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EP 454: Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey Stuff
Today, a short meditation on time, the end-of-year season, and how we might carry what we experience now into the next season of work.Footnotes:Dr. Who: the "Wibbly-Wo...
EP 453: Fear of Loathing in Lancaster
This is the 3rd edition of Cold Pitch, an experimental project from YellowHouse.Media exploring media, curiosity, and identity. I'll be sharing one more episode from t...
This is Not Advice: How a Syllabus Could Change the Way You Plan
Planners and project management apps reinforce linear, chronological thinking. What if we used a completely different medium to plan for growth?I'm hosting a workshop ...
EP 452: This Daily YouTube Show is a Rich Text
This is the second edition of Cold Pitch, an experimental project from YellowHouse.Media about media, curiosity, and identity. In this edition, Sean and I talk about o...
EP 451: An Inbox Full of Lies
Over the next few weeks, I've got something a wee bit different for you! This is the very first edition of Cold Pitch, an experimental media project from YellowHouse.M...
EP 450: The Will to Share Power with Tania Luna
This is the final installment in Strange New Work, a series that uses speculative fiction to explore radical work futures.Power. Some fear it. Others hoard it. Some wi...
EP 449: The Most Undervalued Skill of the 21st-Century Economy
This is the penultimate episode of Strange New Work, a special series from What Works that explores the future of work through the lens of speculative fiction.What's t...
BONUS: A Quick Pep Talk
I've got something short, sweet, and really special for you today. Sean, my husband, my go-to extrovert shield, and the co-founder of YellowHouse.Media has a new proje...
EP 448: Made for Work
This is the 6th installment of Strange New Work, a special series that uses speculative fiction to explore radically different work futures.Find the work you were born...
EP 447: Disrupting Housework (Without Robots or Replicators)
This is the 5th installment of Strange New Work, a special series that explores how speculative fiction can help us imagine radically different work futures.Think the ...
EP 446: You Will Be Assimilated with Charlie Gilkey
This is the 4th installment in Strange New Work, a special series from What Works that explores how speculative fiction can help us imagine new ways of working.Social ...
EP 445: The Time to Change with Jordan Maney & Joanna Cea
This is the third installment in Strange New Work, a series that explores how speculative fiction can help us imagine the future of work. Today's work happens in tiny ...
This Is Not Advice: Quid Pro No Thank You
This is the 11th edition of This is Not Advice, a "not advice" column for premium subscribers of What Works. In this episode and essay, I tackle the assumed quid pro q...
EP 444: World-Building a More Sustainable Work Environment with Morgan Harper Nichols
This is the second episode in my new series, "Strange New Work." Artist and writer Morgan Harper Nichols is a world-builder. She says, "Worldbuilding, for me, [is] a f...
EP 443: Imagining a Radically Different World of Work
The future of work doesn't have to be an extension of today's reality.This is the first installment in Strange New Work, a new series from What Works about imagining r...
Strange New Work Starts September 14!
Join Tara McMullin for a journey into the far future of work, and consider how we can create more humane, inclusive, and supportive work environment. The first episode...
EP 442: When The Voice In Your Head Whispers... Meritocracy
Today’s episode is a sneak peek of Work In Practice, my new 12-week training program for guides of all kinds. This program offers a toolkit for identifying the beliefs...
EP 441: Rules, Habits, and Opening Doors with Charlie Gilkey
There are rules you know about—and rules you don't. Some rules are written down—and other rules are "just the way things are." And there are rules that make things cle...
EP 440: Adopting the Perennial Mindset for Work & Beyond with Mauro Guillén
Play, learn, work, retire—those are the four stages of what Mauro Guillén calls the sequential mode of life. In his new book, The Perennials: The Megatrends Creating a...
This is Not Advice: Metrics, Incentives, and the Seduction of Clarity
This is the 8th edition of This is Not Advice, my "not-advice" column for premium subscribers of What Works. Today, I'm talking about our over-reliance on metrics and ...