How I Work

***BEST OF HOW I WORK***

I'm currently taking a few weeks off, so today's episode is a Best Of episode. I've gone back through the archives of the last 2.5 years of hosting How I Work and picked out my absolute favourite episodes!

My guest today is Darren Murph who is GitLab’s Head of Remote. If you have never heard of GitLab, it's the world’s largest all-remote company, with over 1,300 team members in 67+ countries with no company-owned offices. Darren has spent his career leading remote teams and charting remote transformations and authored GitLab’s Remote Playbook. Darren also holds a Guinness World Record as the planet's most prolific professional blogger, having published 10 million words.

In this chat, we cover:

• How crisis-induced remote work is different from true remote work
• Darren’s favourite tips from Gitlab’s Remote Working handbook
• Why companies need to change their default to asynchronous communication
• How to create a corporate culture in a remote working environment
• The importance that values play in company culture
• How to recruit for people who are suited to remote work
• The key software that you need to make remote work, work
• How to design for serendipitous moments when everyone works remote
• How to replace water cooler conversations in the remote environment
• How to have effective meetings - and more importantly - deciding when NOT to meet
• Darren’s one page operating manual
• Darren’s favourite gadgets
• Companies that he looks to for remote working inspiration.

Connect with Darren on Linkedin and Twitter. Check out Darren’s personal operating manual, GitLab’s remote playbook, and Darren’s book Living the Remote Dream.  

Visit https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes from all episodes.

Get in touch at [email protected]

If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better, which range from interesting research findings through to gadgets I am loving. You can sign up for that at http://howiwork.co

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My favourite tip from my chat with Rice University Professor Scott Sonenshein was on to dramatically improve meetings.

You can find the full interview here: Rice University Professor Scott Sonenshein on how to clean up your meetings, decisions and inbox

Learn more about Scott right here.

Subscribe to my new podcast How To Date in Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better, which range from interesting research findings through to gadgets I am loving. You can sign up for that at http://howiwork.co

Visit https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes from all episodes.

Get in touch at [email protected]

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

***BEST OF HOW I WORK***

I'm currently taking a few weeks off, so today's episode is a Best Of episode. I've gone back through the archives of the last 2.5 years of hosting How I Work and picked out my absolute favourite episodes!

My guest today is Cal Newport. Cal is a computer science professor at Georgetown University. Cal is the author of six books, including, most recently, the New York Times bestseller, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. Cal’s work has been published in over 20 languages and has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, Washington Post, and the Economist.

It’s probably an understatement to say I was excited for this chat because I am a complete and utter fan girl of Cal’s and it’s fair to say that his work has had an enormous impact on how I work. We cover a bunch of different aspects of the way Cal approaches his work including:

• Cal’s different Deep Work rituals and why he recommends having different rituals for different types of Deep Work
• How to know if you are actually doing Deep Work
• Strategies to break your Shallow Work habit
• The critical conversation to have with your manager to get them supporting you doing more Deep Work
• Cal’s ritual for "shutting down” his work day
• Why Cal rejects the idea that we need to have a phone on us at all times
• How Cal deliberately builds solitude into his day
• Why changing workflows is more effective than changing habits when trying to increase productivity
• The workflow Cal designed while on his book tour to minimise back and forth communication
• Why giving your time a job is better than using a to-do list
• How Cal uses weekly and daily time blocking to use his time effectively
• How to take a “Deep Break"
• The two key elements of Cal’s email system to minimise communication
• The topic Cal is exploring for his next book

You can find Cal at http://calnewport.com/ and grab his books Deep Work and Digital Minimalism.

Visit amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes from all episodes.

Get in touch at [email protected]

If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better, which range from interesting research findings through to gadgets I am loving. You can sign up for that at http://howiwork.co

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My favourite tip from my chat with Shameless' Michelle and Zara was on how they make tough business decisions.

You can find the full interview here: Shameless' Michelle and Zara on their process for making one of the most popular podcasts in Australia

Grab your copy of Michelle and Zara’s book The Space In-between, follow Shameless on Instagram, join the Shameless Book Club, and listen to the Shameless podcast on Apple Podcasts.

Subscribe to my new podcast How To Date in Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better, which range from interesting research findings through to gadgets I am loving. You can sign up for that at http://howiwork.co

Visit https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes from all episodes.

Get in touch at [email protected]

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

***BEST OF HOW I WORK***

I'm currently taking a few weeks off, so today's episode is a Best Of episode. I've gone back through the archives of the last 2.5 years of hosting How I Work and picked out my absolute favourite episodes!

My guest today is Dan Pink. Dan is the author of six bestselling books, including Drive, A Whole New Mind, and his latest book "When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing", which has spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list. You might also be familiar with Dan through his TED talk about the surprising science of motivation, which has been viewed over 20 million times.

I am a big Dan Pink fan so I was very excited to be able to chat with him. I think he has such a knack for dissecting complex science and finding a way to make it not just accessible, but memorable and impactful for his readers.

