Success

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Now, imagine you’re the book’s heroine, Dagny Taggart, the world’s best hope against the descending dark age, where productive members of society are drained by leeches who control the levers of government and law. Bet you didn’t expect to see a sci-fi comedy on a list of self-help books. In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honore.

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DECEMBER 20, 2019

I moved from non-profit to government work (unsurprisingly: comparable pay and benefits). In fact, I’m in the corner of a large open room with a private cubicle and not much foot traffic. The second time, he made a bigger effort to keep the kids with him in his cubicle and to keep the noise down, which I really appreciated.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Could you construct something that mimics office cubicles? Not that you’d actually build two full cubicles in your small apartment, but using that as inspiration, is there a barrier you could construct that would give you similar benefits? How can we handle this?? I work at a large (40K+ employees) organization.

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JUNE 2, 2021

I work in a county government building that is constantly under construction. My new space is a cubicle within an unrelated department. The person who occupies the cubicle in front of mine, Fergus, loves robocalls. Here we go…. My coworker loves to abuse robocallers.

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