Work
by James Suzman · first published 2020
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by James Suzman · first published 2020
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"Burn: The Misunderstood Science of Metabolism" by Herman Pontzer "Humankind" by Rutger Bregman "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and David Wengrow "Work: A history of how we spend our time" by James Suzman I sort of want to include "The Ministry of the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson because it feels almost as much like political treatise as it does…
on “Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021?” ↗I recommend James Suzman's recent book Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots, which examines our relationship with work from our evolutionary beginnings to modern day. The interplay of most of our human past from before…
on “Weary of Work” ↗For a deeper dive, James Suzman the anthropologist wrote 'Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots'. Published in 2021. It's worth a read if anyone wants understand how the industrial revolution changed work patterns and (perhaps more importantly)…
on “Pre-industrial workers had a shorter workweek than today's (1991)” ↗The New York Times: Opinion | Why Do We Work So Damn Much?. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-james-suzman.html
on “Why do we work so damn much?” ↗