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    <title>Minimum Viable Work - work futures</title>
    <dc:date>2021-07-24T11:58:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://workfutures.substack.com/p/minimum-viable-work</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am now fascinated with a fork off of Sahil’s insight, one that I will be pursuing in the coming months: Minimum Viable Work. How can companies operate with the greatest degree of individual autonomy, the lowest degree of managerial overhead, and the highest levels of cooperation without coercion?

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife social-norms rather-interesting working-from-home performance-measure institutional-design</dc:subject>
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    <title>WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE: Characteristics - Showing Up for Racial Justice - SURJ</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-14T10:54:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/white-supremacy-culture-characteristics.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Below is a list of characteristics of white supremacy culture which show up in our organizations. Culture is powerful precisely because it is so present and at the same time so very difficult to name or identify. The characteristics listed below are damaging because they are used as norms and standards without being pro-actively named or chosen by the group. They are damaging because they promote white supremacy thinking. They are damaging to both people of color and to white people. Organizations that are people of color-led or a majority people of color can also demonstrate many damaging characteristics of white supremacy culture.
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<dc:subject>culture racism worklife community-dynamics management fascism white-supremacy</dc:subject>
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    <title>Virtual Conferences</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-02T15:39:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.acm.org/virtual-conferences</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In March 2020, an ACM Presidential Task Force was formed to provide quick advice to conference organizers suddenly facing the need to move their conference online in light of the social distancing recommendations and global restrictions on travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We provide concrete advice for events of all sizes. We discuss the tasks required of organizers, specific platforms that can be used and financial considerations. We collect examples of conferences that have gone virtual and lessons learned from their experiences.

As both heavy users of these technologies and researchers responsible for developing them, the ACM community is especially well-positioned to offer advice that we hope will be helpful to other groups dealing with the same problems.

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<dc:subject>academic-culture conferences working-from-home worklife RonaWorld ACM publishing online-learning</dc:subject>
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    <title>How To Juggle Projects</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-02T12:53:21+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“What are you working on?” is probably the question writers get asked most in the small-talk section at the beginning of a meeting. If I were to face that question today, the answer would be “Four feature films, two TV shows and a podcast series”. In addition, I’m also always involved with several pitches and some ongoing development conversations. That sounds like a lot, and it looks like a lot when I write it down. And this isn’t about bragging - I didn’t say all of these were paid jobs and certainly there have been plenty of times when NONE of them would have been paid work. This is about managing a workload; although it looks like I must be crazy busy, I rarely feel crazy busy - I still seem to have plenty of time in a day for meetings and for reading, watching stuff, staring into space etc. I always take time out at lunch to watch an episode of something, and I go to the gym (sometimes), go for a walk every day, do the shopping etc.

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    <title>Myth &amp; Moor: Dark Beauty</title>
    <dc:date>2020-02-09T00:17:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.terriwindling.com/blog/2018/09/on-dark-beauty.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Where woundedness can be refined into beauty," he adds, "a wonderful transfiguration takes place. For instance, compassion is one of the most beautiful presences a person can bring to the world and most compassion is born from one's own woundedness. When you have felt deep emotional pain and hurt, you are able to imagine what the pain of another is like; their suffering touches you. This is the most decisive and vital threshold in human experience and behavior. The greatest evil and destruction arises when people are unable to feel compassion. The beauty of compassion continues to shelter and save our world. If that beauty were quenched, there would be nothing between us and the end-darkness which would pour in torrents over us."

So please, fellow artists and art lovers, keep seeking out, spreading, and making beauty. Don't stop. We all need you. I need you.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>art advice worklife lifelife</dc:subject>
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    <title>Laudator Temporis Acti: Aimless Work</title>
    <dc:date>2019-11-23T13:01:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2019/11/aimless-work.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[No worse fate can befall a man than to have to work every day from morning to night against his will at a job that he abhors. The more the worker feels himself a man, the more must he detest work of this kind — the more acutely is he aware of the fact that such aimless labour gives rise to no inner spiritual satisfaction.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife alienation quotes</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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    <title>Unemployed Negativity: What Deleuze and Guattari Get Wrong (About Capitalism).</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-22T11:45:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2019/07/what-deleuze-and-guattari-get-wrong.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["…the theorizing that Deleuze and Guattari offer, what could be characterized briefly as a theory of the economy of affects, offers at least some basis for beginning to understand the perverse world we live in in which the rise and fall of the stock market is almost a libidinally charged event and unemployment is as much a psychic trauma as an economic condition."]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-economy capitalism cultural-assumptions cultural-norms worklife to-understand it's-very-subtle-The-Continental</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://gukira.wordpress.com/2018/03/02/fragments-toward-freedom/">
    <title>fragments toward freedom – Gukira</title>
    <dc:date>2019-06-24T10:31:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://gukira.wordpress.com/2018/03/02/fragments-toward-freedom/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We now inhabit two governing temporalities: the hustle and the grind

the hustle is the gig economy, the sharing economy, the precarious economy, the anxiety economy: it is frantic and fragmented, unstable, frustrating, and disciplinary—“we all have to hustle”; it is the hurry up and work and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait to get paid, or never paid; it is less about getting and staying ahead, but perhaps it is, but with the knowledge-feeling that getting and staying ahead means just keeping your head above water; it is the loan economy, the credit economy, the debt economy, the “waiting for something to come through and I’ll sort you out” economy; it’s faking it while you fake it; it’s a survival economy; it’s Kenya’s increasing dollar millionaires, paid with your hustle

the grind economy—I listened to 90s R&B—wears down and convinces us that being worn down is pleasurable; “I’m on my grind”; the seduction of the grind—why capitalism loves it—is because it convinces us that we choose to grind and to be worn down, worn out, worn away; “I’m on my grind”; a misrecognition: that you own the grind; “stop interrupting my grinding”; “bump and grind,” a song created by a sexual abuser, who sees “nothing wrong”; kikulacho

What did we have to lose—or never know—to transform hustle and grind into objects of desire and even love?

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife philosophy political-economy links-and-connections</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://blueoakcouncil.org/examples">
    <title>Blue Oak Council Examples</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-14T12:25:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://blueoakcouncil.org/examples</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This page links to example language showing how contracts, policies, and other documents can reference the Blue Oak Council’s license list and model license to set rules about software licensing.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>law contracts worklife open-access consulting rather-interesting</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:7637ad51124b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://richardmartinwriter.com/2019/02/13/decoding/">
    <title>Decoding | Richard Martin</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-15T11:26:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://richardmartinwriter.com/2019/02/13/decoding/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Writing, then, spans an interval of sense-making during which I have digested and internalised the work of various authors, filmmakers, musicians, scientists and philosophers, leading to personal insight and understanding. Writing is working things out, mulling over, or what Maria Popova refers to as figuring. It is then codifying whatever has been learned as a waymark to what is to be learned next.

Despite the author’s inevitable solitude during this period, writing is ultimately a communal activity. Conversation with family, friends and colleagues helps hone and refine ideas, bringing new perspectives to bear on the work in progress. Once that work has been published, writing can be seen as something that is wholly co-creative. The reader completes and expands upon what the author started. The publication is a contribution to an ongoing conversation.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>writing the-experience-of-work worklife audience</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://ar.al/2019/03/04/small-technology/">
    <title>Small Technology – Aral Balkan</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-06T11:50:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://ar.al/2019/03/04/small-technology/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[These criteria mean that Small Tech:

Is owned and controlled by individuals, not corporations or governments.

