Is work the friends we made along the way?
Episode 88 · March 2nd, 2023 · 49 mins 44 secs
About this Episode
In this episode, Kendall and rachel talk about:
- Freakin' time zones
- Whisky delivery news
- The subtleties of F to C conversions
- Migration to Mastodon, bike community trends
- Kendall's new CTO Lunches business undertaking and travel plans
- Going from having all your friends come from work to having most friends originate outside of work
- Benefits of socializing with your more senior colleagues
- How the pandemic has impacted work friendships, especially for early-career people
- The change in dynamic when you become the boss
- Progressively wanting and needing less social contact at work as time passes
- Hiring your friends
- Relationship-building as a strategy
- Giving less of a fuck as you get older, tolerating more weirdness in others
- Energy level imbalance anxiety therapy session for rachel
- The value of being optimistic about people you encounter at work
- Recommendations: rachel recommends the Monk and Robot series of novellas by Becky Chambers. Kendall recommends you go sailing, and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon.
- A warning from Kendall
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3