Podcasts about Do Nothing

Book NotesMichael recommends: The Everything Ghost Hunting Book: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Exploring the Supernatural World by Melissa Ellis Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley Carrie recommends: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell Playing with Image Transfers: Exploring Creative Imagery for Use in Art, Mixed Media, and Design by Courtney Cerruti Can I Recycle This? A Guide to Better Recycling and How to Reduce Single-Use Plastics by Jennie Romer Beyond Beautiful: A Practical Guide to Being Happy, Confident, and You in a Looks-obsessed World by Anuschka Rees Adam recommends: You Call This Democracy? How to Fix Our Government and Deliver Power to the People by Elizabeth Rusch Period Power: A Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement by Nadya Okamoto Girls Garage: How to Use Any Tool, Tackle Any Project, and Build the World You Want to See by Emily Pilloton Bite Notes The Conjuring will offer a chilling cap to a night of investigating the paranormal with The Everything Ghost Hunting Book. Enjoy How to Do Nothing with a cup of matcha tea, a type of Japanese green tea powder known for its ability to help you focus. Add some fiber to your non-fic dessert pairing with Corn & Blackberry pops. For the full recipe, see People's Pops, available from JCPL in hard copy.

I've been feeling a lot of blah lately. Let me tell you about how I've reframed it so that it doesn't ruin my life. Ha! Find me @amberdeibertcoaching on IG Find Melanie at https://www.melaniehillcoaching.com/ Do Nothing book: https://celesteheadlee.com/do-nothing-book/

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Today we had the privilege of speaking with Adam Wilk, Founder and Portfolio Manager of Greystone Capital Management LLC. He has a very interesting background, he worked with the San Antonio Spurs on the Acquisition Department, we discussed the intricacies of basketball analytics, what does his research process looks like, from initial due diligence to deep dives, and how much he spends on research, we also talked about two of his ideas At Home (HOME) and Thunderbird Entertainment Group (TBRD) and we wrapped our conversation with tips and tricks on learning how to do nothing. [0:00] Introduction [4:40] How Did You End Up Working with the San Antonio Spurs? [11:00] Parallels Between Basketball Operations and Investing [18:30] Is it Possible to Do a DCF on a Basketball Player? [28:00] The Key Main Drivers For Valuing a Player [39:00] A Day in the Life of Adam Wilk [45:00] Adam's Bread and Butter Investment [50:00] How to Manage a Watchlist [1:00:00] At Home (HOME): Why Was It an Attractive Business? [1:09:00] HOME's Private Equity Takeover [1:19:00] Private Deals at the Expense of Shareholder Value [1:24:00] Thunderbird Entertainment Group (TBRD) [1:29:00] TBRD's Bear Thesis [1:30:00] Learning to Do Nothing [1:42:00] Adam's Hobbies [1:50:00] More from Adam Wilk If you enjoyed this podcast please follow Adam on Twitter @AKWilk

Here's the link to the video from from Premiere Gal that explains auto subtitles very clearly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WVby3zB99s    And here's a link to the book "Do Nothing" by Celeste Headlee https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/g/11hyhp3ncc&hl=en-US&q=Do+Nothing:+How+to+Break+Away+from+Overworking,+Overdoing,+and+Underliving&kgs=22f454be293df513&shndl=0&source=sh/x/kp/osrp/3&entrypoint=sh/x/kp/osrp        If you'd like to do a zoom chat, we can talk about anything you like. Just go to brendanclancy.com/calendar and find a slot that works for you.   If you'd like to know more about podcast equipment go here: kit.co/brendanclancy    If you'd like to join out Super Producer network on Facebook, go here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/378046142745266/   If you want to start a podcast, read this:  https://medium.com/@brendanclancy/how-to-start-a-podcast-in-4-days-758b399ea5eb   And if you have questions about anything else, DM me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superproducerbc/?hl=en   Also feel free to shoot Emily a DM, @emily_lorimer_ on IG and Twitter.

Celeste Headlee is a journalist, speaker, and co-host of Retro Report, a weekly series on PBS. She's also the author of several books including We Need to Talk and Do Nothing. Her TED Talk, "10 ways to have a better conversation," is one of the most viewed talks of all time. She's a well-respected expert in communication and how to hold uncomfortable conversations.Some of the things she talks about in this episode are how to hold difficult conversations with people, how to become better at making conversation, and how to deliver bad news effectively. 

On Episode 83 of Calling All Craft Beer we catch up with Thomas who's been lobstering it up in SoFlo. He brings some reviews of a few local brews from both @CivilSocietyBrewing and @3SonsBrewing since Luke is still deep into 75 Hard sans alcohol. Then Luke gives a review of the @drinkhoptea products from HopLark. The owner Dean is a freaking boss and sent him out 3 cases of which he promptly got to enjoying so tune in for that hydration exploration. We dive into some mask BS again because sadly it's the talk of the fucking town, but it's only a small part of the show. Luke finds out Thomas actually did have an adverse reaction to the Vax as well as his father and we talk about those as well. Overall we kick it with some great content so tune in. As always drink responsibly and follow us both Thomas is @frenchtom86 on IG and Luke is @callingallcraftbeer on IG. Please for the love of beer like, subscribe, drop us a 5 star rating, and a review Please!!! It's not to much to ask if you enjoy the content we put out. If you hate it just keep scrolling and Do Nothing!! Thank you

When it comes to media, you can have too much of a good thing! Andrea Davis of Better Screen Time shares some great tips to establish screen-free rituals, routines, and recharging in your home. This applies not only to our kids, but to us as parents too! Take time to be mindful and intentional in creating a tech-healthy family and make sure your tech habits are replenishing, not depleting, you.  100+Screen-Free Activities for When You Want to Do Nothing

In this episode, I interview my favorite podcast guest: my mom Gretchen! We talk about our audiobook habits, what we learn from self-help books, and why we read the books we do. Books mentioned in this episode: Drive by Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink, Grit by Angela Duckworth, Profit First by Mike Michalowicz, Do Nothing by Celeste Headlee, and No Pain, No Gaines by Chip Gaines. Follow Annie and the pod on Instagram. Inquiries: helloheroinepod@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/helloheroinepod/support

As sellers we are often provided with discovery guides and taught about the key questions to ask our prospects, but do we have a guide and coaching on how to provide the best answers, especially responses enabling us to build trust, so important with today's skeptical buyer? In this interview with Dr. Brian Glibkowski, author of the book Answer Intelligence: Raise Your AQ we discuss six methods to Answer questions, in order to influence your deals from "Do Nothing" to "Yes". https://www.linkedin.com/in/glibkowski/ #salesenablement #salescoaching #trust #AQ #valueenablement

Sundial contributor Rose Battle leaves us in stitches with her tale "She Don't Do Nothing".

We're back again this week with journalist Celeste Headlee, whose conversation with Dr. Jack Muskat, Medcan's clinical director of mental health, was so captivating we had to dedicate two episodes to it. In her book, Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving, Headlee argues that our obsession with productivity is enabling burnout culture and harming our health. When we last left Headlee and Dr. Muskat, the duo explored the surprising historical evolution of work and how one restorative train trip forced Headlee to unplug and rethink her own relationship to her job. This week, they dive into the lifestyle changes we should all be making in order to break out of this vicious work cycle we're trapped in and embrace leisure.   LINKS Celeste is quite active on Twitter and Instagram. Read more on Headlee and her work at her website, and check out her book Do Nothing. An interview Headlee did with NPR leading up to the book's launch.  Here's a WHO article categorizing burn-out as an “occupational phenomenon.” INSIGHTS   Data from the International Labour Organization and the WHO shows a concerning trend for those spending long hours at work. “We're talking about the World Health Organization saying overwork can kill you,” says Headlee. The findings show an increased risk for premature death caused by heart disease and stroke for those who work more than 55 hours a week. But the real kicker? Headlee says research reveals that the net difference in pay for someone working 55 hours versus someone working 35 hours is only 6 percent. [04:20] So what can we be doing to more effectively combat burnout in the workplace? Headlee thinks one of the solutions is better management practices. One of the problems with remote working, she says, is that managers started instituting more intrusive policies because they didn't trust their employees to be productive from home. It had the opposite effect—as a manager “your job is actually not to manage a team, it's to coach them and give them the tools they need for success.” [05:58] But surely the cult of productivity is good for something—coming up with a vaccine in 11 months doesn't happen without some serious work. However, Headlee notes that working to solve a crisis is different from a 50 hour work week. Throughout history, humans have always come together (and usually work prolonged hours) to solve a crisis. The main difference? Afterwards, “they were given a nice, long break.” That is “the rhythm of homosapiens,” Headlee says—and one we'd be better off sticking to. [09:42] And for the younger generation? Headlee notes that the host of work-related worries Gen-Z deals with is the upshot of a society that brainwashes its members into believing they're only valuable if they're working. In reality, “it is a delusion to think that if you keep pushing your brain, it helps you get more done”. Headlee notes that studies on productivity show that those who work 10-15 hours a week are generally the most productive. Humans are naturally equipped to work in teams, and yet most of what we're taught growing up is about individual responsibility. Working in a group is a skill that has to be developed—training people to work by themselves won't do them any good in the real world. [10:55] To the CEO or executive that says they have no time for hobbies: Headlee doesn't believe you. “You have more time than  you think,” she says. You have to find where the “leak” is (i.e., are you scrolling Instagram in between emails?) and plug it with something that's just for pleasure—something that doesn't go on a CV, that won't be beneficial for your career or even go on social media. That, she says, is the kind of leisure that we're missing. [15:56] “Leisure should have nothing to do with work”. Imagine you have two modes—open and closed. When you're ‘open' says Headlee, it's business as usual, you work, collaborate—complete your tasks. But after that's all done, when you switch to ‘closed', that means no more memos, Slack or emails. Headlee wants people to be bored again because “your brain hates it.” We're so used to being caught up in whatever is going on in our lives that simply sitting and doing nothing feels like torture. But being bored is when your mind is most likely to let memories percolate, or make interesting connections—amazing things can happen when you give your mind the freedom to just wander. [18:38] “I want people to experience boredom again,” says Headlee. Why? Well, your brain hates the state of being bored, so it will start to wander. A wandering brain will start to make surprising connections, like remembering that you haven't called your favourite aunt in a while. And the only way to accomplish this is by truly separating work from leisure and giving your mind the freedom to just wander. [19:51]

This week the Real Friends get mad with Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly. We're talking about why we teach women to suppress their anger, the times we've misidentified our own anger, and all the ways it plays out in our lives today. *TW for sexual assault and harassment; eating disorders and body image issues* Some light reading from Fast Company (8 min read) If you want a truly equitable workplace, you must get over fear of conflict by Mimi Fox Melton and Karla Monterroso Minority girls are disproportionately punished for their anger, beginning as early as kindergarten. Find a grassroots organization near you working to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline and get involved. Until then, consider a monthly donation to Gideon's Army in Nashville. Find them online at gideonsarmyunited.org. Rage Becomes Her in one sentence: Courtney: Being a woman is hard work in the world we live in, and I'm ready to let the men out there know. Mary Paige: Let's transform our anger into meaningful change so we can burn brighter than the sun Erica: True Life: The *patriarchy tried to silence my anger, too! (*white supremacist) Read along with us! Here's what's next: 7/20: Dead Until Dark 8/3: People We Meet on Vacation 8/17: How to Do Nothing

