142. What's Your Vacation OS? | Brave New Work

Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans explore ways to be more intentional about how and when we take vacations.
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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 and Rodney 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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-”therapy ep”: BNW Ep. 134 + 135: podcasts.apple...
-Muskegon Lake: en.wikipedia.o...
-”Gaming and music episode”: BNW Ep. 128 podcasts.apple...
-”Gareth”: BNW Ep. 5 with Dr. Gareth Holman: podcasts.apple...
-Kuala Lumpur: en.wikipedia.o...
-Arc de Triomphe: en.wikipedia.o...
-Catacombs: en.wikipedia.o...
-Guiding Light: www.imdb.com/t...
00:00 Intro + Check In: What’s one question you hate being asked?
03:47 How Rodney and Aaron spent their recent vacations
11:58 Designing a thoughtful reentry post vacation
16:24 Recognizing when it’s time for a vacation
20:57 Value of your vacation for the rest of the organization
23:55 Dilemma of ego and vacation
31:02 The OS of a vacation
37:49 Understanding the vacation you need
40:00 Timescales of vacations
45:56 Disconnecting from technology on your vacation
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Season 5 - Episode 43
This episode originally aired on June 8th 2021.