Slack Variety Pack

Episode 9 is the audio equivalent of a full moon. There will be unusual behavior. You will use words incorrectly. Puns will suddenly become funny. And bananas will become horse buttocks. And because it’s a full moon… there will be wolves.

You will not believe our productivity in Episode 8: Action Pack. We are seriously getting things done. A short checklist: -All those pesky HR problems? Solved. -Configure a bot to run meetings and order lunch? Done. -Change the internal workings of Hollywood? Check. How did we do all this? We got a little help from some guy named David Allen...

It’s summertime and the living is easy. So take as much vacation as you want, spend hours perusing the world’s weirdest Pinterest boards, become a Twitter celebrity, and PLEASE update that tired email signature from 2007. Or at least do all those things vicariously, through the power of podcasting. Welcome to Episode 7 - The Laid Back.

OH MY. Someone just stole all my passwords! My parents have NO clue what I do for a living!! I think my disposable coffee cup lid has been touched by a dozen strangers!!! AND I’m 12,500 feet under the ocean, stuck on the deck of the Titanic!!!… Welcome to Episode 6: The Panic Pack. Breathe in… breathe out. You’re in a safe place now.

Why the design of elevators makes for a horrifically awkward social experience. Learn how to nail your start-up pitch with the Hollywood Elevator Pitch. And meet Black Girls Code, an organization working to fix Silicon Valley’s diversity problems. Rise up for Episode 5: Lift Pack!

An homage to those with the dedication to turn their cubicles into overflowing Hello Kitty shrines. An outpouring of emotion for outdated cords and cables. And black holes popping in and out of existence inside your knuckles. Welcome to Episode 4: Burst Pack.

It’s Episode 3, the Sensory Overload Pack. Discover the smelliest foods to microwave in the office, the guttural reactions we have to notification sounds, and how the very essence of our being—DNA—might revolutionize data storage. Sounds! Sights! Smells! And as a bonus: Shorts.

Discover the origin of the word 'podcast', take our Podcasting 101 course, meet the guy who has 1.4 million Instagram followers thanks to photos inside waves, hear about a scientist who has created a visual microphone, find out what all those people are actually doing in coffee shops, and learn problem solving from Tina Roth Eisenberg.

Welcome to the first episode of the Slack Variety Pack, a podcast brought to you by Slack. This is a show about work, life, and everything in-between. In this episode, we go inside a $10 million quantum computer, talk productivity with BJ Novak at an NHL game, meet up with a Mars One candidate, hear about an epic fist fight in an office, and invent Audio Emojis.