Respects, protects, and reinforces the integrity of personhood, human rights, social justice, and democracy in the digital and networked age.

Encourages hitherto impractical non-hierarchial political organisation and agency at scale.

Nurtures a healthy commons.

Is sustainable.

Will one day be funded from the commons, for the common good.

Will never make anyone a billion dollars.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>manifesto p2p corporatism startup-culture-must-die economics public-policy entrepreneurs value-driven worklife</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:4a4cf0f8c6fd/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://bostonreview.net/race/caitlin-c-rosenthal-how-slavery-inspired-modern-business-management#.XDTGfUvr4w0.facebook">
    <title>How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management | Boston Review</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-18T02:49:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bostonreview.net/race/caitlin-c-rosenthal-how-slavery-inspired-modern-business-management#.XDTGfUvr4w0.facebook</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Of course, the ticking of a stopwatch is wildly different from the lash of the whip—or a whip and a watch used in tandem, as was the case on some plantations. But there is nonetheless something revealing and deeply troubling about the analogy, particularly because proponents of scientific management sometimes used the language of slavery as well—and not to condemn the system but to praise it. One associate of Taylor’s, Scudder Klyce, argued that scientific management was simply a system of “Cooperation or democracy,” but Klyce’s definition of democracy was decidedly undemocratic: he describes it as a system that “consists of the able person’s taking the lead in giving ‘orders’ in the cases where he is of superior ability, and the others’ submitting: it is the relationship of master and slave, regardless of how otherwise it may be named.” From the manager’s perspective, control was the essential characteristic of scientific management. The relations of control could change over time: “At any time a lathe hand may be able to show the superintendent a better way.” But from the perspective of workers, fleeting reversals offered little benefit. When they showed the superintendent a better way, they gave up their own power. They rendered themselves replaceable.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>management history corporatism worklife slavery race capitalism have-ordered-book to-read</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.richard-hall.org/2018/10/06/on-authoritarian-neoliberalism-and-poetic-epistemology/">
    <title>On authoritarian neoliberalism and poetic epistemology | Richard Hall's Space</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-10T13:59:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.richard-hall.org/2018/10/06/on-authoritarian-neoliberalism-and-poetic-epistemology/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As one response to the secular crisis of capitalism, higher education is being proletarianised. Its academics and students, increasingly encumbered by precarious employment, debt, and new levels of performance management, are shorn of autonomy beyond the sale of their labour-power. One heuristic for analysing this response is authoritarian neoliberalism, imposed as a means of enacting disciplinary practices in the name of the market with an anti-democratic rationale. This has a distinctly technocratic focus, rooted in techniques of performativity, including audits and assessments of teaching, research and scholarship, grounded in productivity, the management of time and value-creation. However, there are a range of intersectional and geographical responses to such an imposition, through which it is possible to describe alternatives to these architectures of subsumption. In particular, a second heuristic emerges which challenges the restructuring of the University in the global North, erupting from struggles for decolonisation. Here, Audre Lorde’s invocation to an integrated, poetic existence that situates bodies in places, and respects feelings and emotions as the site of epistemological development and understanding, underpins the possibility for dismantling hegemonic knowledge production. The article examines whether humanist narratives of solidarity, in particular from marginalised voices, might help academics and students to analyse their alienated labour and to imagine that another world is possible.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife institutional-design neoliberalism humanities academic-culture just-what-is-it-you-do?</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2018/04/invisibility.html">
    <title>Laudator Temporis Acti: Invisibility</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-23T11:22:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2018/04/invisibility.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[All people who work with their hands are partly invisible, and the more important the work they do, the less visible they are.]]></description>
<dc:subject>bullshit-jobs worklife public-policy cultural-norms quotes</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://blog.alicegoldfuss.com/foot-candles/">
    <title>Foot-candles: the different paths to tech – Alice Goldfuss</title>
    <dc:date>2018-05-26T14:02:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.alicegoldfuss.com/foot-candles/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The deeper you dive into programming, the more you will run into topics covered by CS degrees. This may make you feel extremely behind and out of your depth. When this happens, keep the following in mind:

Your lack of knowledge in these topics doesn’t negate the work you’ve already done.
You know things CS grads don’t.
It’s likely your understanding of the topic is fresher and more complete than a CS grad who hasn’t touched it in years.
Everyone learns things in different orders and at different times, including CS grads.
Some things you will never need to know.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>imposter-syndrome computer-science system-of-professions careering worklife self-definition to-write-about</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/opinion/corporate-america-suppressing-wages.html">
    <title>Opinion | Corporate America Is Suppressing Wages for Many Workers - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-17T14:23:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/opinion/corporate-america-suppressing-wages.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For a long time, economists believed that labor-market monopsony rarely existed, at least outside old-fashioned company towns where a single factory employs most of the residents. But in recent decades, several compelling studies have revealed that monopsony is omnipresent. Professionals like doctors and nurses, workers in factories and meat processing plants, and sandwich makers and other low-skill workers earn far less — thousands of dollars less — than they would if employers did not dominate labor markets.

The studies show that common features of the labor market give enormous bargaining advantages to employers. Because most people sink roots in their communities, they are reluctant to quit their job and move to a job that is far away. Because workplaces differ in terms of their location and conditions, people have trouble comparing them, which means that one cannot easily “comparison shop” for jobs. And thanks to a wave of consolidation, industries are increasingly dominated by a small number of huge companies, which means that workers have fewer choices among employers in their area.

When employers exercise monopsonistic power, wages are suppressed, jobs are left unfilled, and economic growth suffers. Unions used to offset employer monopsony power, but unions now represent only 7 percent of private sector workers, down from a peak of 35 percent in the 1950s. Combating the practices that employers use to monopsonize the labor market can lead to higher wages, more jobs and faster economic growth.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife economics models-and-modes public-policy power-relations to-write-about capitalism</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/19/post-work-the-radical-idea-of-a-world-without-jobs?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tweet">
    <title>Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs | News | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-28T12:26:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/19/post-work-the-radical-idea-of-a-world-without-jobs?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tweet</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As a source of social mobility and self-worth, work increasingly fails even the most educated people – supposedly the system’s winners. In 2017, half of recent UK graduates were officially classified as “working in a non-graduate role”. In the US, “belief in work is crumbling among people in their 20s and 30s”, says Benjamin Hunnicutt, a leading historian of work. “They are not looking to their job for satisfaction or social advancement.” (You can sense this every time a graduate with a faraway look makes you a latte.)

Work is increasingly precarious: more zero-hours or short-term contracts; more self-employed people with erratic incomes; more corporate “restructurings” for those still with actual jobs. As a source of sustainable consumer booms and mass home-ownership – for much of the 20th century, the main successes of mainstream western economic policy – work is discredited daily by our ongoing debt and housing crises. For many people, not just the very wealthy, work has become less important financially than inheriting money or owning a home.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife sociology cultural-assumptions neoliberalism capitalism bullshit-jobs to-write-about</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://stoweboyd.com/post/168622815862/who-owns-work-and-its-future">
    <title>Who Owns Work, and Its Future | Stowe Boyd</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-27T23:21:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://stoweboyd.com/post/168622815862/who-owns-work-and-its-future</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here, at the outset of writing an on-going series of essays on the future of work, called Working Futures, I want to frame the discussion around work in an uncommon way. Specifically, I won’t be advancing an argument about some list of hifalutin principles or aspirational goals, which, if adopted universally would miraculously resolve any and all friction or dissatisfaction at work, make us more productive, and end gender, racial, and age bias across the board.

