As soon as someone slows down, they’re labeled lazy a rather ironic judgment considering that much of high status work is either irrelevant or empty bureaucracy. I know the inner workings of companies well because I’ve spent my life in management positions, and I can say that most executive tasks are not real work. We maintain a hierarchical and complex structure to justify salaries and positions, but the value created is zero.

Meetings drag on without purpose, emails pile up without meaningful content, and conferences exist mainly to justify hotel nights and alcohol excesses. It’s all a lie. We judge others’ rest harshly while spending our work hours sustaining a fiction that, if it disappeared tomorrow, would not change the course of reality.