“They’re trying to change my way of life.” Uh, your way of life changes daily.

Probably the biggest justification given for culture wars stuff is that each side of a polarized contingent believes that the other side is trying to somehow “change their way of life,” either by making them socialist, making them autocratic, killing babies, killing black people in the streets, etc. This applies at work too, where resistance to change is more common than people changing socks, and the phrase “We’ve always done it that way…” is more powerful than revenue statements sometimes. (Not often, but sometimes.) A lot of work is about status, control, relevance, and protection … and people, especially high-ranking people, don’t want to see their “way of life changed.” I’d actually argue that’s one reason why “digital transformation” efforts are often such a joke. It’s OK to shift to cloud, or do a few Power BI suites, but once we get into the parts where work might really change and an executive’s connection to it might as well, people just pump the brakes. Hell, look at “You can work from home forever!” That’s already being pulled back at big companies. Don’t want to change that way of life.

But the thing is, though, your way of life does change every single day, because that’s like, uh, what life is. You might have the same kids, the same job, shop at the same places, stream the same shows, have the…