I really enjoyed The Burnout Society, read it about two months ago and plan to read some more.

The "positive power" idea that you can do anything always struck me as funny but I didn't have good words to explain it until I ran into his work. Less disciplinarian punishment, more implicit and internally-driven self-punishment for failing to live up to the "can."

There is a pretty good relevant episode of the podcast Philosophize This (#179).