The How This Works show

Bonus clip with Jen Dary from Plucky

1 January 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.

Episode no. 27, How This Works with Jen Dary

11 December 2023
beplucky, leadership coach, manager, plucky, so now you're a manager, virtual

Yesterday, we released our Dec episode with Jen Dary from Plucky. Listen below.

Day of Big Dreaming 2024

8 December 2023
day of big dreaming, plucky

Plucky's e-course, the 2024 Day of Big Dreaming, is currently open until the end of January 2024. This is a class that invites you to set aside one day between now and January 31 for dreaming. Who are you? Are you on track? What does “on track” even mean?

Episode no. 26, How This Works with Karen Faith

3 November 2023
empathy for assholes, ethnography, karen faith, others unlimited

Today, we're talking to Karen Faith, founder and CEO of Others Unlimited, listen to our conversation below:

"How to talk to the worst parts of yourself"

2 November 2023
empathy, karen faith, others unlimited

Tomorrow, we'll drop a new episode with Karen Faith from Others Unlimited. You might know her from her TEDx talk last year, "How to talk to the worst parts of yourself" around the subject of Unconditional Welcome.

Episode no. 25, How This Works with Zolt Levay

30 May 2023
astronomer, astronomy, cameras, carina nebula, color, data, images, light, nature, objects, photography, photos, pillars of creation, professional telescopes, wave lengths

This week, we're getting back into the swing of things with a new episode with Zolt Levay this week! Listen below:

Episode no. 24, How This Works with Dr. Peter Chin-Hong

20 May 2022
2nd season, covid, dr. peter chin-hong, infectious disease expert, professor of medicine, second season, ucsf

This week, we're kicking off the second season of How This Works. Cue the fanfare and listen below:

News on season two - or, life is funny, isn't it?

20 April 2022
2nd season, second season, update

After much ado, we're in planning mode for our second season. Just gonna roll up these sleeves... Even though we saw almost 10,000 downloads, we're going to do things a little differently for this go-around number two. Dropping episodes weekly was more effort than we had thought it would be 😅 so we'll release episodes every couple of weeks. We're looking to chat again with Dr. Peter Chin Hong — PCH — from UCSF among others. Potential topics could include Ukraine-Russia, wine making, solar panels, life after death, Bigfoot, long haul truck drivers, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and nonfungible tokens. Thank you for your continued support. Look for the new episodes to begin dropping a few weeks from now.

Taking the summer off, see you in Oct

16 June 2021
announcement, end of first season, summer

After a full first season, we're taking the summer off for planning and prepping for the second season. Thank you everyone for listening and suggesting the podcast to so many people! Let us know if you have any questions or guest suggestions for the second season. Please be safe. And we'll talk again in a few months.

Call for questions

7 June 2021
ama, ask me anything, call for questions

This week, we're recording the reverse episode with Skipper being interviewed by Laura, his wife. Go to Instagram @howthisworksshow to reply directly to the story.