21st Century Work Life

Another episode from the season Booknotes, where Pilar shares the notes she made while reading a book, allowing new insights to emerge spontaneously behind the microphone.

In today's episode:

Part 1
Pilar shares her booknotes from: 
Make Time: How to focus on what happens every day
by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count
by Oliver Burkman
"The technologies we use to try to 'get on top of everything' always fail us, in the end, because they increase the size of the 'everything' of which we're trying to get on top."
 
And don't forget to check out Connection and Disconnection in Remote Teams, the book!
Part 2: Personal Updates

Pilar is reading this novel, which she's really enjoying:
In a Good Light
by Clare Chambers

An announcement: Pilates for Remote Workers is in the making…
Feedback has come through for All the World's a Workplace
Pilar has to go back to re-writing the cozy mystery in third person…

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Another episode from the season: Booknotes, where Pilar shares the notes she made while reading a book, allowing new insights to emerge spontaneously behind the microphone.

In today's episode:

Part 1
Pilar shares her booknotes from: 
The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary
by Catherine Gray
Favourite highlight:
"Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have."
 
And don't forget to check out Connection and Disconnection in Remote Teams, the book!
Part 2: Personal Updates

If you're interested in the future book The A to Z of Spanish Refrains, sign up here:
https://atozofspanishculture.com/2025/01/16/n-is-for-un-libro-nuevo/
Pilar talks about her recent experience recording for an audioguide (the producer was great!), how her writing is going (the cozy mystery, not so great) and her ongoing learnings as Pilates teacher.

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Another episode from the season: Booknotes, where Pilar shares the notes she made while reading a book, allowing new insights to emerge spontaneously behind the microphone.

In today's episode:

Part 1
Pilar shares her booknotes from: 
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander
Favourite highlight:
I love my weeds as much as my unblossomed roses.
(Which actually comes from a letter received by one of the author's students.)
Part 2
Recommendations for other reading:
Mark Kilby's newsletter
 Staying Human with Tech
Practical Presenting: 100 Actionable Tips
by Guy Michaels
And don't forget to check out Connection and Disconnection in Remote Teams, the book!
 
Personal Updates
Hello to Andrew and Mike from Blue Goat Books, thank you for listening!
Pilar tells of what she learned from having a substitute teacher for her choir singing class.
And how she experienced cognitive load herself while teaching Pilates.

pilarwrites.com

Another episode from the season Booknotes, where Pilar shares the notes she made while reading a book, allowing new insights to emerge spontaneously behind the microphone.

In today's episode:

Part 1
Pilar shares her booknotes from: 
Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
by Kevin Roose
Favourite highlight:
"It's on us—the people who love technology but worry about its use—to explore this adjacent possible and push for the best version of it."
Part 2
Updates from Pilar:
A fiction recommendation:

You Are Here
by David Nicholls 
The struggles writing the chapter on leadership for All the World's a Workplace.
What Pilar is learning through choir singing lessons.

pilarwrites.com
And don't forget to check out Connection and Disconnection in Remote Teams, the book!

Another episode from the season: Booknotes, where Pilar shares the notes she made while reading a book, allowing new insights to emerge spontaneously behind the microphone.

In today's episode:

Part 1
Pilar shares her booknotes from: 
Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing
by Gretchen McCulloch

Listener Roberta recommends:
It's Not Magic. The Ordinary Skills of Exceptional Leaders by John Amaechi and the fiction book: No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister.

Pilar in turn recommends Roberta Sawatzky's memoir Between here and Where? Embracing life's transitions and the novel Home Stretch by Graham Norton
 
And don't forget to check out Connection and Disconnection in Remote Teams, the book!
 
Part 2
Updates from Pilar:
The interview on The Creative Penn podcast episode 831:
How to Pivot Careers, Co-Write Books, And Stay Connected As A Remote Creative With Pilar Orti
The importance of attending Pilates classes as a student
The workflow for this show

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