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# Bullshit Jobs
- URL: https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/book-bullshit-jobs/
- Published: 2026-08-09T14:51:02.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-11T12:59:39.000Z
- Description: David Graeber, 2018
- Author: Frank Burridge
- Tags: #book

A large share of modern work is jobs even their holders believe are pointless, and it damages people, because humans need their work to have effects in the world. It is an audit lens for our profession, which produces its share of reports nobody reads and renders that exist only to win the job. The book explains why this practice stays small, and why scope gets pruned like a Fukuoka field.

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