Neither will I pull out of my hat a tightly-crafted metaphor that miraculously provides deep and useful insight into the knotted difficulties that unite and divide the worker, the workforce, and the company: the organization as a city, for example, or the workforce as an orchestra. Metaphors can sometimes help, but they are slippery and rely on magical thinking, and for once I will try to put conjuring to one side.

Instead, I will take a different tack and consider work and its future as a large-scale social problem, something like poverty, illegal immigration, or global climate change¹. We don’t usually think of it that way, but perhaps we should. And like other problems, it’s reasonable to ask ‘who owns it?’

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife future essay political-economy capitalism to-write-about</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://umairhaque.com/the-predator-factory-10752774b3de">
    <title>The Predator Factory – a book of nights</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-04T13:15:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://umairhaque.com/the-predator-factory-10752774b3de</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We have created something more than merely a hostile world for the young. We have created a predator factory. We put young people into schools, universities, corporations, labs, and so on, and reward them most and best for being cunning, ruthless, heartless, careless, cruel and vicious, when they live up to our spectacularly failed myths of success — instead of supporting them when they engage with the difficult struggle to express, discover, and reveal, themselves, encouraging them to find ever better ways to be defiant, creative, courageous, wise, and true, and learn from that very work of maturity and grace why our own myths failed so.]]></description>
<dc:subject>the-bad-world-now essay cultural-norms generational-conflict worklife valid-criticisms</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a9769ded59f2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/11/09/ceos-dont-steer/">
    <title>CEOs Don’t Steer</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-14T12:03:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/11/09/ceos-dont-steer/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is why CEOs are different from other kinds of leaders. Leaders in other societal roles are typically not the stewards of any source of promethean energy. Instead, they are involved with directing and routing second-order effects that drain it. So they can afford to steer and be clever about it. They are zero-sum carve-the-pie leaders (which is important too, just not the point of this post).

But CEOs don’t steer.

What is good for countries, militaries, and art movements is not good for companies (and conversely, when the Trumps, Modis, and Xi Jinpengs bring CEO-like orientation-locking tendencies to inclusive governance jobs that require non-trivial steering, the results are usually not pretty).

]]></description>
<dc:subject>business-culture leadership corporatism worklife a-reasonable-assessment myths-of-the-managers</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/books/boredom-books.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=books&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacement=10&amp;pgtype=sectionfront&amp;_r=0">
    <title>Books and the ‘Boredom Boom’ - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2017-10-09T11:45:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/books/boredom-books.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=books&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacement=10&amp;pgtype=sectionfront&amp;_r=0</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If there is a lesson imparted by boredom studies, it is that there are hundreds of kinds of boredom. Herman Melville or David Foster Wallace or Danya Ruttenberg can plunge you into a thick soup of micro-details and jargon. Manoush Zomorodi can mediate your media in two mediums. Book reviewers like me can talk about themselves as much as the books we write about.

All this variety should be a balm, no? Whether you view boredom as the graveyard of your spirit, or as a lull before the gorgeous storm, knowing that you can always shift to another flavor of dullness is a kind of succor. Sippy cups for whale anatomy; ethico-politcal praxis for repetitive personal anecdotes. As Ms. Ruttenberg might put it, the promise of the new is the nuance of the now. Interesting.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://venturebeat.com/2017/09/30/dear-tech-world-stemism-is-hurting-us/">
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    <dc:date>2017-10-09T11:43:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://venturebeat.com/2017/09/30/dear-tech-world-stemism-is-hurting-us/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The idea that the tech world is comprised exclusively of techies is a myth. People with humanities and art degrees (aka “fuzzies”) are crucial players in the innovation space.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>two-cultures startup-culture-must-die STEMism liberal-arts work-is-not-programming work-is-social worklife American-cultural-assumptions technocracy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://incisive.nu/2017/writing-well-about-terrible-people/">
    <title>Writing Well about Terrible People | Incisive.nu</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-25T12:23:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://incisive.nu/2017/writing-well-about-terrible-people/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Informing the reader means finding ways to tie even short articles to the seething complexity—and even scientific facts—that underlie necessarily simplified and abbreviated quotations and paraphrases. Eschewing context means the reader must assemble it for herself or risk assuming that the various views presented in a neutrally framed article are roughly equal in reason and virtue. Offering too much context, even in a neutral framing, can make an article feel dry. Many journalists appear to fear the latter a bit more than the former, which results in conventions of coverage that drain important topics of their real weight and life.

This balancing act is an enormous challenge, and I’m grateful that my daily work doesn’t involve wrestling with it. But this article, and so many like it, fail to accomplish a centrally important aspect of making sense of the world, and I think that matters.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics journalism writing criticism ethics representation worklife</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://onbeing.org/blog/miguel-clark-mallet-weve-hoped-our-way-into-our-current-crisis/">
    <title>We’ve Hoped Our Way Into Our Current Crisis | On Being</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-25T11:32:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://onbeing.org/blog/miguel-clark-mallet-weve-hoped-our-way-into-our-current-crisis/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If I believe in justice, do I express that belief? Do I work against injustice? Do I choose to undermine oppression or further it? Not because I know I’ll “win” or “succeed,” but because I’ve committed myself to living the way I think I should live.

At my best, I answer what each moment and my values call me to do. Sometimes it’s to rest, to reflect. Sometimes it’s to play. Sometimes it’s to connect with friends and loved ones. Sometimes it’s to struggle, critique, speak out. Sometimes to listen. Sometimes to celebrate. Sometimes to grieve. Each moment makes its demand, and I’m seeking the kind of life where I hear and answer that need as often as I can.

Contrary to our control-obsessed culture, the alternative to hope isn’t passivity or despair. It’s living. It’s being humble and real. It’s being here.]]></description>
<dc:subject>hope essay mindful-practice worklife public-policy activism to-write-about</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://hookandeye.ca/2017/09/21/why-cant-we-be-our-whole-selves-as-academics/">
    <title>Why Can’t We Be Our Whole Selves as Academics? – Hook</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-23T13:23:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://hookandeye.ca/2017/09/21/why-cant-we-be-our-whole-selves-as-academics/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Why can’t we have that as academics? It’s a genuine question: what does an academic culture that requires us to elide our personal lives, to treat our bodies as containers for our brains (even with broken feet), to elevate intellect over affect, do that’s useful to the academy? Does it make academic work appear more legitimate–and if so, to whom? Does it gatekeep, for the benefit of those in power, the people who cannot wholly divorce their bodily/personal/affective lives from their work? Does it make stressful and onerous academic and administrative work seem simpler, even if it isn’t? Does it delegitimate certain kinds of labour, especially emotional, so that labour doesn’t have to be acknowledged or compensated?]]></description>
<dc:subject>the-docile-body-of-the-author corporatism academic-culture worklife cultural-assumptions via:twitter</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/opinion/sunday/failure-is-our-muse.html">
    <title>Failure Is Our Muse - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-23T10:49:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/opinion/sunday/failure-is-our-muse.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At the center of this web of catastrophes and losses and despairs and mistakes sits a single, obvious culprit: the act of writing itself. In the best work, the intentions of the author fall away, leaving an open field for readers to play in, and they create meanings that may have nothing to do with the author’s. Jonathan Swift famously intended “Gulliver’s Travels” as an indictment of all humanity but ended up leaving a story for children. The joy of language is also a torment. “Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to,” Flaubert wrote, “while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife metabiography literary-criticism pop-talks</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f13b00cc1979/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/09/14452/#sthash.777hhyeF.uxfs">
    <title>The Social Injustice Done to Adjunct Faculty: A Call to Arms | Public Discourse</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-19T12:03:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/09/14452/#sthash.777hhyeF.uxfs</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It’s September, and many of America’s teens are headed back to college. This means that not a few parents will be left with that empty feeling in the pit of their stomach—not only because their beloved children are leaving the nest but because the bills to pay for their children's new college homes are coming due. According to the College Board, tuition, fees, room and board in private four-year universities last year averaged $42,419. That was up $1,464 from the previous year. Was your pay raise that high? Parents might be left wondering where all the money goes. Are all these faculty members getting rich?

