WLP375 Booknotes: Futureproof by Kevin Roose

About this episode

Pilar Orti shares her insights and notes from the book 'Futureproof' by Kevin Roose, along with personal updates and recommendations.

Another episode from the season Booknotes, where Pilar shares the notes she made while reading a book, allowing new insights to emerge spontaneously behind the microphone. In today's episode: Part 1 Pilar shares her booknotes from: Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation by Kevin Roose Favourite highlight: "It's on us—the people who love technology but worry about its use—to explore this adjacent possible and push for the best version of it." Part 2 Updates from Pilar: A fiction recommendation: You Are Here by David Nicholls The struggles writing the chapter on leadership for All the World's a Workplace. What Pilar is learning through choir singing lessons. pilarwrites.com And don't forget to check out Connection and Disconnection in Remote Teams , the book!

People in this episode

Host: Pilar Orti

Topics covered

• booknotes
• automation
• technology
• leadership
• fiction recommendation
• choir singing

Keywords

• Futureproof
• Kevin Roose
• automation
• leadership
• fiction
• choir singing

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation, You Are Here, All the World's a Workplace

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