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Bezos advocates an alternative perspective, which I think you missed. Don’t view work as a necessary evil that you must cope with and minimize. Instead, embra

Bezos advocates an alternative perspective, which I think you missed. Don’t view work as a necessary evil that you must cope with and minimize. Instead, embrace it as a core aspect of life. Let work elevate your personal life, and let your personal life elevate work.

krapp 9y ago
> Let work elevate your personal life, and let your personal life elevate work. That's nonsense, though, and it's coming from a man whose company will push employees into 60 hour weeks for arbitrary lengths of time, often with little forewarning, because they expect work to be personal life, because "customer obsession."
hinkley 9y ago
Sounds like a cult. One that’s a cross between John Calvin and Chairman Mao. This route attaches all of your self worth to your job. You don’t control your success at work. And if you think you do I encourage you to evaluate your attachment to the illusion of control. One day, when a series of setbacks at work happens, it will shake that self worth. And you will look up and realize you have sacrificed other things chasing after something that isn’t as rewarding as it used to be. You’ll realize that you had time to get Good at your job and something else too, but habit took over and you believed the bullshit of people who got rich off of your hard work and then forgot all about you. And you don’t have your music or art or woodworking or running or your old friends to fall back on. Because you were at work for the last 15 years. I’m not saying this because I am a lazy bastard, worried about other people making him look bad. I’m saying this as someone who tried it. Don’t do this. You’ll end up as a person full of regrets, trying to warn others not to do the same.
- manigandham 9y ago
  Again, is it so hard to believe that people are different and some people like to work? There are real cults out there, Amazon isn't one of them.

krapp 9y ago

> Let work elevate your personal life, and let your personal life elevate work. That's nonsense, though, and it's coming from a man whose company will push employees into 60 hour weeks for arbitrary lengths of time, often with little forewarning, because they expect work to be personal life, because "customer obsession."

hinkley 9y ago

Sounds like a cult. One that’s a cross between John Calvin and Chairman Mao. This route attaches all of your self worth to your job. You don’t control your success at work. And if you think you do I encourage you to evaluate your attachment to the illusion of control. One day, when a series of setbacks at work happens, it will shake that self worth. And you will look up and realize you have sacrificed other things chasing after something that isn’t as rewarding as it used to be. You’ll realize that you had time to get Good at your job and something else too, but habit took over and you believed the bullshit of people who got rich off of your hard work and then forgot all about you. And you don’t have your music or art or woodworking or running or your old friends to fall back on. Because you were at work for the last 15 years. I’m not saying this because I am a lazy bastard, worried about other people making him look bad. I’m saying this as someone who tried it. Don’t do this. You’ll end up as a person full of regrets, trying to warn others not to do the same.

manigandham 9y ago
Again, is it so hard to believe that people are different and some people like to work? There are real cults out there, Amazon isn't one of them.