workweek reading recs (13 January 2025)

[matsushima]

Hello and welcome to another week!

• The Case Against Budget Culture (2025/01)
• "I Was Trapped Forever in This Present Tense" (2019/11)
  Content notes: domestic violence
• Laziness Does Not Exist (2018/03)
• Fiction: Mother Tongues, by S. Qiouyi Lu

Bonus link because I spent a lot of time reading Ask A Manager last week trying to figure out the best way to phrase my request to be allowed to wear sound canceling headphones at work:

• My Coworker Wants Us to Call Her Boyfriend Her 'Master' (2016/09)

… an internet classic, honestly.

Comments

[matsushima]

"Mother Tongues" messes me up every time. I'm constantly recommending it to my coworkers because our school language of instruction is English and 99% of our students are EFL. I think it's something we need to keep in mind.