Life and work: in the balance

"In the early days of Amazon, there was one quick way for job candidates to eliminate themselves from the running: Talk about wanting work/life balance."

Good advice!

Doing an end-of-year inbox purge, found this video re: "watch this," and just did. Ties together a lot of ideas I subscribe to in a succinct and motivating way. An hour well-spent, especially at the end of the year. Only quibble is I wouldn't call this "happy." More like "peace" or even "equanimity."

Hear hear! Fewer work hours, more jobs all around, happier people.

Women are...

"Few seem to notice, though, that the concept of 'work-life balance' foists the responsibility for creating that balance onto the employee, thus freeing employers to make demands upon employees without regard to the effect of those demands on employees' lives."

The clearest, smartest, most empowering explanation of "mental load" as it pertains to gender equality in the household ever.

This is incredibly clear and true.

I've thought about this a lot this summer, living in NYC, where 10 weeks of camp runs around $4000-$5000.