
Time Blocking: Ben Franklin's Schedule, Jack Dorsey's Theme Days, Buffers
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The episode opens with the claim that a standard 40-hour week often holds only about 15 hours of...
28 Okt 19min

Personal Finance on an Index Card: Hazel Kyrk to Harold Pollack's Six Rules
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Personal finance as a field of study began in home economics, with University of Chicago scholar...
28 Okt 27min

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: The Pyramid He Never Drew and the Blackfoot
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Abraham Maslow's 1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation in Psychological Review contained no di...
28 Okt 19min

Marshall Rosenberg: From the 1943 Detroit Riots to Nonviolent Communication
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Marshall Rosenberg grew up in Detroit, witnessing the 1943 race riots and facing antisemitism, a...
28 Okt 22min

Louise Hay: From Fashion Model to Hay House and the Hayride AIDS Meetings
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Louise Hay was born Helen Vera Lunney in Los Angeles in 1926. She grew up in poverty with an abu...
28 Okt 20min

Kintsugi: The Shogun's Locust-Clamp Tea Bowl and the Art of Golden Repair
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Kintsugi, or golden joinery, is usually traced to the late 15th century shogun Ashikaga Yoshimas...
28 Okt 23min

Napping Science: NASA's 26-Minute Nap, Caffeine Naps and Sleep Inertia
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The episode treats daytime sleep as a tool with distinct uses: the recovery nap after a bad nigh...
28 Okt 24min

Total Quality Management: How the U.S. Navy Adopted Deming's Ideas in 1985
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By the late 1970s and early 1980s Japanese manufacturers were outselling the West on price and o...
28 Okt 21min



















