How This Works

01/01/2024

Before we got into the main bit of the episode, Jen started with a critical framing question for Skipper: What do you want you and your audience to get out of our conversation? This is the kind of smart question that we've come to know Jen for and we're totally going to steal it and use it with each recording from now on.

https://youtu.be/GLUiq30jbNo?si=zeK3qL5EMJlsY5g-

We couldn't find a place for this bit in the episode itself, and we thought it'd be vital here on the first day of 2024. What's your intention for the year?

Before we got into the main bit of the episode, Jen started with a critical framing question for Skipper: What do you want you and your audience to get out o...

01/01/2024

Before we got into the guts of December’s episode, Jen started with a critical framing question for Skipper: What do you want you and your audience to get out of our conversation? This is the kind of smart question that we've come to know Jen for and we're totally going to steal it and use it with each recording from now on.

https://youtu.be/6P8NwPJHEnc?si=5skxZC1u8SJiAQHo

We couldn't find a place for this bit in the episode itself, and we thought it'd be vital here on the first day of 2024. What's your intention for the year?

Before we got into the episode's guts, Jen started with a critical framing question for Skipper: What do you want you and your audience to get out of our con...

12/22/2023

One of the many topics that Jen Dary from Plucky gets into during our episode is about determining if some activity is useful/fulfilling to determine if something is a useless habit or of true value. The same with coaching, the same with many things in your work and home life — including Jen's example of using a lactation consultant for a season, for the right season.

Click to listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or your platform of choice: https://www.howthisworks.show/27-jen-dary

12/11/2023

Today, we're dropping our monthly episode – this time with Jen Dary from Plucky 🎉. Think of it as an early Christmas present 🎁 as you listen to her insights on leadership coaching, self-awareness, belief in one's abilities, So Now You're a Manager, and the importance of community. Both your work and home life will totally thank you for it!

You can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or your platform of choice: https://share.fireside.fm/episode/xs9RBesw+UGGihvZq

12/09/2023

Coming Monday on How This Works, you can listen to our conversation with Jen Dary from Plucky. But first, let’s talk about something happening over there right now, the Day of Big Dreaming — available until the end of January 2024.

This e-course invites you to set aside one day between now and January 31 for dreaming, asking questions like, Who are you? Are you on track? What does “on track” even mean? The theme of this installment of DOBD is TIME. It doesn’t matter who you are, examining what you spend time on is the quickest way to reveal your priorities. How are you using your minutes, hours, weeks, and years? In this course, Plucky will help you figure that out – and they'll make sure it’s aligned with your intended direction. You’ll get a workbook to print, coaching videos, time management resources, and a curated Spotify playlist too.

https://www.beplucky.com/launch-day-of-big-dreaming-2024/

11/21/2023

In this clip from this month's episode with Karen Faith from Others Unlimited, she talks about how some virtues are the inverse of others and how patience is "no one's default." S02E03 https://youtu.be/rpvlOYevssI?si=KBN85Yq0c8zOs2JD via YouTube

In this clip from this week's episode of How This Works, Karen gets philosophical in thinking about how virtues can't exist without an opposite. Listen to th...

11/08/2023

Dive into this month's conversation with Karen Faith from on our show where she talks about one of the biggest misconceptions about the practice of empathy. Listen here: https://www.howthisworks.show/26-karen-faith

11/03/2023

Today, we have a new episode featuring Karen Faith from Others Unlimited. In this conversation, we delve into her work as a researcher and ethnographer, primarily focusing on the practice of empathy, with other topics cropping up along the way. You can listen to our discussion here: https://www.howthisworks.show/26-karen-faith

11/02/2023

Tomorrow, we'll drop a new episode with Karen Faith, the founder and CEO of Others Unlimited. If you haven't seen her TEDx talk from last year, "How to talk to the worst parts of yourself" around the subject of Unconditional Welcome, carve out 15 min and watch it here: https://www.othersunlimited.com/tedx

06/02/2023

Last month marked the 33rd anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope! 🌌🎉 Check out this photo of a nearby star-forming region, NGC 1333: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-012

06/01/2023

In this clip from our episode featuring Zolt Levay, he delves into how professional astronomical telescopes perceive the universe without capturing color while also drawing parallels between the workings of digital and film cameras and the human eye. Listen to the whole episode here: https://www.howthisworks.show/025-zolt-levay

05/31/2023

In this month's episode with Zolt Levay, we talk about the vastness of space and specifically The Hubble Space Telescope's field of view. Can you imagine seeing the universe bit by bit through 24 million teeny soda straws?

Listen here: https://www.howthisworks.show/025-zolt-levay

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05/30/2023

We're back on track with a new episode of How This Works with Zolt Levay this week! 🎉 He has helped produce awe-inspiring astronomical images from the Hubble Space Telescope — which just celebrated its 33rd anniversary. Now, he turns his lens to terrestrial matters closer to home.

Listen to our conversation here: https://www.howthisworks.show/025-zolt-levay

05/28/2023

After an unintentional absence, we're back with an episode that will ignite your curiosity and take you into the awe-inspiring reflections of the Hubble Space Telescope. ✨ Meanwhile, check out this 2015 article around the time of the 25th anniversary:

"When the Hubble Space Telescope was launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1990, NASA called it the greatest advance in astronomy since Galileo.

