“Routine maintenance “, Meghan o’gieblyn
Routine and habit as spiritual process. Started off talking about how monks performed the same rituals at exactly the same time every day and would ring bells to denote the change in task. Eventually the town heard the bells and began relying on them as time-keepers.
Workplace/employee “flexibility” is not a-political.it means being responsive to market changes and changing job descriptions. Economic flexibility. Potentially fewer worker safety nets in exchange for greater agency. Do workers want this?
For the Stoics : Stultitia: fecklessness, boredom, constant shifting of purpose. Decision fatigue, spiritual exhaustion. Never-ending hunger for novelty.
Thomas Aquinas: habit makes the doing of something our own, natural to us, therefore pleasurable.
Habit aids in the quest for a virtuous life. Helps actions align with desires, appetites and judgments.
part of what makes work feel like drudgery is the mystical, inscrutable process from labor to result. Not being able to directly comprehend the whole pipeline that concludes in your final product is alienating and minimizes fulfillment. Super AI will make this problem much worse.