User:Simon/Special Issue 7
Precarization
Becoming Common: Precarization as Political Constituting
Universal basic income is becoming an urgent necessity - Guy Standing (economist)
The Entreprecariat
Fake It till You Make It: The Genesis of the Entrepreneurial Precariat
Special Issue 2: The Entreprecariat
Life Hacks
lifehacker.com Lifehacker.com lists its productivity advice in the following criteria:
- Video (videos of hack instructions)
- Skillet (cooking techniques)
- Two cents (finances)
- Vitals (health)
- Offspring (parenting)
- The Upgrade (career)
- App directory (listing of links to downloadable productivity apps)
- How I work (testimonials and interviews with lifehacker.com staff and others)
1000lifehacks.com - a site with many hacks, some not so useful...
Reflections & references
18.09.18
Chapter from Hackers and Painters
25.09.18
The Golden Handshake
Interesting term for severance pay, often factored into high-executive roles, which also often have accelerated rates of burnout and firing.
A didactic method used in ESL called "Silent Way"
Thinking about the method of delivering information from an automated source, as something that is shown rather than told, elicited rather than instructed.
02.10.18
Becoming Common: Precarization as Political Constituting
Front page of Lifehacker.com with featured article "How to protect yourself after the recent Facebook hack". Interesting how the word hack has both positive and negative value on the same page.