How do we respond to the competing incentives of hybrid work?

This week, we revisit our conversation from Critical Nonsense 290! Hybrid Work, this time with special guest and workplace design leader Amanda Stanaway of ERA-co. She joins Joey and Jess to talk about belonging, productivity, the corporate Kool-Aid, burnout, human connection, and hammocks. They don’t talk about hard-boiled eggs.

references

• Amanda Stanaway
• ERA-co
• WORKTECH Academy: Flight to character: a fightback begins against homogenous global offices by Amanda Stanaway
• The Atlantic: The Anti-Social Century by Derek Thompson
• Chicago Booth Review: Humanity Is Carried on the Voice by Nick Epley
• The Egg Pod

Why would you break up with your best friend?

This week, Joey and Jess talk about para-romance, frenemies, communication styles, emotional proximity, work relationships, and boy and girl bands. They don’t talk about Whodini.

references

• Oprah: Should You Really Break Up with That Friend?
• Black Love: How to Grieve Women Friendships That No Longer Serve You
• Elle: We Need to Talk About Our Ex-Best Friends
• Friends: Understanding the Power of Our Most Important Relationships by Robin Dunbar
• Connectome
• The Atlantic: The Anti-Social Century by Derek Thompson

Why do people love rituals so much?

This week, a rerun from the Nonsense Wellspring (archive)!

Again, Jess, Aaron, and Joey talk about medicine, Lunar New Year, habits, disease, leg washing, and flossing. They don’t talk about Jane's Addiction.

references

• twitterpated
• Yale School of Medicine: Phenylephrine, a Common Decongestant, Is Ineffective, Say FDA Advisors. It’s Not Alone
• Gregorian calendar
• Ritual, Play and Belief, in Evolution and Early Human Societies by Colin Renfrew
• National Geographic: "Why do humans embrace rituals? Disease and danger may be at the root of the behaviors."
• cephalocaudal
• Gonggong
• Not-so-late-breaking: OSU microbiologists propose updates to the Linnaean System
• Recapitulation theory