In an earlier Public Discourse essay, I showed that tuition at American colleges and universities has been rising six times faster than inflation and several times faster than health-care costs, which has forced students to take on ever-increasing levels of debt to pay for their education. I also documented how most of those increases have gone to the support of ever-expanding university bureaucracies and to the salaries of upper-level administrators.]]></description>
<dc:subject>academic-culture disruption-culture corporatism labor worklife life-o'-the-mind</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.kameronhurley.com/lets-talk-creativity-fear-losing-magic/#">
    <title>Let's Talk About Creativity and the Fear of Losing the Magic - Kameron Hurley</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-19T11:43:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.kameronhurley.com/lets-talk-creativity-fear-losing-magic/#</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Fear can be negotiated with and overcome. I know this from dealing with it so many times over the last six years. But it always comes back. It does this because we all know we have a shelf life, an expiration date. After all, we’re all going to die. So every time we face a failure, we think, “OK, this is it. For real this time.”

]]></description>
<dc:subject>self-image making worklife to-learn</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://academeblog.org/2016/09/09/the-ugly-administration-of-higher-education/">
    <title>The Ugly Administration of Higher Education | ACADEME BLOG</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-15T12:43:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://academeblog.org/2016/09/09/the-ugly-administration-of-higher-education/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jokes aside—adjuncts, graduate assistants, and all contingent and marginalized campus workers work hard, too. Those who believe they are exempt from or unaffected by the low-road administration of higher ed ought to question their educational agency, ethos, and value to the students, not to the system. Get this right: students are not customers and this is their educational opportunity and experience. Education is a public good not a value proposition or a gravy train. While some colleges and ethical administrators get this, many more opt not to.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>academic-culture adjunct disintermediation-in-action public-policy labor worklife corporatism</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://fromphdtolife.com/2013/02/03/scholarship-and-life/">
    <title>Scholarship and life - From PhD to Life</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-27T12:21:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://fromphdtolife.com/2013/02/03/scholarship-and-life/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Scholars are almost always academics. We assign the designation to professors and researchers with university posts who get paid to research and publish. The term “independent scholar” only proves this: The qualifier is necessary because “scholar” by itself implies an academic position. I think this is why I’ve been uneasy about my desire to continue my research concurrent with building a non-academic life. Research and teaching go hand in hand, but scholarship and a non-academic career doesn’t seem right. Is my on-going interest in my dissertation topic a sign that I haven’t yet let go of academia? Is there room for scholarship in a life completely removed from a university?

]]></description>
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    <title>William Deresiewicz: The New Age of Creativity on Vimeo</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-25T12:01:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://vimeo.com/172646692</link>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:15af84900d1c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.guernicamag.com/the-teaching-class/">
    <title>The Teaching Class – Guernica</title>
    <dc:date>2017-06-21T03:09:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.guernicamag.com/the-teaching-class/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When Andrew Scott, a composition instructor in Indianapolis, explained adjuncting to some of his students, he wound up being called into his supervisor’s office for a scolding. A group of his students at the private university where he was adjuncting (he also had a full-time position at Ball State) had arrived early for class, and were talking in the hallway. When one student mentioned a history teacher who seemed eager to get the students to like her, and whose class didn’t have a lot of work, Scott explained how her work situation was involved: “I knew the instructor was an adjunct, and that she taught at several places to cobble together a living. I told the students that she was an adjunct, and that the class was easy because she was afraid of losing her job.” Adjuncts are often evaluated solely based on student evaluations. As Rebecca Schuman put it in her Slate article “Confessions of a Grade Inflator,” “popularity is the only thing keeping them employed.”

Scott had this conversation with his students outside of class, because the students had brought it up, and because he considered it “a teachable moment.” But it still got him into trouble, probably because of this comparison: “I said that the university pays the janitor who scrapes the gum off their desks more per year than me and most of the people who teach their first-year classes. My private university students couldn’t believe that, but it was true. Even a low estimate shows how that’s true. Ten bucks per hour for forty hours a week equals an annual salary of $20,800.” One year Scott taught seven courses at that college, and made under $15,000 for that work.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>contingent-labor academic-culture worklife class corporatism to-write-about</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.wired.com/2017/06/silicon-valley-still-doesnt-care-work-life-balance/?mbid=social_twitter">
    <title>Silicon Valley Still Doesn't Care About Work-Life Balance | WIRED</title>
    <dc:date>2017-06-04T10:53:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.wired.com/2017/06/silicon-valley-still-doesnt-care-work-life-balance/?mbid=social_twitter</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Silicon Valley’s emphasis on work-life balance may be evolving, but its priesthood still values a very particular kind of grit. This ideological tension came to blows earlier this week in a marathon Twitter fight that started on Memorial Day, with anecdotal evidence and closing arguments still trickling in days later.

The dialogue began innocently enough when Blake Robbins, a tech investor who has worked or interned for companies like Google, Nest, and SpaceX, deployed a flurry of tweets about his philosophy on work-life balance. “When I first got into tech. I thought it was ‘cool’ to work on the weekends or holidays. I quickly realized that’s a recipe for disaster,” Robbins wrote. “Not hanging with friends and family because you’re working isn’t ‘cool.’ Burning out isn’t ‘cool.’ I promise you…your competition isn’t beating you because they are working more hours than you. It’s because they are working smarter.”

