05/14/2025

Evolution Hates Your Cubicle

Here’s how to thrive despite this

Work is a most unnatural thing to happen to a human if you stop and think about it.

For most of our species' time on this planet, we've labored only in exchange for immediate returns. Food, shelter, a fire that wouldn’t go out overnight; the kind that is nestled firmly at the bottom of the Maslowian hierarchy.

Ethnographic time-budget studies of modern hunter–gatherers and nomadic pastoralists show a similar rhythm where a handful of focused hours are devoted to subsistence tasks, followed by a long drift of conversation, storytelling, and play. Most likely, this is the closest approximation of humankind's relationship with work for countless millennia, up until the moment it all abruptly changed.

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