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell called it “the cult of efficiency”—the drive among high-performers to accomplish more, to be productive, to work. But lately that cult has been pushing more people to burnout and languishing. What's going on? In evolutionary terms, the cult of efficiency is a recent invention that contradicts the way humans have survived for millennia, according to Celeste Headlee, author of the book, Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving. In part one of a special two-part episode, Headlee joins Dr. Jack Muskat, Medcan's clinical director of mental health, to discuss how our culture became obsessed with productivity, and why we need to remember how to relax.   http://eatmovethinkpodcast.com/podcast/ep-73-do-nothing-with-celeste-headlee-part-one  LINKS: More on Headlee and her work at her website, and her book Do Nothing. Here's one of the interviews Headlee did, this one with NPR, leading up to the book's launch. Ahd here's one she did with Forbes. Watch Headlee briefly break down the book here.  She's also given a TED Talk on how to have better conversations.   INSIGHTS Burnout, which the World Health Organization recognizes as a syndrome, has six main drivers, Headlee says: Overworking, the sense that you are not in control, being underappreciated, some kind of breakdown in your workplace, unfair treatment and a disconnect between your skills, values and the work you are being paid to do. As the author notes, self-care won't be able to address any of these things. Tied to this is the revelation that the life expectancy in the United States, at least, has fallen three years in a row. While working on her book, Headlee asked the researcher why this was. The answer: Despair. “Even before the pandemic, we were already on a very, very toxic and dangerous path,” she says. [03:46] We've all heard—maybe even said—the phrase “time is money.” Headlee was surprised to discover that it's a relatively new phrase. She dug through labour records dating back to the ancient Greeks and Romans—and found that for most of history, work happened in pulses. Hunter-gatherer societies worked a day or two a week. Agricultural societies would work hard for a condensed period of time, and then take a celebratory break, like a harvest festival. It wasn't until the Industrial Revolution came about that work became a more task-based constant that led to our eventual obsession with productivity. “This is very, very recent in terms of an evolutionary change,” Headlee says, “which means we can change it back.” [05:31] So when Headlee says “do nothing,” does she actually mean to sit around and do, well, nothing? Not exactly. “Leisure is not inactivity,” she says. “You can be active while you are at leisure. ‘Do nothing' just means stop trying to produce stuff, stop worrying about the product or the utility of that time and do what you want.” [16:10] “You are not a multitasker—none of us are multitaskers,” Headlee says. The truth is that the human body and brain isn't designed to multitask. In fact, multitasking is associated with damage to our cognitive processes. Headlee found research that proves that multitasking degrades the quality of your work, lowers your IQ in that moment (to the point where you could be on par with an eight-year-old) and that you get worse at multitasking over time, not better. Multitasking is even associated with lower brain density, especially in areas related to self-control and empathy. “It's a terrible idea to try to treat our own bodies and brains like a computer,” she says. “It's much easier if you work with your body and brain instead of against it.” [16:58] Overwork is bad for our health. By constantly pushing ourselves, we put ourselves into such a state of stress that we activate the amygdala—the portion of the brain that is only supposed to be in control under great threat or danger. That, in turn, affects our decision-making abilities. The stress raises blood levels of cortisol and can leave us feeling exhausted, causing further stress in a vicious feedback loop. “That's what causes burnout,” Headlee explains. “Burnout isn't because of one bad day or even a bad week. It's chronic.” [19:42]

Fam, if you thought New York in the 70s, was bad, WELCOME TO DETROIT IN THE 80s. It's the height of “the war on drugs” and, according to local law enforcement, it seems that a new drug gang is popping up every week. Enter the notorious White Boy Rick—a SIXTEEN YEAR OLD DRUG KINGPIN WHO IS RUNNING DETROIT LIKE A MAFIA BOSS…or so the legend went. In reality, he was a14-year-old informant for the FBI who was thrust into the world of drugs and gun by his father, and then sold out by everybody. COME SEE US LIVE IN DC!! Friday, September 17th at 8pm! WITH RABIA CHAUDRY AND SUSAN SIMPSON OF "UNDISCLOSED." We're covering HBO's "The Case Against Adnan Syed." We're gonna talk about Don for like 6 hours (just kidding...but maybe?). It will be our hilarious, informative, and outrageous live show AND RABIA AND SUSAN WILL SHARE ALL THE SHOCKING NEW INFORMATION ON THE CASE! Get your tickets here! (IF YOU HAD TICKETS FOR THE PREVIOUS DATE, DO NOTHING! YOUR TICKETS STILL WORK!) CHECK OUT OUR GORGEOUS NEW PRIDE MERCH! We've always wanted to create a PRIDE COLLECTION...AND NOW WE'VE DONE IT! We're talking TCO Pride hoodes, sweatshirts, t-shirts, phone cases, and mugs! It's all going fast, so GET YOURS HERE! LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed, you'll find over 200 FULL BONUS episodes to BINGE RIGHT NOW! Including our episode-by-episode coverage of "Night Stalker" "The Jinx," "Making A Murderer," "The Staircase," "I'll Be Gone in the Dark," "A Wilderness of Error" "The Vow"  "Tiger King" "Don't F**K With Cats," "The Menendez Murders," "The Murder of Laci Peterson," "Casey Anthony: American Murder Mystery," "Serial," "Lorena," "The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann," "OJ: Made in America" and so many more! JOIN HERE!

Are you ready to be charmed? Great, because today we're discussing baby hummingbirds and hanging with Lauren Chan, who's a size-inclusive fashion advocate, a model, and the founder-slash-CEO of Henning, which makes luxury, oh-so-cool womenswear in sizes 12 to 24. Soon, she'll be a TikTok star, too—we have no doubt.   Related to Erica's How to Do Nothing-esque baby hummingbird *experience*: this glorious Jamie Beck ridiculousness, the Minnesota State Fair's CHS Miracle of Birth Center, this Travel + Leisure story “The World's Best Places to See Baby Animals,” David Schwimmer on Marcel the monkey, and a taste of hummingbird TikTok.   Shop Lauren Chan's line Henning! Follow her on Instagram!   Other fashion companies that Lauren admires: Wray, Tamara Malas, Eileen Fisher, and Mara Hoffman.   What's Lauren wearing? So glad you asked. For jeans and jorts, Citizens of Humanity (in size 33) and Agolde (in size 33 or 34). Speaking of shorts: Henning bike shorts, Aerie sweat shorts, and WSLY nylon shorts from Bandier. Up top: nostalgic T-shirts from Poshmark and flowy button-downs from Poshmark and her love, The RealReal.    Her home go-tos (see also: this Domino feature styled by Elaina Sullivan): Chairish, Saatchi Art, and Craigslist.   Get to the bottom of persistent health issues with Base—save 20% off of your first month of membership with the code ATHINGORTWO. Take 20% off Olive & June's game-changing Mani System with the code ATHINGORTWO. Find out where to get your COVID-19 vaccine near you at vaccines.gov. Try out Made In's professional-grade cookware for 15% off your first order with the code ATHINGORTWO. YAY.   Produced by Dear Media

Industrialists like Henry Ford made the 40-hour work week popular in the 1920s: a hundred years later we look at how it's working out for us. Host Sonari Glinton talks to Celeste Headlee, journalist and author of Do Nothing, about burnout, and how that led her to reorient her life and approach to work. Next, we meet Jomar Reyes, who worked at Danish digital marketing agency IIH Nordic as they transitioned to a 4-day work week. Finally, Jennifer Scott is a bike courier and labor activist in Toronto and her work schedule makes 9-5 look like a dream. Jennifer explains how gig workers are fighting for more sustainable careers. Disclaimers:The guest speakers are neither employees nor affiliated with Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC. (“Morgan Stanley”). The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of Morgan Stanley. The information and data contained herein has been obtained from sources outside of Morgan Stanley and Morgan Stanley makes no representations or guarantees as to the accuracy or completeness of information or data from sources outside of Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley is not responsible for the information or data contained in this podcast.This podcast does not provide individually tailored investment advice and is not a solicitation of any offer to buy or sell any security or other financial instrument or to participate in any trading strategy. It has been prepared without regard to the individual financial circumstances and objectives of persons who receive it.© 2021 Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC. Members SIPC.

The Monster | The Soul Collector – Hey everyone! Thanks for checking out Motion Picture Meltdown! We’re getting a super late finish to our MPM Monster Month of May (June) episodes, and this week, Phil chooses The Monster (2016) and The Soul Collector (2019). In this episode, we discuss our favorite folklore horror films, Phil … Continue reading "MPM: Ep. 416 – Be Better, Do Nothing"

We are in week two of our Summer Series, and we explore saying yes with the patriarch Abram, as God calls him into an unknown but blessed future. It is frightening and thrilling all at the same time when God beckons us into a new way of being. And we also discuss "How to Do Nothing," a book by Jenny Odell, which asks us, among other things, to pay attention to who and what id vying for our attention, our time, our very selves. What do we say yes to, and what can we say no to? It's a wide ranging conversation this week about faith, courage, living into who and what you are called to be, and whose voice you listen to.

If you talk to many of the people working on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence research, you’ll hear that we are on the cusp of a technology that will be far more transformative than simply computers and the internet, one that could bring about a new industrial revolution and usher in a utopia — or perhaps pose the greatest threat in our species’s history.Others, of course, will tell you those folks are nuts.One of my projects this year is to get a better handle on this debate. A.I., after all, isn’t some force only future human beings will face. It’s here now, deciding what advertisements are served to us online, how bail is set after we commit crimes and whether our jobs will exist in a couple of years. It is both shaped by and reshaping politics, economics and society. It’s worth understanding.Brian Christian’s recent book “The Alignment Problem” is the best book on the key technical and moral questions of A.I. that I’ve read. At its center is the term from which the book gets its name. “Alignment problem” originated in economics as a way to describe the fact that the systems and incentives we create often fail to align with our goals. And that’s a central worry with A.I., too: that we will create something to help us that will instead harm us, in part because we didn’t understand how it really worked or what we had actually asked it to do.So this conversation is about the various alignment problems associated with A.I. We discuss what machine learning is and how it works, how governments and corporations are using it right now, what it has taught us about human learning, the ethics of how humans should treat sentient robots, the all-important question of how A.I. developers plan to make profits, what kinds of regulatory structures are possible when we’re dealing with algorithms we don’t really understand, the way A.I. reflects and then supercharges the inequities that exist in our society, the saddest Super Mario Bros. game I’ve ever heard of, why the problem of automation isn’t so much job loss as dignity loss and much more.Mentioned: “Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning”“Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation” by Norbert WienerRecommendations: What to Expect When You're Expecting Robots  by Julie Shah and Laura MajorFinite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse How to Do Nothing by Jenny OdellIf you enjoyed this episode, check out my conversation with Alison Gopnik on what we can all learn from studying the minds of children.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of "The Ezra Klein Show" at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein.Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.“The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld and Rogé Karma; fact-checking by Michelle Harris; original music by Isaac Jones; mixing by Jeff Geld; audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Special thanks to Kristin Lin.

In episode 27 we discuss if and when an artist should hire a producer as well as an engineer. There are many different variables when it come to your music career and it may be time to hire a music producer to help guide you through out the music creativity process. Listen in to hear our thoughts and personal experiences. Playlists can be a great way to share your music and we give our tips on how to contact playlist curators. Shout out to CORT CARPENTER (instagram: @cortcarpenterofficial https://www.instagram.com/cortcarpenterofficial/ ) for submitting to our curated playlist by Herman Hildo. 'Small Towers' moved to number one on "Country Rollin' Playlist https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/country-rollin/pl.u-MDAWWlWsJG5A5x BIG love to CORT CARPENTER for sharing his music with us! Listen to "Small Town" https://music.apple.com/us/album/small-towners/1546677742?i=1546677745 Listen to "The Road" https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-road/1563415746?i=1563415750 Big love to UK Band SAY YES, DO NOTHING on their song "LOCKDOWN" which we absolutely loved. Big guitars and big vocals! Great job and thank you for sharing! Listen to "Lockdown" https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/BTzDNc7WAeebLb6r5 Shout out to my friend Scott Besinger on instagram @clothn4u77 https://www.instagram.com/clothn4u77/ and be sure to check out his services. If you're an upcoming artist or perhaps in the market for a new logo design for hats, merchandise, stickers, etc., then Clothn4u is your ONE STOP SHOP! DM him today! Announcements: 1. Morris Markway | “Big Flight” May 21st 2. CYGNU6 | “Marry That Girl” May 28th 3. Peaceable | Back To The Festival - coming soon 4. Sunrayz | Gone Too Far - June 11 5. Simple Creation | Self-titled album SIMPLE CREATION - June 4 6. SIC | Breakdown - coming soon! NEWS TIKTOK RADIO IS COMING TO SIRIUSXM AS COMPANIES JOIN FORCES TO CREATE ‘EXCLUSIVE AUDIO EXPERIENCES'; read more here: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/tiktok-radio-is-coming-to-siriusxm-as-companies-join-forces-to-create-exclusive-audio-experiences/ (MBW, 2021)

