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Welcome to Time & Money: A What Works Special Series
Time & Money is an 8-part limited series exploring our relationship to resources we often take for granted. Tara McMullin, host of What Works, explores the intersectio...
What is money? with Paco de Leon
"Money is a shared delusion." So says Finance for the People author Paco de Leon. Thinking critically about money & our relationship to it helps us make better financi...
What is the egg beater effect?
Digital tools & productivity hacks abound. They claim to help us save time so we can play more. But they end up just raising our expectations for our work output—which...
How do you measure quality time? with Elisabeth Jackson
There’s more than one way to measure success—and there’s more than one way to measure time. How do you account for the time you spend working? And is it really the mos...
What is financialization?
Is this really a new economy? Or have we entered an economic no man's land fueled by new forms of speculation, financialization, and creative liquidation?
What is our time worth? with Keina Newell
Our perceptions of what our time is worth can vary wildly. But maybe trying to put a price tag on time isn't a helpful thing to do in the first place.
What rules are you playing by?
The systems we operate in all have different incentive systems: our business models, the social media platforms, our economy, the culture at large… And many of these i...
How much time should you work? with Anne Ditmeyer
A lot of the work we do today doesn’t much look like “work.” The divide between work-life and life-life is flexible and porous. So what does that mean for the way we s...
Why do we choose squeezing more in instead taking time off?
In the final episode of Time & Money: why we choose to squeeze more in over taking time off. I share how The Squeeze works, why work gets more intense over time, and s...
