Humane Work Podcast

About Humane Work Podcast

We explore humane work, visual systems, and people acting with confidence. humanework.substack.com (https://humanework.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Modus Institute

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Jun 2025

Latest episode

18 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

55 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Sept 2026

   OUT TODAY: The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces

   We are here to celebrate this thing called life, Prince said so many years ago. This novel comes from a place in me that misses the celebration and wishes to end the current cultures of fear. The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces (Amazon (https://amzn.to/4yLq31Q), Website (http://titanauts.com)) is my first novel and a labor of love and need. This book takes every bit of the humane in me and the work I’ve done and the things I’ve experienced and explores them. How we work together, how we tear each other apart, everything in between The book covers oligarchs, food provision, family farms, sexuality, gender, the notion of sentience versus consciousness, and more. Science Fiction is always part science and social science is always at the front of it. * How do we react to change? * How do we deal with stress and fear? * How do we deal with other people’s need to process? * How can we respect emotion and PTSD. I’ve done a lot of crazy things in my career as a human. Queer Activist, AIDS Organization Leader, Urban Planner, Musician, Author, Engineer, Software guy, Personal Kanban guy, Coach, Product Manager… Through all of them, the job has been the same…make a space for people to do their thing quickly and without concern. Our world is filled with overloaded people trying to make the best decisions with the least effort. We try to help and end up being less successful than we’d like. We often hurt and then are hurt when our help is poorly received. I have created a universe to demonstrate how we, despite our foibles, can find success and even redemption. The characters never fail to make me laugh and cry. They have amazed me with how they’ve found ways to demonstrate so many things. This has been an amazing and rewarding experience. Please…join me. Buy the book on Amazon (https://amzn.to/4hgu0V9)…Join the Community (http://titanauts.com) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit humanework.substack.com/subscribe (https://humanework.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

2. 

   2 Sept 2026

   The World’s Smallest Obeya

   We spend a lot of time complicating things and not enough times just making things simpler. So I took the data and real-time info from my big kanban / timeline / workflow system and made it a physical at-a-glance system. On this Streamdeck are the things I have in flight, the current pomodoro / break status (with time), upcoming meetings, and direct access to the software most important to me. (When that software loads I have workflows for those specific tools as well). This integrates directly with the systems I showed in the last few videos and as I move forward I’ll be showing more of this screen / physical display interplay. But the key here is that the most important info to me (upcoming interruptions, current work flow, progress, focus) are all at my fingertips and in my direct line-of-sight. This can’t be minimized, windowed over, or otherwise digitally forgotten. As always, comment and say hi and send this to someone who needs it. If you are new to this thread…look at the last three or so posts. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit humanework.substack.com/subscribe (https://humanework.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

3. 

   19 Aug 2026

   See The Work You Need to Do

   Some times I need to just focus on one task and don’t want to think about anything else. Other times I want to think about my work flow, which could be a series of tasks that I need to do for one project…or work that I’m going to do in sequence. So a series of tasks for one project might be: * write text * create video * produce video * augment text A task I want to do in sequence might be: * answer emails * meet with Toni * look at system stats for the last week * write blog post concept For this work and to see how the day’s work might be sequenced I use a view like the one in the video, where I have my kanban fully visible in a view that also shows what I’m working on right now (different than the doing / now column). This is literally the task I’m focusing on, still attached to its pomodoro. I am a serial experimenter, always looking for novel and captivating ways to see the work and how it is impacting me. Each of these videos is demonstrating different ideas, different visualizations. Choose ones that are compelling to you. As always, if this is interesting, pass it along on linkedin and stuff, and comment below. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit humanework.substack.com/subscribe (https://humanework.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

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