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- Episode 19: I Have to Go Feed the Foxes
We talk about foxes going out to dinner, renovating houses, notes, books, and finishing projects.
Useful links:- Antique Boat Museum
- Canada & United States Border (video by CGP Grey)
- Lost (TV Series)
- Snowmageddon (2010)
- Information Overload
- Banking Model of Education
- The Horse, The Wheel, and Language*
- This is the book about archaelogical evidence for where the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language was born
- Building a Second Brain*
- Practical steps for building a digital knowledge system
- The Extended Mind*
- The psychology, biology, neurology, etc behind how humans do their thinking
- Zettelkasten
- Richard Feynman’s 12 Favorite Problems
- Matter (app)
- Refuse to Choose*
- NaNo/NaNoWriMo
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1 hr 1 min - Episode 18: Interview with a Super Spy
This podcast episode will self-destruct in 5 seconds.
Useful links:- Tib Winterfield
- Competent man & Robert Heinlein quote
- Gravity (2013)
- Loremasters–Tib’s D&D Newsletter
- Sewist, Sewer, Seamstress
- Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams*
- The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
- The episode I am referring to was How to Identify Your Negative Emotions
- Brené Brown
- Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.*
- Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience*
- The New Yorker on Meghan & Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex
- Twee (definition)
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54 min - Episode 17: At Least Keep Your Eyes Open
We discuss being stressed, the vast difference between our gardens, climate & other refugees, and a little bit of Netrunner.
Useful links:- FoxTrot July 27, 2009 (Zucchini)
- FoxTrot July 29, 2009 (Zucchini)
- Hügelkultur
- Netrunner: Midnight Sun
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43 min - Episode 16: Launched at Full Speed
We discuss being ahead of schedule, Colin Firth diving into lakes, and road trips with cats.
Note: Madi’s audio is a bit wonky this episode!
Released again after some errors with our hosting, may appear in your feed twice.Useful links:- Love Actually Lake Scene
- Iron on Stabilizer Fabric
- Darning Knit Fabrics
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34 min - Episode 15: Exist for a While
We talk about returning to abandoned systems, garden projects, careers vs callings, and hacking into ice-protected servers.
Useful links:- How to ADHD: Wall of Awful Introduction
- Etymology of Cilantro
- Pesto Variations
- No Trees Means No Rain
- Cherokee Purple
- Severance
- Social Validation
- Android Netrunner
- René “Loup” Arcemont
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58 min - Episode 14: Not Qualified to Talk about Any of It
We talk about a world built for everyone, spider mites, and eating raw potatoes.
Useful links:- Supreme Court Ruling Information
- How to ADHD: My Channel was a Bit Ableist When I Started
- ACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- A Liberated Mind by Stephen C. Hayes*
- The Happiness Lab with Doctor Laurie Santos: Working Your Way to Happiness
- Food Forests
- Queen of Screams movie
- Creed eating a potato
- Bringing Nature Home by Douglas W. Tallamy*
- Alyssum
- Jacques in the Garden about alyssum
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54 min - Episode 13: It's Not a Good Mess
We talk about travel, global temperature change, water rodents, and body hacking.
Useful links:- Izzy’s Packing List
- Maintenance Phase: Anti-Fat Bias
- Clif Builder Bars
- Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt
- Patagonia’s Environmental Efforts
- WornWear: Patagonia’s Used Clothing Shop
- This Is Love: Grandfather of the Forest
- What It Takes to Bring Back the Near Mythical American Chestnut Trees
- Confessions of an Information Hoarder
- Climate Action Tracker
- A Degree of Concern
- Major climate changes inevitable and unavoidable
- Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism by Tina Landis*
- Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming*
- Project Drawdown
- Beavers as a Keystone Species
- Our Flag Means Death
- Scientific Basis: Dopamine Fasting
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59 min - Episode 12: Do What You Can
We talk about the end of the world, carbon footprints, and To Be Read lists.
Useful links:- Hyperfixation
- Cracking the Cryptic
- Invasive Species Legislation in the USA
- Thorny Olive
- Why Mint is Invasive
- Japanese Honeysuckle
- Southern Wax Myrtle
- Planned Obsolescence
- Carbon Footprint Origins
- Hank Green: Fuel Efficiency
- Artificially Low Speed Limits
- Euclidean Zoning
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation
- Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson*
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41 min - Episode 11: I Don't Even Remember
We talk about Magic: The Gathering, organization object permanence, the Shakers, and more journals.
Useful links:- Magic: The Gathering
- Obsidian
- Pokémon
- Yu-Gi-Oh
- The Wandering Emperor Card
- KALLAX
- Brass Label Plates
- Madi’s Handmade Mending Pouch
- Train Tracks RPG
- Loremasters Newsletter
- Field Notes
- The Home Edit
- Marie Kondo
- Shaker Boxes
- The Shakers
- Hancock Shaker Village
- The Victorians Hosted Funerals at Home
- Leuchtturm 1917
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56 min - Episode 10: Middle Ground of Permanence
We talk about sleep, ephemeral poetry, talking to ourselves, and the dang ducks.
Useful links:- SwitchBot
- Poor Wayfaring Stranger
- Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury*
- Kids on Brooms
- The Wild Thornberrys
- E. E. Cummings
- Make Do (podcast)
- Muscovy Ducks
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About Above the Mess
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The podcast that follows us as we bounce between our interests, dive down rabbit holes, navigate our brains, and come up in wonderland!