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This month's listening list: Working Hard or Hardly Working?

Podcast: \;The Digital WorkplaceEpisode: \;Work Minus Monotony with Byron Reese \;(March 2019\ , 28 min)
AI is coming&hellip\;to make you better. Byron Reese has be en thinking about and observing technology for a long time. He says as lon g as we keep learning\, we never need to worry about losing jobs\, especia lly if you are a plumber. Reese is the author of \;The Fourth Age: Sma rt Robots\, Conscious Computers\, and the Future of Humanity.
Listen on app of c hoice (via Podkite) \;or via \;Podchaser \;or \;Podyssey

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Podcast:&n bsp\;Recode Daily
Episode: \;The future of work pt 1&nbs p\;(May 2020\, 25 min)
Because more people are working from home\, em ployers are increasingly using software that monitors much more than just your hours on the clock.
Listen on app of choice (via Podkite) \;or via \;Podchaser \;or \ ;Podyssey
\n< p>Podcast: \;Curious Minds: Innovation in Life and Work
Episode: \;Anne Helen Petersen on Workplace Burnout \;(September 2 020\, 43 min)
How did we get to a place where life&rsquo\;s become an endless treadmill of work? In her latest book\, \;Can&rsquo\;t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation\, Anne Helen Petersen tackle s this question. She argues\, &ldquo\;You&rsquo\;re taking things that are meant to be leisure\, that are meant to be those joyful corners of your l ife that are not work\, and you&rsquo\;re turning them into work.&rdquo\;< br />Listen on a pp of choice (via Podkite) \;or via \;Podchaser \;or \;Podyssey
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Podcast:&nb sp\;Hidden Brain
Episode: \;Bullshit Jobs \;(Septemb er 2018\, 45 min)
Have you ever had a job where you stopped and asked yourself: what am I doing here? If I quit tomorrow\, would anyone even no tice? In 2013\, anthropologist David Graeber wrote \;an article \; (and then \;a book) in which he described these types of positions as &ldquo\;bullshit jobs.&rdquo\; He received a flood of responses from peopl e for whom this label struck a chord &mdash\; people who felt their work w as\, essentially\, meaningless.
Listen on app of choice (via Podkite) \;or via \;Podchaser \;o r \;Podyssey
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