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Creating nice work/life boundaries
Explore how to set a boundary with a colleague or boss without ruining your working relationship. We’ll cover how to set boundaries at work for a happier, healthy work/life balance.
Let’s email each other like humans 💌
Whether you're using ChatGPT, email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, WhatsApp, or carrier pigeons, here are some tips on how to communicate as a human at work - with humanity, warmth, and (maybe) some humor.
An ode to pretty work, part II 💐
One small cleanup session for your workstation, one giant leap for your creative potential. Check out this week’s edition of Nice Work on how your environment may be derailing your workflow and how to build a better one that blossoms your creativity.
An ode to pretty work, part I 💐
So, what is pretty work? Pretty work is really just work that has clarity - clarity of purpose and clarity of process. In other words - can what you create be nice to interact with and easy to use for the next human that encounters it?
Want to offer more to your work? Do less.
While the act of resting seemingly asks us to do nothing, it’s often the daily habit that takes the most effort to build in a meaningful way. This edition of Nice Work talks about how to prioritize (and remember) to rest.
New to Nice Work? Start here.
Welcome to Nice Work. This intro is a digital meet-cute for you to know more about what we’re doing with this newsletter and get a glimmering of why we care so much about being nice at work (really, so much).