But the mood quickly turned. “Totally false,” venture capitalist Keith Rabois tweeted back at Robbins. “Read a bio of Elon [Musk]. Or about Amazon. Or about the first 4 years of FB. Or PayPal. Or Bill Bellichick [sic]. It is pure arrogance to believe you can outsmart other talented people.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife assholes-in-charge corporatism propserity-gospel social-psychology entrepreneurship-as-pathology</dc:subject>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:entrepreneurship-as-pathology"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://janabacevic.net/2017/05/01/universities-neoliberalisation-and-the-impossibility-of-critique/">
    <title>Universities, neoliberalisation, and the (im)possibility of critique – Jana Bacevic</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-08T10:08:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://janabacevic.net/2017/05/01/universities-neoliberalisation-and-the-impossibility-of-critique/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[(c) This doesn’t get emphasised enough, but one of the reasons why people vie for positions in the academia is because at least it offers a degree of intellectual satisfaction, in opposition to what Graeber has termed the ever-growing number of ‘bullshit jobs’. So, one of the ways of making working conditions in the academia more decent is by making working conditions outside of academia more decent – and, perhaps, by decentralising a bit the monopoly on knowledge work that the academia holds. Not, however, in the neoliberal outsourcing/’creative hubs’ model, which unfortunately mostly serves to generate value for existing centres while further depleting the peripheries.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>academia academic-culture monopsony life-o'-the-mind worklife</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:36e6dd4b43ee/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://newrepublic.com/article/141663/united-states-work">
    <title>The United States of Work | New Republic</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-08T09:56:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://newrepublic.com/article/141663/united-states-work</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Anderson’s most provocative argument is that large companies, the institutions that employ most workers, amount to a de facto form of government, exerting massive and intrusive power in our daily lives. Unlike the state, these private governments are able to wield power with little oversight, because the executives and boards of directors that rule them are accountable to no one but themselves. Although they exercise their power to varying degrees and through both direct and “soft” means, employers can dictate how we dress and style our hair, when we eat, when (and if) we may use the toilet, with whom we may partner and under what arrangements. Employers may subject our bodies to drug tests; monitor our speech both on and off the job; require us to answer questionnaires about our exercise habits, off-hours alcohol consumption, and childbearing intentions; and rifle through our belongings. If the state held such sweeping powers, Anderson argues, we would probably not consider ourselves free men and women.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>corporatism via:bkerr labor politics political-economy cultural-assumptions worklife not-encouraging</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:0fb9e67d0d35/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10361">
    <title>[1703.10361] What Do Practitioners Vary in Using Scrum?</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-05T11:10:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10361</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Background: Agile software development has become a popular way of developing software. Scrum is the most frequently used agile framework, but it is often reported to be adapted in practice. Objective: Thus, we aim to understand how Scrum is adapted in different contexts and what are the reasons for these changes. Method: Using a structured interview guideline, we interviewed ten German companies about their concrete usage of Scrum and analysed the results qualitatively. Results: All companies vary Scrum in some way. The least variations are in the Sprint length, events, team size and requirements engineering. Many users varied the roles, effort estimations and quality assurance. Conclusions: Many variations constitute a substantial deviation from Scrum as initially proposed. For some of these variations, there are good reasons. Sometimes, however, the variations are a result of a previous non-agile, hierarchical organisation.
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:3eacc717ed9e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2017/01/work-capitalism-retirement.html">
    <title>Stumbling and Mumbling: Work, capitalism &amp; retirement</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-15T13:54:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2017/01/work-capitalism-retirement.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Which brings me to the massive and horrible error in pieces like Ms Turner’s. It's true that many of us need to work both as a way of self-development and of feeling useful. But it is a horrible non sequitur to infer from this that capitalist labour is necessary to achieve these aims. Quite the opposite: even the better types of such labour can thwart them. People need capitalist jobs for the money - and very often not for any other reason. The beauty of retirement is that it offers an escape from this baleful aspect of capitalism.

And this is what I find depressing about pieces like Ms Turner’s. In failing to see even the possibility that work can be fulfilling outside the capitalist sphere, they assume that capitalist labour is inevitable, unavoidable and unreformable. But it ain’t necessarily so.

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<item rdf:about="https://ali-alkhatib.com/papers/chi/piecework/pn4226.pdf">
    <title>Examining Crowd Work and Gig Work Through The Historical Lens of Piecework [PDF]</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-15T12:41:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://ali-alkhatib.com/papers/chi/piecework/pn4226.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>worklife crowdsourcing piecework Taylorism to-read via:twitter</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://evonomics.com/why-capitalism-creates-pointless-jobs-david-graeber/">
    <title>Why Capitalism Creates Pointless Jobs - Evonomics</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-23T13:02:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://evonomics.com/why-capitalism-creates-pointless-jobs-david-graeber/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is a profound psychological violence here. How can one even begin to speak of dignity in labour when one secretly feels one’s job should not exist? How can it not create a sense of deep rage and resentment. Yet it is the peculiar genius of our society that its rulers have figured out a way, as in the case of the fish-fryers, to ensure that rage is directed precisely against those who actually do get to do meaningful work. For instance: in our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.  Again, an objective measure is hard to find, but one easy way to get a sense is to ask: what would happen were this entire class of people to simply disappear? Say what you like about nurses, garbage collectors, or mechanics, it’s obvious that were they to vanish in a puff of smoke, the results would be immediate and catastrophic. A world without teachers or dock-workers would soon be in trouble, and even one without science fiction writers or ska musicians would clearly be a lesser place. It’s not entirely clear how humanity would suffer were all private equity CEOs, lobbyists, PR researchers, actuaries, telemarketers, bailiffs or legal consultants to similarly vanish. (Many suspect it might markedly improve.) Yet apart from a handful of well-touted exceptions (doctors), the rule holds surprisingly well.

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<item rdf:about="http://ices.library.ubc.ca/index.php/workplace/article/view/186211">
    <title>Re-engineering Higher Education: The Subsumption of Academic Labour and the Exploitation of Anxiety | Hall | Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-23T12:17:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ices.library.ubc.ca/index.php/workplace/article/view/186211</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This article analyses the political economy of higher education, in terms of Marx and Engels’ conception of subsumption. It addresses the twin processes of formal and real subsumption, in terms of the re-engineering of the governance of higher education and the re-production of academic labour in the name of value. It argues that through the imposition of architectures of subsumption, academic labour becomes a source of both overwork and anxiety. The article employs Marx and Engels’ categorizations of formal and real subsumption, in order to work towards a fuller understanding of abstract academic labour, alongside its psychological impacts. The article closes by examining whether narratives of solidarity, in particular from marginalised voices, might help academics and students to analyse and then move beyond their alienated labour.
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<dc:subject>academic-culture worklife abjection Taylorism life-o'-the-mind</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:dc541ab53065/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.richard-hall.org/2014/07/10/notes-on-the-university-as-anxiety-machine/">
    <title>Notes on the University as anxiety machine | Richard Hall's Space</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-23T12:16:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.richard-hall.org/2014/07/10/notes-on-the-university-as-anxiety-machine/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This resonates for two reasons. The first is that, just as the high-performing athlete recalibrates the performance of those around her, and creates a productive new-normal, so the workaholic professor does the same. And the irony of my sitting here at 11.22pm writing this is not lost on me. And maybe this is because I am committed. And maybe this is a form of flight or a defence against the abstract pain of the world. Maybe it is a form of self-care, through which I am trying to make concrete how I feel about my past and my present. And maybe as Maggie Turp argues, this form of overwork and performance anxiety is a culturally acceptable self-harming activity. I am performance managed to the point where I willingly internalise the question “am I productive enough?”, which aligns with “am I a good academic?”, which aligns with “am I working hard enough”, which risks becoming a projection onto those around me of “are you working/producing enough?” My example is potentially toxic because being good enough in this productive space is never enough. My culturally acceptable self-harming activities militate against solidarity and co-operation that is beyond value. The defining, status-driven impulse is to increase my value as an entrepreneur, and to demonstrate that through the traces I leave in publications, or managing a team, or in leading research bids, or in blogging and emailing at all hours. And the toxicity reduces my/our immunity and leaves us addicted to our status as all that we have. And all that we have is a reified, anxiety-infused identity.

