Jobs are Inconsequential

Let’s talk about the dirty little secret no one wants to admit: your job probably doesn’t matter. That’s right, in the grand cosmic dance of existence, most of us are just tiny cogs in a much larger machine, spinning away with no real impact on the universe as a whole. It’s a humbling realization, sure,…

Preparing for a Job Performance Evaluation

When we don’t know what to do, we fall back on rituals. We try to find the closest ready-made approximations and jam it in as a fix. By conveniently assuming dissimilar things are identical, we can treat them the same. Most people have no capability to evaluate, so apply frameworks conceived by others and assume…