In this episode, we explore what it really means to be kind, the cost of being nice, what it means to be real, and what’s the deal with so much fakeness these days?

We mention these pieces:

Kim Scott: Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

Greg Story of Brilliant Crank: We've built a society on bullshit and emojis and LinkedIn is a waiting room of doom

Jim Dethmer on conscious leadership

Dave Gray: Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think

Bryan Cantril talk: Principles of Technology Leadership | Bryan Cantrill | Monktoberfest 2017

From Sahil Bloom's Curiosity Chronicle: Are you into your pattern interrupts?

All humans – including you! – are creative. And we all have creative processes, though we aren't always aware of what they are.

In this conversation, we explore our creative processes, and barriers and facilitators to creativity.

We mention a bunch of people, including:

Gary Bernhardt of Destroy All Software

I credit Maya Angelou with the quote that you should let your failures refine you, not define you, but it turns out it was Max Lucado who said that.

Atomic Habits by James Clear

Louie Parkinson of Catalyst Climbing

Brene Brown in reference to midlife "unraveling"

adrienne maree brown and her quote that, "Feeling good isn't frivolous; it's freedom."

In this episode, we explore the concept of work life balance, the definition of success, and the foundational question of what is your life for?

We mention a bunch of books, podcasts, and people! Here they are:

Douglas Rushkoff and his Team Human podcast

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar

Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System by Wes Marshall

The High Cost of Free Parking: Updated Edition by Donald Shoup

Professor Scott Galloway (No Mercy / No Malice), whose Prof G pod and Pivod Podcast can be found here

The Daily Stoic - Stoic Wisdom For Everyday Life - by Ryan Holiday