WLP356 April Monthly Reading and Listening (and Watching!) Recommendations
This is the audio version of our monthly newsletter, and today we have regular co-host Maya Middlemiss joining Pilar for their list of listening and reading recommendations for April. Recorded on 17 April 2024.
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We’ve struggled this month to create a collection around remote work, so we’ve gone a bit “around the edges” - but it’s still all relevant to our audience. There is much content around hybrid work at the moment, and it tends to have more of a “how to” angle to it , so we often give it a miss.
So, please send through anything you think we might add in future episodes.
Coffee Break Articles
05.00 MINS
The Pyramid Principle
Via Sketchplanations
How Remote Workers Are Reshaping Corporate Travel Policies
via Skift
E-voice in the Digitalised Workplace. Insights from an Alternative Organisation
via Human Resource Management Journal (Wiley)
Grabbed from Eva Rimbau-Gilabert’s profile on previously-known-as-Twitter.
Airchat Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Obsession
via Wired.com
Article + Documentary
15.50 MINS
Work Different
a documentary by Julien Capraro
This was recommended by Jack Niles, reader of the newsletter, and author of Managing Telework: Strategies for Managing the Virtual Workforce published by Wiley in 1998.
You can read about the documentary here: https://www.createastir.ca/articles/work-different-rendez-vous-french-film-festival and watch the documentary here: https://www.nfb.ca/film/work-different/
Books
18.12 MINS
The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World
by Dorie Clark
(You might also want to check out Entrepreneurial You.)
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
by Adam Grant
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
by Cal Newport
How To Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
by David Brooks
(thanks Bernie J MItchell for the recommendation!)
Audio Recommendations
30.25 MINS
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
294: A Tactical Assault on Business
1 April 2024
The Long-Distance Worklife podcast
Episode: Press Start on SoWork: How Gamers are Influencing the Future of Remote Work
15 April 2024
Remote Work Life
RWL203 From office manager to international remote work expert w/ Laurel Farrer, Founder Distribute Consulting
4 March 2024
What’s Going On with Maya and Pilar
Check out our own work!
Thinking Remote: Inspiration for Leaders of Distributed Teams, a collection of our blog posts.
And Maya’s “Out Of The Office: Making the transition to working from home” and “Finding Your Edge: Establishing And Maintaining Boundaries When You Work From Home”
Pilar is back on Twitter (X)!
Maya’s mainly on LinkedIn, and… during RWE’s LinkedIn’s challenge, Maya posted about Getting Things Done, and got a comment from David Allen on it!
Maya is speaking at Bansko Nomad Fest.
Use her code for a discount! 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗥𝗪𝗘_𝗯𝗻𝗳𝟮𝟰
Our newsletters:
Pilar’s “Spiralling Creativity” https://spirallingcreativity.substack.com/
Maya’s “Remote Echoes” https://mayamiddlemiss.substack.com/
You can message Pilar through the Virtual not Distant website: https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/contact-us and get hold of Maya over at Remote Work Europe: https://www.remoteworkeurope.eu/ .
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