Series #02: Don’t Work

What happens when you don’t work? When your primary identity, centered around work, disappears? What remains? And what is rediscovered in its place?
10-part series


Work identity serves, then severs >>

My work identity: the rise before the fall.

Part 1 | Reading Time: 5 mins


Unraveling the layers of work identity >>

Who am I without work?

Part 2 | Reading Time: 7 mins


The Value of Disappearing >>

The unexpected benefits of escaping from it all (and what to put back in its place).

Part 3 | Reading Time: 5 mins


How to be unproductive >>

Why you should get less done (when you’re stuck). From a productivity fanatic.

Part 4 | Reading Time: 6 mins


Beyond our basic ambition >>

Is our current concept of ambition, ambitious enough?

Part 5 | Reading Time: 7 mins


The “Hard Work” Delusion >>

So you believe in hard work. But what is your work?

Part 6 | Reading Time: 6 mins


Diversified Portfolio of Identities >>

We would never put all of our money into one stock. But many of us put the entirety of our identity into one area: Work.

Part 7 | Reading Time: 6 mins


Scale down, after scaling up >>

Coming back down to reality, after reaching the top

Part 8 | Reading Time: 6 mins


The very easy, not-painful-at-all, 5 super simple steps to changing your career >>

The definitely-no-pain-whatsoever guide to doing something different

Part 9 | Reading Time: 6 mins


When you don’t have a “calling” >>

How to find your work, when it isn’t obvious.

Part 10 | Reading Time: 8 mins


Are you climbing the wrong mountain >>

A summary of the “Don’t Work” series: lessons from a year away

Summary | Reading Time: 7 mins


Check out the next series, asking what it’s actually like when you have enough:

Series #03 : The Other Side of Enough