Aaron Rodney's Re Entry From a Long Break

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rodney has been doing nothing, and occasional periods of staring off into the distance for i've even napped. I don't do well with the go away part or the come back part. But what's really fun is i travel on the monday after this break, to go to a speech, and then you and i get to hang out and have a boar meetingand so it's going to be like this really slow burn, like fun kick back. So anyway, that's so i'm still in it. I still have three more days, lots of days left.

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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