“Burnout shifted its meaning: from a symptom experienced by people struggling to change society to one experienced by people trying too hard to succeed within it.” 
A Working Library
Loss of an ideal
From phenomena to pathology.
mandy brown
mandy brown
aworkinglibrary_at_mstdn.social@momostr.pink
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Thinking about reading, work, and technology. Reformed tech leader; now helping people do their best work.
Posting primarily from https://aworkinglibrary.com/thinking/; I log in about once a week.
Reading: https://aworkinglibrary.com
Practicing: https://everythingchanges.us
Pronouns: she/they
Location: Lenapehoking / Philadelphia
Super looking forward to my Halloween costume, woman reading in bed by 9PM.
“To be a Luddite today is to refuse the fatalism of techno-inevitability & to demand that technology serve the many, not the few. It is to assert that questions of labor, agency & justice must come before speed, efficiency & scale.” 
Brookings
We should all be Luddites | Brookings
Courtney Radsch discusses rehabilitating the idea of Luddites as people concerned with the control and impact of technology.
“The disenfranchised men of the manosphere disdain women, and yet women continue to be asked to feel pity and concern for them.” 
London Review of Books
Emily Witt · Do you feel like a failure? In the Manosphere
The winners in an autocracy have little in common with the losers, but putting on aviator sunglasses or a leather jacket...