Book launch
coming may 2027
Modern work has become structurally unstable — constant reorganizations, fragmented roles, always-on expectations. Most of us are paying a hidden psychological price for it.
This book is about designing your way out. Not productivity hacks. Not mindset shifts. Actual design.
"We could call it meaning drift — the slow, structural erosion of the conditions through which work becomes meaningful."
From Chapter 2 · Designing Meaningful Work
New ideas you haven't heard before
01
The infinite work loop
The structural trap of always-on digital work — where effort expands to fill every available moment, and rest becomes impossible by design.
02
Meaning drift
Not burnout. Not disengagement. The quiet, structural erosion of the conditions that once made your work feel consequential — until you can no longer feel where it lands.
The invisible thread
03
The felt connection between effort and the human face of its consequence. When it's intact, meaning flows. When it's severed — by distance, abstraction, or organizational layers — meaning stops traveling.
Chapter I
The digital dilemma
How always-on technology created a new kind of cognitive trap — and why working harder inside it only makes it worse.
Chapter II
Designing meaningful work
Meaning is not a personality trait or a lucky coincidence. It is a design problem — and it has designable solutions.
Chapter III
Leading in fluid structures
What leadership looks like when the org chart changes faster than trust can form — and how the best leaders build stability without rigidity.
Chapter IV
Living and thriving
Recovery is not a weekend activity. It is a daily practice — and most of us have lost it without noticing.
The authors
Four researchers from the University of Ljubljana who study the psychology of work — and who wrote this book because the problem they kept diagnosing in their research was also the problem they kept experiencing in their own lives.
Matej Černe
Amadeja Lamovšek
Jure Andolšek
Maša Košak