In this episode of all things #Abstractable, Ryan and Lach discuss the book The Year Without Pants by Scott Berkun.
Berkun recounts the year he spent in Automattic, Matt Mullenweg's company who brought the world WordPress. Whilst it is almost a decade old, much of its wisdom holds true, particularly as many of us find ourselves shifting to more remote work.
As with each episode, we pluck out what most resonated with us from the book and how we are going to implement these into our day-to-day.
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Scott Berkun - The future of work (Ep.006 The Abstractable Podcast)
00:00 - Opening remarks
02:53 - The Book: The Year Without Pants
10:45 - The author: Scott Berkun
12:53 - How important culture is
20:24 - What role the language is playing
26:29 - Would you rather a duck-sized horse or 100 horse-sized ducks?
39:25: Will we go to the moon any time soon?
42:30 - Scientifically the world has not progressed since the ’70s
58:57 - Where good ideas come from
1:06:00 - Meetings are broken – and other common fallacies in organisations
1:07:09 - Wrap up
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