What Work Is

Paul Cantor
2 min readMar 7, 2021

Work means doing a thing even when you don’t want to do it. When you are tired, when you rather be doing something else, when you simply do not care.

Work is not play. Although it can be, it is not. Work is work.

Work commands you to engage with something you would not engage with were it any other day, were you to…

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Paul Cantor

Wrote for the New York Times, New York Magazine, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Vice, Fader, Vibe, XXL, MTV News, many other places.