The Problem is Not Ambition — It’s Bullshit Jobs and Bullshit Metrics
Our Society Depends Upon Skillful Striving. Here’s the Case For It.
4 min readMay 3, 2022
There is increasing momentum behind a movement that I’ll call broadly “anti-ambition.” Loosely defined, the anti-ambition crowd says that we place too much emphasis on work and striving and it’s bad for us as individuals and for us as…