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“Franzen’s a category of one”
: from Jennifer Weiner’s response to Franzen in 
The New Republic
: Weiner,
Jennifer. “What Jonathan Franzen Misunderstands About Me.” 
New Republic
, September 18, 2013,
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114762/jennifer-weiner-responds-jonathan-franzen.
“massive distraction”
and 
“If you are just getting into some work”
: Treasure, Julian. “Sound News: More
Damaging 
Evidence 
on 
Open 
Plan 
Offices.” 
Sound 
Agency, 
November 
16, 
2011.
http://www.thesoundagency.com/2011/sound-news/more-damaging-evidence-on-open-plan-offices/.
“This was reported by subjects”
and related results from: Mark, Gloria, Victor M. Gonzalez, and Justin Harris.
“No Task Left Behind? Examining the Nature of Fragmented Work.” 
Proceedings of the SIGCHI
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
. New York: ACM, 2005.
“Twitter is crack for media addicts”
and other details of George Packer’s thoughts about social media: Packer,
George. 
“Stop 
the 
World.” 
The 
New 
Yorker
, 
January 
29, 
2010,
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2010/01/stop-the-world.html.
The Metric Black Hole
“A ‘free and frictionless’ method of communication”
and other details of Tom Cochran’s e-mail experiment:
Cochran, 
Tom. 
“Email 
Is 
Not 
Free.” 
Harvard 
Business 
Review
, 
April 
8, 
2013.
http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/04/email-is-not-free/.
“it is objectively difficult to measure individual”
: from page 509 of Piketty, Thomas. 
Capital in the Twenty-
First Century
. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2014.

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