Recalcitrant Egg 3

I've started reading  Head, Hand, Heart: Why Intelligence Is Overrated, Manual Workers Matter, and Caregivers Deserve More Respect by David Goodhart and it really resonates. He divides the labor market into three broad categories: Head - primarily cognitive, working with symbols. Think computer programmers, accountants, lawyers, physicians who work in the medicine specialties - family medicine, internal medicine, infectious disease.  Hand - primarily physical - craftspeople such as carpenters, plumbers, machinists, as well as surgeons - people who manipulate the physical world with skill. Heart - primarily caring professions - nursing comes at the top of the list, but also people who provide child care. Other caring professions.  All professions have a mix of all three to some degree or other. Nurses certainly have components of cognitive and physical. Craftspeople have cognitive elements (and are often underrated), but also have to deal with customers and fellow workers.  I'm

I feel like each of us has some fundamental sentiment, and it is known by the art that speaks to us most completely. I think I fell in love with Bruce Springsteen's Jungleland the very first time I heard it. It spoke to me at a fundamental level. I can't tell you how many times I have listened to it, alone in my car, the radio up loud. There is something about the defiance, the basic unfairness, and the ultimate tragic arc that I just mainline right into my soul.  I think we all have some fundamental sentiment in our soul. My wife hears me playing stuff like this and she just doesn't get it - it doesn't speak to her at all. She has a different set of preferences and I'm not going to talk out of turn about hers, but let's just say that we don't agree on a lot of music. She has a different fundamental sentiment. I don't think these preferences have rank or ordinality - they are no different than liking blue or green - they are entirely nominal. But they a