When work stops working.
Stories of people pushing work past its limits
Ideas from the edge of the map
After nearly 2 years outside the working world, I have a new lens on living. This is about the uncharted frontier of meaning, exploring the edges of purpose, identity, and who we become when we try to matter.
Existential Explorer
Series 5
Not Obvious
Series 4
Why work advice fails
The world wants you to believe the answers are obvious. That success follows a playbook. The real way of work is anything but simple. The only forward is through the mess.
The Other Side of Enough
Series 3
Don’t Work
Series 2
What happens when you don’t work?
When your primary identity, centered around work, disappears? Who are we if we don’t work? What remains? And what is rediscovered in its place?
Series 1
Work in Progress
Or, how to build a career
Reflections on 12 years of evolution from an early startup employee, turned public company executive.
About
Work is woven into the fabric of modern life — it defines, rewards, and consumes us. The answer and the enemy.
The Way of Work is for people who want to push beyond its limits to rediscover something new.
No productivity hacks.
No passion porn.
No cliché career advice.
Here, we explore the paradoxes of work: the promises it makes, the disappointments it delivers, and what happens when those promises stop delivering.
The Way of Work | Created and written by Rick Foerster.