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21st Century Work Life


Brought to you by Virtual not Distant, the 21st Century Work Life podcast looks at leading remote teams, online collaboration and working in distributed organisations.

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Jan 22, 2026

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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