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<item rdf:about="https://eskokilpi.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/a-pattern-language-of-post-industrial-work/">
    <title>A pattern language of post-industrial work | Esko Kilpi on Interactive Value Creation</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-28T08:36:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://eskokilpi.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/a-pattern-language-of-post-industrial-work/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The industrial make-and-sell model required expert skills. The decisive thing was your individual knowledge. Today you work more from your network than your skills. The decisive thing is your relations. The new structures and new designs are about communities continuously organizing themselves around shared contexts, meaning shared interests and shared practices. The focus of industrial management was on the division of labor and the design of vertical/horizontal communication channels. The focus should now be on cooperation and emergent interaction based on transparency, interdependence and responsiveness.

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<dc:subject>cultural-dynamics cultural-norms yes-this design-patterns worklife postnormality</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:5c1e80f16264/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://hyperallergic.com/115200/thinking-about-art-practice-and-the-role-of-compromise/">
    <title>Thinking About Art Practice and the Role of Compromise</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-27T13:28:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://hyperallergic.com/115200/thinking-about-art-practice-and-the-role-of-compromise/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I do not think that pushing back against this condition is something that I, or any artist, can do alone. Let’s imagine that artists were encouraged to compromise less in order to make overtly sellable objects and be more honest about the compromises we do make. Would that subtract from the viewing experience or add to it? Yes, it might deflate the experience in the gallery, museum, or fair cubicle. It would partially de-fetishize art objects, peeling back their veneer as conveniently decorative, culminations of artistic pursuits. It would leave viewers wanting more, encouraging them to venture to artist’s studios, get to know artists better and understand the true intentions behind and, more importantly, beyond our work. Wouldn’t that be a world with better art? For now, though, I, like many artists, am asking myself the question, “What can I do to make my work more sellable?” Whatever comes of it, surely will not be described as such in our artist statements, so get ready to keep reading between the lines.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>cultural-norms cultural-assumptions worklife compromise activism on-going-broke-being-right</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:eb57fb53c056/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theawl.com/2015/06/the-new-york-times-and-criticism">
    <title>Alessandra Stanley and the Diminishment of Criticism - The Awl</title>
    <dc:date>2015-06-24T22:00:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theawl.com/2015/06/the-new-york-times-and-criticism</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[And it’s terrific to breathe a bit of air into the department of critics. Critics are long-serving, and they are uniform as hell. Other departments are also getting a slow and deliberate shake-up. It’s needed. But nothing will meet with as much celebration as the departure of Stanley. Except… who will we kick around now? Oh don’t be silly, we’ll find someone!

]]></description>
<dc:subject>criticism object-lessons worklife Coscience</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:0be518f90af0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/matter/the-flexibility-farce-fabf24dc4c4">
    <title>Quit Your Job and Go to Work — Matter — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2015-06-22T11:19:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/matter/the-flexibility-farce-fabf24dc4c4</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Since the recession, millions of workers have taken part-time gigs when they’d prefer to have full-time ones — especially in hospitality and retail. And those part-time jobs increasingly jerk the workers around: In a University of Chicago study of young workers in hourly jobs, 41 percent said they got their shifts a week or less in advance. It gets worse from there: as a recent story in Harper’s Magazine laid out, companies use software to track customer flow down to the minute; resulting in managers who ask workers to be on call for work shifts, or clock out while on the job and hang around without pay during slow times to see if the workflow will pick up. Sarah Leberstein is a senior staff attorney from the National Employment Law Project, which has been monitoring the hellish scheduling practices. “The companies want to unload all the flexibility onto the workers, but workers can’t afford to live in such a state of flux.”

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<dc:subject>worklife risk postnormal business-culture capitalism not-the-sharing-we-mean</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/05/28/the-amazing-shrinking-org-chart/">
    <title>The Amazing, Shrinking Org Chart</title>
    <dc:date>2015-06-14T12:15:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/05/28/the-amazing-shrinking-org-chart/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[After a century of subservience, the social graph had reasserted its authority over the impoverished org chart. Up become the direction of increasing disorientedness. Inside became the direction of increasing disconnectedness from reality.

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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:management"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/05/freelance-independent-contractor-union-precariat/">
    <title>Four Myths About the “Freelancer Class” | Jacobin</title>
    <dc:date>2015-06-12T10:49:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/05/freelance-independent-contractor-union-precariat/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Finally, there’s a category, often underestimated, of workers who are forced into freelance work because the conditions of traditional employment have squeezed them out by refusing to accommodate workers’ basic human needs, like sick days and parental leave.

The Family Medical Leave Act, which allows some workers to take unpaid maternity leave, applies to less than 10 percent of all employers; the US and Papua New Guinea are the only countries in the world that do not guarantee any maternity leave by law.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately 75 percent of full-time US workers and 27 percent of part-time workers have some paid sick days. The average full-time worker with a tenure of less than five years — the average length of employment — has eight to nine days of paid sick leave per year. This time may or may not also include vacation days, since many employers prefer a policy of “paid time off” to be used for illness or vacation.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife public-policy economics disintermediation-in-action the-postnormal-world</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d484c54489a3/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:disintermediation-in-action"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:the-postnormal-world"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.richard-hall.org/2015/04/29/on-common-educational-ownership-and-refusing-human-capital/">
    <title>On common educational ownership and refusing human capital | Richard Hall's Space</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-06T10:37:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.richard-hall.org/2015/04/29/on-common-educational-ownership-and-refusing-human-capital/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Can academics support both critique and the development/nurturing of alternative forms of learning and teaching that in-turn push-back against the dominant political agenda that commodifies humanity? We see such possibilities inside alternative educational forms, and through the politics of occupations, as well as in the collective resistance to austerity in Europe. Somehow, this means taking Schumpeter’s point in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, that we need to reconnect our work against the dematerialised, defunctionalised and absentee domination of our lives, which is enacted through the market. There is a need to think through how the curriculum and its organising principles might be liberated as a form of open, co-operative, common property that is itself rooted in social struggle beyond the University.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>academic-culture disintermediation-in-action worklife activism post-normal</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:9f1075c1628c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:disintermediation-in-action"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:worklife"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:post-normal"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://suburbdad.blogspot.com/2015/02/to-dark-side.html">
    <title>Confessions of a Community College Dean: “To the Dark Side”</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-06T10:23:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://suburbdad.blogspot.com/2015/02/to-dark-side.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The “dark side” imagery is so pervasive in higher ed that we sometimes forget that it isn’t found in most industries. In most lines of work, seeking promotion isn’t considered immoral or odd.  In this one, it is.  If we want good people in these roles -- and we do -- then we seriously need to rethink the taboo.  It can scare away good people, and thereby become self-reinforcing.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife academic-culture management othering</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f9fa7ef43e51/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:management"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://hbr.org/2015/04/why-some-men-pretend-to-work-80-hour-weeks">
    <title>Why Some Men Pretend to Work 80-Hour Weeks - HBR</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-03T11:38:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/why-some-men-pretend-to-work-80-hour-weeks</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Many of these men acted on their feelings, finding different ways to resist the firm’s expectations that they be ideal workers. How they resisted shaped their futures at the firm in important ways: some men made small, under-the-radar changes to their work that allowed them to pull back, while still “passing” as the work-devoted superheroes the firm valued. Others were more transparent about their difficulties, and asked the firm for help in pulling back. Their efforts resulted in harsh penalties and marginalization. 

