gifts. It took us 13.5 billion years to evolve these brains we have, 60,000 years of living with them in their current &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Quotes and advice about work and the deep history of how we organized ourselves this way.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-4Eh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17875,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17873\/revisions\/17875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}