Navigating the Rapid Shifts in Tech’s Turbulent Terrain: readings and other resources

Resources relevant to the presentation

• Graeber, David. Bullshit Jobs:  A Theory. Simon & Schuster, 2019.
• Rogerson, David and Tim Loo. “Product in a Permacris.” Foolproof, 7 Sep 2023.
• Yosifova, Aleksandra. “The Aftermath of the Big Tech Layoffs: Who Found a Job and Where?” 365 Data Science, 28 Jun 2023.
• May, Eira. “The People Most Affected by the Tech Layoffs.” Stackoverflow, 2 Apr 2023.
• Asare, Janice Gassam. “How Hard-Hitting Tech Layoffs Are Affecting Black Talent.” Forbes, 19 Feb 2023.
• Cox, Jessie. “The Toll of Layoff Anxiety.” BBC: Work In Progress, 6 Feb 2023.
• McElroy, Nicole Gull. “What do the Big Tech Layoffs Mean for Designers?”  Fast Company Daily,  3 Feb 2023.
• Labarre, Suzanne. “Why Corporate American Broke up with Design.” Fast Company,  5 Oct 2022.
• Tamayo, Jorge, et al. “Reskilling in the Age of AI.” Harvard Business Review, Sep-Oct 2023. 
• Hall, Erika. LinkedIn.
• Wilson, Thomas. “The Human Cost of Bad Design.”  LinkedIn,  28 Jul 2023.
• Kozyrkov, Cassie. “AI and the future of work:  What stays 100% human?” Medium, 3 Aug 2023.
• Banfield, Richard. “Work isn’t Working.” Medium,  19 Jun 2023.
• Whapshott, Steve. “A new design era:  How AI can power greater human experiences.”  The Startup, 1 Aug 2023.
• Nott, Dan and Scott Cambo. “Our Labor Built AI.” The Nib,  31 Jul 2023.
• Abrahams, Robin and Boris Groysberg. “Leading an Exhausted Workforce.” Harvard Business Review, 25 Mar 2022.
• Ignatius, Adi. “The Ever-Expanding Job of Managers.” Harvard Business Review, September-October 2023.
• Molla, Rani. “Your boss is obsessed with productivity without knowing what it means.” Vox, 5 May 2023.
• Orsucci, Giorgio. LinkedIn.
• “People not Proxies.” Considered Approach, 25 May 2023.
• Vijh, Aviram. “Agile & UX:  a failed marriage?” UX Collective,  30 May 2023.
• Antin, Judd. “The UX Research Reckoning is Here.” One Big Thought, 4 May 2023.
• Case, Amber. “How Design is Governance.” UX Collective,  28 Mar 2023. 
• Chopra, Paras. “The Anti-Productivity Manifesto.” Inverted Passion, 25 Mar 2023.
• Baty, Steve. LinkedIn.
• Xu, Hang. LinkedIn.
• Wells, Amy. “I don’t want a seat at your table:  co-production in mental health services.” National Survivor User Network,  7 Aug 2023.
• Locke, H. “Can today’s UX Designer be truly user-centric?” Medium, 31 Jul 2023.
• Brynjolfsson, Erik, et al. “Generative AI at Work.” National Bureau of Economic Research, Apr 2023.
• Bannear, Bill. “The new zeitgeist:  relationships and emergence.”  Medium.  8 Mar 2023.
• Farrugia, Stephen. “The Aura of Care.” UX Collective, 27 Jun 2023.
• Kalev, Alexandra. “How You Downsize is Who You Downsize:  Biased Formalization, Accountability, and Managerial Diversity.” American Sociological Review, 29 Jan 2014.
• Magowan, Rob. LinkedIn.
• Marcotte, Ethan. You Deserve a Tech Union.  A Book Apart, 2023.

Additional Resources (mentioned by the conference audience)

• Smith, Richard. “We are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different.” Richard Smith’s non-medical blogs,   18 Nov 2017.