Our pod team picks up what Emily’s putting down in the latest issue of the M/S, discussing the ‘theatre of productivity,’ in which your every movement is surveilled as a measure of your workplace usefulness.

Humans are notoriously bad at predicting their own happiness. But is there such a thing as finding your One True Love in a job? Is there a way to find The One when it comes to your occupation?

Emily Bosscher’s guest post this week calls Gen Z and millennial professionals to “push past the awkwardness” to seek the mentoring they need and to learn the weirdness of a workplace’s culture.

In this episode, LaShone Manuel, Emily Bosscher, and Craig Mattson talk about when playing a role makes you fake at work—and when it makes you exactly what your coworkers need.

This episode responds to an argument in the Mode/Switch newsletter issue, discussing the rich and complex stories of four early-to-mid-career professionals: Andrea Munday, Bre Rodgriguez, Eric Freeman, and Julia Belcher.

When things get hard at work, well-intentioned people will tell you, “You just gotta have faith.” But when you suffer shame or anger professionally, “having faith” doesn’t necessarily mean feeling secure.

A podcast version of the newsletter on digital overwhelm. Advice for how to tell your digiwhelm story and cope with all the techno-exhaustion of your life. Listen while you finish out the week’s work…

A episode about getting fired.

And why that's good for you.