I’m Trying Not To Let Hustle Culture Win
I am not a patient person.
I want things done well, done right, and done yesterday.
So pacing myself is more than slightly challenging, especially when my default — and the attitude of many people, especially online — is to work harder, in order to get the results I want.
Newsflash: that doesn’t work.
Sorry, but it doesn’t. If it did, I’d be sitting pretty by now.
Ignore the hustle culture gurus and the SEO bros — they made their money from telling other people how to make money.
Working yourself ragged is in the interests of the extreme forms of Capitalism we see in some places — like in the world of content creation, side hustles, and the gig economy, for example. (Something a lot of people on Medium will be familiar with, I’m sure.)
This is the type of Capitalism that sells you on mansions and super-cars and excessive consumption, and tells you if you don’t have that it’s because of you, rather than the fault of a system built to distribute wealth to a tiny minority.