Checking In

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Endings 1
5. Anklets 3
6. Anthropologists in the Midst 10
7. Mollycoddle 13
8. Touchpoints 19
9. Checking In 26
10. Working 9 to 4 28
11. Predicting the Future and 38 Needles 33
12. Contact 39
13. Two Geeks in a Pod 47
14. An Understatement 53
15. Euphoria and Diet Pills 61
16. To Better Days 70
17. Marathon 75
18. The Life and Soul of an Intern 81
19. Candid Cameras 85
20. Episodes 89
21. Liberal Food and Even More Liberal Activism 92
22. Subjects 100
23. Newsworthy 105
24. Patience 110
25. Hypergrowth 113
26. Little Pink Houses 117
27. Truth, Lies, and Algorithms 122
28. Negotiations and Herding Cats 129
29. The Jenny Discovery 133
30. I Dream of Jenny July 138
31. A Five-Step Program 143
32. Over-Deliver 150
33. A Life Changed in Four Phone Calls 154
34. Giving Thanks 160
35. A Drive through the Country 166
36. Control 171
37. A Tale of Two Tenures 178
38. Prelude to Pie 183
39. The Yuri Effect 188
40. Apple Pie 195
41. Thoughts Like Butterflies 201
42. Core-Relations 207
43. Collide 212
44. Control, Revisited 220
45. Fables of the Deconstruction 223
46. Control, Foregone 232
47. Foundations 236
48. One Way 241
49. Sebastin’s Friends 244
50. A Tinker by Any Other Name 251
51. When It Rains 262
52. I Am a Heartbeat 267
53. What I Did This Summer 273
54. A Permanent Position 280
55. For Adam 284
56. Faith 288
57. Counting by Two 291
58. Disconnect 298
59. Sahim 304
60. Epilogue: Beginnings 309
61. Acknowledgments 313
62. Know More 315
63. The Privacy Policy of a few organizations, in their own words 317
64. References 319