Dave Smith and Jameson Dance field two listener questions: managing a CTO who vibe-codes unreviewed projects and dumps the cleanup work on the engineering team, and coping with 7:30pm cross-timezone meetings that collide with an early kindergarten-drop-off routine. Advice centers on naming the externalities the CTO creates and escalating through the EM, and on pushing to reschedule meetings earlier rather than absorbing the fatigue indefinitely.
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episode pub. Jul 26, 2026
Six years after the pandemic, remote work has settled at roughly a quarter of all work days. WSJ's Owen Tucker-Smith walks through the latest research on productivity, Gen Z hiring, caregiving, and isolation, part of The Journal's Work Mode series.