In the final episode of Time & Money: why we choose to squeeze more in over taking time off. I share how The Squeeze works, why work gets more intense over time, and some of the economic incentives that keep us from making different choices.
May 2, 2022
28 min
A lot of the work we do today doesn’t much look like “work.” The divide between work-life and life-life is flexible and porous. So what does that mean for the way we spend our time? Or how we earn a living?
May 2, 2022
25 min
The systems we operate in all have different incentive systems: our business models, the social media platforms, our economy, the culture at large… And many of these incentive systems have become simplified and gamified—changing the way we view the results of our work and the goals that we hold.
May 2, 2022
31 min
Our perceptions of what our time is worth can vary wildly. But maybe trying to put a price tag on time isn't a helpful thing to do in the first place.
May 2, 2022
30 min
Is this really a new economy? Or have we entered an economic no man's land fueled by new forms of speculation, financialization, and creative liquidation?
May 2, 2022
34 min
There’s more than one way to measure success—and there’s more than one way to measure time. How do you account for the time you spend working? And is it really the most effective—for you—to spend it?
May 2, 2022
27 min
Digital tools & productivity hacks abound. They claim to help us save time so we can play more. But they end up just raising our expectations for our work output—which only adds to our stress instead of easing it.
May 2, 2022
25 min
"Money is a shared delusion." So says Finance for the People author Paco de Leon. Thinking critically about money & our relationship to it helps us make better financial decisions.
May 2, 2022
32 min
Time & Money is an 8-part limited series exploring our relationship to resources we often take for granted. Tara McMullin, host of What Works, explores the intersection of time and money in the 21st-century to question assumptions about the way we think about work.
May 2, 2022
2 min