This is the 5th installment of Strange New Work, a special series that explores how speculative fiction can help us imagine radically different work futures.Think the future of housework looks like Rosey the Robot from The Jetsons? Or maybe just a fleet o

This is the 4th installment in Strange New Work, a special series from What Works that explores how speculative fiction can help us imagine new ways of working.Social and professional norms aren't natural or innate. They're political. Those in power exert

This is the third installment in Strange New Work, a series that explores how speculative fiction can help us imagine the future of work.Today's work happens in tiny slivers of time. And we try to optimize each minute or hour for all its worth. But remar

This is the 11th edition of This is Not Advice, a "not advice" column for premium subscribers of What Works. In this episode and essay, I tackle the assumed quid pro quo that's at the heart of content marketing. It's that quid pro quo that causes us to se

This is the second episode in my new series, "Strange New Work." Artist and writer Morgan Harper Nichols is a world-builder. She says, "Worldbuilding, for me, [is] a form of expansive hopea necessary imagination for being alive." What is world-building?

The future of work doesn't have to be an extension of today's reality.This is the first installment in Strange New Work, a new series from What Works about imagining radically different ways of working and doing business.In this episode, I take a closer l

Join Tara McMullin for a journey into the far future of work, and consider how we can create more humane, inclusive, and supportive work environment. The first episode of Strange New Work drops September 14! You can find Strange New Work wherever you list

Todays episode is a sneak peek of Work In Practice, my new 12-week training program for guides of all kinds. This program offers a toolkit for identifying the beliefs and stories that make a more sustainable relationship with work possible. If youre a c

There are rules you know aboutand rules you don't. Some rules are written downand other rules are "just the way things are." And there are rules that make things clear to everyoneand rules that exclude through their lack of clarity.Charlie Gilkey is on

Play, learn, work, retirethose are the four stages of what Mauro Guilln callsthe sequential mode of life. In his new book,The Perennials: The Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Society, he proposes a new story for moving through life. It's a story