User:Simon/Special Issue 7

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Precarization

Becoming Common: Precarization as Political Constituting

Universal basic income is becoming an urgent necessity - Guy Standing (economist)

The Entreprecariat

Silvio Lorusso, "Shouldn't you be working?" stickers, 2016

What is 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

Getting Things Done

The Californian Ideology

Hackers and Painters

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.

Computer Lib/Dream Machines

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

Lifehacker facebook hack.png
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.