别人写的一篇博文

谈到了几个点，值得思考。

Disconnected

Date: 25 July 2022

Categories: essays

Tags: capitalism, labor, work, work-life

https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2022/07/25/disconnected/

• I have been mostly offline for about two months. Or, at least I have not been writing here like usual, nor posting on Twitter. I have been very disconnected, particularly from work but also the internet in general, starting right before WWDC this year. I still have not watched a single WWDC video, not even the keynote. I have hundreds of unread posts in my RSS reader. And, I am a month behind on reading iOS Dev Weekly.

我基本上已经下线两个月了。或者，至少我没有像往常一样在这里写作，也没有在Twitter上发帖。从今年的全球开发者大会之前开始，我就一直与外界隔绝，尤其是与工作，以及互联网。我还没有看一个全球开发者大会的视频，甚至连主题演讲都没有。我的RSS阅读器里有数百篇未读的文章。我已经落后《iOS Dev Weekly》一个月了。

• This is the first time I have ever been completely absent from WWDC since I started doing iOS and macOS development. It feels simultaneously liberating and overwhelming to truly not give a fuck about staying up-to-date on literally everything. I still need to work on that overwhelming part. There will always be too much information to absorb, so why let myself get overwhelmed? It’s best to learn what you need as you go anyway. So focus on knowing where the information is, not what it is. Life is too short to carry that stress.

自从我开始做iOS和macOS开发以来，这是我第一次完全缺席WWDC。它感觉同时解放和压倒性的真正不在乎保持最新的一切。我还需要在这方面继续努力。总会有太多的信息需要吸收，所以为什么要让自己不堪重负呢?无论如何，最好是在你去的时候了解你需要什么。所以专注于知道信息在哪里，而不是它是什么。人生苦短，不能承受这种压力。

• To stay current and relevant in this industry is to be perpetually blasted with a firehose while attempting to drink through a straw. Even if you are diligent you will get trampled eventually while attempting to gasp for a single breath of air. Nothing and no one slows down for you when you are having a hard time or simply need a rest in this capitalist hellscape of a society that is continuously in crisis. Tech companies, like all corporations, expect peak performance from workers at all times. And they persistently reproduce the features of capitalism — manufacturing miniature crises, generating constant urgency around arbitrary deadlines. It doesn’t matter if the world is on fire. Your time is theirs for purchase and you better be fucking productive. And of course, if their mismanagement and greed results in layoffs, you are on your own. Good riddance.

在这个行业中保持最新和相关的是永远与消防水管爆炸，而试图通过吸管喝。即使你很勤奋，你最终也会在试图大口喘气的时候被踩到。在这个持续陷入危机的资本主义地狱般的社会中，当你遇到困难或只是需要休息时，没有任何事情或任何人会为你放慢脚步。和所有公司一样，科技公司希望员工在任何时候都能表现最佳。它们不断地重现资本主义的特征——制造微型危机，在任意的最后期限周围不断产生紧迫感。就算世界着火了也没关系。你的时间是他们用来购买的你最好有生产力。当然，如果他们的管理不善和贪婪导致裁员，你只能靠自己了。终于解脱了。

• And then there’s social media. I can barely spend a few minutes on Twitter or elsewhere before my patience runs out. I can’t tell what changed — me, or the algorithms. Probably both. In any case, scrolling through a feed has become mostly insufferable for me. Social media shits in your head. I’ll be back on Twitter in some capacity, but likely much more limited. Luckily, all my posts here get tweeted automatically so I don’t have to log in for that.

还有社交媒体。在我的耐心耗尽之前，我几乎不能在Twitter或其他地方花上几分钟。我不知道是我变了，还是算法变了。可能两者兼而有之。无论如何，浏览动态已经成为我最无法忍受的事情。社交媒体会在你脑子里拉屎。我会以某种身份回到Twitter，但可能会更有限。幸运的是，我所有的帖子都是自动发布的，所以我不需要登录。

• I needed a break from it all. I needed to focus on prioritizing all other aspects of my life and wellbeing that do not include work. We are all worth more than our capacity for production under capitalism. Yet the unrelenting culture of careerism and workaholism convinces us otherwise and pressures us to ignore all other aspects of our lives, to forego joy in exchange for chasing promotions. We are left centering our lives around unfulfilling jobs and work that often rarely matters beyond its capacity to produce shareholder value and concentrate wealth for executives. And for what? Why? There is no avoiding work, we have no choice if we want to survive in this system. But we can stop it from consuming us.

我需要休息一下。我需要优先考虑生活和幸福的所有其他方面，不包括工作。在资本主义制度下，我们的价值都超过了我们的生产能力。然而，孜孜不倦的追求事业和工作狂的文化使我们相信了另一种情况，迫使我们忽视生活的其他方面，为了追求晋升而放弃快乐。我们的生活被留在了没有成就感的工作和工作上，这些工作除了能够为股东创造价值和为高管集中财富之外，通常很少发挥作用。和什么?为什么?工作是不可避免的，如果我们想在这个体系中生存，我们没有选择。但我们可以阻止它吞噬我们。

• This is one of the main reasons I left full-time work to do freelance. Even then, I still sometimes get swallowed by the despair of toil. I took this break to recalibrate and remind myself that everything else matters more than work. Work will always be there tomorrow. And it will always be the least important part of living. But it is too easy to forget that sometimes. It is too easy to lose your balance.

这是我离开全职工作做自由职业者的主要原因之一。即便如此，我有时还是会被辛苦的绝望所吞噬。我利用这段休息时间重新调整并提醒自己，其他一切都比工作更重要。明天的工作永远在那里。它永远是生活中最不重要的部分。但有时我们很容易忘记这一点。你太容易失去平衡了。

• Anyway, this post is my attempt to slowly come back from this break and return with recalibrated priorities. I will be catching up on reading and watching WWDC videos, at least in some sense.

不管怎样，这篇文章是我试图慢慢从这段休息中恢复过来，重新调整优先级。我将阅读和观看WWDC的视频，至少在某种意义上是这样。

• I have always enjoyed writing here and I do miss it. I have a lot of drafts in progress and a lot of ideas in my queue, so expect my posts to return somewhat regularly. Though this time, with balance.

我一直很喜欢在这里写作，我真的很想念这里。我有很多正在起草的草案，也有很多想法在等待我，所以希望我的帖子能定期回复。虽然这一次，与平衡。

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