Meaningful Work

Resources on Meaningful Work & More!

Public Philosophy Blogs for reflecting on how to make work and life align more with your goals.

Jun 76 min read

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.

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Artificial Intelligence: Choose Your Own Adventure

Graeme Forbes

Feb 194 min read

Artificial Intelligence: Choose Your Own Adventure

LLMs are not collaborators but more like role-playing tools to help you choose your own adventure.

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Nicholas Barrow

Feb 65 min read

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.

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Anastasia Siapka

Jan 115 min read

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.

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Protestant Work Ethic: Hustle Cult or Heavenly Calling?

Todd Mei

Jan 47 min read

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...

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Todd Mei

Nov 1, 20236 min read

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.

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7 Rules for Small Business Employee Retention

Todd Mei

Aug 7, 20239 min read

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.

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Does Your Work Life Suffer From Parallax?

Todd Mei

Jul 17, 20233 min read

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?

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Todd Mei

May 7, 20237 min read

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.

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Best Practice: What Can Philosophy Teach Us?

Todd Mei

Apr 27, 20238 min read

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?

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Why Your Job Satisfaction May Not Be Meaningful

Todd Mei

Mar 11, 20236 min read

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.

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Todd Mei

Feb 1, 20236 min read

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

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Graeme Forbes

Jan 29, 20235 min read

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.

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Todd Mei

Jan 14, 20237 min read

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

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What I Learned from Working at REI (What the Green Vest Is Really About)

Todd Mei

Aug 23, 20228 min read

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...

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Todd Mei

Feb 10, 20221 min read

"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.

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Todd Mei

Dec 8, 20215 min read

What Is Meaningful Work?

The essence of meaningful work lies in personal development and social responsibility.

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Coping with Change and Transition: An Existential Management Point of View

Todd Mei

Jun 14, 20216 min read

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?

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The Distant Future: Is Your Business Remote Proof?

Todd Mei

Nov 2, 20205 min read

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.

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Has Your Workplace Turned into Brains with Faces? Here's a Fix

Todd Mei

Oct 5, 20205 min read

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

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