Freddy deBoer: So is Everybody Giving Up On, Like... Doing Things?:

...this culture valorizes work as an abstract demonstrator of value but has no actual intrinsic respect for work, itself. For effort, for struggle, for exertion. If you click a #hustle hashtag on Instagram you are very likely to find yourself looking at posts about crypto, which for most people at this level of sophistication represents the hope of buying a speculative asset and waiting around until it makes you rich. And you call this… hustling?

"Hustle" culture, isn't really.

Mike Hall: Seeking friction:

I imagine life without being able to consult my many deliverables from my phone and some unpleasant part of my personality sends a jolt to the pain and nausea centers, hitting the intersection of old work trauma and pigheaded nerd completionism.

This is me, of course. I often wish I'd never heard of an iPhone.

I wish I liked making short, separate posts here, but I don't, so everything gets lumped into these stupid journal posts. I don't know what's worse, cluttering the blog with a bunch of itty bitty posts, or boring the hell out of everyone by making the whole blog into nothing but a list of dates.