We cover a bunch of things during this chat, including:

• How Dan works out whether an idea is great or whether it stinks
• How the idea behind his latest book "When" came to be
• The importance of the structure of a book, and Dan’s approach to mapping out a book’s structure
• Dan’s process for coming up with the title for a book or project
• How he came up with the title for Adam Grant’s bestselling book Give and Take
• Why Dan structures his work day into three distinct sections
• Why Dan isn’t a big believer in willpower
• How Dan constructs his working environment to make it easy to stay off digital distractions
• Dan’s approach to radically reducing the amount of emails he receives
• How Dan decides what to say yes to and what to say no to
• Dan’s approach for saying no politely
• Dan’s process for translating a book into a keynote speech
• Why Dan asks his wife to read his books out loud to him during the editing process

Find out more about Dan at danpink.com and subscribe to his newsletter right here. And you can check out his latest book When here.

For comprehensive show notes on this episode, go to: https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast

Get in touch at [email protected]

If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better, which range from interesting research findings through to gadgets I am loving. You can sign up for that at http://howiwork.co

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

My favourite tip from my chat with Rachel Botsman was on her strategies for creating a brilliant start to virtual presentations.

This extract is from my second time having Rachel on the show - you can check out the full interview here.

And check out my first interview with Rachel here.

Follow Rachel on Linkedin to get her biweekly newsletter Rethink.

Subscribe to my new podcast How To Date in Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better, which range from interesting research findings through to gadgets I am loving. You can sign up for that at http://howiwork.co

Visit https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes from all episodes.

Get in touch at [email protected]

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

***BEST OF HOW I WORK***

I'm currently taking a few weeks off, so today's episode is a Best Of episode. I've gone back through the archives of the last 2.5 years of hosting How I Work and picked out my absolute favourite episodes!

My guest today is Cyan Ta’eed. Cy is one of Australia’s most successful entrepreneurs, having co-founded Envato in 2006 and growing it to being valued at over $1 billion. Last year she tried her hand at chocolate (why not?!) and Hey Tiger is now one of Australia’s fastest growing purpose-driven brands. Oh, and in her spare time, she recently launched Milkshake.app, which allows users to make a free website for their Instagram profile all on their phone, instantly.

In this chat, we cover:

• How Cy went from spending four hours a day on her phone to just 15 minutes
• How Cy changed her mobile phone to make it less addictive
• The game that Cy’s family play on January 1, every year
• The five minute activity that Cy does every morning to set herself up for the day
• How Cy manages her energy levels as a self-described introvert who presents as an extravert.
• Cy’s approach to constant learning and development
• How and where Cy has found great people to work in her businesses.
• Cy’s strategies for overcoming Imposter Syndrome
• How Cy mentally prepares herself for stressful events
• Why Cy had an app on her phone that reminded her she is going to die 5 x per day
• Cy’s go-to apps and gadgets
• What happened when Cy had an eyesight-threatening ulcer and had to rest in darkness for several weeks.
• Balancing sprints with periods of rest

Find Cy on Instagram at @cyantaeed, check out her amazing chocolate social enterprise Hey Tiger and her most recent business Milkshake that allows users to create a webpage from their Instagram account.

Visit https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes from all episodes.

Get in touch at [email protected]

If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better, which range from interesting research findings through to gadgets I am loving. You can sign up for that at http://howiwork.co

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

My favourite tip from my chat with Dr Jason Fox was his 7-day rhythm for work and life.

This extract is from my second time having Jase on the show - you can check out the full interview here.

And check out my first interview with Jase here.

Connect with Jason at fox.substack.com

Subscribe to my new podcast How To Date in Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better, which range from interesting research findings through to gadgets I am loving. You can sign up for that at http://howiwork.co

Visit https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes from all episodes.

Get in touch at [email protected]

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

***BEST OF HOW I WORK***

I'm currently taking a few weeks off, so today's episode is a Best Of episode. I've gone back through the archives of the last 2.5 years of hosting How I Work and picked out my absolute favourite episodes!

Rachel Botsman is a world renowned expert on technology and trust, and the author of bestselling books “Who Can You Trust?” and “What’s Mine Is Yours". Rachel is a Trust Fellow at Oxford University and has been recognised as one of the “Most Creative People in Business” by Fast Company and as one of the 50 most influential management thinkers in the world.

We cover a lot of ground in this conversation, including:

• Why Rachel never sleeps near her phone
• “Big stride days” and how to have one
• How the weather effects her productivity
• Her unusual but very awesome way of crafting presentations
• How Rachel hit a ridiculously tight book deadline
• Why she finishes her day midway through writing a paragraph
• Her one minute mindfulness routine
• Rachel’s “tips” to make it easier to say no
• And a whole lot more.

You can find Rachel on Twitter and Linkedin at @Rachelbotsman and via her website.

Comprehensive show notes on this episode can be found right here.

If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better, which range from interesting research findings through to gadgets I am loving. You can sign up for that here.

Want to get in touch? Reach out at [email protected]

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

My favourite tip from my chat with Rice University Professor Scott Sonenshein was on to dramatically improve meetings.

You can find the full interview here: Rice University Professor Scott Sonenshein on how to clean up your meetings, decisions and inbox

Learn more about Scott right here.

Subscribe to my new podcast How To Date in Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better, which range from interesting research findings through to gadgets I am loving. You can sign up for that at http://howiwork.co

Visit https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes from all episodes.

Get in touch at [email protected]

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.