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What Works

It's easy to lose your way in the 21st-century economy. The world of work and business is changing so rapidly that you might start focusing more on how to keep up than how to live a meaningful life. W... Read more

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This is Not Advice: Metrics, Incentives, and the Seduction of Clarity

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This is the 8th edition of This is Not Advice, my "not-advice" column for premium subscribers of What Works. Today, I'm ... Read more

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EP 439: Expectations, Boundaries, and Making Work in Public with Randi Buckley

EP 439: Expectations, Boundaries, and Making Work in Public with Randi Buckley

Making work for the public seems to come with a slew of fuzzy social expectations. What do we owe our readers, listeners... Read more

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