S03E09 The Kronos and Kairos Episode

Check-In:

• In your opinion, when is innovation overused?

Big Ideas:

• Binary questions - Are they useful or not? 
• Are creating and innovating the same?
• Moving from being salaried to hourly and the implications/impact it had
• Feeling of liberation being hourly rather than salaried
• Sense of equity - treating all of us the same
• Mental load and how it's often not counted in salaries
• Sense of autonomy in deciding to work or not
• Working to deserve the salary
• Space for thinking/reflecting separate from doing
• What's your relationship to decision-making? 
• Working less as one of the goals
• Stepping back to reflect on the decision and knowing the criteria of success
• Failpoint brainstorming
• Sunk Cost Bias
• Is salary associated with time spent in a corporate setting? 
• Are we creating space for psychological detachment from work?
• Companies taking time of employment engagement
• Is a salary enough of a reward for engagement? 
• Can we pay someone based on meeting metrics?
• Quality versus quantity of work
• Can companies do what entrepreneurs do in terms of paying employees?
• Parkinson's Law -- the task will expand to fit the time given
• Playing with time to get you motivated 
• Honoring where people are in their lives, and adjusting their expected time at work to their stage in life
• Kronos time (the passing of time)  versus Kairos time (the quality of time)
• Universal income - untying productivity with your value in society
• Could we live in a world where people do what they love with love
• Depression and it's connection to purpose and meaning
• The attention economy and how it draws people in
• Moral decision about what we produce and whether it's worthy
• Inequity in salaries
• Time I spent at work doesn't matter  - what, how, and why matters more 
• Quality of time versus quantity of time

Resources:

• Taking Smart Risks - Doug Sundheim

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