It’s 10 AM, and your heart’s pumping like a jacked-up gym rat. Your face flushes. Your lips quiver. Your eyes smart. And there’s nothing happening. Seemingly. I mean, there is that email your manager just sent.
But why are you seething? Whence this anger? What do you do with the outrage?
Well, that depends. Your feelings are your brain’s best guess about what’s going on. Was that email a threat or a mean joke? Like any hypothesis, you want to test it out.
But when you run experiments on your own feelings, it’s best to do that with a team of researchers. And that’s where the Mode/Switchers come in, an intergenerational crew of figure-things-outers: David, LaShone, Emily, Jake, Craig.
This week, the team sits down to the roundtable to talk with David Beckemeyer of Outrage Overload to learn how to feel our workplace feelings better.
David Beckemeyer’s a public learner who, in the early 2020s, decided to grok the science on public outrage. What he’s learned from interviewing scientists, psychologists, and technologists has helped him make sense of his own online indignation as well as the crazy intensities the rest of us are feeling all too often.
So, hit play on the pod and find some breathing room in the tight quarters of workplace wrath.
-craig
A Recommendation
I follow David Beckemeyer on Substack, and if you want to figure out how to keep your sanity and your soul in these politically exhausting times, maybe you should, too! You can hear his podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
As you’ll hear in the conversation today, David’s a good listener with a good feel for what’s most troubling so many ordinary folks today.
In our podcast this week, you’ll hear us talking a lot about overload, a subject that’s at the wick of my new book Digital Overwhelm. Check out the audio book on Audible.
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