Episode 197: KSD The Rabbits and the Work-Hogs

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Workplaces are social dynamos. Quite often—and often by design—how we are paid and scheduled interferes in what people really want from their work. This is the long-existing division I discuss in today's Episode 197: The Rabbits and the Work-Hogs.

In this episode, I read from Benjamin Hunnicutt's book Kellogg's Six-Hour Day. I also did not quote from, but sought some clarifying information from a helpful article found at the Department of Labor concerning the original legislation for maximum work hours, the Black-Connery Bill, which eventually became the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

Musically, Henry Giroux expounded the benefits of civic literacy, backed by KMFDM. Julie and Rolf and the Campfire Gang now close us out with "Over the Rainbow."

Episode 196: The REALLY Big Necessity

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History has shown again and again that an incomplete or just mistaken understanding of how the world really works leads to most of the problems we suffer. To change our world, we must first change our minds; thus Episode 196: The REALLY Big Necessity.

In this episode, I read from four books: First, I recall a bit of Rose George's The Big Necessity: the Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters; then, Steven Johnson's books, Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate and The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic——and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World; and finally, Jaron Lanier's Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. I also quote Upton Sinclair's most quotable quote ever quoted, so quotable I call it The Sinclair Maxim (which was originally published, as far as I know, in I, Candidate for Governor and How I Got Licked).

Musically, Pietnastka did "Superator" near the end. I open with KMFDM backing Tristan Harris in the opening, and Julie and Rolf and the Campfire Gang take us out with "Over the Rainbow".