This is not a typical episode for the Work & Family podcast, which are conversations. This short episode includes ten takeaways from my trip to the 2016 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Please enjoy, and I'd love to hear what you think about this in-between-isode.

1. Jim Nantz and Mike Tirico as conversationalists

2. No cell phone policy and its benefits

3. The mental state of golfers and its practice

4. Keep it simple

5. The value of organized/planned trips

6. Diversity is necessary

7. Functioning on little to no sleep

8. On drinking well

9. The course is the star

10. A tradition unlike any other