Seven modules · a satire of the productivity industry

Boredom

A satire disguised as a productivity manual — seven 'modules,' each indicting one pillar of the productivity-industrial complex.

Every statistic is real. Every corporation is fictional. The distance is the point.

I
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Time
The optimized hour as moral hygiene — how the calendar became a confession and the empty minute became a sin.
II
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Self-optimization
Before-dawn self-improvement sold as enlightenment and enforced as guilt; the 5 a.m. discipline as the new asceticism.
III
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Communication
Inbox zero and the myth of responsiveness — the worker rebuilt as a switchboard that may never go dark.
IV
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Monetization
Every hobby a side hustle, every hour billable — the self mined down to its last idle Sunday.
V
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Wellness
Burnout sold back to its victims as a subscription; corporate mindfulness as the industry's most profitable apology.
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Metrics
The quantified self at work — when a life becomes a dashboard and the unmeasurable is presumed worthless.
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The grift
The guru, the seminar, the book in your hands — the industry selling the cure for the disease it invented.

Volume titles are held until each book’s release. For the full Working-Life overview, see The Working-Life Novels.

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