Vic Liu, The Creative Independent, 5/22/2026

• "I’ve come to the belief that we are all very good at many different things, and in fact our brains need many different forms of stimulation in order for us to function as people. Capitalism very much has instilled this idea that we are supposed to have only one thing and excel in it, because it makes organizing the workforce easier. But that is a delusion entirely divorced from the wide breadth of any individual.
• "There is a deep tension between our inherent urge to categorize people for efficiency and the effort or patience needed to understand each individual’s multitudes and complexities."
  • similar to C Thi Nguyen's ideas about the Four Horseman of Bureaucracy, esp the need to categorize everyone legibly
• For me, burnout has a lot to do with two factors. One, overwhelm-—a ton of demands that exceed your comfort level. Two, a lack of clarity. So, when you can’t get rid of one, perhaps you can try to decrease the other. What has been so incredible about this exhibition is how much clarity I have in why I’m doing this and what I’m doing it for. And because of that, even though the demands have been very high, I think that that has helped to lighten the load.

Reimagining Love(?) ep about work, 2/11/2026

• "Every day is 'Take Your Inner Child to Work Day'"
• Family of origin experiences become the lenses thru which you experience workplace dynamics

Thinking about AG's passing, 3/4/2026

• I never want anyone to write "they lived to work" about me when I die, like Steve Inskeep wrote about Ann on Substack

Something I read about work, 2/4/2026

• job-demands-control model: "the most significant predictor of job strain is the combination of high job demands and low job control"
• role conflict/role ambiguity/task identity

Something else I read about work, 1/28/2026

• "performance avoidance motivation": the desire to not be seen doing something wrong