References from the book

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Here are some of the key references in Screw Work Let’s Play:

• Chris Guillebeau: The Art of Non-Conformity
• Bompas & Parr: Jellymongers
• Petra Barran: Choc star
• Sarah de Nordwall: A Bard with a Bard School
• Derek Sivers: Sivers.org. His former company is CD Baby
• Richard Branson: Richard’s book Business Stripped Bare
• Pat Kane: theplayethic.com, Pat’s book The Play Ethic
• Tim Smit: My interview with Tim, The Eden Project
• Innocent Drinks has a great story on how they decided to quit their job and they’ve created a superb company culture too.
• Google.org is the not for profit arm of Google.
• Brian Sutton Smith: Brian’s book The Ambiguity of Play.
• Daniel Pink is a great writer on the new world of work. I like The Adventures of Johnny Bunko and A Whole New Mind in particular.
• Steve Jobs: his wonderful commencement speech is now a classic
• Sonja Lyubomirsky: Her book The How of Happiness and website
• Sir Ken Robinson gave one of my favourite TED talks and wrote the book How Finding your Passion Changes Everything
• Roger Hamilton: check out the Wealth Dynamics personality system
• Impact Hub: A network of shared workspaces for social entrepreneurs around the world
• Lea Woodward: locationindependent.com and locationindependentparents.com
• Brian Eno: Producer, musician, artist, campaigner and thinker. His website and his book A Year with Swollen Appendices which is a diary he kept for a year. He has produced several U2 and Coldplay albums amongst others and is involved in the Long Now project.
• Barbara Sher coined the term “Scanners” which inspired the event I ran in London for 6 years called Scanners Night (no longer running but you can see the Scanners Night website).
• Joseph Campbell: Wrote several books on myth, the hero’s journey and ‘following your bliss’
• Eric Schmidt: Book from the Google CEO – How Google Works
• Melissa Pierce’s film project Life in Perpetual Beta

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