Book Titles

Shit jobs tend to be blue collar and pay by the hour, whereas bullshit jobs tend to be white collar and salaried.

…cleaning up after someone who makes a completely gratuitous and unnecessary mess is always irritating. Having a full-time occupation cleaning up after such a person can only breed resentment.

There will always be a certain gap between blueprints, schemas, and plans and their real-world implementation; therefore, there will always be people charged with making the necessary adjustments.

Being forced to supervise people who don’t need supervision is actually a fairly common complaint.

…when we are truly engrossed in doing something – especially something we know how to do very well… – we tend to forget that we exist.

…humans invent games and diversion… for the exact same reason the infant takes delight in his ability to move a pencil.

Freedom is our ability to make things up just for the sake of being able to do so.

Being forced to pretend to work just for the sake of working is an indignity…

…men will always take for themselves the kind of jobs one can tell stories about afterward, and try to assign women the kind you tell stories doing.

Time is not a grid against which work can be measured, because the work is the measure itself.