The people situation in the United States is different from that in ROP and yet so much of what happens across the Pacific seems to trickle or drip from the westward winds. Covid must have changed things—or did it just advance what was already in the air?

His concept of jobs…the main job, a side job, a care job…a ghost job…does explain things better for all of us. First is the hope job.

“Every person I spoke to said they spend a meaningful percentage of their time battling unforeseen forces.” Does our structure and our culture help us or hinder us?

Work is numbers and words. What is the first word you think of when I say “work”? The word trabajo comes from the Latin word for torture. The English word “office” derives from the Latin for “duty”. The word for career comes from the Latin carrus or chariot, running a track.

The rise of numeracy was helped by the rise of literacy. Getting good at both compounds value.