Why Work Cannot Carry Your Whole Worth
“What do you do?” is often one of the first questions exchanged between strangers. A job title makes a person easier to introduce, and can gradually become a way of judging oneself.
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The Limits of Work
A series on work, efficiency, burnout, middle age, usefulness, achievement, changing course, and rest.
About the Series
The Limits of Work asks what happens when work becomes the main measure of a human life. The series examines efficiency, burnout, usefulness, achievement, changing course, rest, and worth beyond the job. It is not a rejection of work, but a refusal to let work absorb the whole person. Each book gives language to pressures many readers know: speed, exhaustion, recalculation, and the search for a life not entirely governed by production.
Who This Series Is For
- want to rethink the relation between work, efficiency, achievement, and the value of life;
- are concerned with burnout, midlife, uselessness, changing paths, rest, and other questions often neglected in modern life;
- want to follow an eight-book reading path on how life can retain a fuller human measure beyond work.
Current Books in This Series
Current public books will be listed here when their publication information is ready.
First-Season Catalogues
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- Work Is Not Your Whole Worth: Becoming Yourself Beyond the Job
- After Efficiency: Work, Speed, and the Search for Human Worth
- Burnout Is Not Laziness: Keeping Yourself After Exhaustion
- Middle Age Is Not Failure: Standing Firm When Life Is Recalculated
- Feeling Useless: Human Worth When You No Longer Feel Needed
- Achievement Is Not Life Itself: What Remains After Success
- Changing Course Is Not Starting from Nothing: What Remains When Life Turns
- Rest Is Not Waste: Standing Again Beyond Production
Reading Path
Begin with the books and essays that introduce the central questions of this series.
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