The need for a change in work philosophy, practices, and environments

One of the things that baffles me about the present day is how many people have to deal with a job or profession that actively sucks them of their life force. In a day where the largest collection of knowledge ever attainable is at our finger tips. Doesn’t that just seem wrong? Shouldn’t we have revolutionized this 9 to 5 standard by now? A specific set of people certainly have, those being the Tim Ferris’s of the world who have preached their secrets to humanity. And yet, somehow most of the modern world is still moping around bathing in their own mundane suffering.

"A mundane pawn will remain in motion until acted upon by a counterculture force" - Personal coffee thought

This is all a tangent stemming from me recently finishing an internship at my university. Don’t get me wrong, it was an amazing opportunity and an insightful way to make a bit of cash over the summer. It was in medical physics, and since the work mainly consisted of running computer simulations, I got a taste for what sitting at an office all day trying to make a computer work feels like. I’m not a fan. For the first few weeks I was straight baffled how so many people do this their entire lives. Our modern workspaces/environments and practices are crap. In a recent interview on Russel Brand’s podcast Tucker Carlson made a fantastic point. He stated that:

“it seems as if post industrial revolution architecture hates humans. Architecture used to be made for humans and seemed to truly be built by humans who care for the humans around them. Now it feels like a form of entrapment”

That’s an abbreviation of his words, but it encapsulates this concept of having environments that really don’t foster human biology and spirit in a healthy manner.

So the question is: How do we fix our work environments that drain us via mundanity and infinite distractions?

I’d like to explore this on two different levels of scope. One on the microlevel, which includes smaller aspects of a work environment: Furniture, tools, movement practices, focus practices, and neural enhancers. The other on the macro-level, which includes structural changes to your environment: infrastructure materials (house or building), architectural beauty, biological proximity, a view inside and outside, temperature and air purification systems.

In the articles section of this website you'll soon find an assortment of articles on this subject (labeled CIWP). I will continually be releasing different pieces exploring different aspects of work philosophies for both scales listed above.