• Critical Nonsense

  • By: SYLVAIN
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Critical Nonsense

By: SYLVAIN
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  • Summary

  • High-low brow conversations about culture, science, and tech. With hosts Joey Camire, Aaron Powers, and executive producer/nerd herder Jess Vander. SYLVAIN is a strategy and design company.
    Copyright 2024 Critical Nonsense
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Episodes
  • 288! Living Forever

    288! Living Forever
    Nov 19 2024

    Why are we so obsessed with trying to live forever?

    This week, special guest Chandler Saunders joins Jess and Joey to talk about adult superlatives, aging, the soul, compounding experience, afterlife FOMO, and aging reversal. They don’t talk about Irene Cara.

    references

    • Piaget's 4 Stages of Cognitive Development Explained
    • Ray Kurzweil
    • Ship of Theseus
    • Fermi paradox
    • Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
    • Kardashev scale
    • Telomere
    • Dr. David Sinclair

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    39 mins
  • 287! Concert Rage

    287! Concert Rage
    Nov 12 2024

    What is it about certain settings that just piss us off?

    This week, Joey and Jess talk about Maggie Rogers, live concerts, the unflustered mom, road rage, cycling, and liminality. They don’t talk about mosh pits.

    references

    • Maggie Rogers
    • The Unflustered Mom: How Understanding the Five Anxiety Styles Transforms the Way We Parent, Partner, Live, and Love by Amber Trueblood
    • This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
    • liminality
    • Boom

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    27 mins
  • Progress Report: The State of Youth

    Progress Report: The State of Youth
    Nov 8 2024

    Bonus episode: A takeover! Kristy shares a recent edition from SYLVAIN’s Progress Report newsletter: The State of Youth: A New Paradigm for Growing Up, written by Chief Strategy Officer Chris Konya.

    For more from SYLVAIN's Progress Report, see progressbysylvain.co.
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    10 mins

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