01:07 - Marlena’s Superpower: Bringing the Arts to Tech * Coming Into Tech as a Creative 04:42 - Parallels Between Art and Computer Science/Software Engineering * System Architecture * Spatial Thinking & Representation * Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought by Barbara Tversky (https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Motion-Action-Shapes-Thought/dp/046509306X) * Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff & Mark Johnson (https://www.amazon.com/Metaphors-We-Live-George-Lakoff/dp/0226468011) 09:33 - Sketchnoting and Zines * The Sketchnote Handbook: The Illustrated Guide to Visual Note Taking by Mike Rohde (https://www.amazon.com/Sketchnote-Handbook-illustrated-visual-taking/dp/0321857895/ref=asc_df_0321857895/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312021252609&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6623941144735025539&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9006718&hvtargid=pla-454389960652&psc=1) 14:19 - DIY Publishing and Physicality – The Power of Print * The Pamphlet Wars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamphlet_wars) 20:33 - Zines at Work & Zines in Professional Settings * Slowing Down Our Thought Processes * Using Diagrams to Ask Questions & For Exploration * Graphic Facilitators 31:11 - Target Audiences, Codeswitching, & People Are Not Robots 37:58 - How We View, Study, and Treat Liberal Arts – (Not Well!) * Formulating Thoughts In A Way That’s Available For Consumption 43:01 - Using Diagrams and Images * UML (Unified Modeling Language) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language) * Collaborative Whiteboarding Software and Shared Visual Language (Drawing Together) 50:41 - Handwriting Advice: Decolonize Your Mind! * SLOW DOWN * Write Larger * Practice * How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell (https://www.amazon.com/How-Do-Nothing-Resisting-Attention/dp/1612197493) 59:45 - The “Let’s Sketch Tech!” (https://appearworks.com/) Conference * Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/letssketchtech?fan_landing=true) * Podcast (https://anchor.fm/appearworks) * Newsletter (https://appearworks.activehosted.com/f/7) Reflections: Damien: Decolonize your mind. Jamey: Zine fairs at work and valuing yourself by taking up space. Rein: Creativity is good for individuals to explore, but when we share it with people it’s a way we can become closer. Marlena: Connecting arts and technology. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Transcript: JAMEY: Hello, everyone and welcome to Episode 236 of Greater Than Code. I’m one of your hosts, Jamey Hampton, and I’m here with my friend, Rein Henrichs. REIN: Thanks, Jamey. And I’m another one of your hosts and I’m here with my friend, Damien Burke DAMIEN: Thanks, Rein. And I'm here in addition to with the host, our guest today, Marlena Compton. Marlena Compton is a tech community organizer, designer, and collaboration artist who has worked in the tech industry for 18 years. She grows tech communities and organizes conferences such as “Pear Conf” and “Let’s Sketch Tech!” Marlena has worked for companies like IBM and Atlassian. This has left her with a life-long appreciation for quality code, empathy, and working together as a team. When she isn’t working, Marlena enjoys lettering, calligraphy, and walking her dog. Welcome to the show, Marlena. MARLENA: Hi, thank you so much. DAMIEN: So I know you're prepared for this. Same thing we do for all of our guests, we're going to start with the first question. What is your superpower and how did you acquire it? MARLENA: Yeah, so my superpower is bringing the arts to tech and that is teaching people the value of creative arts—such as writing, sketching, music, and more—and how this relates to the tech industry, helping creative types feel more at home in tech, and helping folks who are mostly in the science track in school learn why they need the creative arts for critical thinking and thinking through problems. So it's like, you have to give people a space to do this learning from a peer perspective versus top-down perspective. This includes building community for folks to explore these things. JAMEY: So you came to tech from art previously, is that right? MARLENA: I have a wild academic background of interdisciplinary studies, which will not get you a job for anything but like, renting a car. [laughter] Or whatever and also, later I did computer science, but while I was getting my liberal arts degree, I did a lot of art history, a lot of painting, and a lot of theater. JAMEY: I wonder if you could speak to coming into the tech industry as someone who is already an artist and considers themselves an artist, like, how that translated for you. Like, what skills from being an artist, do you think were helpful to you as you were starting in tech? MARLENA: Sure. So I think that if you know that you're an artistic type, like I knew how important arts were for me. But I think for children often they get a lot of pressure to find something that will get them a job and it's not like this isn't for good reason, it's like we’ve got to be able to pay our bills. On the other hand, when you're a creative type, it's such a core part of your personality. You can't really separate it from anything and if you try to just tamp it down, it's going to come out somehow. So I was this college graduate and I was having a really hard time getting a job and figuring out what I wanted to do that would make enough money to support me. Computer science was literally the last thing I tried and I seem to do okay at it so I kept doing it. [laughs] And that's how I got into it. I wish that we had bootcamps when I started learning computer science, but there weren't any and so, all I could do was go back to community college. So I went to community college. I had to take every single math class over again. Calculus, I had to take three times, but I stuck with it. I didn't know if I could do it, but I kept taking the classes and eventually, it worked. So [laughs] that's how I got into the tech industry and it's like, it's totally okay to do this just to make money. That's why I did it. DAMIEN: So then coming in with this art background, which seems really broad and you didn't talk about anything specific, what insights and connections were you able to make between art and computer science, and art and software engineering? MARLENA: Sure. So for me, building software is a creative process. In fact, this is something I've believed for a very long time, because as soon as I got out with my newly-minted CS degree and I knew that I needed to create, draw, write, and do all of those things. Eventually, I started looking around for okay, what in computer science is kind of more visual place and it used to be people would think of diagramming software, HoloVizio, Rational Rose, which is that is quite a throwback. Who here –? DAMIEN: UML. MARLENA: [laughs] That UML, yes! I would look at these things, like system architect, where it's like the idea was that you could literally draw out pieces and then it would make your code, which was [laughs] I think an epic fail if you look at it from, did it actually ever write successful code? I have never – REIN: There's another option, which was the expense of architects draw the boxes and then the chief engineer put the code in the boxes. MARLENA: Well, but see, you need a brain in there and this is all about the brain. [laughter] MARLENA: Yeah. I think one transformation that my thinking had to go through so, I had to go from this computer science perspective of find a way to chop up all your thoughts into little, discreet, logical pieces so that you can make classes, objects, and things like that and instead look at the brain as an organ in your body. We take more of a holistic perspective where it is your brain is connected to your thoughts is connected to like your internal axes, GPS system, and mapping system and how all of that comes together to problem solve. REIN: Yeah. I love it. Without bodies, we couldn't think about things MARLENA: Indeed. This past year, I've spent a lot of time specifically investigating this connection. One of the things I did was read Barbara Tversky's book, Mind in Motion, and the premise of her book is that spatial thinking is the foundation of abstract thought. That is how you orient yourself in the world and how you perceive a space around you and yourself in that space is what allows you to organize ideas, take perspectives that are based in imagination, and things like that. REIN: Yeah, and this ties into Wyckoff's work on basic metaphors because basic metaphors are how we structure our thought, but they're all about the world. So thinking about the metaphor of containment, you have a thing, it has an inside and an outside, there may be a portal that gets you from the inside to the outside. So this is how houses work, right? This is how we think about houses. This is also how we think about relationships. It's how we think about code. And then there's you combine that basic metaphor with the metaphor of traveling; starting at a place, traveling along a path, ending up at another place. You put those two metaphors together, you can have complex thoughts about achieving goals. But these are all metaphors based on, like you're saying, our perception of living in a world that has 3D space. Yes, and maps are such a big part of that. So when I was reading through this particular book, she goes into things like maps, how we map ideas, and things like that and there is quite a bit of science behind it. And even for metaphor, she writes that metaphor is what happens when our thoughts overflow our brains and we need to put them out into the world. DAMIEN: So putting these thoughts, these ideas back out into the world and into some sort of spatial representation, is that how you view the tech notetaking, or diagramming sort of thing? MARLENA: Absolutely. So I guess, for listeners, I want to back up a little bit because I think something that Damien knows about me and also Jamey and Rein from looking at the biography is that I'm very into sketch notes. Just to bring us out of the depth [laughs] a little bit, I can tell you about why I turned to sketchnoting and why I started doing it. It was because I was trying to learn JavaScript and yes, Damien, I know how you feel about JavaScript, some of us like it. [laughs] DAMIEN: I don't want to show my cards too much here, but I will say the fact that you had difficulty with it is telling. MARLENA: Well, but I also had difficulty learning C, Java, Erlang. DAMIEN: So how did [inaudible]? MARLENA: Well, so I went to CascadiaJS and this was my first – well, it wasn't my first, but it was the language conference and I was just learning JavaScript and I didn't understand half of it. It just went over my head. So to try and create some memory of that, or try to figure it out, I started drawing. I had seen sketch notes on the web. They were experiencing a bump in popularity at the time. I think my Mike Rohde’s book had just come out and it helped. That was what introduced me to this whole world and eventually, we're talking about when thoughts overflow and you turn to metaphor, this is exactly what was happening for me was Barbara Tyversky refers to these pictures we draw as glyphs. They can be more complicated than language and that is why when we're really trying to figure something out, we're not going to be writing an essay, maybe sometimes, but for the most part, we'll start diagramming. JAMEY: I also wanted to talk about zines while you were on. I was thinking about zines when you were talking about this because I feel like there's a few different mediums of art that I do and some of them are more intentional than others. To me, zines are about like, “I'm thinking this and it needs to exist in physical space and then it will be done and I can stop thinking about it,” because it exists. MARLENA: I love that so much and it's exactly what zines are there for. So zines are DIY publishing and zines are the publishing that happens for topics that, I think it happens a lot for people who are underrepresented in some way. Because you're not going to have access to a publisher and it's going to be harder for you to get any official book out. But then sometimes it's also just, maybe you don't want that. Maybe you want your zine to be a more informal publication. I love zines how kind of – they are all so super niche like, you can put anything. Define the word zine, ha! [laughs] JAMEY: It's so hard. People will argue about this in the zine community for like days and days. Hard to define the word. MARLENA: And that's actually part of the power of zines because it means it can be whatever you want, which means whatever you want to create is okay. I think that's really what we're trying to get down into here is having different ways of expressing and problem solving be okay and accepted. REIN: Just something to point out that containment is a metaphor we use for categories. So we're talking about what is inside the zine category? DAMIEN: I want to go back to the well, Marlena, you said zines were do-it-yourself publishing, DIY publishing, but blogs are also do-it-yourself publishing. So zines have a physicality to them and feels like that's an important aspect. Can you talk about that, or why that is? MARLENA: Well, there are also digital zines, so yeah. [laughs] But. DAMIEN: Maybe five containerization and categories. MARLENA: [laughs] Well, if we wanted to talk a little bit about physical zines, that even is interesting and Jamey, maybe you have a few thoughts about this that you can share, too because there are just so many different ways to format a zine. JAMEY: Well, I know that digital zines are a thing and I've read some digital zines that I've very much enjoyed. To me, the physicality of zines is a big part of them and a lot of what's appealing about them for me. I think that part of the reason for that is that, as you were getting at, people can write whatever they want, people who might not have a chance to write in other formats and most importantly about that, you can't censor a zine. It's impossible because someone makes it themselves and then they give it to whoever they want to have. It's a very personal experience and there's no middleman who can like tell you what you can, or can't say. So I think that having that physical piece of paper that you then hand directly to someone is what makes that possible and not putting it on the internet is also what makes that possible. Like, you have this thing, nobody can edit what's in it. It's all up to you. Nobody can search for it on a search engine. If you don't want someone to see it, then you don't give them one and it's just a holdover from what a lot of media was more like before the internet and I appreciate that about them. [chuckles] DAMIEN: Yeah. To me, it sounds so much like the Federalist Papers, like Thomas Paine's Common Sense. JAMEY: Oh, those were zines for sure. DAMIEN: I wrote this thing, [inaudible] about, I'm hazing him out of here, read this. [chuckles] Those are zines, okay. JAMEY: And political zines are a huge subsection of pamphlets and all sorts of political ideology. REIN: And that's where printing started was with the publishing of zines, that's my argument. MARLENA: This is the power of print. It's the power of print and that power, it's something that you don't necessarily get with the internet. Zines are an archive as well and I don't think we can just say – So when I did the first Let’s Sketch Tech! conference, I had an editor from Chronicle Books come and she talked about publishing. When I was talking to her about doing this talk, what I thought was most interesting about our conversation was she said, “Books aren't going away. Books are never going away because we are so connected to our hands and our eyes.” Books are always going to be there. Printed, words printed, pamphlets, zines, I think they're going to outlast computers. [chuckles] Think about how long a CD, or magnetic tape is going to last for versus the oldest book in the world. DAMIEN: Yeah. REIN: And by the way, if you don't think that printing was about zines, go Google the pamphlet wars. We think it's about publishing the Bible, but the vast majority of stuff that was printed was pamphlets. Zines! DAMIEN: And we can look at things that have survived through a history and it's really truly about paper from Shakespeare's works to the Dead Sea Scrolls, this is how things have survived. MARLENA: And on another aspect of this is the fact that we are human, we have human eyes and those eyes have limits as to how much they can look at a screen. Looking at paper and also, the physical manipulation of that paper, I think is a very important aspect of zines. So my favorite scene ever, which is sadly lost to me, was this very small print zine and it was the kind that is printed literally on one piece of paper and this folded up. But it had the most magnificent centerfolds where you open it up and this is awesome picture of Prince and the person even taped a purple feather in the centerfold part of it and it's like, that's an experience you're only going to get from this kind of printed physical medium. DAMIEN: So yeah, I'm seeing a pattern here, communicating ideas through physical mediums. JAMEY: And I think that because zines are so DIY and low tech that people do really interesting things with paper to express what they're going for. Like, I've been doing zines for a long time with friends. But my first one that I ever did by myself, I had this black and white photo of a house that had Christmas lights on it and I was trying to be like, “How am I going to express this feeling that I have about this picture that I want to express in this media?” I'm like, “I'm going to go to Kinko's and make copies of this for 5 cents and how is it going to look the way I want?” So I ended up manually using a green highlighter to highlight over all of the Christmas lights in every single copy of the zine so that everyone would see the green Christmas lights that I wanted them to feel what I was feeling about. I think that's a pretty simple example because it's not extremely a lot of work to put highlighter in your zine either. But I think that people have to think about that and how they want to convey something and then people have done a lot of really interesting things like taping feathers into their books. MARLENA: Yeah. This is a way of slowing down our thought process, which I don't think we talk about enough because right now, in our culture, it's all about being faster, being lull 10x and making a zine is a great way to reflect on things that you've learned. So I would really like to take a minute to just talk about zines at work and zines in a professional setting because I've noticed that one thing people think as soon as I start talking about zines is why do I need this in my job? Why do we need this in tech? I think that zines are a great way to help people on teams surface the unspoken knowledge that lives in the team, or it's also a way to play with something that you're trying to learn and share with other people. I’d like to hear Jamey, do you have thoughts about this? JAMEY: I have a thought, but I'm not sure how directly related it is to what you just said and I feel self-conscious about it. [chuckles] But I like to teach people to make zines who aren't familiar with zines, or haven't made them before and the thing that I try to teach people that I think zines can teach you is that you can just do this. It's not hard. Anyone can do it. It doesn't take a specific skill that you can't just learn. So they're accessible in that way, but I think it's also a bigger lesson about what you can do if you want to do something and that's how I feel about tech. If you want to learn to code, it's not magic, you can learn how to do it. If you want to do a zine, you can learn how to do it. To me, those thoughts go together. I feel like that wasn't exactly what you just asked, I’m sorry. DAMIEN: I liked it, though. [chuckles] MARLENA: It does tie into the fact that it's important to help people feel at home at work. Well, you're not at home at work, but to feel as though they are in the right place at work and this type of making zines and allowing people to surface what they know about your system, about what you're building, about ideas that your team is tinkering with. This kind of format gives people the space to surface what they're thinking even if they're not the most vocal person. DAMIEN: So one of this really ties into what I was thinking. When you said zines at work and there's a couple of great tech zines which I love and I think should be in a lot of offices. But the idea of actually creating one at work, something happened in my chest when I thought about that idea and it's because it's a very informal medium and tends to be informal and whimsical and you just kind of do it. I realize how much that is counter to so much of how tech teams and tech industry runs where it's very formal. You can't just ship code, you’ve got to get a pull request and reviewed by the senior engineer and it's got to fit our coding standards and run in ordering time, or less. [laughter] That can be very, I'll say challenging. JAMEY: I think that's also exactly why it’s easy and fun to learn about tech from zines because it feels so much more approachable than a formal tutorial and you're saying like, “Oh, will this be too hard, or what will I learn?” There's all of this baggage that comes along with it where it's like, “Oh, the zine is like cute and whimsical and I'm going to read it and it's going to be interesting,” and then like, “Whoa, I just learned about sorting from it.” DAMIEN: Yeah. Just because you’re writing software, or doing computer science doesn't mean we have to be serious. [laughter] Probably needs to be shouldn't be. REIN: It also makes me think about a shift that I would really like to see in the way diagrams and things like this are used, which is that when you're asked to produce an architecture diagram, you're generally asked to produce something authoritative. It has to be the best current understanding of what the organization has decided to do and that doesn't leave any space for exploration, or for using diagrams to ask questions. I think that's bad because naturally, on a team, or in an organization, everyone has their own models. Everyone has their own local perspective on what's happening. If there's no opportunity to surface, “Hey, here's how I think this works. Can I compare that with how you think this works?” You can't maintain common ground. I don't think producing a lot of words is a great way to do that. I think that's very inefficient. I also think that having an hour meeting with twenty people where you all talk about it is also inefficient. So I'm wondering if diagrams can be useful here. Relatively, it’s a little bit quicker to draw some boxes and connect them with arrows than it is to write a 1-page report. I'm wondering if we could promote more people putting out these low fidelity diagrams that are, “Here's what's in my head,” and sharing them, if that would help us maintain common ground. MARLENA: Absolutely, and I love the way that you brought up this situation where everyone is – because I think we've all been in these meetings where it's like, there are some technical hurdle, decisions have to be made, technology needs to be chosen, libraries needed – that type of thing. What I experienced was it was hard for me to get a word in edgewise. REIN: Yeah, like if you have twenty people in a meeting, at most three of them are paying attention and about half of them are going to be underrepresented in the meeting for a variety of reasons, if not more. MARLENA: Yeah, and well, I'm just going to say yes. For underrepresented people, this happens a lot. So one of the things that I like to promote is taking apart the traditional jam everyone into a room, let the conversation naturally happen. I'm just going to say it. I don't think that works too well and honestly, I think that a zine format, or even if it's just like take a piece of paper, let people diagram what they think is interesting, then trade, then your team is having a zine fair. [laughs] REIN: Or if you do that to prepare for the meeting and then the meeting is going over them. MARLENA: Sure. Yeah, and maybe the discussion is like a facilitated discussion. I did a lot of Agile team stuff, including I had to go down the route of learning how to facilitate just because I couldn't get a word in edgewise on my team. So I started looking at different ways to how do you have a discussion when it's like, there are two, or three people who always talk, nobody else says anything, but everyone has thoughts. It's really interesting what happens when you start trying to change how a group is having discussions. REIN: It also seems like it's super valuable for the person doing the facilitation because they have to synthesize what's happening in real-time and then they come away with the meeting, with the synthesis in their brains. Part of which they've been able to put into the diagrams, the drawings, and whatever, but only a part of it. So it seems like if you have some external consultant come in and draw diagrams for your team, that external consultant then leaves with a bunch of the knowledge you were trying to impart to everyone else. MARLENA: I don't know if that's necessarily true. In the world of graphic recording, those folks go to all kinds of meetings and I think it's true that they are going to come away with a different set of thoughts in their head, but they're also not going to have the context of your team. REIN: Yeah. MARLENA: And that's a pretty big part of it. But I know Ashton Rodenhiser, she's a graphic facilitator who does this and she'll go into meetings like the one we're describing, and while people are talking, she's drawing things out. It's really interesting what happens when people see their discussion being drawn by a third party. I've seen this happen at some conferences; it's really great way to change the way you have discussion. REIN: Yeah. So for example, we do incident analysis, we do interviews with the people who are there, and we review slot transcripts. What we find is that the people who are doing the interviews, conducting the analysis, facilitating the reviews, they become experts in the systems. MARLENA: Ah yes, because so much – it reminds me of how teaching somebody to do something, you teach it to yourself. So they are having to internalize all of this discussion and reflect it back to the team, which means of course, they're learning along with the rest of the team. REIN: Yeah. So I think my point was not don't hire consultants to do this, it was keeping them around after you do. MARLENA: [laughs] Wouldn't it be amazing if having a graphic recorder, or a graphic facilitator was just a thing that we all had in our meetings? REIN: Yeah, or even something that was democratized so that more people got the benefits of – I think doing that work has a lot of benefits to the person who's doing it. JAMEY: This is making me think a lot about the way that you engaged with something, or the way that you express it, depending on who your target audience is. Like, if I'm taking notes for myself in my own notebook, my target audience is just myself and I write things that won't make sense to anybody else. If I'm writing like a document for work, the target audience is my team, I'm writing in a way that reflects that it's going to be read and understood by my team instead of me. I think that a lot of what we're talking about here with zines, diagrams, and things like this is kind of an interesting hybrid. When I write a zine, I'm doing it for me, it's benefiting me, but not in the same way as notes in my notebook where I don't want anyone else to ever look at it. So it's like, how do I write something that's benefiting me, but also has an audience of other people that I'm hoping will get something out of it? I think that's a bit of a unique format in some ways. DAMIEN: That's interesting because