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World-Building a More Sustainable Work Environment

Poof! Work's Disappearing Act is a Cheap Trick

Imagining a Radically Different World of Work

4 Red Flags That Signal Questionable Work "Opportunities"

Introducing: Strange New Work

When The Voice In Your Head Whispers... Meritocracy

Having a Hard Time? Well, the Economy is Doing Great!

31 Ways to Think About Work This Labor Day

Taking It Easy On Yourself While You're Taking It Easy

Closed Doors, Implied Rules, and Unspoken Agreements

Breaking the Self-Sabotage Cycle: A Workshop

A New Class Consciousness

Adopting the Perennial Mindset

Metrics, Incentives, and the Seduction of Clarity

What Do You Expect From Me?

How Counterfeit Financial Culture Leads to Overwork

Leaving the Cult of Never Enough

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How Flexibility is Used and Abused

From Rugged Individualism to Rugged Cooperation

If You Look Up "Systems Analysis" in the Dictionary...

Aesthetic Labor and the Politics of Beauty

Self-Control, Surveillance, and the Body at Work

Self-Help, LLC

This Is Not Advice

Beyond Creating Versus Consuming

Notes, Threads, and Making Meaning Online

Gig Work's Bait and Switch

What is Capitalist Realism?

Accessibility Beyond the Checklist

Queer Failure

Our Choosing Skills are Rusty

The Shoulds & Supposed-tos of Baking Bread

Who is Responsible for Adapting?

Why Does Authenticity So Often Feel Fake?

Maybe Bigger Isn't Better?

"You Paid WHAT?!" Or, How Echo Chambers Distort Prices and the Way We Think

Making What Can't Be Sold

How We Talk About Work Matters

🗓 Access Info: Tending Your Media Ecosystem

To Encourage Excellence

The Trust-Profit Paradox

The Economics Of...

It's Our World, AI Just "Lives" In It

Breaking the Meta Cycle: Resisting Abstraction to Create More Satisfying Work

Welcoming the Silence

How the Game We Play Changes the Way We Work

What Can I Do to Grow My Audience?

The True Cost of Satisfaction Might Be Giving Up What You Didn't Want

Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires and Loss Aversion

AI, Automation, and the Case for Luddism

Kids at Work, Games as Labor, Content as Product, and the Surplus Elite

Why Every Company is "On a Mission to..."

Welcoming Mess and Confusion

Is an 'Ethical Business' Possible?

What Even Is a "Small Business" Today?

Corporate Scapegoats: Going Beyond the "Greedy Corporation" Critique

How to Feel Good About Going Slow

Managing Mental Health in the Achievement Society

How the Push for Efficiency Changes Us

"All Parasites Have Value"

"All Parasites Have Value:" Why Valuing Those Who Don't Work is Key to More Sustainable Work Practices for Those Who Do

How the Push for Efficiency Changes Us

Managing Mental Health in the Achievement Society

The Economics of Meeting Your Needs

How Does An Idea Turn Into An Asset?

The Strange Logic of Value in the Attention Economy

The Economics of Getting (and Paying) Attention: Putting the Audience to Work

Go With The Flow: How Tracking Cash Flow Can Transform Your Business for the Better

Working Together: What Economics Can Teach Us About How Work Relationships Get Weird

Why Care Work is Critical to the Value of Information

To Quit or Not To Quit Social Media: Opportunity Cost Can Help You Decide

How to Feel Good About Going Slow