The Post-Bullshit Toolkit
Your working day is full. But what did it actually achieve?
You attend meetings, update dashboards, answer messages, prepare reports, and demonstrate progress. You are constantly active-yet increasingly unable to explain who benefits from what you produce.
Is the work genuinely useful, merely badly organised, or fundamentally empty?
This is not another productivity book.
The Post-Bullshit Toolkit will not teach you how to complete meaningless tasks faster. It is a practical guide for recognising empty work, protecting your judgement, and deciding what to do next-without impulsively resigning or destroying your financial security.
Building on the questions opened by David Graeber, this independent practical volume moves from diagnosis to action.
Inside, you will learn how to:
- distinguish difficult work from performative or empty work;
- measure your exposure with the Emptiness Index;
- identify recurring workplace archetypes and organisational red flags;
- translate vague corporate language into concrete meaning;
- reduce unnecessary meetings, metrics, dashboards, and rituals;
- establish professional boundaries without creating avoidable conflict;
- decide whether to stay, repair, negotiate, or prepare to leave;
- build a responsible 90-day or twelve-month transition plan;
- identify work connected to care, repair, teaching, maintenance, public service, practical competence, and real human need.
The book includes diagnostic questions, checklists, decision matrices, boundary scripts, workplace exercises, exit scenarios, and thirteen standalone practical tools.
It is written for employees whose calendars are full but whose contribution has become difficult to identify; for people experiencing burn-out, bore-out, or brown-out; and for experienced professionals who have watched useful knowledge become secondary to reporting, visibility, corporate language, and permanent transformation.
You do not need to resign tomorrow.
You need enough clarity to protect what still matters, recognise what can no longer be repaired, and take the next honest step.
Work should not be judged by how busy it appears.
It should be judged by what it helps keep alive.
The practical volume of the Post-Bullshit Work Series.
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