142. What's Your Vacation OS?
Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans explore ways to be more intentional about how and when we take vacations.
At Work with The Ready · Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin
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Show Notes
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
Mentioned references:
- "therapy episodes": BNW Ep. 134 + 135
- Muskegon Lake
- "gaming and music episode: BNW Ep. 128
- "Gareth": BNW Ep. 5 with Dr. Gareth Holman
- Kuala Lumpur
- Arc de Triomphe
- Catacombs
- Guiding Light
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