Can I Ask You a Question?

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It's the first question that came to mind for me, and it is also a little bit meta. I just feel like it's o you know, i'm not it's your answer to a chocking questioni don't hate it. That's all you said, you hated it. And now all our listeners know. No, take don't ask aron. If you can ask him something, just ask him. Just ask e. Ok. So so to day's topic is, we're calling it the showry talk about nothing. But really, when we say nothing, what we mean is vacations, breaks, taking space in self management. We have both been either just

Taking a break from work can look 1,000 different ways: You could learn how to make homemade pasta; you could visit five new countries; you could spend sunup to sundown swinging in a hammock. What constitutes a break should fit your specific context and needs. And in this way, taking a true, you-shaped vacation—for a week, a month, or even longer—dips into org design knowledge and territory.

In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans reflect on their recent breaks and what they learned, including:

The signs and signals that tell us when it’s time to take a break
Why breaks are important and how they contribute to system-wide resilience
How taking time off in a self-managing system can look and feel different than in a more traditional one
Parsing the key differences between a break, a trip, and a vacation
How to think about and reimagine the OS of your next vacation

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