Mattering: The Secret to Building a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose
by Jennifer Breheny Wallace · 13 Jan 2026 · 206pp · 68,830 words
add meaningful value in this world. Even headlines started to read differently to me: “Men Are in a Loneliness Epidemic,” “Why So Many Employees Are ‘Quiet Quitting,’” and “The Caregiver Crisis.” Mattering is double-edged—powerful when we feel it and destructive when we don’t. The deep sense of crisis we
The Wealth Ladder: Proven Strategies for Every Step of Your Financial Life
by Nick Maggiulli · 22 Jul 2025
and so fulfill itself.[12] This is how work can contribute to increased mental wealth. While early retirement and being disengaged at work (i.e., quiet quitting) are currently all the rage, I ask that you reconsider such notions. The goal of work shouldn’t be to do less while getting paid
Working Identity, Updated Edition, With a New Preface: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career
by Herminia Ibarra · 17 Oct 2023 · 200pp · 67,943 words
her, his support waned and so did the corresponding possible self. Like her, most of us feel bad about postponing the break. Some of us “quiet quit,” putting in progressively less and less time at the office. Others walk out the door (or are pushed out) sooner. Either way, short-circuiting the
Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters
by Joanna Walsh · 22 Sep 2025 · 255pp · 80,203 words
work, but at a leisurely pace, uncommitted, painfully pleasurable. LOLcats are not a violent revolution but a go-slow or, in its more contemporary iterations: quiet quitting, bullshit jobs, lazy-girl careers, #fails. Cheezburger’s para-site, Fail Blog, expanded from photos of #fails (verb becomes noun) to whole narratives.34 Most
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future
by Jean M. Twenge · 25 Apr 2023 · 541pp · 173,676 words
off their post-recession willingness to focus on work. Perceptions of Gen Z’s work ethic took a further hit in 2022 when the term quiet quitting (doing the minimum at work) started making the rounds, often on the Gen Z haunt TikTok. “Goal for today—500 calls?! We’re doing 50
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig · 1 Jan 1974
involves unselfconsciousness, which produces a complete identification with ones circumstances, and there are levels and levels of this identification and levels and levels of quietness quite as profound and difficult of attainment as the more familiar levels of activity. The mountains of achievement are Quality discovered in one direction only, and
Look To Windward
by Iain M. Banks · 14 Jan 2011 · 263pp · 121,207 words
beggars belief, doesn't it?' 'He was a pleasant walking companion and seems a decent sort of person. A little dour, perhaps.' 'Dour?' 'Reserved and quiet, quite serious, with a sort of stillness in him.' 'Stillness.' 'The sort of stillness there is in the centre of the third movement of "Tempest Night
The Man Who Was Saturday
by Patrick Bishop · 21 Jan 2019 · 351pp · 108,068 words
her uncle in great affection. She knew him as a child when Airey and Diana would come to visit. She remembers someone who was ‘very quiet … quite grave … you wouldn’t jump up and sit on his knee, it wasn’t like that, but he paid attention to you. He really looked
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
by Adam L. Alter · 15 Feb 2017 · 331pp · 96,989 words
. The little arrow jumps around the screen projected behind Cavanagh’s head, and the crowd gasps as he conquers the game. He celebrates by saying quietly, quite bashfully, “Now there’s a much larger percentage of people who have seen this ending.” At first Super Hexagon sounds too difficult to be appealing
The autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X; Alex Haley · 15 Aug 1999 · 508pp · 192,524 words
his age. I think he had the sense to see, when the rest of us didn't, what was in the wind for us. He quietly quit school and went to town in search of work. He took any kind of job he could find and he would come home, dog-tired
Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
by Joseph Menn · 3 Jun 2019 · 302pp · 85,877 words
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
by Cal Newport · 5 Mar 2024 · 233pp · 65,893 words