Slack Single Servings

Who doesn’t fantasize about quitting their job, selling their earthly possessions, and gallivanting around the world? We talk to a South African couple who didn’t just dream the dream, they actually went out and did it.

In which we travel to South Korea to uncover the productivity-enhancing secret found in almost every office: nap rooms. In case you needed some documentary evidence to convince your office manager.

It’s inevitable. After lunch, your energy falls off a cliff. We hit the streets to find out the top strategies for coping with the mid-afternoon slump. (DISCLAIMER: Results not guaranteed.)

Meet Alex Gregg - entrepreneur, artist, purveyor of magnificent hand-crafted ice cubes. Yes, ice cubes. Yes, hand-crafted. Yes. We know.

Reading this through spiderweb cracks of a shattered phone screen and swiping your thumb across glass that may, quite possibly, do your digit damage? You are not alone.

All the best writers claim — to anyone in earshot, particularly their publishers — that walking is not a distracting procrastination: On the contrary, it’s the antidote to writer’s block. Now researchers are marching in to back that up.

One artist’s back-of-the-napkin sketch, uploaded to the internet, took on a sadly all-too-familiar life of its own. This is the inspiring story of how she reclaimed her art, her career, and her love for both.

In today’s apps, the “swipe” motion is all the rage, but what if that technology was applied to a different purpose: Playdates. Swipe right on snack-sharing toddler, left on prone-to-tantrums toddler.

“Being able to recognize my co-workers as ‘Hoverers’ and ‘Speakerphoners’ has not only improved my workplace relationships, it has also taught me a lot about myself. This is must listen for any office worker!” -Wilson Carstairs, Professional Podcast Blurb Writer

A successful criminal and civil rights lawyer makes a radical career change. Now he fights for clean water. Meet Mark Mattson, Waterkeeper.