How People Work, Live!

Dan Hon

How People Work, Live! -- the live show about how to people, based on the How People Work workshop that helps teams deliver better, faster. Join Dan, a very special guest, and any number of interesting people for a free, candid, ad-hoc series of gatherings on Zoom where we find out how to get hard results by learning and applying soft skills. You know, the ones that help you with relationships, influence, communicating with people, and strategy. Easy stuff. Why? Because success isn't just about what you do and whether you're good at it. It's also about how well you work with others. And like it or not, we all work with other people.

Episodes

  1. 5d ago

    How People Work, Live! ... with Marcin Wichary

    Dan and Marcin talk about communicating what's important about design, video games (of course) and deciding what matters. Plus some AI.  Marcin Wichary, who started his career at Google working on internal tools, the search team, the doodle team, and the HTML advocacy team. He later spent time at Code for America and Medium, and his most recent position has been working as a design director and design architect on the editor team at Figma. Marcin has also been speaking and writing about craft, typography, and interface design since the early 2010s. In 2024 he published Shift Happens, a book about the history of keyboards and typing, and his most recent endeavour has been a blog about software craft and quality called Unsung. Recorded on Friday 21 August, 2026.

    How People Work, Live! ... with Marcin Wichary

  2. Aug 14

    How People Work, Live! ... with Weaver

    In this episode, Dan talks with Weaver about what happens in the first few days of a Layer Aleph engagement, and how crisis conditions offer potential to change how people work. Weaver is a co-founder of the crisis engineering firm Layer Aleph, which embeds inside organizations to swiftly surface the truth and restore function when stakes are high and trust is low. He previously helped found the United States Digital Service after involvement in the 2013-2014 rescue of Healthcare.gov, leading percussive interventions on more than 20 troubled programs inside the United States government, with budgets ranging from $150MM to $1.2T. With co-authors Marina Nitze and Mikey Dickerson, he is co-author of Crisis Engineering. When not travelling to a client, he seeks strength and balance together with his wife as part of a community in the northern midwest of the USA. Recorded on Friday 14 August, 2026.

    How People Work, Live! ... with Weaver

  3. Jul 31

    How People Work, Live! ... with Russell Davies

    Dan and Russell talk about writing, and thinking.  Russell Davies is a writer and strategist who has spent over 40 years thinking about what happens when marketing and services meet the internet. He's worked on communications and digital strategies for organisations like Honda, Nike, Microsoft, Apple, the Government Digital Service and the Co-op. He's currently Marketing and Product Director for The Modern House. Recorded on Friday 31 July, 2026.

    How People Work, Live! ... with Russell Davies

  4. Jul 24

    How People Work, Live! ... with Pavel Samsonov

    Dan and Pavel from the Product Picnic newsletter talk about beating "the fastest gun in UX", why problem framing is fundamentally social, and how stakeholders conflate technical problems with business problems. Pavel Samsonov, who on top of over 15 years of experience as a Product Manager and UX Designer at industry leading companies also writes The Product Picnic newsletter and is prolific and very professional on Bluesky.

    How People Work, Live! ... with Pavel Samsonov

  5. Jul 17

    How People Work, Live! ... with Erika Hall

    Dan and Erika talk about, well, everything, really. Erika Hall, co-founder and Director of Strategy at Mule. where she has advocated for the importance of evidence-based design and clear language since the late 20th century. Erika is the author of Just Enough Research, now in its second edition, and Conversational Design. Erika works to help organizations and individual practitioners apply critical thinking and humanist values to meaningful problems. Recorded on Friday 17 July, 2026.

    How People Work, Live! ... with Erika Hall

  6. Jul 10

    How People Work, Live! ... with Matt Jukes

    Dan and Matt Jukes talk about what it takes to get understood in an organization, and how to understand the job. Matt Jukes, a veteran digital leader and product coach with more than twenty five years of experience leading digital and product teams for public service organisations like the Office for National Statistics, Essex County Council, Jisc, the BBC, the Department for Business and Trade, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Government Digital Service.All attendees are expected to follow our code of conduct. Recorded on Friday 10 July, 2026.

    How People Work, Live! ... with Matt Jukes
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How People Work, Live! -- the live show about how to people, based on the How People Work workshop that helps teams deliver better, faster. Join Dan, a very special guest, and any number of interesting people for a free, candid, ad-hoc series of gatherings on Zoom where we find out how to get hard results by learning and applying soft skills. You know, the ones that help you with relationships, influence, communicating with people, and strategy. Easy stuff. Why? Because success isn't just about what you do and whether you're good at it. It's also about how well you work with others. And like it or not, we all work with other people.

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