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Drawing on my years covering tech—and my liberal arts roots—I explore what it really means to build a meaningful life and career. On Hello Monday, I trade scale for substance, and welcome the friction of of real conversation over the ease of consensus.
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How do you scale a feeling? (opens the original)
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Danny Meyer is the kind of guest who shows up to the studio having listened to several episodes of the show. He’s ready for the interview, and it’s disarming. I’ll be the first to tell you that most celebrities don’t do this. But Danny is a particularly kind of restaurateur-turned-celebrity, one who has built his success off of how he has made other people feel.🎧 Check us out on LinkedIn, YouTube, Apple Podcasts or <a href="https://bit.ly/h
Sometimes the answer isn’t to try harder (opens the original)
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Back in 2003, I knew I wanted to become a magazine writer. Bear with me here, this was a time when “magazine writer” was an actual full-time job that lots of people had.I was living in Berkeley, California, and I knew I wasn’t going to become one there. There were terrific magazine writers around me. Douglas Foster taught me in journalism school, and his friend Peggy Orenstein once met me for coffee and talked me through the editors she knew who might be able to help me. But the center of the in
I Tracked Every 15 Minutes of My Life for a Week. No Wonder I’m Tired. (opens the original)
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I thought tracking every 15 minutes of my life for a week would make me feel exhausted and guilty. I already knew I spent too much time on my phone; I didn’t need a spreadsheet to shame me about it.Then I looked at the full seven days and realized I had been thinking about time at the wrong scale. Vanderkam helped me see why. She has tracked her own time for 11 years. Most of us judge our lives 24 hours at a time. Laura thinks 168 hours gives us a much more useful view. This week she launches he
Technology Won’t Let Our Friendships End (opens the original)
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Technology has simultaneously made it possible to keep every friendship forever in an image-forward log in the cloud, and to walk away from any hard moments by simply letting a text linger, failing to return an email, or worse, ghosting.I’ve been thinking about this since my conversation with , whose new book, The Art of Fighting. It’s about what happens when we choose to resist that impulse to avoid conflict. She came through the studio last week to talk specifically about why it’s so important
How to Lead When You Don’t Know What Comes Next (opens the original)
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Hello…Tuesday?I missed my Monday deadline, but I don’t want the week to go by with out giving you a heads up about this week’s episode. My guest is Caroline Webb, and you might remember her from a few years ago. She joined us to talk about how to have a good day at a bad job. 🎧 Check us out on <a href="https
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