The Working Experience

We are coming into the weekend hot!!!  It's time to celebrate the end of the workweek with Matt complaining and John giggling at another wasted week!

Matty chats with Drew Ackerman, host of the wildly popular podcast: Sleep With Me. Drew helps millions of people worldwide fall asleep with soothing stories that allow their spinning minds to find some focus and peace. Drew offers his views on work, having purpose in life and those endless arguments we have with ourselves. 

Amazon and Jeff Bezos made over $11Billion last year and will $0 in taxes.  This is legal but is it fair?  Is the tax burden falling too much on the middle class?  What about job creation?  Matty K and John discuss the ins and outs. 

Matty K and John are coming in hot on this episode and sending you into the work week with some utterly useless advice. Enjoy!

Hey it's Friday! Make the weekend a great one but remember to eat some greens. Helps you stay regular.

Matty K tries to break down the latest business news.  Some business are doing really well, we may have a deal with China.  He really has no idea what he is talking about but he is trying.

Matty K and John discuss how automation in the workplace  has not had the effect the that many economists thought it would.  Low paying service sector jobs have grown at 10 times the rate of highly paid tech jobs at places like Intel and Axon.  We seem to be at the end pf a cycle and the future is cloudy. 

John talks with Dr. Eric Frazer about his latest book, 'The Psychology of Top Talent.'   We delve into flow states, meditation, goal setting, exercise, grit, consistency, creative learning...basically all the traits that my co-host Matty K lacks!  Enjoy!

John and Matty wish you a happy weekend. Enjoy but be safe!

Get after that Work Week everyone!

Having problems at work?  In your love life?  With your cat?  Chances are there is a list available to solve it.  If you just follow these five steps, you will get that promotion, your spouse won't leave you and your cat will love you.   If there is one thing we do not like, it is complicated solutions to complicated problems!

Matty K and his brother, Paul, discuss working minimum wage jobs and the various people one meets.  It is a varied group of people and quite interesting. Enjoy.

Is a friend of yours trying to get you to sell "immune enhancing" shakes?  Maybe a "dietary supplement"?  Before you hand over a $1,000 bucks for the first batch of sugar pills, listen to our podcast on the realities of multi-level marketing.  Someone makes money, just not you.

John tells us about his new buddy, "Fat Tony" who he met in the Bahamas.  We also discuss Bobby Kraft.  Oh my!

John and Matty K wrap up the work week.  Party on, Mofo's!

Matty K speaks with Erin Griffith who reports for the New York Times on developments in the world of tech.  Grind Culture, working all day everyday, began with the start-ups and is now embraced by many industries.  But how healthy is Toil Glamour? What happened to time AWAY from work? Where does work end and where do YOU begin? 

John talks with David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founder of Basecamp and creator of Ruby on Rails about his latest book, 'It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work'  David's anti-hustle philosophy is a breath of fresh air!

Blast into the beginning of the workweek with Matty K and John's mini TWE pep talk episode...sounds advice is non existent, but all you need is grit, hustle, and maybe some vices

John and Matty K wrap up the work week with uplifting updates on J.Lo and the Starbucks guy running for president...and other useless stuff.  You've successfully dragged yourself over broken glass to the end of the work week, and this unintelligible banter is your reward.

John talks with Scott Witman on living the dream of quitting your job and traveling the world.  First stop is Peru for an Ayahuasca trip down the wormhole of experience!

Sail into Monday's with TWE's weekly mini episode. Make your Monday's super great! Big smile everyone!

We've come a long way from the days of discussing people who defecate on the floor of the employee bathroom! (Not that much further, actually.) John and Matty discuss the value of Drew Ackerman's Sleep With Me Podcast as well as a police officer who had his gun stolen by two strippers he was "hanging out" with at a motel in Rhode Island.  Bad decisions make great stories.  

You survived another work week and it's time to celebrate with TWE's weekly mini episode!

John and Matty K discuss the benefits and detriments of how businesses use their office space.  Open floor plan?  Sounds great but some experts say the distraction of other coworkers leads to less productivity.  Maybe it's time to dive back into the cubicle!

John and Matty K discuss Cal Newport's advice on getting our use of social media under control by being more deliberate in our choices.  His template is food for thought on conscious and more fulfilling living.