21st Century Work Life

Another episode from the season: Booknotes, where Pilar shares the notes she made while reading a book, allowing new insights to emerge spontaneously behind the microphone. In today's episode: Part 1 Pilar shares her booknotes from:

The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary

by Catherine Gray

Favourite highlight:

"Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have."

Another episode from the season: Booknotes, where Pilar shares the notes she made while reading a book, allowing new insights to emerge spontaneously behind the microphone. In today's episode: Part 1 Pilar shares her booknotes from:

The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life

by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander

Favourite highlight:

I love my weeds as much as my unblossomed roses. (Which actually comes from a letter received by one of the author's students.)

Another episode from the season Booknotes, where Pilar shares the notes she made while reading a book, allowing new insights to emerge spontaneously behind the microphone. In today's episode: Part 1 Pilar shares her booknotes from:

Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation by Kevin Roose

Favourite highlight:

"It's on us—the people who love technology but worry about its use—to explore this adjacent possible and push for the best version of it."

Part 2 Updates from Pilar:

A fiction recommendation: You Are Here by David Nicholls

The struggles writing the chapter on leadership for All the World's a Workplace. What Pilar is learning through choir singing lessons.

Another episode from the season: Booknotes, where Pilar shares the notes she made while reading a book, allowing new insights to emerge spontaneously behind the microphone. In today's episode: Part 1 Pilar shares her booknotes from:

Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing by Gretchen McCulloch Listener Roberta recommends: It's Not Magic. The Ordinary Skills of Exceptional Leaders by John Amaechi and the fiction book: No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister. Pilar in turn recommends Roberta Sawatzky's memoir Between here and Where? Embracing life's transitions and the novel Home Stretch by Graham Norton

The 21st Century Work Life podcast is back - with a different kind of content and format. The Booknotes season starts and will last... for a while. In today's episode:

Part 1 Pilar shares her booknotes from

How To Have A Good Day: The Essential Toolkit for a Productive Day at Work and Beyond by Caroline Webb

Chris Coladonato's (the connection catalyst) colour book: Color Me Unplugged: Mindful Patterns Inspired By Nature Walks - A Coloring Book for Rest, Relaxation, and Creativity Teresa Douglas, author of Secrets of the Remote Workforce: By Employees, For Employees, recommends The Murder Bot Diaries