05/21/2022

In this clip from our conversation with Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, he provides a summary of high-level things to be aware of with COVID. Listen to the whole episode here: https://www.howthisworks.show/024-dr-peter-chin-hong

And while you're there, please subscribe, and leave us a review. Have a good weekend.

In the first episode of our second season, Dr. Peter Chin-Hong returns to update us on what's happening with COVID. Towards the end of our conversation, he p...

05/20/2022

While it's premature in May 2022 to treat COVID as something in our rearview mirror quite yet — as much as we would like to — Dr. Chin-Hong talked about some of the things that we've learned from the last couple of years. Listen to the whole episode: https://www.howthisworks.show/024-dr-peter-chin-hong

While you're there, please subscribe and leave us a review. And we’ll talk more soon.

05/20/2022

To kick off the second season, we checked in again with Dr. Peter Chin-Hong from UCSF about COVID, the variants, looking at the shape of the curve versus exact numbers, Paxlovid/Evusheld, and at-home testing versus PCR tests. We also got into what teaching medicine has looked like during the last few years as well as the up + downsides of telemedicine.

Listen here: https://www.howthisworks.show/024-dr-peter-chin-hong

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05/19/2022

The second season begins tomorrow, stay tuned for a conversation with Dr. Peter Chin-Hong

12/22/2021

Hi everyone, happy Tuesday. A quick show update for you. TL;DR We expected to be back in Sep but with all of life's swirl right now, we're aiming to be back in 2022.

06/18/2021

In this week's reverse episode, Skipper talks with his wife Laura where he admits his ambivalence about the band BTS as well as K-pop and other Asian pops in general. Listen to the whole episode here: https://www.howthisworks.show/023-skipper-chong-warson

If you're in the U.S., it's Juneteenth tomorrow. Please tell us how you're celebrating today or tomorrow.

In this clip from this week's episode of How This Works, we flip the script and Laura asks Skipper the questions. In this selection from the episode, Laura a...

06/17/2021

This week, we posted an episode with your regular host and Laura, his wife. One of the points that they discussed was around how important listening is to making How This Works, the . You can tune into the whole show here: https://www.howthisworks.show/023-skipper-chong-warson

Thank you!

06/16/2021

Today, we have the last episode of the first season and we flip the script with Laura Clifton asking Skipper Chong Warson questions around storytelling, how How This Works came to be, about what he's learned from the show in 21 episodes, and about their life in general. Yes, they're married but that's not the point... or maybe it is the point. 🤷‍♂️

Either way, you can listen here: https://www.howthisworks.show/023-skipper-chong-warson

06/07/2021

We're recording the last episode of the first season where we're turning the tables and Skipper's wife Laura asks him the questions. So post your questions here or go to Instagram below to reply directly to the story on our profile.

Instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/howthisworksshow/

Thanks so much in advance.

We're recording the show tomorrow where we turn the tables and my wife Laura asks me the questions. So post your questions here or go to Instagram ...

06/04/2021

Watch/listen to a selection above from this week's episode with Sarah Sudhoff where she talks about how she uses cross-functional collaboration to build her work, including The Reading Brain among others.

Listen to the entire episode here: https://www.howthisworks.show/021-sarah-sudhoff

Have a good weekend.

In this selection from this week's episode, Sarah Sudhoff talks about her project The Learning Brain and in that context about what collaboration looks like ...

06/02/2021

In this week's episode with .sudhoff.7, we talk about a few traits that she thinks are important in being an artist. And it's not creativity per se, it's more about "having a thick enough skin to take the rejection," resilience, and thinking through an idea/concept. Listen here: https://www.howthisworks.show/021-sarah-sudhoff

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06/01/2021

Today, we have a new episode of the show with Sarah Sudhoff talking about her work as an artist, how her background as a photographer plays into that, her childhood (and adult) love of all things space, and a peek into her world as a single mother. Listen here: https://www.howthisworks.show/021-sarah-sudhoff

Please follow/subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. We're one episode away from closing out the first season — it'll be one where Skipper's wife Laura puts the questions to him. Stay tuned for a call for questions later this week!

05/31/2021

Ahead of tomorrow's episode with Sarah Sudhoff, take a look at El Recuerdo — linked below — we'll talk about her project in-depth during our Tue conversation. And for those in the U.S., it's Memorial Day today, a day to honor service men and women who are no longer with us. 🙏

El Recuerdo on Sarah Sudhoff

05/28/2021

We're replaying an episode this week with Chris Landon who believes the "ultimate sin is to be boring." We talked about the notion where you might catch something the first time or you might catch it during a rewatch. Listen here: https://www.howthisworks.show/013-chris-landon-replay

05/27/2021

This week, we're replaying an episode with Chris Landon in which we talked about movies, movies, and more movies. We get into many areas, like how genre or horror movies can "smuggle weightier themes" despite seeming "cute and fun and scary," how Chris discovered his authentic voice, and how he focused on being a better listener which has improved his life as a husband, a father, and made him infinitely happier with his solo and collaborative work.

Listen here: https://www.howthisworks.show/013-chris-landon-replay

Follow/subscribe while you're there — and don't miss the last two episodes of the first season!