My workplace was once featured in a documentary. For convenience, I will call it “the factory”. It was an exciting place, for a half hour documentary. It was a very complex place with plenty of complex systems in it. The amount of effort that went into the work at that factory was tremendous. You had hardworking and dedicated people, all striving to meet deadlines in a really intricate dance with each other.
But one sentence sums up the existential truth of our situation. It was this one line: “The shift ends, and next shift takes over. The process begins all over again.”
This story is not new. The Greeks had a character called Sisyphus, who was punished by the Gods by having to push a boulder up a slope every day, only to have it roll down to the bottom at the end. That is our existential situation. That's life. That's adult life.
Happy new year guys.
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