everything I hear from novelists and screenwriters, it's always “Write the book, write the movie that you want.” You're the audience and if you love it, not everybody's going to love it, [chuckles] but there are other people who will, chances are other people will love it. If you write something for everybody to love, nobody is going to like it. MARLENA: Yeah, I think so, too and you never know who else is going to be thinking the same way you are and sometimes, it's that people don't have a way to speak up and share how they're feeling in a similar way. So I actually love that zines allow – I think it is important to be making something that is from your perspective and then share that. That's a way to see who else has that perspective. DAMIEN: But I also understand this need to, well, I'll say code switch. This need to code switch for different audiences. [chuckles] Rein brought up UML. I learned UML in college back in the long-ago times and I hated it. It was an interesting thing to learn, but an awful thing to do because all of my UML diagrams had to be complete, authoritative, and correct because I was doing them for my professor and I was a TA. I thought, “Well, if I had large amount of diagrams describing large systems, looking at them could be very informative and useful.” But no one in the world is going to write those things because this is way too much work unless I'm allowed to be informal, general, not authoritative, or complete and so, I'm realizing these tensions that I've been going on in my mind for decades. MARLENA: Well, and there's programs. Using those programs was so clunky, like adding a square, adding a label, adding a class, and pretty soon, if you were trying to diagram a large system, there was not a great way to change your perspective and go from macro down to micro and zoom out again. Whereas, this is, I think what is so great about the human brain. We can do that and we can do that when we're drawing with our hands. DAMIEN: Yeah. There were promises of automated UML diagrams that you get from type systems and static analysis and I think I saw some early versions of this and they created correct UML diagrams that were almost readable. But going from correct and almost readable to something that's informative and enlightening, that's an art and we don't have computers that can do that. MARLENA: Right. Like, humans are not computers. Computers are not human. [laughs] When is it not Turing complete? [laughter] I think that initially people really wanted to be robots when they were sitting down at the computer and I think we're going through a period right now where we're rethinking that. REIN: Well, in part it was management that wanted people to be robots. DAMIEN: Which reaches back to the industrial revolution. MARLENA: And still does. What I love is that having this conversation about how we work and how to build software, it brings up all of these things, including this type of management wanting people to be robots, but we're not. What's interesting to me and what I think is that if we could shift our perspective from let's make everyone a machine, we're all robots sitting, typing out the stuff for people. If we could shift to thinking about building software is a creative process, people are going to need sleep. If you want them to solve your problems, they're going to need different ways to express themselves and share ideas with each other. REIN: It's really important to uncover facts about work and human performance like, even if you have rules, policies, and procedures, humans still have to interpret them and resolve trade-offs to get them done. You can have two rules that are mutually exclusive and now a human has to resolve that conflict. Also, that we think that the old paradigm that Damien was talking about, this Taylor’s paradigm, is that manager decide how the work is to be done and then workers do what they're told. But workers, to do this, have to think about high level organizational goals that are much more abstract than what the people designing the work thought they would have to think about. I think if you can uncover – this is all creative problem solving and it's a part of the day-to-day work. DAMIEN: Yeah, that command-and-control structure was always a fantasy, less so in some places than other places, but always, always a fantasy. REIN: Even the military is reevaluating what C2 means in the face of overwhelming evidence that humans don't work that way. DAMIEN: It's nice to pretend, though. Makes things so much simpler. MARLENA: What's interesting about this changing paradigm in how we view this management and control piece is how this is manifesting in the world of academia, especially in the world of liberal arts, because liberal arts colleges are not doing well. [laughs] In fact, Mills College here in the Bay Area is not going to be taking freshmen next year and they're going to close. But I think there's a theme of education in here, too in how people learn these skills, because we've been talking about zines. You do not have to have a degree to know how to make a zine and that's awesome! [laughter] Along with these other skills and I know that there are a lot of people in tech, who they went through computer science program, or even a bootcamp and maybe they did some science before, maybe not, but they're still going to these creative skills and it may be, I think a lot of folks in the US and in tech, it's like you weren't in a position to be able to study art, or to get that much exposure, because it was about survival. Survival for your whole family and there's just not the time to try and explore this stuff. I would love to see more space in tech for people to explore all of the creative arts and see how does it help you express yourself at work. The most concrete example I have of this is writing up a software bug. So I used to be a tester and I could always tell who had writing skills and who didn't based on how they would write up a bug. [laughs] DAMIEN: No, and I can definitely feel that. I work on a team of one for several projects. So sometimes, I have to write a user story, or a bug and I have a very strict format for writing bugs. It's basically, it’s write on a Cucumber and yet I will take minutes and minutes and minutes to properly wordsmith that bug report for me [laughs] so that Tuesday – MARLENA: As you should! Doing a good job! DAMIEN: So that Tuesday, when I read that I know right away what it means and what it says. Whereas, I can write something quickly that might be accurate, but would be difficult for me to understand, or I can write something quickly that could be in complete assuming that I found the bug. I'm the one who put the bug in there; I know everything there is to know and still come back to this, no clue. I don't even know what the bug is. I actually have to throw away a feature this week because I had no clue what I meant when I wrote it. MARLENA: I used to actually give a talk about this, how to write up bugs, because it was such an issue and if you don't train developers and other folks who are looking at an app to write them, then it ends up, the testers are the only ones who can write it up and that's not okay. [laughs] DAMIEN: And when you talk about a talk, how to write a bugs, there's some obvious mechanical things. How do you reproduce this? What did you expect to happen? Who's doing it? That sort of things and these are very clear and obvious, but then there's the actual communicating via words issue. [chuckles] How can you write those things down in a way that's easy for the next person to understand? I spend a lot of time doing that sort of thing. It's hard. It's an art, I guess. REIN: I want to turn this into an even more general point about the importance of the discipline of formulating your thoughts in a way that's available for consumption. So as an example, I used to write notes in a shorthand way where if I thought I knew something, I wouldn't include it because I already knew that I don't need to take a note about it and what I've found is that I couldn't explain stuff. I couldn't integrate the new knowledge with the old knowledge when it came time for me to answer a question. The approach I've been taking more recently is formulating my thoughts in a way that if I had to write a blogpost about that topic, I can copy and paste things from my notes, ready to go, and just drop them in. That's the thing I do for myself, but what I've found is that I actually understand stuff now. DAMIEN: Yeah. I've had the same experience writing things that I thought I understood. This is the rubber duck story. You think you understand something so you try to explain to somebody else and go, “Oh, that's what it was.” But since we have Marlena here right now, [chuckles] I want to talk about using diagrams and images in that process for a person who doesn't work that way usually. MARLENA: Indeed. Well, one of the things that I think we hint at in the world of tech—this is interesting because we've all been bashing the UML and all that stuff, but it did give us a set of symbols for visual representation of programming type things. Like, you make the rectangle for your class and then you put your properties in the top and the methods in the bottom, or something like that. Something that I've noticed in the sketchnoting world is that sketchnoting 101 is how to draw at all. How to feel confident enough to put your pen on the paper and draw a line, draw a box, draw a circle, make them into objects, whatever. But once you're past that introductory, when 101 level of sketchnoting and you've done a few, the next level up is to start creating your own language of visual representation, which I think people kind of do, whether they intentionally do it, or not. I kind of find myself doing it. The way that I contain categories of information in a sketch note, I've kind of come to a particular way that I do it. That type of thing is because we don't talk about creativity and representation; we don't take the time to do these things. They're not really a practice. Everyone kind of just does their own and I've been on teams that, or I've tried to be on teams that had a fairly mature way of having a wiki, you're going to talk to each other, Agile teams. Still, we might have a wiki, but it's not like we were always drawing together. I'm interested in have you all had experiences on your teams of drawing together, collaborating on one drawing at the same time? REIN: Yeah. We use a collaborative whiteboarding software to do various things and one of them is drawing boxes that represent systems and architectures. One of the exercises we sometimes do is we say, “You get this part of the board, you get this part of the board, you get this part of the board. I want you each to diagram how you think the system works now and then in 15 minutes, we're going to look at them together.” MARLENA: Yes. That type of thing, I think it's so important and I wish that more folks did it on their teams. Have y'all found that you have any visual representation that has started repeating itself, like say certain part of a system you usually draw in a certain way? REIN: Yeah. We've definitely developed a language, or a discourse over time and some shorthand, or mnemonics for certain things. We’ve not standardized, I think is the wrong word, but we've moved closer together in a more organic way. DAMIEN: Which is how language develops. MARLENA: Indeed, indeed. But this way of having this shared visual language together is going to give you a shorthand with each other. Like, when you have a map, you have a legend, and I think that it's important Rein, like you mentioned, not necessarily having standards, but having some common ways of drawing certain things together. That type of drawing together is very powerful for developing your collective way of visualizing a system and thinking about it. REIN: And another thing I want to highlight here is that if you ask four people to diagram and architecture and you get four different diagrams, that doesn't mean that one of them is right and three of them are wrong. What that usually means is that you have four different perspectives. MARLENA: Yes. We all have our internal way of mapping things and it is not a right, or wrong, a good, or bad. It's just, every person has a different map, a way of mapping objects in the world, that is brain science stuff. DAMIEN: I get the opportunity to reference my favorite, what I discovered just now, today, I’ll just go with today's zine, Principia Discordia. JAMEY: Oh my god, that’s my favorite! DAMIEN: Marvelous work of art. They say in Principia Discordia that the world is chaos. It's chaos out there and we look at it through a window and we draw lines in the window and call that order. [chuckles] So people draw different lines and those are the diagrams you’re going to get. JAMEY: That’s so beautiful. REIN: I have to interject that John Haugeland, who's a philosopher, said something very similar, which is that the act of dividing the universe into systems with components and interactions is how we understand the universe. It's not something that's out those boxes. Aren't something that are out there in the universe. They're in here in our heads and they're necessary for us to even perceive and understand the universe. DAMIEN: Which gives us a whole new meaning to the first chapter of the book of Genesis. But [laughs] we don't have to go that far down the road. MARLENA: Well, even if we think about color and perceiving color, everyone's going to have a different theme that they see. It's going to like – REIN: Yeah, and there's philosophically no way to know if red for me means the same thing as red for you. MARLENA: Mm hm. DAMIEN: So applying that same standard to our technical systems. Some senior architects somewhere might draw a diagram and goes, “This is the truth of what we have built, or what we should be building and that there is no external representation of truth.” “Oh, look, the map is not the territory! We can go through this all day.” [laughter] REIN: And the interesting thing for me is that this is something that there are Eastern philosophies that have figured out long before Western philosophy did. So while Descartes was doing his stuff, you had the Jainism principle of Anakandavada, which is the manifoldness of the universe. There's no one right truth; there are many interlocking and overlapping truths. JAMEY: How does this relate to a GitHub [inaudible]? [laughs] DAMIEN: [overtalk] It means your diagramming is direct. REIN: It certainly says something about distributed systems and in distributed systems, we call this the consensus problem. [laughter] DAMIEN: I love the fact that Git was built to be this completely distributed, no single authority source control system and now we have GitHub. MARLENA: Indeed. REIN: I want to know how I, as someone who has terrible handwriting, can feel comfortable doing sketching. MARLENA: Sure! I just did a whole meet up about that. It's not just you, I think that it's 75% of engineers and we emphasize typing. So what I tell people about handwriting, the very, very basics, is slow down. Not what you want to hear, I know, but it makes a huge difference. So this past winter, my pandemic new skill that I learned is calligraphy, and in calligraphy, they tell you over and over and over to slow down. So that's tip number one is to slow down and then number two is try writing larger. Whatever it is you're writing, play with the size of it. Larger and slower generally gives you a way to look at what you're writing and which pieces like, there are probably some letters that you dislike more than others when you are writing and you can take those letters that you really dislike. Maybe it's just a matter of reviewing like, how are you forming the letter? If it's all of them, it'll take you longer, but. [laughs] JAMEY: When I was a kid learning cursive for the first time, I really hated to do the capital H in cursive. I think it's like an ugly letter and I think it's hard to write and it was hard to learn. My last name starts with H so I had to do it a lot. I just designed a new capital H and that's what I've been using in cursive since I was like a little kid [laughs] and nobody notices because nobody goes like, “That's not how I learned cursive in class,” if they can read it. That's how I feel that language, too and we're talking about the way language evolves. People will be like, “That's not a real word,” and I'm like, “Well, if you understood what I meant, then it's a word.” DAMIEN: Perfectly fine with it. JAMEY: And that's kind of how I was just thinking about handwriting too like, what is there right, or wrong if you can read what I'm expressing to you? [chuckles] DAMIEN: Yeah. If you look at the lowercase g in various glyph sets, you have to actually pay attention and go, “This lowercase g is not the same symbol as this lowercase g.” [laughs] You have to totally call your attention to that. They are vastly, vastly, different things. MARLENA: The letters that look the same, though are capital T, I, and F. DAMIEN: You don't put crossbars on your eye? MARLENA: Well, I'm thinking in terms of like, for calligraphy, when I got into the intermediate class, I had to come up with my own alphabet, typography, design my own alphabet. Those letters were so similar, they just gave me fits trying to make them all different. But I think it's important for people to practice their handwriting. I know that we all just scribble on the pad for charging, or whatever. You just scribble with your fingernail and it doesn't look like anything. But keeping that connection to your handwriting is also an important way of valuing yourself and this space that you take up in the world. I think it's really good if you can get to a place where you can accept your own handwriting and feel comfortable with it. Since I am into stuff like calligraphy and lettering, it's definitely part of my identity, the way that I write things out by hand. It's physically connected to you, to your brain, and so, things like that, we want to say everything is typing in tech, but there is a value for your confidence, for your brain, and for how you process information to be able to write something by hand and feel confident enough to share that with somebody else. JAMEY: That was really beautiful, actually. But I was going to ask, how do you think your handwriting relates to your voice? Because when you were saying that about feeling comfortable with your handwriting and how it's like a self-confidence thing, it made me think of the way that people also feel and interact with their voice. Like, you always hear people, “Oh, I hate listening to a recording of myself. I hate listening to my voice.” MARLENA: Well, there's that whole field of handwriting analysis, just like there's that whole field of body language and that includes what someone's voice sounds like. It is attached to your personality and how you're thinking and how you're working with ideas. [laughs] So it's not like I'm judging someone when I look at their—sometimes I am, I'm lying. Sometimes I am judging people when I look at their handwriting. I mostly don't. Honestly, I think we've lost so much education about handwriting in schools, what I dislike about that is, we were talking about the power of print earlier. Well, if you feel uncomfortable writing your name, if you feel uncomfortable writing down what you believe and sharing it, that's the type of censorship, isn't it? So I think handwriting is important for that type of thing, but I think it is connected to your personality. JAMEY: It says something about you and when you put something out into the world that says something about you in that way, it's kind of a vulnerable experience. MARLENA: It is, and you're showing people how you value yourself. I think that's partly why a lot of times in tech, we've minimized the role of handwriting so much that nobody feels comfortable sharing their handwriting. Well, it's not nobody, that's a big generalization, but a lot of people don't feel comfortable sharing their handwriting and that is a loss. That is a loss for everyone. DAMIEN: I love what you said, in part because I didn't want to hear it, when Rein asked, “How do you improve your handwriting?” You said, “Write slower and write bigger,” and I knew right away that that was correct because that's the only thing that has worked when I was trying to improve my handwriting. But I gave up on that because I didn't want to; I don't want to write slower and bigger because of what you said—taking up space. If you look at my handwriting historically, it's been not taken up – very little space, very little time. I don't want anybody to have to wait for me to finish writing. I don't want to use this whole page. I don't want to think my writing is so, so important that it's all big on the page, but allowing myself to take up space and time is how I get to better handwriting. So that was just such a beautiful way of putting it. MARLENA: Well, I read this book called How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell and it's a wonderful book where the book blows me away and it's hard to talk about it because she has packed so much into it. But it's thinking about how we make ourselves go so fast and it's about the attention economy. How we are trying to speed ourselves up so much and I think that handwriting is part of this. If we are going to take back our own lives, that includes being able to slow down enough to write your name in a way that feels good to you and share it. I like what you wrote in the chat, Damien, but I'd like to hear you say it. DAMIEN: I wrote it in the chat so I wouldn't say it. [laughs] “Decolonize your mind.” It was a message to myself, decolonize your mind. The idea that you don't get to do nothing, you don't get to take up space and time. Yeah, and so that's just, it's all these things are so tightly connected. MARLENA: So I think y'all are ready for me to tell you the story of how I came up with a first Let’s Sketch Tech conference and this conference happened maybe 2017, 2018. I always forget the exact year, but it was post Trump getting elected. Now the Women's March, right after Trump got elected and sworn into office, was a major point in time and wake up call for me. I've always tried to learn about politics, intersectionalism, and things like that, but this March showed me the power of making something with your own hands and showing that and sharing it to someone else. I wanted everyone to feel like, even in this era of Trump, we still have the power to make something meaningful and share that with our own hands. So that was when I decided to start emphasizing more and learning more about the connection between art and tech. I'd been doing sketch notes and it sort of struck me that there was not much of a community out there that handled this topic, which I thought was just kind of strange. When I looked at sketchnoting itself, it seemed like more was happening in the world of design. Well, what about engineers? I've had to draw out things so many times to learn them, to teach somebody else, to understand what's happening and so, that's when I put together this Let’s Sketch Tech conference. I wanted people to be able to retain the power to make something with their own hands, because that can never be taken away from you, whether you have internet connection, or not. But even if you do have the internet connection, combining these together is just so powerful. So that is why I started this conference and this community and it's pretty deep. I don't bring it up all the time because it's kind of a lot, but yeah, and we had a great time. DAMIEN: Thank you so much, and thank you for sharing that story and everything else you've shared with us. How do we feel about going into reflections? I think I'm going to be reflecting on in the broad sense, it's what I didn't want to say earlier until Marlena called me out, decolonize your mind. But in a smaller sense, it's how much of my view of the tech industry, my work in there, and the environment there should be formal, structured, strict, authoritarian. I had all these ideas that are still, unbeknownst to me, having a huge influence about how we can work. The idea of a zine fest at work seems so outrageous to me because it doesn't fit into those ideas and so, I'll be reflecting on well, where else am I seeing this stuff and how has it prevented me from doing something so very effective? [laughs] I said, zine fest. I used to think I was too young to mispronounce zine, but whatever. [laughs] Who’s next? JAMEY: I can go next. So my two favorite things, I think that got said, one of them was also about like the zine fair at work. I host zine fairs in my hometown and the idea of like, well, if you both draw something and then you trade, you're having a zine fair. I absolutely love that. And then my other favorite thing was about the talk closer to the end about valuing yourself and the way and taking up space and all of those things. I feel actually like I want to mush those two things together because talking about valuing yourself, like really resonated with me the way that I do zines in my regular life, not in tech. But I think that inside of tech is a place where there are people that I really want to see value themselves more. It's a system that has a tendency to shut people down and keep talented people and I want to imbue that kind of confidence into a lot of engineers, especially newer engineers. So I think that I really like this idea of a zine fest at work, and maybe that can, in addition to helping teach us about our systems and stuff, help us encourage each other to take that time to value ourselves. REIN: I think what struck me about this conversation the most is that creativity is good for people, personally, individuals to explore our creativity. But when we share it with other people, that's a way that we can become closer. I think that for the work to happen—because to some extent, I tried to apply these ideas at work—people have to build and maintain common ground with each other. I think that encouraging people to be creative and to share that creativity—you typically wouldn't ask a junior engineer to draw an architecture diagram, but I think you should. MARLENA: I hope that after listening to this, people definitely ask their newer folks on their team to draw a diagram, then we’ll share and trade with them. I think what I've learned from this conversation is, well, I think that it validated, more than anything, the ideas that I'm trying to spread about connecting arts and technology. It was wonderful to hear each of you talking about the struggles and challenges that you have at work in bringing this together because it is a different way of thinking. But I feel so positive whenever I talk about this and seeing people be able to recognize themselves and seeing some doors and windows open about how they can incorporate the arts a little bit more into their tech lives is the reason why I do this and it's been such a privilege to share this with all of you and your listeners. So thanks for having me. DAMIEN: It's been a privilege to have you. The idea that we can start out with like, “Let's draw pictures as engineers,” and ended up with, “Oh my God, how do I become fully human?” [laughs] It's really amazing. JAMEY: Yeah, this was really great. Thank you so much for coming on and talking about this. MARLENA: It was a lot of fun. DAMIEN: Marlena, why don't you give your Patreon and your podcast? MARLENA: Sure. Well, I started the Patreon because it was an easier way for folks to sign up for the meetups that happened in Let's Sketch Tech. We do a monthly meetup and I'm starting to plan the conference for this year. There's a free newsletter, but if this podcast is giving you life, if you're getting oxygen from this conversation, I highly suggest checking out the Let’s Sketch Tech Patreon, sign up for our newsletter, and subscribe to my podcast, Make it a Pear! I talk a lot about creative process in tech. DAMIEN: Awesome. Thank you so much and thank you for joining us. Special Guest: Marlena Compton.

