Field Notes

Work Is Practice Field Notes are short observations from the everyday theatre of modern work.

They are not advice, productivity hacks, or moral lessons.

They are small documentary fragments, moments noticed in meetings, emails, corridors, and calendars.

They begin from the suspicion that most of what shapes our working lives goes unnoticed, and that cultivating attention may be the most subversive professional skill of all.

Field Notes appear spontaneously, whenever something catches my eye. They won’t show up in every article, and when they do, they may have nothing to do with the topic at hand. If a Field Note is present, you’ll find it at the end of the page.

Feel free to share your own Field Note in the comments. On any page. Related or not. The archive is open. Add to it.

Field Note Index

001 - The Ritual of “Quick Question.”

002 - The Red Queen Effect