PAST IS PROLOGUE

How to Think More Deeply About Work

If we want to work better, first we need to think better

Will Buckingham
Human Parts
Published in
9 min readMay 10, 2021

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“The Seasons” by Pieter Brueghel the Elder from the Metropolitan Museum of Art online collection. Image: Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

We spend much of our lives working. And much of the time we are not working, we spend talking about work, recovering from work, fretting about work, or wondering if we should work more or work less.

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Will Buckingham
Human Parts

Writer & philosopher. PhD. Stories & ideas to make the world a better place. HELLO, STRANGER (Granta 2021): BBC R4 Book of the Week. Twitter @willbuckingham