Susan Cain meets Mark Manson in New York Times bestselling author Dan Lyons’s STFU—a desperately needed wake-up call for escaping the damaging effects constant noise and the jackhammer drone of social media that is making all of us stressed out, angry, unhappy, and unable to think straight.

Learning to talk less, listen more, and speak with intention can make you happier, healthier, more successful, and a better parent and partner. In STFU, Dan digs through mountains of research and interviews scientists, historians, prosecutors, forest bathing gurus, and a behavioral psychologist who discovered how speech is connected to our physical and emotional well-being. Based on that research, Dan developed a set of practices that changed his life—and can change yours too.

Welcome to the world of half-baked management science, from a cult-like “Holocracy” workshop in San Francisco to corporate trainers running Lego-building workshops. New tools, practices, and hyper-capitalist business models have shattered the social contract that once existed between companies and employees, subjecting workers to constant change, dehumanizing technologies and even health risks.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. Lab Rats proposes ways to build great work culture and produce a healthy, sustainable global economy for the 21st century. The Guardian named Lab Rats one of the best business books of 2018 and The Economist praised its forward-thinking analysis of tech-driven workplace culture.

A kooky, cult-like software startup offered Dan a pile of stock options and the vague title of “marketing fellow.” What could possibly go wrong? In a word, everything.

Mixed in with Dan’s uproarious tale of a job from hell is a trenchant analysis of startup culture and a poignant, painfully honest account of struggling to pursue personal reinvention in middle age. In Disrupted, Dan explores the Silicon Valley business model that has spread to other sectors of the economy, an analysis he would take up again and explore in greater depth in Lab Rats.

Disrupted was an instant New York Times best-seller and lauded by the Los Angeles Times as “the best book about Silicon Valley today.”