John Perry Barlow on Tue, 3 Jun 1997 02:54:04 +0200 (MET DST) |
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Re: <nettime> Piran / Zero Work |
Personally, I have never had a job in the formal sense of the word and I hope never to have one. On the other hand, I hope to go on "working" until the day I drop dead. I spent the morning with Peter Drucker, who, at 90, is still producing wonderfully clear and mind-altering perceptions of social and business realities. I can't think of anything I'd like better than to resemble him at that age to the extent that my own more modest powers of insight will allow. The point, as I said before, is to eliminate the weird Industrial Era distinction between work and the rest of your life. Done right, it's all a form of play. Yrs, John Perry **************************************************************** John Perry Barlow, Cognitive Dissident Co-Founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation Home(stead) Page: http://www.eff.org/~barlow Fist Phone: 800/654-4322 Barlow in Meatspace Today: San Diego 619/424-4000 Coming soon to: Los Angeles 6/4-5, Pinedale 6/6-11, Seattle 6/11-13, San Francisco 6/14-15... ***************************************************************** There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. -- Ernest Hemingway --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@icf.de and "info nettime" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@icf.de