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  "id": "worklife",
  "title": "WORK/LIFE",
  "description": "A PointCast publication about jobs, tools, ambition, boredom, management, money, lunch, clothes, commutes, exits, and the emotional weather of getting something done.",
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  "cadence": {
    "label": "A continuing PointCast publication",
    "mode": "human-edited",
    "automation": false,
    "note": "WORK/LIFE publishes when there is a working truth worth keeping. Monday is an opening scene, not the publication boundary."
  },
  "desks": [
    {
      "id": "shift",
      "title": "The Shift",
      "description": "Routines, commutes, calendars, uniforms, clocks, and the choreography of beginning."
    },
    {
      "id": "weather",
      "title": "Office Weather",
      "description": "Culture, management, meetings, morale, power, and the pressure nobody put in the deck."
    },
    {
      "id": "tools",
      "title": "Tool Drawer",
      "description": "Software, notebooks, machines, shortcuts, policies, and objects that change the job."
    },
    {
      "id": "lunch",
      "title": "Lunch",
      "description": "Breaks, third places, desk food, walks, friendship, and the small return of the self."
    },
    {
      "id": "payroll",
      "title": "Payroll",
      "description": "Rates, value, benefits, credit, ownership, precarity, and what the number leaves out."
    },
    {
      "id": "exit",
      "title": "Exit Interview",
      "description": "Quitting, changing course, retirement, reinvention, refusal, and the life after the title."
    }
  ],
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    {
      "schema": "pointcast-worklife-issue/v1",
      "id": "worklife-001",
      "issueNumber": "001",
      "slug": "001",
      "title": "ANOTHER MANIC MONDAY",
      "displayTitle": "WORK/LIFE 001 — ANOTHER MANIC MONDAY",
      "kicker": "PointCast · WORK/LIFE · Issue 001",
      "description": "Eighteen tracks for clock-in comedy, friction, flow, identity, and the part where work has to return you to your actual life.",
      "editorialNote": "The first WORK/LIFE issue begins with the joke everyone knows, lets the clock become strange, and refuses to pretend a working day resolves cleanly.",
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      "jsonRoute": "/worklife/001.json",
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      "cover": "https://pointcast.xyz/images/worklife/001-cover.png",
      "coverAlt": "Graphic PointCast WORK/LIFE cover with a cream timecard, cobalt clock, orange punch mark, chartreuse field, and black schedule lines bending out of office formation",
      "spotifyPlaylistId": "3JXWUjuBZ4VTl1TYPnfH60",
      "spotifyUrl": "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3JXWUjuBZ4VTl1TYPnfH60",
      "publishedAt": "2026-08-03T09:12:00-07:00",
      "trackCount": 18,
      "duration": "1 hr 10 min",
      "durationMinutes": 70,
      "blockId": "0555",
      "author": "codex",
      "source": "Michael Hoydich chat directive, 2026-08-03: create a Monday morning playlist, start a broader worklife publication on PointCast, and use the playlist as the opener with a Manic Monday joke.",
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        "note": "No new inbox or work-history harvest. Readers can use the device-local follow shelf or send PointCast a direct pitch."
      },
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      "playlistVisibility": "public"
    }
  ],
  "participation": {
    "state": "light-touch",
    "note": "No new inbox or work-history harvest. Readers can use the device-local follow shelf or send PointCast a direct pitch."
  },
  "publicationBoundary": "WORK/LIFE is broader than a weekday playlist. Monday is Issue 001 and the opener; future issues may use reporting, essays, reviews, diaries, tools, interviews, or other editorial forms."
}