A Liminal Office Space

It’s Monday! It’s July! Here’s a letter for Monday, July 6th. A Liminal Office Space If you’ve spent enough time around me, you’ve probably heard me ask, more than once, “Have you seen Office Space?” The 1999 film by Mike Judge (who also created the hit TV series Silicon Valley) follows a guy who wakes up one day and decides to stop going to work. Chaos follows, but at its core the movie is about rejecting the social contract and giving in to your (presumably) hedonistic inner voice: moving through life in a Camus-style Absurd way, doing and saying whatever you feel like. All because you’ve been asked to include a cover sheet on your TPS reports one too many times. Now, despite my love for this movie, I really do enjoy my job. I’m fortunate enough to be around great colleagues and contribute to a mission that I think really matters (that is, malleable software). Still, this movie hits such a nerve for me; there’s no completely escaping the occasional preposterousness of the modern…