Podcast Episodes

216! Reflection

How do we reflect? 

This week, Jess and Joey talk about rumination, perseveration, internal monologues, employee reviews, radical candor, and feedback…

3 years, 4 months ago

215! Success

How should we approach success? 

This week, Joey and Jess talk about whales, personal comparison, persistence hunting, gender dynamics, emotional labo…

3 years, 4 months ago

214! Packing

Why are we so bad at packing? 

This week, Jess and Joey talk about reducing travel expectations, The Uniform Project, embodying different personas, pu…

3 years, 4 months ago

213! Pondering Pettiness

When or how or where are the places that we should be deploying pettiness and feel okay about it? 

This week, Joey, Oliver ... er ... Aaron, and Jess …

3 years, 4 months ago

212! Feelings

How do we navigate the tricky feelings? 

This week, Jess and Joey talk about whistling, the Circumplex Model of Affect, anger in the workplace, naviga…

3 years, 5 months ago

211! Question Asking

How do you ask a good question? 

This week, Jess and Aaron talk about 5-cent vs. 25-cent questions, tempo, performance question-asking, prioritizing c…

3 years, 5 months ago

210! Metering Confidence

What's the best way to encourage people to own their confidence and speak their minds? 

This week, Jess and Joey talk about flatness, self consciousne…

3 years, 5 months ago

209! Defining Cool

What is "cool"? 

This week, Joey and Aaron talk about kinetic energy, Obama, privilege and power, nerds, Blackness, and fish sauce. They don’t talk ab…

3 years, 5 months ago

208! The Exquisite Euphemism Corpse

What do you think are the right places to deploy euphemisms, or should we abandon them altogether? How harmful is it to use euphemisms, and why not e…

3 years, 6 months ago

207! Competence, Constitution, and Control

What are the things you are competent and interested in but constitutionally not disposed to engage with? And how do we deal with not ever being in c…

3 years, 6 months ago