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A review by missbryden
Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life by Scott Sonenshein, Marie Kondo
4.0
Aesthetically, like Kondo’s other hard copy editions, it is a very pleasing book, both to sight and touch, the hard cover is a particular matte smooth surface and the calligraphy looks simple enough to keep with the Konmari visual tidiness but artistic enough to have visual interest.
Content: on the surface it sounds like it would be irrelevant, to me because I don’t have a job, and at this time when workplaces are shutdown so that the standard office life they’re describing is largely not happening. They do try to address people who don’t work in the traditional office but it's really just a mention or a nod to artists or very small offices or those who work from home. The non-physical stuff is still relevant with so many people attending Zoom meetings and otherwise doing things even more digitally then before.
One idea that’s new from the regular home Konmari is writing up tasks and meetings on index cards and considering them by the usual and new work-related joy factors. While it’s hard right now for me to separate out work/professional related tasks, I like the idea of doing that with all my tasks and “projects” as I get stuck on what to do and get in avoidance patterns.
As to being irrelevant I do like the idea of preparing with these ideas for an as yet non-existent (for me) workplace.
A lot of the book, especially in the Sonenshein chapters are reminiscent of [a:Cal Newport|147891|Cal Newport|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1542539623p2/147891.jpg] book(s), and maybe more hands-on to do than his [b:Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World|40672036|Digital Minimalism Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World|Cal Newport|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1549433350l/40672036._SY75_.jpg|63988240], which I thought was going to more directly guide me through cleaning up my computer.
Content: on the surface it sounds like it would be irrelevant, to me because I don’t have a job, and at this time when workplaces are shutdown so that the standard office life they’re describing is largely not happening. They do try to address people who don’t work in the traditional office but it's really just a mention or a nod to artists or very small offices or those who work from home. The non-physical stuff is still relevant with so many people attending Zoom meetings and otherwise doing things even more digitally then before.
One idea that’s new from the regular home Konmari is writing up tasks and meetings on index cards and considering them by the usual and new work-related joy factors. While it’s hard right now for me to separate out work/professional related tasks, I like the idea of doing that with all my tasks and “projects” as I get stuck on what to do and get in avoidance patterns.
As to being irrelevant I do like the idea of preparing with these ideas for an as yet non-existent (for me) workplace.
A lot of the book, especially in the Sonenshein chapters are reminiscent of [a:Cal Newport|147891|Cal Newport|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1542539623p2/147891.jpg] book(s), and maybe more hands-on to do than his [b:Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World|40672036|Digital Minimalism Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World|Cal Newport|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1549433350l/40672036._SY75_.jpg|63988240], which I thought was going to more directly guide me through cleaning up my computer.