David Foster Wallace wrote a great book entitled The Pale King that wrestles with the boredom and frustration of our modern office-work related lives. I’m not sure if I grabbed it from that book, but one of his quotes I enjoy is: "The underlying bureaucratic key is the ability to deal with boredom. To function effectively in an environment that precludes everything vital and human. To breath, so to speak, without air. The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish."
I find him to be a breath of fresh air, in his books and interviews, in describing how miraculous yet constrained our lives are. It helps me not burn-out. I think.
I find him to be a breath of fresh air, in his books and interviews, in describing how miraculous yet constrained our lives are. It helps me not burn-out. I think.