Introduction

Sam Ladner is a sociologist, UX researcher, and student of productivity and the nature of work. She’s been a researcher at Amazon and Microsoft, and is currently Senior Principal Researcher at Workday. Sam is the author of two books on research, Practical Ethnography and Mixed Methods. In this conversation, we discuss sociology and ethnography in the context of organizations and how to manage the knowledge generated by research.

Show notes

• Sam Ladner
• Sam Ladner on LinkedIn
• Workday
• The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner City Neighborhood by David Simon and Edward Burns
• Mixed Methods: A short guide to applied mixed methods research by Sam Ladner
• Practical Ethnography: A Guide to Doing Ethnography in the Private Sector by Sam Ladner
• Ethnographic Practice and Industry Conference (EPIC)
• Pierre Bourdieu
• Clifford Geertz
• Mise en place
• Amazon Kindle
• Overdrive
• Libby
• Notion
• Mendeley
• Pocket
• Readwise
• Satisficing
• Herbert Simon
• Thick description

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