Work-Life Balance Isn’t the Problem. Meaningless Work Is.

Everyone’s talking about balance. But maybe what we really need is a reason to show up. We’ve elevated “work-life balance” into a modern mantra. But for most of human history, the idea would’ve seemed absurd. No Cro-Magnon hunter skipped the pursuit of a mammoth to focus on self-care. No medieval blacksmith paused forging horseshoes to …