Introduction
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Chapter 1: Toad Work
Larkin, Philip, Toads
Ciulla, Joanne B, The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work, 2001
Marx, Karl, The German Ideology
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Project Word, ‘Untold Stories: A Survey of Freelance Investigative Reporters‘, 2015
Chapter 2: The Puritan Inside Me
Franklin, Benjamin Advice to a Young Tradesman, 1748
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Loh, K.K., Kanai, R., ‘Higher Media Multi-Tasking Activity Is Associated with Smaller Gray-Matter Density in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex‘, PLOS One, 2014
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Weber, Max, The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism, 1905
Taylor, Frederick Winslow, The Principles of Scientific Management
Allen, Dave, Getting Things Done, 2015
Cirillo, Francesco, The Pomodoro Technique
Thompson, E.P. ‘Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism‘, Past and Present, 1967
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Chapter 3: Near Yet Far
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Turkle, Sherry, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, 2015
Foster Wallace, David, Infinite Jest, 1996
Chapter 4: My Skinner Box & Me
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Carr, Nicolas, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brain, 2011
McLuhan, Marshall, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
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Clarke, Arthur C., interviewed on ABC news, 1974
Berners-Lee, Tim, ‘Information Management: A Proposal‘, 1989
Merzenich, M, ‘Going Googly’, from his personal blog, 2008
Fogg, B.J. Behavior Model
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Eyal, N. ‘Hooks: An Intro on How to Manufacture Desire‘, on his personal blog, 2012
Leslie, I. ‘The Scientists Who Make Apps Addictive‘, The Economist: 1843, October/November 2016
‘Facebook Revenue Soars on Ad Growth‘, Wall Street Journal, April 28, 2016
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‘What are Facebook’s Main Revenue Streams?‘, Market Realist, May 24, 2016
Harris, Tristan, ‘How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design Ethicist, Medium, 2016
Edelman, Joe, ‘Choicemaking and the Interface‘, from his personal blog, 2014
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Chapter 5: We Are All Entrepreneurs Now
‘Everyone will have to become an entrepreneur‘, Adioma (formerly Founders & Funders)
Say, Jean-Baptiste, A Treatise on Political Economy, 1821
Cantillon, Richard, An Essay on Economic Theory, 1755
Brockling, Ulrich, The Entrepreneurial Self, 2015
Lazear, E, ‘Entrepreneurship‘ Journal of Labor Economics, 2005
Backes-Gellner, U., Moog, P. ‘The disposition to become an entrepreneur and the jacks-of-all-trades in social and human capital‘ Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2013
von Hayek, Fredrich The Road to Serfdom, 1944
Klein, Naomi, The Shock Docterine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, 2007
Harvey, David, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, 2007
Oxfam, Inequality & Povery
Thatcher, Margaret, interviewed in The Sunday Times, May 3, 1981
Plato, The Republic, Book 3
Žižek, Slavoj, The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema,
Smail, David, The Origins of Unhappiness: A New Understanding of Personal Distress, 2001
factsheet on Depression, World Health Organisation, 2017
‘Depression up by “half a million”‘ BBC News, October 17, 2012
‘WHO world mental health surveys find mental disorders are widespread, disabling and often go untreated‘, WHO Press Release, June 2004
James, Oliver The Selfish Capitalist: Origins of Affluenza, 2008
Kasser, T & Ryan, R, The Dark Side of the American Dream, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1993
Huh, Ben, ‘When Death Feels Like a Good Option‘, personal blog, 2011
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Feld, Brad, ‘Entrepreneurial Life Shouldn’t Be This Way–Should It?‘, Inc, July, 2013
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Harbison, Niall, ‘Startups and depression: the dark side of entrepreneurship‘ The Guardian, Aug 2014
‘More young entrepreneurs launch start-ups in wake of recession‘ The Telegraph, October 2014
Mazzucato, Mariana The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths, 2013
‘On the Origins of Google,’ National Science Foundation
‘Elon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies‘, LA Times, May 2015
‘akamai’s [state of the internet] Q3 2016 Executive Summary‘, akamai
Zuckerberg, Mark, ‘Is Connectivity a Human Right?‘
‘Dear Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook is not, and should not be the internet‘ Hindustan Times, April 2015
‘Millions of Facebook users have no idea they’re using the internet‘, QZ, Feb 2015
‘Trillion Dollar Scandal: The biggest heist you’ve never heard of‘ One.org, Dec, 2014
‘The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death”‘ New Yorker, March 2017
‘Lyft Thinks It’s ‘Exciting’ That a Driver Was Working While Giving Birth, Gizmodo, Sept 2016
‘Deliveroo accused of ‘creating vocabulary’ to avoid calling couriers employees‘ The Guardian, Apr 2017
‘Taylor Byrnes, Winnipeg Woman, Has Job Interview Cancelled After She Asked About Pay‘ Huffington Post, March 2017
‘Gig Work, Online Selling and Home Sharing‘, Pew Research Center, Nov 2016
Chapter 6: Panoptic People
Nurmi, N. ‘Work stressors related to geographic distance and electronic dependence in virtual teams‘, International Journal of Business and Systems Research, 2010
‘Daughters twice as likely as sons to care for parents in old age’
Sullivan C & Lewis S, ‘Home-based Telework, Gender, and the Synchronization of Work and Family: Perspectives of Teleworkers and their Co-residents‘ Gender, Work, and Organization, April 2001
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Waber, Ben ‘People Analytics: How Social Sensing Technology Will Transform Business and What It Tells Us about the Future of Work‘ FT Press, 2013
Chapter 7: Wearing Gyges Ring
Hardy, Thomas The Mayor of Casterbridge
Gelfand M & Christakopoulou S, ‘Culture and Negotiator Cognition: Judgment Accuracy and Negotiation Processes in Individualistic and Collectivistic Cultures‘, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 1999
Stewart C, Setlock L, & Fussell S ‘Conversational Argumentation in Decision Making: Chinese and U.S. Participants in Face-to-Face and Instant-Messaging Interactions‘ Discourse Processes, 2004
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Teehan G ‘Reactions: Not everything in life is Likable‘, Facebook Design, Feb 2016
‘Slack’s growth is insane, with daily user count up 3.5X in a year‘ Techcruch, April 2016
Fried, J ‘Is group chat making you sweat?’ Signal v. Noise, March 2016
Mann, L ‘The baiting crowd in episodes of threatened suicide‘ Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1981
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Ernest-Jones M, Nettle D, Bateson M, ‘Effects of eye images on everyday cooperative behavior: a field experiment‘ Evolution and Human Behavior, 2011
van der Linden, Sander ‘How the Illusion of Being Observed Can Make You a Better Person‘, Scientific American, May 2011
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Cheng J, et al, ‘Anyone Can Become a Troll: Causes of Trolling Behavior in Online Discussions‘ Stanford University & Cornell University, Feb 2017
Chapter 8: Design My Life
‘This Guy is Launching 12 Startups in 12 Months‘ WIRED, Aug 2014
‘Globetrotting Digital Nomads: The Future Of Work Or Too Good To Be True?‘ Forbes, Dec 2015
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‘Ditching the office to work in paradise as a “digital nomad” has a hidden dark side‘, QZ, Sept 2016