What is “woke” and how does it relate to “work?”

Ted Bauer
13 min readSep 21, 2022

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How does “woke” relate to “work?”

89.3 FM seems to have defined it in the image above, so that’s good— but there’s more than that. I would say “woke” is one of the most contentious words of the last 5–10 years along ideological lines. Some see it as corrupting the traditional values of Americana and families with nonsense, and some see it as the only way out of the hellscape we’ve created around race relations. In reality, I just described about 6% of people, and 94% are just trying to get their kids to Little League and maybe get laid twice a week. We spend a lot of time talking…

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Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.