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Resources on Meaningful Work & More!
Public Philosophy Blogs for reflecting on how to make work and life align more with your goals.


AI and the Future of Work
AI is changing the landscape of work, not necessarily by taking your jobs but by presenting an opportunity for a work utopia.
Anastasia Siapka
Jun 7, 20246 min read
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Artificial Intelligence: Choose Your Own Adventure
LLMs are not collaborators but more like role-playing tools to help you choose your own adventure.
Graeme Forbes
Feb 19, 20244 min read
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Why AI Transparency Is Important
AI transparency is essential for maintaining our human sense of trust. But the current state of AI is more about distrust.
Nicholas Barrow
Feb 6, 20245 min read
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AI Explainability: A Primer
Does generative AI genuinely foster understanding for human users? You might be surprised at what lurks underneath its responses to humans.
Anastasia Siapka
Jan 11, 20245 min read
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Protestant Work Ethic: Hustle Cult or Heavenly Calling?
Why a New Reformation Is Needed in Our Approach to Work "Work hard, and you shall be rewarded." Would you be surprised to know that this...
Todd Mei
Jan 4, 20247 min read
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Why You May Not Have Many Friends
Working persistently towards goals might be keeping you from making friends. Heading this problem off requires knowing how goals work.
Todd Mei
Nov 1, 20236 min read
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7 Rules for Small Business Employee Retention
Small businesses are often less prepared to directly address employee retention. P2U's 7 rules for good staff retention can help.
Todd Mei
Aug 7, 20239 min read
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Does Your Work Life Suffer From Parallax?
When your work suffers from parallax, it means the reasons you're working no longer suit your life goals and purposes. Can this be fixed?
Todd Mei
Jul 17, 20233 min read
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Getting Over Impostor Syndrome
Most people suffer from some form of impostor syndrome. It's not easy to overcome, but philosophy can help with self-belief and practice.
Todd Mei
May 7, 20237 min read
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Best Practice: What Can Philosophy Teach Us?
What is the purpose of best practices? It's often effectiveness about achieving specific ends. But is this really best for us?
Todd Mei
Apr 27, 20238 min read
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Why Your Job Satisfaction May Not Be Meaningful
Job satisfaction is easy enough to describe, but in practice it might be harming your life. A remedy lies in scaling job satisfaction.
Todd Mei
Mar 11, 20236 min read
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Hate Your Job But Love Your Leisure?
If you hate your job but put up with it because you can do what you love in your free time, you may be doing more harm than good to yourself
Todd Mei
Feb 1, 20236 min read
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Management Is Not Lion Taming
Bad management philosophy is based on control. Empathy and kindness are actually much more effective if understood and applied correctly.
Graeme Forbes
Jan 29, 20235 min read
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How Can We Bring about Meaningful Work?
Meaningful work can be understood at the levels of society, business, and the individual. This blog covers the essentials of meaningful work
Todd Mei
Jan 14, 20237 min read
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What I Learned from Working at REI (What the Green Vest Is Really About)
Like many people, my wife and I used the pandemic to make some big changes in our lives. We left our academic careers as tenured...
Todd Mei
Aug 23, 20228 min read
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"Encouragement as Work"
Many of us seem to be asking ourselves what we want from our jobs in the broadest possible way, a decent wage is but one desideratum.
Todd Mei
Feb 10, 20221 min read
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What Is Meaningful Work?
The essence of meaningful work lies in personal development and social responsibility.
Todd Mei
Dec 8, 20215 min read
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Coping with Change and Transition: An Existential Management Point of View
What if the key to organizations coping with change lied in caring for its people? Would might this look like?
Todd Mei
Jun 14, 20216 min read
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The Distant Future: Is Your Business Remote Proof?
Remote working is a double-edged sword. More efficiency at the price of the loss of work-life balance and a sense of cohesion and identity.
Todd Mei
Nov 2, 20205 min read
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Has Your Workplace Turned into Brains with Faces? Here's a Fix
A virtual meeting or event that works is one where personalities are able to be on display in order that the others can attune to them
Todd Mei
Oct 5, 20205 min read
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