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Jon and Jeff talk with Rob Dube, author of ‘Do Nothing’ on the power of meditation and how to quiet our minds and get back to center during stressful times. Rob Dube, Author and President of imageOne: From Blow Pops to Forbes’ Best Small Companies! Rob Dube got his start selling Blow Pops out of his locker in high school and is President and Co-founder of imageOne, which was ranked on the 2017 list of Forbes Small Giants: America’s Best Small Companies. Throughout Rob’s 26 years experience, he has developed an unwavering passion for delivering extraordinary experiences that positively impact the lives of his team members, the goals of their customers, and the fabric of the community — a unique approach to business that has driven the company to success in its industry and as a top workplace. Rob is also the author of donothing™: the most rewarding leadership challenge you will ever take, set for release in early 2018, and founder of the upcoming donothing™ leadership silent retreat. Back to the Blow Pops — an early passion for entrepreneurship took shape in high school, when Rob teamed up with imageOne Co-founder and CEO Joel Pearlman to start their first business together, selling Blow Pops. Today, with Core Values as the foundation, Rob and Joel have grown imageOne into the leading organization in Document Lifecycle Management and a company well-known as exceptional; receiving national recognition for its rapid growth and strong focus on culture. Along with its 2017 Small Giants distinction from Forbes Magazine as one of 25 Best Small Companies in America, imageOne is also recognized as a National Best and Brightest Company to Work For (5 time honoree), one of Inc. 5000’s Fastest Growing Private Companies in America (6 time honoree), a 2017 Positive Workplace by the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business, and one of Crain’s Detroit Cool Places to Work 2018 (2 time honoree). Rob is a Member of the Small Giants Journey and past Member of the Board of Directors for the Small Giants Community, the Board of Trustees for the Boys and Girls Club, and past President of the Detroit Chapter of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. Rob received the 2013 RARE Everyday Hero award for community service. As an author and speaker, Rob challenges business leaders to donothing™, sharing his lessons learned from more than 12 years of a daily meditation practice, as well as biannual silent meditation retreats. In addition to his book, he is a contributor at Forbes, Thrive Global, and EO Octane.   Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon’s Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!   Connect with Rob Dube: Twitter: @robddube Website: www.imageoneway.com  Email: rdube@imageoneway.com  LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/robdube  His TEDx Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ_rgKop-Bc  And his book and retreat: http://www.donothingbook.com 

