For a long time, I had revered companies like Google. They hired the smartest people and paid them handsomely, all while promising work with purpose, work on the cutting edge of technology and social innovation. A few years down the line and a couple of marketing jobs later, the sentiment turned on its head. Plunged into the attention economy and surveillance capitalism literature, I grew increasingly anxious about how companies like Google and Facebook impact our lives. I became worried abou...