Meaningful Work

Resources on Meaningful Work & More!

You'll find just about everything you need for reflecting on how to make work and life align more with your goals.

P2U blogs are all about public philosophy. We not only apply philosophical ideas to better understand issues and questions that matter to work and life, but we also offer accessible discussion and thought-provoking insights.

Why Your Job Satisfaction May Not Be Meaningful

Todd Mei

Mar 11
6 min

Why Your Job Satisfaction May Not Be Meaningful

Job satisfaction is easy enough to describe, but in practice it might be harming your life. A remedy lies in scaling job satisfaction.

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Todd Mei

Feb 1
6 min

Hate Your Job But Love Your Leisure?

If you hate your job but put up with it because you can do what you love in your free time, you may be doing more harm than good to yourself

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Graeme Forbes

Jan 29
5 min

Management Is Not Lion Taming

Bad management philosophy is based on control. Empathy and kindness are actually much more effective if understood and applied correctly.

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Todd Mei

Jan 14
7 min

How Can We Bring about Meaningful Work?

Meaningful work can be understood at the levels of society, business, and the individual. This blog covers the essentials of meaningful work

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What I Learned from Working at REI (What the Green Vest Is Really About)

Todd Mei

Aug 23, 2022
8 min

What I Learned from Working at REI (What the Green Vest Is Really About)

Like many people, my wife and I used the pandemic to make some big changes in our lives. We left our academic careers as tenured...

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Todd Mei

Feb 10, 2022
1 min

"Encouragement as Work"

Many of us seem to be asking ourselves what we want from our jobs in the broadest possible way, a decent wage is but one desideratum.

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Todd Mei

Dec 8, 2021
5 min

What Is Meaningful Work?

The general idea of meaningful work is that the job one does or the career one adopts in some way contributes to a meaningful life.

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Coping with Change and Transition: An Existential Management Point of View

Todd Mei

Jun 14, 2021
6 min

Coping with Change and Transition: An Existential Management Point of View

What if the key to organizations coping with change lied in caring for its people? Would might this look like?

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The Distant Future: Is Your Business Remote Proof?

Todd Mei

Nov 2, 2020
5 min

The Distant Future: Is Your Business Remote Proof?

Remote working is a double-edged sword. More efficiency at the price of the loss of work-life balance and a sense of cohesion and identity.

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Has Your Workplace Turned into Brains with Faces? Here's a Fix

Todd Mei

Oct 5, 2020
5 min

Has Your Workplace Turned into Brains with Faces? Here's a Fix

A virtual meeting or event that works is one where personalities are able to be on display in order that the others can attune to them

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Todd Mei

Aug 10, 2020
4 min

Remote Working: How Do You See Others?

Remote working conditions are often not organic enough to allow for co-worker visibility. But that can be fixed.

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All Work and No Play Makes Jackie a Dull Void

Todd Mei

Jun 24, 2020
5 min

All Work and No Play Makes Jackie a Dull Void

Seeing employees as a means to an end inevitably creates a culture in which practices and tasks treat and reinforce people as merely means.

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