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Our Hosts in the Wild - The Anxious Achiever: Why Giving Up Control at Work can Improve Your Emotional Health

At Work with The Ready

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Why Work Sucks So Much?

Aaron Carroll: Why does work suck so much? It's a question that I have stayed up many nights thinking about. He says our modern way of working with hierarchy, with budgets and bosses came about when the factory was becoming critical in business. But as the next century unfolded, all the work that really started to matter was not complicated work, it was complex work," he said. "We're bringing this other toolkit ... to a problem about social inequality or how do we build AI"

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