timemanagement

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock | Jenny Odell

Even after a drastic rise in wage labour after the Civil War, it was compared to prostitution or slavery, sometimes by white workers wanting distance between sex workers and enslaved Black people. But Black free people too noticed the similarity of a hireling to a slave. Richard L. Davis, a miner, maintained that “none of us who toil for our daily bread are free.” “At one time we were chattel slaves, today we are, white and Black, wage slaves.”

TheBookHippie Sounds like a good read. 2d

Singout The first chapter has been, and follows some of the same themes as “How to Do Nothing,” which I found compelling. 1d

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Singout

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock | Jenny Odell

Nanni notes the colonial missions tried to induce people not simply to work, but to work in a regular and uniform manner for a specific period of time per day. This view of abstract labour hours could not have been more alien to task-oriented communities, who recognized their activities based on different ecological and cultural cues, such as the flowering and rooting of certain plants, and where things took however much time they took. /1

Singout These communities for whom work was not profit, but part of a social economy, did not make the same distinctions called “work time” and “non-work time,” and just as colonists saw their abstract time reckoning as more evolved than that of their subjects, their attempts at “civilizing” meant inculcating in those subjects the perception of time as money. 2d

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lil1inblue

Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has The Time | Brigid Schulte

Just one of those days. Can't get out of my own head.
#haikuhive
#haikuaday

lil1inblue @jari-chan @dabbe @itchyfeetreader @kristy_k @debinhawaii @mimi28
@thebookhippie @jenlovesjt47 @reggie @vivastory @eggs @jdiehr
@thespineview @cbee @julieclair @anncrystal @bellabella @booksandcoffee4me 1w

Itchyfeetreader I am sorry you are felling like that. Hope writing these awesome words also help 1w

JenlovesJT47 Right there with you. Hope your writing is therapeutic like it is for me. Perfectly expressed 🫂🩵💙🩵💙🩵 1w

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Eggs Beautiful and relatable ❤️ 1w

dabbe So relatable. Hope those thoughts escape soon. 🖤🐝🖤 1w

TheBookHippie Hang on, it will pass… try humming your favorite songs 😅 sometimes that works for me. Watching TV with subtitles sometimes works too. ♥️ 1w

lil1inblue @Itchyfeetreader Thanks! Writing does help. 💓 1w

lil1inblue @JenlovesJT47 Thank you! 🤗 Writing is so helpful! 💓 1w

lil1inblue @Eggs 💓 💓 💓 1w

lil1inblue @dabbe Thanks! I'm sure it will pass. 🤗 💓 1w

lil1inblue @TheBookHippie Good tips! Thanks! They are perhaps better than listening to music at an ungodly volume, which is my usual go-to. 😂 1w

TheBookHippie @lil1inblue I do that too. 1w

Jari-chan I feel you there. 1w

AnnCrystal Truly horrible 🐝🙏🏼🐝💝... 1w

CBee This is me, most days 🙁 1w

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MaggieCarr

The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius | Kendra J. Adachi

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Unlike many self-help/motivational books this one honestly had me chuckling in parts because it's written for normal people! I specifically loved the condensed pep talks in the back. I am a habitual over committer so I need all the help I can get.

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fredthemoose

The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius | Kendra J. Adachi

so-so

⭐️⭐️ The useful thing I took from this book was the suggestion to identify what‘s most important for you in this given period and to use that to make decisions about what to prioritize, and know that that may change from one period to the next. But overall, ugh, just so many lists, frameworks, and tortured acronyms to wade through with no payoff. PLAN stands for something but even after reading it I can‘t remember what. Between so-so and pan.

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vlwelser

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock | Jenny Odell

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This is very interesting. It's more a reflection on time and a history of how it is measured and how that has changed than a self help book of any sort. I would recommend not reading this if you are seriously burnt out already.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4mo

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Susanita

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity | David Allen

As a #longtimefed I kept my own journal of what I did each day. Among other things, it made it easier to prepare my accomplishments at evaluation time.

