The Transcontinental
If my other blog could be less substantial than it already is, this is what it would look like.
A Minor Rant
work smarter, not harder - this little trope has been kicking around for quite some time. Its aphoristic quality hides its vapidity.
What is “working smarter”? Do we think that for the whole sweep of human history, people have sat around finding ways to busy themselves through gruelling work, when it turns out they could have been doing something more easily?
Doesn’t the very idea of progress hinge on the possibility that people can find inventive, dare I say, “smart” solutions to problems?
So, casting away it’s tautological elements, it is just the old command - Work! with an existential twist for rhetorical effect.
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