New York Times: Life as Motobike Mechanic

Apparently we’re not the only ones dreaming of life outside so-called knowledge-work. # 3 most emailed article on the New York Times site is The Case for Working With Your Hands, a personal essay by a motocycle mechanic from Richmond, Virginia who spent his former life in a wonky Washington workplace. It concludes,
The good life [...]

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Life As Barmaid, Barista, or Bard

We on the block spend our days building computer models to predict health policy decisions or pitching newspaper editors in South Asian countries (tonight I’ll call a guy in Delhi at 1am, when they get in to office). On the one hand, it’s decent work. On the other, we’re hunched over for hours growing pale [...]

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