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife productivity postnormal-world via:twitter</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d478bf086646/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.dcscience.net/2014/12/01/publish-and-perish-at-imperial-college-london-the-death-of-stefan-grimm/">
    <title>Publish and perish at Imperial College London: the death of Stefan Grimm</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-03T09:26:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.dcscience.net/2014/12/01/publish-and-perish-at-imperial-college-london-the-death-of-stefan-grimm/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I asked Martin Wilkins to comment on the email from Grimm. His response is the standard stuff that HR issues on such occasions. Not a word of apology, no admission of fault. It says “Imperial College London seeks to give every member of its community the opportunity to excel and to create a supportive environment in which their careers may flourish.”. Unless, that is, your research is insufficiently expensive, in which case we’ll throw you out on the street at 51. For completeness, you can download Wilkins’ mail.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>academic-culture disintermediation-in-action life-o'-the-mind postnormal worklife via:gbilder</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b3394ef76b55/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:disintermediation-in-action"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:life-o'-the-mind"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:postnormal"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:worklife"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2970">
    <title>[1402.2970] People are Processors: Coalitional Auctions for Complex Projects</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-02T12:05:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2970</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To successfully complete a complex project, be it a construction of an airport or of a backbone IT system or crowd-sourced projects, agents (companies or individuals) must form a team (a coalition) having required competences and resources. A team can be formed either by the project issuer based on individual agents' offers (centralized formation); or by the agents themselves (decentralized formation) bidding for a project as a consortium---in that case many feasible teams compete for the employment contract. In these models, we investigate rational strategies of the agents (what salary should they ask? with whom should they team up?) under different organizations of the market. We propose various concepts allowing to characterize the stability of the winning teams. We show that there may be no (rigorously) strongly winning coalition, but the weakly winning and the auction-winning coalitions are guaranteed to exist. In a general setting, with an oracle that decides whether a coalition is feasible, we show how to find winning coalitions with a polynomial number of calls to the oracle. We also determine the complexity of the problem in a special case in which a project is a set of independent tasks. Each task must be processed by a single agent, but processing speeds differ between agents and tasks.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife models formalization management rather-odd planning game-theory sociology collective-intelligence</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b7b90a67cd8c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:formalization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:management"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-odd"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:planning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:game-theory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:sociology"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://bryanalexander.org/2014/10/24/how-to-adjunctivize-your-university/">
    <title>How to adjunctivize your university | Bryan Alexander</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-16T11:26:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bryanalexander.org/2014/10/24/how-to-adjunctivize-your-university/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Let me unpack that a little.  First, tenure is a way for the university to lure researchers from the private sector.  If business can’t compete with a campus, then tenure isn’t really needed.  For an example, think microbiologist versus medievalist.  We can determine which fields business doesn’t value highly, then remove tenure from them on campus.

Second, tenure is about research, not teaching.  If we accept this, then faculty whose primary function is teaching (and this can be determined through a variety of ways) aren’t really cut out for tenure status.  This takes the two-tier structure of adjunct vs tenure-track and deepens the divide.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>disintermediation-in-action academic-culture tenure worklife contingent-faculty so-it-goes</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:54ff562d6f17/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:academic-culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:tenure"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:worklife"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:contingent-faculty"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:so-it-goes"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://itself.wordpress.com/2014/11/10/why-do-we-do-courses/">
    <title>Why do we do courses? | An und für sich</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-13T23:27:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://itself.wordpress.com/2014/11/10/why-do-we-do-courses/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In short, it seems like the format was devised for a particular kind of privileged student, and it isn’t even very forgiving for those people. I might be okay with this if there was some kind of positive pedagogical justification for the format, but I’m not sure there really is.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>academic-culture academia pedagogy the-why-of-it classwork worklife systemic-risks disintermediation-targets what-could-one-do-differently Coscience</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:86de56b0f494/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:academia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:pedagogy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:the-why-of-it"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:classwork"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:worklife"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:systemic-risks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:disintermediation-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:what-could-one-do-differently"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-luminaries-and-researcher.html">
    <title>Understanding Society: The luminaries and the researcher</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-09T13:35:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-luminaries-and-researcher.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So the position I am led to is this. Social research requires theories of how social processes work. It would be foolish to ignore the excellent work of theorizing various aspects of the social world offered by the luminaries. But it would also be foolish to imagine that any one of these theoretical frameworks is total and complete. Rather, the researcher should be eclectic, pluralistic, and curious when it comes to making use of social theory to make sense of a particular range of complex social activity.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife social-norms sociology Coscience disintermediation-targets hey-I-know-this-guy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:efaf1212cfe8/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-norms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:sociology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Coscience"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:disintermediation-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:hey-I-know-this-guy"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/message/against-productivity-b19f56b67da6">
    <title>Against Productivity — The Message — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-09T13:34:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/message/against-productivity-b19f56b67da6</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here is what really happened in Puerto Rico four years ago: I fell into a funk, beat myself up a bit, and spent the rest of the time wandering around (mostly to the same places) and daydreaming. I wrote a few strange blog posts which no one read. I went a bit further into credit card debt. My days themselves were pretty quiet. I began to really think hard about what the internet does to society by just being the internet. I wrote out some of what I’d seen, and replayed them in my mind while I wandered around the beach. I made a video about being a robot in a Japanese blues bar asking if anyone could really see a singularity from inside of it. I tried to imagine 2010 me without the net. I tried to imagine 1989 me with the net. I talked about how the internet does and doesn’t change things in a place like PR. I read about Rwanda, and about the trade union history of PR and read and talked more about the history of coffee. Puerto Ricans are big on coffee. And then I left. I don’t remember where I went next.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife philosophy cultural-norms against-work recommended</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:4762521b175e/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2014/11/the-cold-war-isnt-over.html">
    <title>Stumbling and Mumbling: The Cold War isn't over</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-09T13:29:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2014/11/the-cold-war-isnt-over.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Herein, though, lies a paradox. Although the cold warriors were fond of pointing out that centrally planned economies were a stupid idea, they didn't tell us that centrally planned firms were a bad one. Nor do they do so today, even though the evidence against them has grown substantially.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife history-writ-in-the-present Cold-War political-economy models-and-modes politics financial-crisis bankers-should-start-avoiding-lampposts-right-about-now</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:5af2ef8c318c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:history-writ-in-the-present"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Cold-War"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:political-economy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:models-and-modes"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:financial-crisis"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://stoweboyd.com/post/102017286822/unhappy-at-work-you-are-not-alone">
    <title>Stowe Boyd — Unhappy At Work? You Are Not Alone.</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-08T14:02:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://stoweboyd.com/post/102017286822/unhappy-at-work-you-are-not-alone</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Look past the rhetoric and you will find signs of the neglect of transformational learning everywhere. In the workplace as well as in many business school courses, with their emphasis on tools that can be taught in a weekend and applied on Monday morning. The learning that we privilege is the safer, incremental kind. Learning that makes us better at what we do but hardly frees us up to revisit why we do it that way or what, say, we may want to do next.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife postnormal corporatism Taylorism social-psychology disintermediation-in-action</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d6b2b726a63c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Taylorism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-psychology"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2014/10/08/frameworks-for-understanding-the-future-of-work.html">
    <title>danah boyd | apophenia » Frameworks for Understanding the Future of Work</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-03T11:53:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2014/10/08/frameworks-for-understanding-the-future-of-work.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A group of us at Data & Society decided to examine various different emergent disruptions that affect the future of work. Thanks to tremendous support from the Open Society Foundations, we’ve produced five working papers that help frame various issues at play. We’re happy to share them with you today.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife post-normal disintermediation-in-action disruption future public-policy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f9345826b03a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:disintermediation-in-action"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:future"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2014/08/end-of-summer-book-roundup.html">
    <title>Seth's Blog: Why don't authors compete?</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-31T12:17:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2014/08/end-of-summer-book-roundup.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's not a zero-sum game. It's an infinite game, one where we each seek to help ideas spread and lives change.

