Robots Will Steal Your Job #17: The Purpose of Life

Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK Audiobook

If our life's purpose is not the work we do, then what is it?

Chapter Index

00:00 | Intro

00:25 | Chapter Begins

08:18 | Outro

References

1. The Essential 20: Twenty Components of an Excellent Health Care Team, Dianne Dukette and David Cornish, 2009. RoseDog Books. pp. 72-73.
2. The New York Magazine Environmental Teach-In, Elizabeth Barlow, 30 March 1970. New York Magazine. p. 30.
   http://books.google.com/books?id=cccDAAAAMBAJ\&printsec=frontcover\#PPA30,M1. Fuller was of course also an architect, an engineer, an author, a designer, a most notable systems theorist, and he is considered by many to be one of the greatest thinkers of the last century; having coined the terms “Spaceship Earth”, ephemeralization, and synergetic, among others.
3. Philippe Beaudoin, 2012.
   https://plus.google.com/u/0/107988469357342173268/posts/2MVoo5KG1eP
4. Rice University’s 2012 commencement, Salman Khan, 2012.
   http://www.khanacademy.org/talks-and-interviews/v/salman-khan-at-rice-university-s-2012-commencement
5. 80% Hate Their Jobs – But Should You Choose A Passion Or A Paycheck?, 2010. Business Insider.
   http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-10-04/strategy/30001895_1_new-job-passion-careers

Attributions

• Chapter Text and comment section: Chapter 17: The Purpose of Life | Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That’s OK
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• Album art adapted by: Redd Spinks

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