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Humans need to have conversations every day-- at our jobs, in our homes, in government-- so how can we handle these better? Celeste Headlee is an award winning journalist who has done everything from anchoring morning news on public radio to covering presidential campaigns. In this episode, Celeste shares practical tips for anyone looking to improve their conversational skills, arguing that better conversations are well within our reach. Celeste is the author of “We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter” and “Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving.” Celeste is a regular guest host on NPR and American Public Media and a highly sought consultant.

Jane Clapp is a mindful strength and movement coach, an embodiment educator and a Jungian analyst in training. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to her work that goes beyond mindfulness, to enmesh each client’s physical condition with the psychological and emotional aspects of their selves while always factoring in that the oppressive systems we live in play out in every system in the body. She has worked as an expert coach and educator that brings together expertise in the effects of chronic stress and overwhelm on the fascial and autonomic nervous systems, movement and breath patterns since 2006. Bringing together her many years of somatic study while supporting others through their bodies, with her personal journey through Jungian Analysis and her training as a Jungian Analyst, she has developed what she refers to as Jungian Somatics. And why do I feel like of all the episodes THIS one is a don’t miss? Well Jane and I are getting into territory that isn’t discussed that much in our circles- that being how social media is quite literally changing us, changing our brains and changing the world. It’s like we’re all hooked up to a neurofeedback machine now that works on us to make us more polarized, more in our survival/reactionistic brains and more dualistic. Among other things… Jane and I have been swimming in these waters separately but simultaneously, so this was our chance to talk about it with each other. I think we all need to be talking about this more and finding ways, as we are able, to unhook from the algorithms. RESOURCES MENTIONED How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell (book) The Social Dilemma (documentary on Netflix) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/the-internet-doesnt-have-to-be-awful/618079/ How Humans Get Hacked Yuval Noah Harari and Tristan Harris on Wired https://www.wired.com/video/watch/yuval-harari-tristan-harris-humans-get-hacked It Will Never Happen to Me by Claudia Black (book) Dr. Iain McGilchrist James Hillman Jaron Lanier

Empezamos con R.E.M. para contarte que hoy, a las 21h, Radio 3 te ofrece un concierto único que REM dio justo una semana antes de la publicación de 'Out of Time'. Treinta minutos que, de la mano de José Manuel Sebastián (HET2 y Universo Scallie) puedes volver a disfrutar junto a una entrevista con Mike Mills, bajista de R.E.M. Seguimos con Tune Yards y su versión de 'Cannonball', de The Breeders para el recopilatorio con el que el sello 4AD celebra su 40º aniversario. Alis llega con 'Estoicamente Vivo', otra de las canciones de su próximo disco. Escuchamos lo nuevo de 'Sorry' y 'Maldito', lo nuevo de The Parrots junto a C Tangana, una historia de desamor porque, como dicen ellos: ’Durante el tiempo que pasamos en casa sin girar a causa del confinamiento global por la pandemia nos dimos cuenta de que nos habíamos vuelto distantes con algunas personas que queríamos’’.  R.E.M. – Radio Song DO NOTHING – Glueland TUNE YARDS - Cannonball MIDDLE KIDS – Today We’re The Greatest THE GO! TEAM – World Remember Me Now ALIS – Estoicamente Vivo DAFT PUNK ft JULIAN CASABLANCAS – Instant Crush LEWIS OFMAN – Attitude EYELLA ft MARC ROS & MAGÜI – La Historia Interminable SORRY – Cigarette Packet VEINTIUNO – Mi Monstruo y Yo THE PARROTS ft C TANGANA – Maldito C TANGANA ft ED MAVERICK – Párteme la Cara GRUFF RHYS – Loan Your Loneliness INHALER - Cheer Up Baby JAVIERA MENA – Dos Escuchar audio

'Addicted' es la primera canción que Jorja Smith publica en 2021 y acaba de estrenar el vídeo de la misma, del que se encarga la propia Jorja, junto a la directora de cine, Savanah Leaf. Desde Leicestershire (Reino Unido), escuchamos a Billy Nomates, que visitará nuestro país los días 1 y 2 de octubre, en Barcelona y Madrid, respectivamente. Y más cosas, Gruff Rhys tiene nuevo álbum en solitario, 'Buscando Nuevos Dioses', que se publica el 21 de mayo y que comienza con 'Loan Your Loneliness' y Ombra, desde Baleares, estrenan con nosotros el tercer adelanto de su próximo disco, 'La Boca del Lobo'. VEINTIUNO – Mi Monstruo y Yo THE WEEKND – Blinding Lights LEWIS OFMAN – Dancy Boy FRANCIS OF DELIRIUM – Red BILLY NOMATES – No GRUFF RHYS – Loan Your Loneliness JORJA SMITH – Addicted NIÑOS MUTANTES – Todo Tiene Un Precio R.E.M. – Shiny Happy People OMBRA – La Boca del Lobo DO NOTHING – Glueland FONTAINES DC – I Was Born LP – One Last Time PAUL McCARTNEY ft DOMINIC FIKE – The Kiss Of Venus EVERYTHING EVERYTHING – Supernormal MIDDLE KIDS – Today We’re The Greatest THE PRUSSSIANS – Living Dream Escuchar audio

