Work has conquered every day of the week. How do we remain human in a world that worships toil? | Justine Toh

Left unchecked, work will rule your life. If we can't entirely exorcise the work demon, we should, frankly, make it harder for it to do its thing

The best advice I've ever heard about rest also feels the most impossible: put it in your diary before anything else. Schedule it in, as deliberately as you would any other activity, before work colonises your entire consciousness. Like that TikTok user who started seeing an overstuffed Outlook calendar in random places, including the boxy pattern on an upholstered train seat.

Left unchecked, work will rule your life.