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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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Nov 3, 2025

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!