#32 How to use new work tools as life hacks with Christoph Magnussen

"The underlying concept of our modern, very fast communication
tools is to lower the transactional cost per bit of
communication.” 


Christoph Magnussen calls himself “the New Work guy” - he helps
people use New Work tools to improve collaboration and
communication, making their work lives more “user-friendly” in
the process. 


Of course, the concept of New Work has been around for a while -
and Christoph actually sat down to talk to Frithjof Bergmann, its
originator. “We agreed on one very simple thing: we have
technology that can help us to organise work in a different way,”
he says in this podcast. 


This is where the idea of effective communication is so
important. It has the power to transform our work lives - and we
should absolutely use those tools in our private lives too, he
says. Speaking from my own experience, I know that anyone who’s
been on their school’s PTA or even a kids-birthday-whatsapp-group
will know why "lowering the transactional cost per bit of
communication" is so important outside of work too


One of his tips is to use different channels depending on what
you’re communicating. Keep kids-logistics-questions and
love-language with your partner as separate conversations, even
online. This could help divide the mental load of childcare and
home-logistics more fairly between partners too, because that
communications channel remains strictly practical. 


At work, he recommends asymmetrical communication, as he puts it.
That means fewer hours that everyone spends together in zoom
meetings - and more short and to-the-point messages, short videos
or presentations that only take one person’s time to prepare, and
that everyone else can then digest and act on relatively
quickly. 


The overarching aim is always to use New Work tools to live and
work better. Parents have always been trailblazers when it comes
to flexible work, mostly out of necessity. So I love the idea of
taking some of those work tools back our home lives too ️


Speaker: Christoph Magnussen - CEO & founder @Blackboat ·
Author · Speaker · Youtuber · Podcaster · Dad


Interviewer: Dr. Ricarda Engelmeier - Founder @MyCollective


Photo: Christoph Magnussen 


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