I think I’m starting to see where we went wrong as a species the last 100yrs or so by the decisions we’ve made between work and family.

Also agreed. the Dunbar numbers are completely fkd now where people are in touch with millions but close to no one. Maybe crypto fixes it tho :D

I recently told someone I was enjoying working from home the past year, being able to lunch with the family, help my wife when she needs it, seeing the kids more. They made the astute observation that this is sort of a return to pre-industrial revolution norms

Yeah. I want to rant about it. Decentralizing tech making the two come together again. My work, my wife’s work, and my families work, have never been more tightly aligned, with entirely diff skills.

Urban design + Infrastructure, and the change to living far from elderly family only amplifies that pressure.

take this a step further. The bundling of post-industrial world fractured the skillsets that normally held a family together preventing them from working with each other more fluidly. Causing choices that put max pressure on individual attribution, husband vs. wife dynamics, and generational, instead of a family.

That's amazing! Can't wait to read, if you write something about it.

Definitely! I'm finding myself in disagreement with the voices today advocating for a return to 40+hours in the office. If there is a loss in productivity, the trade-off is worth it, though I'm surprised to hear myself say that.

It’s because individual humans are no longer the apex organism. Human societies are. Societies are living things and preservation of the larger organism evolves to become paramount over the concerns of lesser components, whether individuals, families, tribes, towns, etc. Not a value stmt, just the way life evolves.

our species evolved to suffer.. we are _supposed to be_ struggling all the time.. to find food and defend our group, etc.. but most of us Westerners don't have to do that anymore, and it manifests as a blanket of anxiety in the back of our minds. check out the book Tribe if you haven't

Totes see this.

strongly disagree with [most] wfh productivity loss arguments associated with [most] knowledge work

I’ve been fascinated how the agrarian revolution created the men work and women child rear dynamic…plowing increased miscarriage rate…subsequent tech revolutions have closed the physiological gap but we’ve yet to close the spiritual gap.