This was, and remains, the dystopian reality underlying the redesign and automation of the office. Its mandate is never “You figured out how to do yo… - Anne Helen Petersen

All the decisions and multitasking that are already hard to juggle when you’re well-nourished and have a safe and consistent place to live become immeasurably more difficult

But unruliness – in its many manifestations, small and large, in action, in representation, in language – feels more important, more necessary, than ever.

So-called Tiger Moms have often been demonized in the press, framed as crass, domineering, and un-American for their single-mindedness in preparing their children for college. Yet “good” Americans — which is to say, upper-middle-class white Americans — do the same thing. They simply cloak conversations about college in the rhetoric of “happiness” and “fit” and “fulfilling one’s potential.” It’s less crass. But it’s still bullshit.