Hello this is Eat Sleep Work Repeat on Bruce D's lead to a podcast about making work better.

Lovely response to the last few episodes.

There was an episode with Cal Newport questioning the relationships we have with our screens.

There's a previous episode that was really good just looking at

the latest bits of research into things like loneliness and the evidence of

working long hours. I've been subjected to a terrible roof leak in the intervening time, water pouring onto my bed at night,

last night water pouring into my toilet. You know, you wake up and you've got like this noise in the back

your head and it's of water gushing not a nice thing.

Annoyingly the people have said that they can't come around and fix the leak till it stops

raining. So every time it rains this week think of me water gradually gushing unto my

weary weary face. Right I'm buzzing about this episode now my book The Joy of

Work culture but because it starts with these 12 personal

interventions a lot of the coverage and comments have focused on that and I think

that's because you know it's like none of us really finish books we certainly

don't make much progress in them and so that's

the bit that people have read in the book. The reason why I put those personal

interventions in is because I'm convinced you can't fix work culture until you've made people feel more alive and

less exhausted by their jobs. So I love that stuff I think you'll genuinely

laugh at that but my favorite part of the book is when I got into the science of

better team working and better team cultures and it's about a hundred pages in and

I know it's like I should have just maybe I should have put that at the start of

the book but it sort of works better as it is.

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