If more people were like Eric Hollenbeck the world would be a far, far better place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otgjdSa6ceA

Instead we Work in Bullshit Jobs producing nothing of real value in order to earn enough money to become Bullshit Consumers producing Bullshit Products.

The Bullshit Economy consumes vast amounts of resources and makes billions of lives miserable either directly or indirectly. Hardly any of the "activity" in the Bullshit Economy produces anything of real value. Certainly none of it produces anything as worth while as Eric Hollenbeck does in his life and work.

However the Bullshit Economy makes billionaires insanely wealthy. We are told there is no alternative to Bullshit.

Eric Hollenbeck reminds me of William Morris. Then again I am reading a biography of Morris at the moment.

Morris rejected capitalist modes of production and championed craft skills over machine made Bullshit Products. I think Morris would be incandescent with rage if he was alive today. Actually its far likely he would be working in a Bullshit Job himself.

#HowToLive #EricHollenbeck #Life #CommonDecency #BullshitJobs #BullshitConsumers #BullshitProducts #BullshitEconomics #WilliamMorris

"A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life."

Charlie Byrd

#quoteoftheday #HowToLive #Life #HowToMakeALife #BeingHuman

Last week, Sahil Bloom shared an incredible Twitter thread of life advice he collected from 90-year-olds. It was his birthday gift to all of us. My dear friend @mom101 has beautifully summarized and added to this advice through her column I'm Walking Here. Enjoy.

https://lgumbinner.substack.com/p/advice-from-your-90-year-old-self

#life #advice #HowToLive

Never agree with anything the same day you hear it, because some ideas are persuasively hypnotic.

Wait a few days to decide what you really think.

#DerekSivers #HowToLive #quotes

“The primary mission of the Stoics… is to be helpful to others and serve the greater good, and they don’t do this to make themselves happy. They do it because it is the right and natural way to live.”

Ward Farnsworth, The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User’s Manual, Chapter 11

#Stoicism #Stoics #happiness #eudaemonia #service #virtue #howtolive @stoicism