Authentic Chaos

Be Unproductive: Work culture and control (w/ Shikhar Tiwari)


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Work culture these days can include positive aspects like seeing your coworkers as teammates, coffee runs, team lunches, and activities. Is this seemingly positive shift in work culture a reward to workers or a tool of control by our employers? Do we just work 40 hours a week or does work take up more of our mind than just the 9-5 hours? Why should the reward of retirement be at the end of our lives? Why do we use "productive" as an adjective for non work related things like weekend activities or relationships?


Join me and Shikhar Tiwari (IG: @its_sh1khar) as we discuss work culture, how this culture has been manufactured to be a tool of control, and the radical concept of choosing to not be productive.

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Authentic ChaosBy Vahagn Yeranossian