This definitely fits in the "must read" category. I listened to the NPR interview with Matt Crawford and felt an immediate interest in reading more about his own experience with the academia and think tank leadership as it relates to motorcycle repair and our sense of work and value.Growing up on a farm and having strong mechanical/creative instincts makes me feel an instinctive resonance with what he is talking about. There are few things as satisfying as a physically demanding day of work where you spend your entire energies focussed on tangible, right-in-front-of-you problems. I compare that with something else I love - digging into a good pile of project details, reading, writing, researching. I love them all.
For me the balance is important and most jobs just can't fully engage that balance so we have to find our own way to create a custom mix in our off-time or, where we have understanding colleagues and organizations, creatively find ways to bring that mix into our paying work. This is, of course, neither simple nor clear but well worth exploring in our conversations about work and life. I'll write more once I've managed to get a copy of the book.
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