It turns out that in most industries in the connection economy, that's precisely what works. People happily tweet each other's handles to their followers and give references to others that are looking for jobs. When a business that's comfortable not having 100% market share happily recommends a competitor, they're sending a signal about trust and confidence and most of all, about feeding the community first.

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    <dc:date>2014-08-19T22:48:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://chris.beams.io/posts/pinboard/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The success of Pinboard is also a reminder that despite current enthusiasms about decentralization, not every service needs to be redesigned to operate in a perfectly trustless or peer-to-peer fashion. There is a spectrum from total centralization to total decentralization, and there's plenty of room in the middle for services like Pinboard. The most important thing is that users are presented with increasingly better alternatives to "free". Pinboard is by all accounts just that—a great product at a decent price that's earned a solid reputation over time. I hope we see many more of its kind in the days to come.

]]></description>
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    <title>The End of ‘Genius’ - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-25T12:28:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-genius.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=4</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In fact, none of these men were alone in the garrets of their minds. Freud developed psychoanalysis in a heated exchange with the physician Wilhelm Fliess, whom Freud called the “godfather” of “The Interpretation of Dreams”; King co-led the civil rights movement with Ralph Abernathy (“My dearest friend and cellmate,” King said). Picasso had an overt collaboration with Georges Braque — they made Cubism together — and a rivalry with Henri Matisse so influential that we can fairly call it an adversarial collaboration. Even Einstein, for all his solitude, worked out the theory of relativity in conversation with the engineer Michele Besso, whom he praised as “the best sounding board in Europe.”

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    <title>&quot;Ownership is becoming obsolete&quot;: LEX goes free for a day, open sources code forever - Pocket Tactics</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-25T12:26:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.pockettactics.com/features/ownership-becoming-obsolete-lex-goes-free-day-open-sources-code-forever/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Kurt Bieg of Simple Machine has decided to wade into this debate. Actually, he’s not wading — he’s diving in head-first, and throwing his co-workers in, too. Bieg is open-sourcing all of his studio’s games, starting with word game LEX. “We believe ownership is becoming obsolete,” Bieg told me. And if you’re surprised by that sentiment, he was just getting warmed up.


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<dc:subject>cultural-dynamics openness worklife Post-Normal disintermediation-in-action</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://biomickwatson.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/youre-not-allowed-bioinformatics-anymore/">
    <title>You’re not allowed bioinformatics anymore | opiniomics</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-22T12:34:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://biomickwatson.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/youre-not-allowed-bioinformatics-anymore/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If you are leading a project that creates huge amounts of data, instead of employing a bioinformatician in your own group, why not collaborate with an existing bioinformatics group and fund a post there? The bioinformatician will benefit hugely from being around more knowledgeable computational biologists, and will still be dedicated to your project.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>bioinformatics system-of-professions worklife academic-culture satire reasonable</dc:subject>
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    <title>Worker Cooperatives for New York City: A Vision for Addressing Income Inequality | American Worker Cooperative</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-18T14:08:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.american.coop/content/worker-cooperatives-new-york-city-vision-addressing-income-inequality</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>cooperatives worklife labor public-policy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2014/07/07/true-success-is-more-than-winning-a-zero-sum-game/">
    <title>True success is more than winning a zero-sum game</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-08T12:30:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2014/07/07/true-success-is-more-than-winning-a-zero-sum-game/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I believe that people like to tell themselves simple stories about how one should succeed. Many of these simple stories are based on half-truths. Just like how fiction authors believe that they must land a competitive book deal to be a writer whereas none of us care about any of that. This status ranking game that you play… is probably much less important than you make it out to be on the long run.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife disintermediation-in-action the-postnormal-creeps-in publishing coscience moral-economy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:75a925ef7308/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://unrealnature.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/against-tin-art/">
    <title>Against Tin Art | Unreal Nature</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-03T11:45:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://unrealnature.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/against-tin-art/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I don’t remember it being so different. Anyway, only much later did I realize that these crises were not something to get agitated about but that they were the normal way of working. Everybody has them. Well, maybe it is not as simple as that. There are people who work with more confidence and others who stumble from crisis to crisis. It was somewhere in-between.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife cultural-dynamics self-definition the-mangle-in-practice engineering-criticism i-intend-to-use-this</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:5546aff8a0d2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.themillions.com/2014/05/the-literature-of-the-standing-desk.html">
    <title>The Millions : The Literature of the Standing Desk</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-22T10:47:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.themillions.com/2014/05/the-literature-of-the-standing-desk.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The standing desk, on the other hand, is less capacious and sentimental. There’s very little room to store abandoned manuscripts, rejection letters, or knickknacks. Distractions are kept to a minimum. It’s taller, sleeker, and less hospitable than its slouchier cousin. In the way that it mimics a lectern, a podium, or a drafting table, it reminds the writer that this activity requires blood, enzymes, and exertion. Here is your novel, spread out like a map or a campaign speech. Here are your poems, arranged like blueprints. Pace, stamp your feet, fold your arms, but stay upright. Stand there like it’s the prow of a ship.
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<dc:subject>desk worklife writing health</dc:subject>
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    <title>relevance and ignorance - Text Patterns - The New Atlantis</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-24T12:37:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://text-patterns.thenewatlantis.com/2014/01/relevance-and-ignorance.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is all phrased light-heartedly, but I wonder if that tone isn’t at least a little misleading: Thurber really does seem afraid of getting left behind. And he’s not the only one: it’s pretty clear that in writing The Circle Dave Eggers was so eager to make a Socially Relevant Intervention about tech companies that he didn’t bother to learn how they actually work. So what we have hear is an urgency to be heard coupled with a need to be relevant. The result: social commentary made by people who have nothing but vague, uninformed speculations to guide their writing. This is how whole books become indistinguishable from the average blog comment.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>criticism cultural-norms diversity worklife mindfulness ignorance stereotypes</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/01/01/free-as-in-agent/">
    <title>Free, as in Agent</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-24T11:40:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/01/01/free-as-in-agent/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If your choices reflect rebellious rejection of an oppressive old narrative of work, or an eager reaching for a new narrative of work you aspire to, they are not free choices, and you are not a free agent. You are bullshitting yourself.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife self-image cultural-norms cultural-assumptions</dc:subject>
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