"**To resist in place is to make oneself into a shape that cannot so easily be appropriated by a capitalist value system**. "**To do this means refusing the frame of reference**: in this case, a frame of reference in which value is determined by productivity, the strength of one’s career, and individual entrepreneurship. It means embracing and trying to inhabit somewhat fuzzier or blobbier ideas: **of maintenance as productivity, of the importance of nonverbal communication, and of the mere experience of life as the highest goal**. It means recognizing and celebrating a form of the self that changes over time, exceeds algorithmic description, and whose identity doesn’t always stop at the boundary of the individual." ([Location 175](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07RHWKD7N&location=175)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[context]], [[counter-intuitive-thinking]], [[resting]], [[communication-skills]], **Source** -- [[20251230081807 - B - How to Do Nothing]]