Future Work/Life is my newsletter in which I explore ideas focused on the future of work. If you find it interesting, please share it!
Today is a landmark edition of this newsletter - 150 editions!
It’s been a long and winding road to here. Future Work/Life started as an opportunity for me to tentatively explore how we were responding to the mass remote working experiment during Covid. Since then, it’s led to many opportunities, not least podcast interviews with so many business and thought leaders, and writing a book. Not something I could have predicted in May 2020.
The past three years have been transformative for me, as I suspect they have been for you, with as many new challenges and opportunities presented.
So, the next stage for me is channelling the knowledge, insights and network I’ve built into solving some of those problems.
How?
I’m evolving this newsletter into a bite-sized overview of interesting ideas to help you navigate the work revolution and design great careers and businesses (with the odd longer-form article thrown in).
I’ll continue producing the podcast, combining interesting guests with more of my own thoughts and practical advice.
I’ll be speaking more frequently at company and industry events to help leaders thread the needle between building high-performance teams while avoiding burnout.
I’m building a product enabling you to capture, curate and share your work highlights.
If you’re interested in discussing any of this, do get in touch.
And I’d love for you to share this newsletter with anyone you know who is interested in creativity and innovation, entrepreneurship, technology, and workplace culture.
Thanks for your continued support and to mark this 150th edition, here are 15 previous newsletters that you might find useful.
Ollie
FWL#1: Introducing Future Work-Life (feat. Shaun Tomson)
FWL#3: The long view on cities and offices
FWL#13: Trust me, employee surveillance is a bad idea
FWL#34: The future of the office looks like market day in Abergavenny (feat. Rory Sutherland)
FWL#43: AI, decision-making, and the future of jobs (feat. Azeem Azhar)
FWL#54: Flipping the switch on hybrid work (feat. Allison Baum Gates)
FWL#80: You're wasting 100s of hours a year: 9 simple ways to reinvent meetings
FWL#109: How to scale your career by doing things that don't scale (feat. Dror Poleg)
FWL#111: How to ask better interview questions? Like, what browser tabs do you currently have open? (feat. Tyler Cowen)
FWL#138: Reverse Cronyism: A modern way to network and grow your career
FWL#141: Creating a connected, high-performance team (feat. Bruce Daisley)
FWL#142: To lead your business forward, try working backwards (feat. Jeff Schwartz)
FWL#144: The pull and power of community (feat. David Spinks)
FWL#145: Lessons on building engaged teams from the best online communities (feat. Gina Bianchini)
FWL#146: Building a sustainable performance culture (feat. Sarah Stein Greenberg and Christopher Lochhead)