PowerPivot Podcast
PowerPivot
Latest Episode
“This is the hard part about being intensive: that people have told us all our lives that we’re dangerous. And mostly, I will tell you...
New episodes every week.
Past Episodes
Browse or binge, poetry and prose about ethics, power, and business.
“You have choices. But the first, most important choice, is to celebrate who and how you are as an intensive.” As an intensive, your phasic work cycles- and perhaps your phasic chaos cycles- are part...
A poem, a meditation, a gift: “In the face of the world being difficult, and impossible, and glorious, over and over again. In the face of destruction and creation. In the face of hope, and...
Sometimes, almost always, some version of the solution has already been invented. What are we going to remember that we already know how to do? Let us take a mental tour of the Terrible Patents...
“If you think of depression as something that’s kind of like the ocean, that comes up in waves. Sometimes you can float on top of it, and it’s okay. Sometimes it’ll try and drown you…....
Intensives go like hell and then rest like the dead. Sometimes we go like hell and then… just stop. Let’s talk about that. The Nap Ministry: https://thenapministry.wordpress.com/ Madeline Pendleton: https://www.tiktok.com/@madeline_pendleton Transcript and notes: https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/intensive-stop Recorded...
“…So I listened to a podcast this morning and oh my god, mostly, I’m just here to tell you to go listen to that other podcast. That other podcast is called Man Enough, which is...
“It doesn’t matter why someone doesn’t have housing, what matters is that they need housing.” Healthcare outcomes are tied to housing. So shouldn’t we include adequate, autonomous housing as a way to improve the overall...
So often we know what we need to do… but how do we do it? How do we remove barriers and make it easy for ourselves to do the things we know we need to...
“When you know what you need, you can ask for it, or you can work toward it, or you can invite it….” Well, that seems simple enough, right? But how do we actually know what...
“It’s about overestimating the need. And under estimating the capacity.” Knowing our capacity, making realistic guesses about how hard things are going to be- even the things that “shouldn’t” be hard- it’s the work of...