Are most of us secretly lying about how much we are working? Maybe many of us are. But the bigger lie by far is the allegedly meritocratic standard of perform

Are most of us secretly lying about how much we are working? Maybe many of us are. But the bigger lie by far is the allegedly meritocratic standard of performance we are held to -- to be always relentlessly efficient, always "on" and in love with what we do, always striving to be in the top 10 percent of our pile, always keeping tabs on the latest shiny, etc. Meanwhile the years slip past, our relationships falter, the commute is the same damn commute (or if you're WFH the chair is the same damn chair). And while our salaries are above median, we aren't the ones really getting rich off the work we do. So it shouldn't be -- in the least -- surprising that some of fall into that "fuck all y'all, I'm just going to coast" mode. In some cases permanently.