Dan and James chat about how they come up with new ideas, why everyone seems to be trying to monetise their hobbies, and why it's so hard for most labs to have a singular focus of research. We had some problems with James' mic so the quality of his audio wasn't up our usual standard. To make up for this we've added one of our older bonus episodes at the end of this conventional episode (this begins at 54:18). These bonus episodes are typically only made available for our Professor Fancypants Patreon patrons, but now you'll get to hear one! Other notes and links: The half-serious "Highlander" bounty program from Noah Haber (https://twitter.com/NoahHaber/status/1370045749287923715?s=20) The metapsy journal (https://open.lnu.se/index.php/metapsychology/about) How do we come up with new ideas? What James watches and listens to in his spare time The urge to monetise your hobby The "Let's do nothing (https://www.amazon.com/Lets-Do-Nothing-Tony-Fucile/dp/0763652695)" kids book "How to Do Nothing (https://www.amazon.com/How-Do-Nothing-Resisting-Attention/dp/1612197493)" by Jenny Odell Robert Provine's Laughter as a scientific problem: (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26131571/) An adventure in sidewalk neuroscience The value of including many experiments in a single paper Is there too much reform happening in psychology? Clubhouse and the new twitter clone, 'Spaces' (still in beta) Bonus episode 15: The true truth of pre-registration (https://www.patreon.com/posts/34414977) Other links - Dan on twitter (www.twitter.com/dsquintana) - James on twitter (www.twitter.com/jamesheathers) - Everything Hertz on twitter (www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast) - Everything Hertz on Facebook (www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast/) Music credits: Lee Rosevere (freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/) Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/hertzpodcast) and get bonus stuff! $1 a month: 20% discount on Everything Hertz merchandise, a monthly newsletter, access to the occasional bonus episode, and the the warm feeling you're supporting the show - $5 a month or more: All the stuff you get in the one dollar tier PLUS a bonus episode every month Episode citation Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2021, March 15) "128: How do you generate new research ideas?", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/U79NW

In this episode of The Wall Street Coach Podcast award-winning journalist, professional speaker and best-selling author Celeste Headlee joins Kim and Lucas to discuss her her book Do Nothing and the culture of overworking and burnout. Or watch the full episode below: Celeste Headlee celesteheadlee.com celesteheadlee.com/do-nothing-book twitter.com/CelesteHeadlee linkedin.com/in/celesteheadlee instagram.com/celesteheadlee   Learn more about The Wall Street Coach and sign up for The Wall Street Coach Newsletter thewallstreetcoach.com Get in touch with The Wall Street Coach thewallstreetcoach.com/contact-form/ Kim's book: Transforming Wall Street transformingwallstreet.com

This week Derry Public Radio wraps up their Patreon Selection Series with Kiah Benedict’s choice, “Dolan’s Cadillac”. Join in as we discuss the eerie the dedication to revenge, CM reveals what she’d do if Ben and Josh were murdered, the parallels between Robinson and Andy Dufresne, the great ideas for gathering information secretly, Dolan managing to be terrifying even at a disadvantage, the wonderful Edgar Allen Poe references, Christian Slater giving it everything he’s got, and the few saving graces in an otherwise bad movies. We have a plan and it’s Episode 80, “The Plan is Do Nothing”.

Listen & Subscribe on Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/creative-pep-talk/id929743897Get Episode Transcripts at creative-pep-talk.simplecast.com- - -SHOW NOTES- - -Co-Loop Podcast Network - co-podcast.coArt For Your Ear by The Jealous Curator - Wayne Whitehttps://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/2020/05/08/fishin-with-santa-claus-in-heaven/Small Doses with Amanda Seales - Side Effects of Creative Processhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/side-effects-of-the-creative-process/id1333316223?i=1000454644492The Wandering Wolf with Yoni Wolf - Hop Alonghttp://www.thewanderingwolfpodcast.com/?p=437Good One Podcast by Vulture hosted by Jesse David Fox - Sinbadhttps://www.vulture.com/news/good-one-podcast/Sit There and Do Nothing with Meg Lewis - Scatmanhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1994-hit-scatman-ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop/id1493559054?i=1000486947375- - -SPONSORS- - -STORYBLOCKSVideo is one of my most effective ways to stand out as a creator online these days - and with Storyblocks you can take your videos to the next level - with Affordable Subscriptions, Unlimited Downloads, and 1M+ Royalty Free Assets - you can level up your content at storyblocks.com/CreativePepTalk SKILLSHARE X CREATIVE PEP TALKOur first ever online video course is out now on SKILLSHARE! Are you looking for your next big break? Whether you’ve NEVER had a big break in your creative career OR you’re a veteran creative who needs a new big break to reinvent yourself: this class is for you!!! Go to skillshare.com/creativepep to get started!!! SHILLINGTON Study 9 months part-time Graphic Design Boot Camp from anywhere. With Shillington’s online graphic design course, you’ll graduate with a solid understanding of creative problem solving, design theory and software. Create an incredible design portfolio and master how to discuss and sell your work—essential skills for any creative career. LEARN MORE: https://shillo.online/creativepeptalk

Greg Behrendt is a New York Times bestselling author, comedian, musician, life coach, and a positivity trainer. He’s sold over 4 million books, most notably He’s Just Not That Into You and It’s Called A Breakup Because It’s Broken. In this episode, Greg and Stef discuss his thoughts about the choice to “Do Nothing” and why that can be so beneficial. Produced by LegRoom Creative Engineered by www.podcaststudioservices.com

Season 5: A Study of Romans Buckle up husbands, this one’s for you! Every single pain, peril, and evil on earth was because one husband was passive, watched evil happen, and didn’t say or do anything to stop it. Men, are you taking responsibility and lovingly leading your family? You have a choice to be like Adam or like Jesus. Satan is coming for your marriage and men, if you don’t fight you’ll lose. A lot of people are counting on you. Download the free Romans study guide and go through it with your spouse by texting ROMANS to 31996.Need personal counseling? Check out our sponsors at Faithful Counseling. Get 10% off your first month as a listener of the Real Marriage podcast. Go to getfaithful.com/realmarriage and join the over 500,000 people taking charge of their mental health with the help of an experienced professional.Naked & Healthy Book - Our good friends Dave & Ashley Willis on the Naked Marriage podcast have just released a new book called Naked & Healthy. In this book, they uncover the lifestyle your mind, body, spirit, and marriage need. We love Dave & Ashley and we know this book will help your marriage. nakedandhealthy.comFind more from Mark and Grace at xomarriage.com/realmarriage

Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. I have one sponsor which is an awesome nonprofit GiveWell.org/StandUp Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 820 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous soul Jeff Jarvis is the author of What Would Google Do? and Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way we Work and Live. He has blogged at Buzzmachine.com about media, technology, and life's irritations since 2001. Jarvis directs the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He writes occasionally for the Guardian and HuffingtonPost. In prior lives, Jarvis was creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; president and creative director of Advance.net (online arm of Advance Publications); Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. Jeff's list experts https://twitter.com/i/lists/1237834151694303234 https://buzzmachine.com/ Celeste Headlee is an award-winning journalist, professional speaker and best-selling author of We Need To Talk: How To Have Conversations That Matter. She is co-host of the new weekly series Retro Report on PBS and season three of the Scene on Radio podcast – MEN. Celeste serves as an advisory board member for Procon.org and The Listen First Project. Her TEDx Talk sharing 10 ways to have a better conversation has over 30 million total views to date.  Her most recent book, Do Nothing: How To Break Away From Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving (March 10, 2020), helps us break free of our unhealthy devotion to efficiency, and shows us how to reclaim our time and humanity with a little more leisure. In her 20-year career in public radio, Celeste has been the Executive Producer of On Second Thought at Georgia Public Radio, and anchored programs including Tell Me More, Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. She also served as co-host of the national morning news show, The Takeaway, from PRI and WNYC, and anchored presidential coverage in 2012 for PBS World Channel.   Celeste’s work and insights have been featured on TODAY, Psychology Today, Inc., NPR, Time, Essence, Elle, BuzzFeed, Salon, Parade, and many more. She has presented to over 100 companies, conferences and universities including Apple, Google, United Airlines, Duke University, Chobani and ESPN, and received the 2019 Media Changemaker Award. Celeste lives in Washington, D.C.  Please consider a paid subscription to this daily podcast. Everyday I will interview expert guests,usually 2 or more on a wide range of issues. I will continue to be transparent about my life, issues and vulnerabilities in hopes we can relate, connect and grow together. If you want to add something to the show email me StandUpwithPete@gmail.com Join the Stand Up Community Stand Up is also brought to you this month by GiveWell.org GiveWell is a nonprofit dedicated to finding outstanding giving opportunities and publishing the full details of our analysis to help donors decide where to give. GiveWell.org/Standup Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page

Tai and all of his friends are in a constant war with their parents over one big thing — screen time. For years, their parents have been telling them that screen time is bad and needs to be limited. But is it really? Tai finds out. In this episode Tai talks to: Kara Bagot, child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Icahn School of Medicine Madeleine George, psychologist and analyst at RTI International Jenny Odell, writer and artist, author of How to Do Nothing

It gets really exhausting to feel like you’re the only person whose life isn’t going swimmingly. Especially since we’re so overly exposed to people crushing the game (or making it look that way) via social media. Time after time, I open up on the show about the #hurdlemoments I'm facing on the regular because I want you to know that you’re not alone in whatever struggle you may be dealing with. This week for 5-MINUTE FRIDAY, I'm chatting about the tough moments that came back-to-back over the past few days, and how I'm choosing to stay optimistic. SOCIAL @emilyabbate @hurdlepodcast MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE WATCH: Framing Britney Spears LISTEN: Spotify #TBT Playlist WATCH: Firefly Lane LISTEN: “How to Do Nothing with Jenny Odell” on Ten Percent Happier JOIN: THE *Secret* FACEBOOK GROUP SIGN UP: Hurdle Book Club This month, we’re reading Alexi Pappas’ new book Bravey, which I’m amped on. Spoiler alert: She’ll also be on the show to coincide with this! Book Club will be Tuesday, February 23, at 8 p.m. ET. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hurdle/message

Stan & Josh discuss the Local Church's tendency to slack off of ministry during and because of the COVID pandemic. This episode includes practical ideas and suggestions on how to reengage your community and avoid the "Do Nothing" mindset: Find a few of the shut-ins, widows, and single moms in your neighborhoods and local communities and care for them. Bring them groceries, make phone calls for encouragement, take care of their lawns at no charge, etc. Round up some folks who are willing to feed the homeless in your city, town, or your local community. Pass out bottled water and Gospel tracts at local gas stations. Visit your local jail and get to know the chaplain or sheriff's chaplain and ask to be put on the regular rotation so that you can encourage the inmates. Stop by the local rehab centers and ask if you can meet with and regularly disciple some of the men or women in the programs with Scripture and prayers. Stop by the local mom 'n pop business in your area (auto repair shops, boutiques, restaurants, etc.) and ask to meet the owners. Set up a time to come by during the week and pray for him/her and their business. Links mentioned in this episode: On Shifting Into 2021 (with Karl Vaters)Support the show (https://614ministries.org/invest)

For an audience of meditators (or aspiring meditators), the idea of doing nothing shouldn’t be foreign. But, speaking from personal experience, it is very possible, especially for Type A people, to approach meditation with an agenda. In which case, sitting on the cushion can be very far from truly doing nothing. Enter Jenny Odell, who makes a very compelling case for truly… doing… nothing. In her work, she is challenging what for many of us, myself included, is a deep-seated and sometimes subconscious reflex: to constantly optimize and constantly be “productive.” She is a Lecturer in the Stanford Department of Art and Art History and author of the bestseller How to Do Nothing, which just came out in paperback. She comes to the subject of time from a very different perspective than our guest on Monday, Ashley Whillans. (If you haven’t listened to that episode, go do it; these two make a fascinating pairing.) In this conversation, Jenny and I talk about: letting go of our constant demand for productivity and learning to simply look around; the thrilling phenomenon of observing something so deeply that you actually cease to understand it; why moments of disgust, or even existential despair, can actually be quite instructive; and how to divest from what she calls “the attention economy”–and where to reinvest instead. Take a few minutes to help us out by answering a survey about your experience with this podcast! The team here is always looking for ways to improve, and we’d love to hear from all of you, but we’d particularly like to hear from those of you who listen to the podcast and do not use our companion app. Please visit http://www.tenpercent.com/survey to take the survey. Thank you. Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/jenny-odell-319

