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- Bonjour Laziness: Jumping Off the Corporate Ladder – Corinne Maier
- Death By PowerPoint – Michael Flocker
- Downshifting: How to Work Less and Enjoy Life More – John D. Drake
- Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs
- How to Be Idle – Tom Hodgkinson
- Job Hopper – Ayun Halliday
- Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach To Fun on the Job – Dennis W. Bakke
- My Job, My Self: Work and the Creation of the Modern Individual – Al Gini
- Never Get a "Real" Job – Scott Gerber
- Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich
- No-Collar: The Humane Workplace and Its Hidden Costs – Andrew Ross
- Scratch Beginnings – Adam Shepard
- Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America – John de Graaf
- The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary – Mark Sanborn
- The Future of Success: Working and Living in the New Economy – Robert B. Reich
- The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline Of Leisure – Juliet Schor
- The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work – Joanne B. Ciulla
- The Working Poor : Invisible n America – David K. Shipler
- White-Collar Sweatshop THE DETERIORATION OF WORK AND ITS REWARDS IN CORPORATE AMERICA – Jill Andresky Fraser
- Work to Live – Joe Robinson
- Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do – STUDS TERKEL
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Check out my latest interview on NBC! :)
http://bit.ly/9NKXTx It was a great morning hanging out with the news crew. I thought the Office Space “TPS” report comment in the beginning went over like a storm!! The studio was in stitches. Thanks Mark!! Heading on to NYC early … Continue reading
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SXSW Interactive Podcast: What Coworking Tells Us About the Future of Work
What happens when people can work anywhere – home offices, coffee shops, libraries, coworking spaces? With mobile computing, telecommunications, and broadband, knowledge workers are choosing new work arrangements and self-organizing in looser, more transient arrangements. We’ll discuss these broad trends … Continue reading
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Quote of the Month: “Opportunity is something more people would recognize if it didn’t come disguised as hard work.”
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“Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity”
This guy wrote a book about creative pitfalls and has little cartoons about them. It’s pretty cool. You can check out the first part of the book here… http://gapingvoid.com/books Let me know if anything helps!
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WSJ: Idle Pastime: In Off Hours, Truckers Pick Up Stitching
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704896104575139990857438962.html?mod=wsj_share_facebook
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I have seen the future… and it is quite lame.
Suburbia has never been so boring and homogenous. We’ve gone from village, to mall, to stripmall, to THIS. This photo was taken just outside of Sacramento, CA. Someone must have forgotten to support those local retailers. Who is going to … Continue reading
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THE LABOR MOVEMENT: The folks who brought you the weekend.
A brief history of a very young concept – the weekend. http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/11/24/a_weekend_history_lesson/
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SXSWi 2010: Shocker…Digital Is Permanent
Just got back from the 2010 SXSW conference. Another great year. Digital: We’ll, it’s here to stay. Some estimates were that the digital attendees and exhibitors doubled from last year. It’s becoming the premier conference for new digital … Continue reading
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CrowdFlower – The SuperTemp MatchMaker
From Dolores Labs, crowdflower.com “Crowdsourcing Labor” Check them out, new on the scene. Will post details as I uncover them…
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Hotbed of Green Innovation – Cleveland?!? And helping unhitch the leash
A Cleveland-based company (my home town) has developed a new device to charge small electronics using kinetic energy from your movement while walking, bike-riding, driving (on bumpier roads in economy cars, I’d assume!). Great for traveling, outdoor travel while still … Continue reading
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