Here are 5 things I did in a particularly memorable week.
1. Met with boss for weekly progress review. Provided a written summary on which boss took copious notes.
2. Made follow-up calls on all discussed projects. Left messages because nobody answered. Because they were out doing the work. ⬇️

Susanita 3. Addressed an average of 15 calls/visits a day from staff of the supported organization. (Yes, I was the de facto office receptionist.) 4mo

Susanita 4. Attended a meeting about the highest priority project. Sent a detailed follow-up email to all attendees and my boss who couldn‘t be bothered. 4mo

Susanita 5. Got ambushed by boss‘s boss in an impromptu meeting and explained everything discussed in point one. 4mo

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Susanita It‘s been twenty years (!) since I was in that scenario, and yes I‘m still bitter. 4mo

Tamra How about treating people like the qualified professionals they were determined to be when they were hired? That means assuming they are doing their jobs without babysitting. 4mo

Leftcoastzen I hear you ! Here they fired two guys from VA who help when Vets struggle with mortgages. It‘s really efficient to push more vets towards homelessness! 4mo

Leftcoastzen When I got deeper into the story they help any vet with any financial hardship 4mo

TheBookHippie I‘m just exasperated… 4mo

TheBookHippie @Tamra right?! 4mo

TheBookHippie It‘s Putins orders, it‘s so unreal. 4mo

Susanita @tamra Right?!? Obviously, I had my share of bad managers, but I also had good managers. In any case, the structure for monitoring work is in the office where the work takes place. He‘s already admitted it was all a ruse anyway. 4mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Susanita they just want it all in an email (probably an unsecured email) that anyone on X knows is out there, that can be captured as it arrives by any country that wants to know what our gov is doing, and then can make counter-measures accordingly, plus know which workers are best to target to get more access to whatever they want. It‘s a huge national security risk. Whoever hacks those mails know who is involved in everything from ⤵️ 4mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ from fire fighting to nuclear development to translating Russian along with their name & email. I am a civilian who has never worked in gov and I can see that as a huge security risk. 4mo

Susanita @Leftcoastzen So much for caring about veterans!!! 4mo

Susanita @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @TheBookHippie I figured they‘d just use AI to review the tasks and justify canning people. Or as one more way to mock federal employees, but it makes sense that they would also use it to provide free intel to Russia or whoever. 4mo

dabbe Stephen Colbert's reply to Musk's so called mandate:
To: Elon Musk
Subject: What did I do last week?
1. Your mom.
2. Your mom.
3. Your mom.
4. Your mom.
5. Your mom.

I can't even come up with an adequate phrase to describe this arse. 👊🏻❣️👊🏻 4mo

melissajayne If you go to The Breakdown on Substack, you‘ll find some interesting responses from people who responded to Elon‘s email 4mo

melissajayne One government employee wrote this: 1. Stuck pins into Elon voodoo doll
2. Stuck pins into Trump voodoo doll
3. Stuck pins into RFK Jr voodoo doll
4. Stuck pins into MAGA hat
5. Went to buy more pins 4mo

Captivatedbybooks My poor sister was off (we were going to a funeral) and was so worried. Since she had her laptop they told her to log on and reply to then get that notice at 2pm it was necessary to reply. Like WTF 4mo

lil1inblue @melissajayne I don't know this employee, but I am sure we would be besties. 😍 4mo

Susanita @melissajayne @lil1inblue same 😄 4mo

Susanita @Captivatedbybooks I‘m sorry for your loss, and I‘m sorry your sister is going through this added stress. These people have no souls. 4mo

Suet624 @dabbe @melissajayne brilliant! 4mo

Leniverse Man Carrying Thing did a great skit about this: https://youtu.be/ottkSQYunnk?si=KcFzp-HSAGltVxq5 4mo

Susanita @Leniverse 👍🏻👍🏻 4mo

ncsufoxes My husband is a contractor with the National Cancer Institute. Since he has a govt email address he gets all these emails. I told him he should say 1) I‘m reading your 20 plus emails a day 2) I‘m trying to find a treatment/drug to solve f-n cancer (which will make the govt money) let me do my job 4mo

Susanita @ncsufoxes Ugh. Nothing boosts productivity like constantly having to justify yourself. 4mo

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sebrittainclark

The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius | Kendra J. Adachi

ebook: The Plan by Kendra Adachi
print: When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
audiobook: On Her Terms by Amy Spalding

Is this the same list as last week? Yes, but hopefully I'll finish all three this week.

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

rachelsbrittain Hey my list is frequently the same or at least has overlap 😅 4mo

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thecheckoutstack

The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius | Kendra J. Adachi

You are in charge of your list. Your list is not in charge of you.

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AvidReader25

The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius | Kendra J. Adachi

PART 1:I‘ve read 161 books so far this year and here are my top ten. It wasn't my favorite reading year, but it included so many rereads of my favorites for my milestone birthday. I'd love to hear your favorites!

1) The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
2) The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts by Loren Grush
3) To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
4) The PLAN by Kendra Adachi
5) Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams

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