We get handsome and competent with THE CHRISTMAS HOUSE (2020) and: Treat Williams is not in The Substitute ... It's natural and OK to talk about Treat Williams ... Wrong movie ... Daybrooding ... Sniper  THEME: "Fuck You If You Don't Like Christmas," from Crudbump, by Drew Fairweather PART ONE Handsome Podcast ... Whaddaya want, it's good ... Podcast business ... The shortcomings of "Dave and Jeb Aren't Mean" ... IT'S FINE!!! DO NOTHING!!! ... Countdown to Christmas Countdown ... Cast rundown ... Marvel vs. Vigor ... The Expositional Challenge ... Breaking ground on gay kisses, adoption and parental separation ... Robert Buckley Appreciation Station ... Annnnd the interracial pairing ... Tamales and regular wine drinking ... Jeb's post in the Post ... Hallmark movie, real reactions ... Decent uncle ... Finally, an out Jonathan Bennett character ...  Break: Original music by Chris Collingwood PART TWO Spot the Angel: Too normal ... No Rothery ... Eat You Heart Out: Masa scones, tamales, spicy hot chocolate, cocoa and cookies (but not in excess) ... The Hallmark Expanded Universe: A lawyer show that could actually be on Hallmark or in any Hallmark movie; the greater NYC Hallmark blob; the Treat Williamsphall Universe ... Overdetermined: Heavy-handed yet passable; Angie Everheart; early kludgy chemistry; mom and dad's mass quit ... Cincinnati chili again  Break: Original music by Chris Collingwood PART THREE Crossover: It's already a romcom; The Family Stone genre; Treat Williams as a substitute teacher; Dennis Franz as the dad; you're not going to like whose butt it is; The Big Chill, but Santa's dead ... Sipowicz, Mamie Gummer, Anya, Uma, Wrenn Schmidt, Nute Gunray ... The Hallmark Bechdel Test: Implied real estate ... America's Voice ... Wife as hobby ... Bobsled friendship ... The Hallmark Voight-Kampff Test: Marvelous Jim ... Partner Chat: Grift Body Spray; if these were Brits, it'd just be a regular romcom; Kiss Kiss Bang Bang; quality fluffing; Christmas drought; Salem's Lot; inflatables; court decor; sez you ... Great Moments In Moppetry: 2, for volume ... Ballbusting ... Who's the Real Villain: Non-union reality programming ... CBS's Handsome Justice ... High-low Hallmarky set design ... The Doink Doink ... Rating: 4.5  Break: Original music by Chris Collingwood The Leftovers: Who taught dad PowerPoint? ... Anya Ayora, eternal Cruz ... Screenwriter Erin Rodman, rebounding legend ... Non-consensual Instagram advertising ... Employee no-selling recognition ... Mom razzing kids ... Wise younger brother ... Strong himbo vibes ... Snack cringe ... Shutting down the florid declaration ... Enchantment Under the Vaseline flashback ... Lot Cop: Look at the back of the damn tree because of spiders ... Judy Tenuta ... Merry Christmas! All other music by Chris Collingwood of Look Park and Fountains of Wayne, except: "Orchestral Sports Theme" by Chris Collingwood and Rick Murnane, and "Spider," by They Might Be Giants

During the Summit Speaker Series, we chat with some of the design biz experts who’ll be speaking at our upcoming Designer Boss Summit.In this ep, Anna chats with your buddy. Meg Lewis. Meg is a designer mixing comedy with performance to make the world a happier place through brand design, podcasts, workshops, pop-ups, and videos. Meg hosts the comedy mindfulness podcast Sit There & Do Nothing and the design podcast Overtime. Meg also wrote Full Time You, a personal brand and career fulfillment workbook and video series!Meg will be talking about "How to get paid by being yourself" at the Designer Boss Summit.HOSTS / GUESTS:Anna Dowerhttps://annadower.comInsta: @annacreativementorFB: @annadowercreativementorMeg Lewishttps://meglewis.com/FB & Insta: @yourbuddymegWANT MORE?Check out these goodies!Designer Boss-Ladies FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/designerbossladiesDesigners Learning Web Dev FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DesignersLearningWebDevDesigner Boss Summit: https://designerboss.co

Join us with psychic medium and child abuse survivor, Megan Lee. Megan Lee, born and raised in Philadelphia, PA - before the pandemic, she was constantly on the go with a tight schedule of yoga, boot camp, working a 9-5 as well as waitressing/bartending on the weekends, singing in a 90s cover band and a-cappella group, and trying to travel to 30 countries by 30 years old. With the pandemic running rampant and sadly 4 countries left to go, she's been forced to travel and explore inward and get to know herself better. She is currently on her path to healing. So far it has been challenging and tough but extremely rewarding. She is learning to love herself more and more each day. "I think this will be a never ending journey and I’m excited to see where this path leads me." Check out her new podcast that she is so excited about called, "Say Nothing, Do Nothing" exploring childhood trauma. The release of the first episode is TBD but if you’d like to be a guest on the podcast to share your experiences of your childhood and healing path, please email her at saynothingdonothing@gmail.com, or message her on Instagram @saynothing_donothing . ***************************************************************** Check out our Patreon Levels and get monthly psychic medium readings, and monthly healings at incredible rates on our Patreon page at: www.patreon.com/projecthealing Book a private reading with Kathryn or find her on Instagram, Facebook, & Tiktok & HeyHero. linktr.ee/kathrynannintuitive Book a private reading with Jienna and find her on Instagram, Facebook & Tiktok (free Facebook Live readings every Thurs. at 9pm EST): www.JiennaKEmpath.com Questions or comments about the show? Email us at: projecthealingpodcast@gmail.com facebook.com/projecthealingpodcast

A man in Japan rents himself out to DO NOTHING! And he's made a killing doing it!   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An hour of top tunes from Yard Act, Afro Cluster, MOAK, Arlo Parks, Ajimal, Connie Constance, Tebi Rex, Sans Soucis, Youth Sector, CHROMA, Do Nothing, Sinead O’Brien, Folly Group, Caro, Cielo, Benefits, and Black Country, New Road, handpicked by Tom Robinson from the BBC Introducing Uploader.

Mike and Cretched join the show / Checkout the best of OBDM 2020 news on YouTube / The Nashville Bombing / ABC News / Strange RV pictures / Bombing Theories / David Knight fired from InfoWars / Election Conspiracies not panning out / Evidence does not matter anymore / Jetpack man sighting / Open lines / Jordan and Teddy call in / Biden and Harris in office talk / UFO Talk / Blowtorch calls in / Is Alex Jones a disinfo agent / Mike goes on to the Command Center bridge to talk about Star Trek / COVID-19 bill and UFO Disclosure / 180 days / Strange Headlines / Scotty from Star Trek in Space / Dune Movie / Star Wars Mandolorian talk / End End "Puppy Fresh - ButtMilk" Bit by BigDom, checkout his Prank call show: mixlr.com/prankcallnation End Song by Spanky. Check out his YouTube Show, "Whatever Spanky" : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCASY_3QdzsgAtMx62k5Q-QQ   #### OBDM864 NEWS & NOTES ##### ==NASHVILLE : AUDIO Man allegedly responsible for Nashville explosion killed in blast l GMA https://youtu.be/ZaQKcXuU-k8 Body camera video offers chilling view of the events surrounding Nashville bombing https://www.cbsnews.com/video/body-camera-video-offers-chilling-view-of-the-events-surrounding-nashville-bombing/#x INSIDE EDITION : Pilot Who Filmed Jet Pack Flier Speaks About Unreal Spotting : VIDEO https://youtu.be/_FuNzDhRPXQ Unknown person appears to be flying jetpack at 3,000 feet : VIDEO https://youtu.be/y6Wjc9vtsNM U.S. to Allow Small Drones to Fly Over People and at Night https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=60371 Police shut down Christmas mall kiosk after intoxicated Santa, Mrs. Claus and elf had threesome in public http://healthylifeorganizer.com/police-shut-down-christmas-mall-kiosk-after-intoxicated-santa-mrs-claus-and-elf-had-threesome-in-public/ The Unlikely Success Story of a Man Who Gets Paid to Do Nothing https://www.odditycentral.com/news/the-unlikely-success-story-of-a-man-who-gets-paid-to-do-nothing.html Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. ▀▄▀▄▀ CONTACT LINKS ▀▄▀▄▀ ► Phone: 614-388-9109 ► Website: http://obdmpod.com ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/obdmpod ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/obdmnews ► Instagram: obdmpod ► Email: ourbigdumbmouth at gmail ► RSS: http://ourbigdumbmouth.libsyn.com/rss ► iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/our-big-dumb-mouth/id261189509?mt=2 ▀▄▀▄▀ DONATE LINKS ▀▄▀▄▀ ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/obdm ► Subscribe Star: https://www.subscribestar.com/obdm ► Crypto: https://streamlabs.com/ourbigdumbmouth/tip ▀▄▀▄▀ DISCLAIMER ▀▄▀▄▀ ► Everything we do could be considered performance art ► Satire and Parody are often used ▀▄▀▄▀ LISTEN LINKS ▀▄▀▄▀ ► YouTube | OBDM VIDEOS : https://www.youtube.com/user/ourbigdumbmouth ► YouTube | OBDM POD | 2nd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrj4SPfo5ySkEnyaQAW5zvA ► Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/obdmpod ► DLive: https://dlive.tv/obdm ► RSS: http://ourbigdumbmouth.libsyn.com/rss ► iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/our-big-dumb-mouth/id261189509?mt=2 ▀▄▀▄▀ DISCLAIMER ▀▄▀▄▀ ► Everything we do could be considered performance art ► Satire and Parody are often used ► OBDM T-Shirt: https://teespring.com/obdm-dino-wizard?73d3a50c4b#pid=46&cid=2753&sid=front

In Celeste Headlee’s book—Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving—she examines our fractured relationships to work. Why do we use productivity as a measure of self-worth? Where does our obsession with efficiency come from? In this episode, she shares strategies for maintaining healthy boundaries around work and play and for developing more transparency between managers and employees. She also sells us on taking time off: “When someone takes all their vacation days, they actually end up being more productive, more effective, less error-prone, and more creative than someone who doesn’t.” (For more, see The goop Podcast hub.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ep. #506 -- Back in May, Jill was joined by her friends Sydney and Tiffany to discuss the challenges of reading and finishing a book at the beginning of the pandemic. Jill has brought Sydney and Tiffany back to see if reading has gotten any easier over the past seven months (spoiler alert: it has and they have book recommendations!) Books mentioned in this episode: Power of Moments by Chip Heath and Dan Heath How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline Plain Bad Heroines by emily m. danforth Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey Normal People by Sally Rooney You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade The Switch by Beth O'Leary The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow The Return by Rachel Harrison Dark Matter by Blake Crouch Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton How to Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert Sabriel by Garth Nix Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Christmas Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter Can't Even by Anne Helen Petersen The Cousins by Karen McManus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Rebecca their 2020 Holiday book recommendations. Discussed in this episode: Force of Nature by Jane Harper  The Secret History by Donna Tartt Idaho by Emily Ruskovich A Separation by Katie Kitamura The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell Radical Dharma Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb Hieroglyphics by Jill McCorkle Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan Intimations by Zadie Smith Station Eleven by Emily Mandel Find Me by Laura van den Berg Blindness by Jose Saramago The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai  Sweet Magnolias series by Sherryl Woods Spice by Seressia Glass 100 Must-Read Books: Food in Fiction Little French Bistro by Nina George The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis The Alchemy of Us by Anissa Ramirez Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari The 99% Invisible City Saga by Brian K Vaughn and Fiona Staples Atlas Obscura Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Stalking God by Anjali Kumar A Beginner’s Guide to Japan by Pico Iyer From Scratch by Tembi Locke Cleoptra VII: Daughter of the Nile by Kristiana Gregory (part of The Royal Diaries series) The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemisin The Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel Octavia Butler The Baker’s Secret by Stephen Kiernan 52 Loaves by William Alexander See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, review of the phase I and II trials of the Russian prime-boost vaccine, a mouse model that recapitulates age-dependent severe disease, and listener questions. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Guest: Daniel Griffin Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Safety and immunogenicity of Russian COVID-19 vaccine (Lancet) 'Questionable' data in Russian vaccine results (Nature) Mouse model for SARS-CoV-2 ALI and mortality (Cell) Letters read on TWiV 667 Letters to Humans Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Science Picks Dickson - Rewilding Europe Alan - How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell Rich - Gene drive engineered mosquitoes Vincent - TWiEVO 60 with 12 guests! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv