"Peevey didn't get anything out of it," he said, "except glorified tributes from friends for good works, particularly on environmental issues and green energy".
As people discovered that debt and overconsumption cause stress to families, the planet, and each of us, many turned instead to friends, family, good works, spirituality, and personal growth as the keys to a good life.
She missed her friends and her good work.
We became great friends and did good work with those groups.
Tell Your Friends keeps up the good work, this time wrapped in lush, sparkling Kanye West piano chords, as Tesfaye croons exhaustedly and self-referentially about "poppin' pills" and "fuckin' bitches".
Praise came from an unexpected quarter: Sir Keith Joseph, Leeds MP and former education minister, said to me, "your friend is doing really good work, bringing into higher education many of those whose parents left school at 14.
"I will not rehearse the usual list of what matters most, namely: friends and family, love, honour, good work, reputation," he writes.
"When you first get here, you're like, 'Ick, I don't know if I can do this,' but then you get used to it and you make friends and you find it's good work," said Lorival Francisco dos Santos, a 46-year-old from Brazil's impoverished north-east who spent 13 years at the landfill.
I have known -- and written about -- the good work of our friends at Wells Fargo for years.
As a friend of mine said recently, there's plenty of good work to do.
