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21st Century Work Life


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Nov 24, 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: 

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.

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