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

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

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.

What's the best way to unlock a sense of financial security in all of us?

This week, Aaron, Joey, and Jess talk about voting, the economy, financial insecurity, the post-scarcity world, unequal distribution, and intergenerational trauma. They don’t talk about A$AP Rocky.

references

• Werewolf Bar Mitzvah
• The Ballad of the Witches' Road (Agatha Through Time Version)
• Pascal's wager
• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
• Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE): How It Works
• r/Fire
• Run's House

What happens when your mind changes?

This week, Joey and Jess talk about nuclear power, Three Mile Island, solar power, the Overton window, abortion, and tokamaks. They don’t talk about Eddie Kendricks.

references

• Hemingway on bankruptcy
• The Three Mile Island accident
• Overton window
• Tokamaks

What do we do about power distance?

This week, Joey and Jess talk about organizational hierarchy, Geert Hofstede, authoratative leadership, omakase, decision-making, and Mr. Oizo. They don’t talk about Flat Stanley.

references

• IF
• This is 40
• Mark Menjívar's "Refrigerators"
• Geert Hofstede's 6-D model of national culture
• Mr. Oizo's "Flat Beat"
• Mr. Oizo aka Quentin Dupieux

How many things are we surrounded by that have use cases that we're not thinking about?

This week, Joey and Jess talk about Ozempic, Cialis, blockchain, invention, solar panels, and pessimism vs. optimism. They don’t talk about chainsaws.

references

• Semaglutide (Ozempic)
• Tadalafil (Cialis)

How do you do spontaneous brilliance?

This week, Aaron, Joey, and Jess talk about pressure, boredom and safety, theatre, peopling, jewelry making, and Quiplash. They don’t talk about combustion.

references

• "Orinoco Flow" by Enya
• Quiplash
• Athena
• Podcast: Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum: PATTON OSWALT: Refusing to Settle, The Issue for Comedians Today & Emotions Reconciling Loss
• "Streest of Philadelphia" by Bruce Springsteen