Hi Dr. Bonanno! I've been following your musings for a while but finally hopping on with a comment.
You had me at this line: "I often feel the urge to satirize hustle culture and the cult of productivity as an outgrowth of the self-help movement." Yes, Dr. Bonanno, please do. I have my own developing thoughts on this and would be extremely interested in reading yours!
But no, really, the whole article had my attention beyond that hot take. Thanks for taking the time to share these resources and insights. Wishing you a 2025 full of much much fruitful thinking and doing, and hopefully see you soon.
The end of this article reminds me of the end of Lost in the Cosmos: “Come back. Come back. Come back…” I am rodgering your Rodger.
I agree that ToDoist is very helpful, especially for people that scribble their to-dos on random scraps of paper and/or on grocery lists and then promptly lose them both. Even as a stay at home mom, not “producing” anything but comments on my husband’s Substack, I find that writing out my “to-dos” and dumping everything in one place that I can see, move, group, and otherwise organize (on the go using the phone and at home using the computer) has been very helpful. This comment is for all you moms reading!
As far as further questions to answer in this space, here is my spin on the Sphinx’s riddle:
1) What is the most important thing to know when you are young (baby-adolescent)?
2) What is the most important thing you have learned in the middle (I won’t call this middle age)?
3) What do you hope to know by the time you are, God-willing, an old man?
Academic, spiritual, and physical dimensions as well as hobbies are fair game. Least important knowledge in questions 1-3 is also interesting to me.
Do I know you? You look familiar. Thanks for reading this Substack.
As for your riddle, it took me awhile, but I finally get it. You did the Sphinx thing! I suppose it is an honor and privilege for me to be compared to Oedipus Rex, whom we all know lived a long, prosperous, completely happy, uneventful life wherein fortune favored him all his days.
Since you took the trouble to write this comment, I will answer these questions in the next post.
Hi Dr. Bonanno! I've been following your musings for a while but finally hopping on with a comment.
You had me at this line: "I often feel the urge to satirize hustle culture and the cult of productivity as an outgrowth of the self-help movement." Yes, Dr. Bonanno, please do. I have my own developing thoughts on this and would be extremely interested in reading yours!
But no, really, the whole article had my attention beyond that hot take. Thanks for taking the time to share these resources and insights. Wishing you a 2025 full of much much fruitful thinking and doing, and hopefully see you soon.
Thanks for reading, Leila!
I will make it a priority to satirize hustle culture (as I utilize the insights of hustle culture in the process).
Naturally. I look forward to it!
The end of this article reminds me of the end of Lost in the Cosmos: “Come back. Come back. Come back…” I am rodgering your Rodger.
I agree that ToDoist is very helpful, especially for people that scribble their to-dos on random scraps of paper and/or on grocery lists and then promptly lose them both. Even as a stay at home mom, not “producing” anything but comments on my husband’s Substack, I find that writing out my “to-dos” and dumping everything in one place that I can see, move, group, and otherwise organize (on the go using the phone and at home using the computer) has been very helpful. This comment is for all you moms reading!
As far as further questions to answer in this space, here is my spin on the Sphinx’s riddle:
1) What is the most important thing to know when you are young (baby-adolescent)?
2) What is the most important thing you have learned in the middle (I won’t call this middle age)?
3) What do you hope to know by the time you are, God-willing, an old man?
Academic, spiritual, and physical dimensions as well as hobbies are fair game. Least important knowledge in questions 1-3 is also interesting to me.
Dear Anna,
Do I know you? You look familiar. Thanks for reading this Substack.
As for your riddle, it took me awhile, but I finally get it. You did the Sphinx thing! I suppose it is an honor and privilege for me to be compared to Oedipus Rex, whom we all know lived a long, prosperous, completely happy, uneventful life wherein fortune favored him all his days.
Since you took the trouble to write this comment, I will answer these questions in the next post.
With best regards,
JB