Adding Value: Care Work Within the Digital Information Economy with Tara McMullin - EP 13

Care Work with Alida Miranda-Wolff

What’s the last digital product you wish you hadn’t bought? From paid newsletter subscriptions to full-fledged how-to guides on making your first million, too few online offerings these days are created with enough care to be helpful to those who consume them.

In this episode of Care Work, Tara McMullin—host of the What Works podcast, author of the book of the same name, speaker, and business strategist—discusses her exploration of how we make a living in this digital age, the continued corporate disinterest in paying for care work, and how entrepreneurs can incorporate intention and care in their digital creations while still making money.

Consider how to bring care back into economic pursuits with Tara’s questions:

• How do we move away from the alienation of Capitalism?
• Why does the Capitalist system still vastly undervalue care work?
• If information itself is not the value of digital products, what is?
• How can we put the humanity back into information delivery?
• What is our responsibility to one another in our modern consumer economy?

Important resources from this episode:

• Why Care Work Is Critical to the Value of Information by Tara McMullin - https://explorewhatworks.com/care-work-critical-to-value-of-information/
• Sylvia Federici: Reproductive Labor - https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ziRHEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA85&dq=Silvia+Federici+reproductive+labor&ots=ITMBwkOul-&sig=7gXVK1FZ9rWB89C7p-Xn4uXjMFA#v=onepage&q=Silvia%20Federici%20reproductive%20labor&f=false
• Dan Olsen’s Youtube Explainer on the Mikkelsen Twins - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw
• Marie Forleo’s B-School - https://www.marieforleo.com/bschool
• Lauren Berlant’s Book: On the Inconvenience of Other People - https://bookshop.org/p/books/on-the-inconvenience-of-other-people-lauren-berlant/17477688?ean=9781478018452
• Zygmunt Bauman: Liquid Love - https://bookshop.org/p/books/liquid-love-on-the-frailty-of-human-bonds-zygmunt-bauman/11008429?ean=9780745624891

Connect with Tara McMullin:

• Check out Tara’s book - What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting - https://bookshop.org/p/books/what-works-a-comprehensive-framework-to-change-the-way-we-approach-goal-setting-tara-mcmullin/18237146?ean=9781119906070
• Podcast - https://www.whatworkspodcast.com/
• Website - https://explorewhatworks.com/
• Newsletter - https://www.whatworks.fyi/
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/taragentile
• Instagram - https://www.insta

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