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Work-Life Jenga vs. Work-Life Balance

An excellent idea by Stacey Abrams, the powerhouse behind fighting against voter suppression tactics in Georgia, USA.

The term “Work-Life Balance” is irrelevant for many today. When work is life, and life is work, and there are many layers in between, everything dissolves into a single solution. You.

The only challenge is balancing the various blocks.

I reject the idea of work-life balance. The phrase is a bald-faced lie, designed to hang over the human psyche like the Sword of Damocles, because balance presumes an even distribution of weight, of value.

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HATE MAIL BY AUDREY TRUSHKEY

Some watch the attacks online (many colleagues follow me on social media), but few publicly say anything about the waves of misogyny, bigotry, and ad hominem insults that crash into me. Perhaps many of my colleagues, men and women, forget that not speaking is also a form of communication.

Hate Mail by AUDREY TRUSHKEY

Silence is also a form of communication. It sends a message that you don’t care enough, especially when you’re in a position of privilege to speak up.… » click to continue reading “HATE MAIL BY AUDREY TRUSHKEY”

The Real Danger

Maybe, the real danger isn’t just a virus, but the systemic inequalities which led to its spread without much care. We may emerge out of this pandemic stronger and more humane, or we may be forced into further oppression. The latter looks like a bigger possibility as of now.

An Excerpt from “They Thought They Were Free” by Milton Mayer

“What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.”

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