Humanity Working

Work is getting more distributed and we are doing a lot of it solo, so what’s more important to focus on - how we work as individuals or how we work in a team?

Matt and Paul get together to discuss what matter more, and what teamwork even means in the context of today’s work environments.

Humanity Working is a podcast focused on helping individuals, teams and organizations be ready for the future of work by maximizing their human potential.

For more information, and access to our weekly newsletter, visit us at humanityworking.net.

The last surgeon general of the United States described loneliness as an epidemic.

In this episode, Paul and Matt explain how the way we do work today contributes to this challenge, the effect it is having on us, and what to do about it, even if you are an introvert.

Humanity Working is a podcast focused on helping individuals, teams and organizations be ready for the future of work by maximizing their human potential.

For more information, and access to our weekly newsletter, visit us at humanityworking.net.

It’s great to exercise, but when it comes to being sustainably effective at work, that’s not all you need. Movement needs to be a critical part of your routine, and most people are not getting near enough of it.

Paul and Matt explore why this is and discover what to do about it.

Humanity Working is a podcast focused on helping individuals, teams and organizations be ready for the future of work by maximizing their human potential.

For more information, and access to our weekly newsletter, visit us at humanityworking.net.

When it comes to doing great work, rest is really important, but rest isn’t just about sleep.

In this episode Paul and Matt look at four types of rest, and how to make sure you are getting enough of all of them while still getting work done.

Humanity Working is a podcast focused on helping individuals, teams and organizations be ready for the future of work by maximizing their human potential.

For more information, and access to our weekly newsletter, visit us at humanityworking.net.

A sure sign of your understanding of a topic is the ability to explain it to others that don’t. But it can be a real challenge to take complex topics and explain them effectively in a way that others will understand. 

In today’s episode Paul and Matt explain some key principles you can use to get better at explaining complicated subjects, and give you some exercises you can use to practice this difficult skill. 

Resources mentioned in this episode 

1) Paul’s newsletter - Communicating Ideas in 2025 - https://www.humanityworking.net/p/communicating-ideas-in-2025?r=ourxz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false 

2) What’s happening to our attention spans - https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/attention-spans

Humanity Working is a podcast focused on helping individuals, teams and organizations be ready for the future of work by maximizing their human potential.

For more information, and access to our weekly newsletter, visit us at humanityworking.net.

It’s good to talk, but how much?

Paul and Matt discuss the power of brevity, look at why it’s difficult, and how to get good at saying a lot with fewer words.

Humanity Working is a podcast focused on helping individuals, teams and organizations be ready for the future of work by maximizing their human potential.

For more information, and access to our weekly newsletter, visit us at humanityworking.net.

We live in a cult of business, where almost everyone in the workplace is not just stretched to the point of exhaustion, they want to tell everyone else about it.

Paul and Matt discuss this phenomenon, why being so busy can make you less effective, and how to move beyond busyness to effectiveness.

Humanity Working is a podcast focused on helping individuals, teams and organizations be ready for the future of work by maximizing their human potential.

For more information, and access to our weekly newsletter, visit us at humanityworking.net.

Remote work is back in the headlines again, with government mandating a return to office.

But is there any merit to it, and what do we REALLY know about remote work, now it’s been mainstream for a while.

Paul and Matt discuss…

Humanity Working is a podcast focused on helping individuals, teams and organizations be ready for the future of work by maximizing their human potential.

For more information, and access to our weekly newsletter, visit us at humanityworking.net.

What really is the best way to separate work and life?

The Apple show Severance provides a unique way to do this, but the rest of us have to figure out how to create separation ourselves.

In this episode Paul and Matt discuss how the way work has changed has created the need for us as individuals to create separation between work and go through strategies to achieve it.

Humanity Working is a podcast focused on helping individuals, teams and organizations be ready for the future of work by maximizing their human potential.

For more information, and access to our weekly newsletter, visit us at humanityworking.net.

We’ve been learning since humankind began, and even formal learning environments have existed for thousands of years, but does the way we learn today suit the demands of our jobs?

In today’s episode, Paul and Matt discuss how the changing world of work is changing what we need to learn, and how we need to learn it.

Humanity Working is a podcast focused on helping individuals, teams and organizations be ready for the future of work by maximizing their human potential.

For more information, and access to our weekly newsletter, visit us at humanityworking.net.