Mark opens a can of worms full of aspartame, and Brendan has both joined a dodgeball league and started a meditation circle. Now who's being a productive dynamo!?

• (00:00) - Now I have a bag of pegs

• Ultra-Processed People, by Chris van Tulleken

Brendan and Mark kind of have a fight a little bit. In as much as two enneagram 9s can.

• (00:00) - We're senseless to our selves

• Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, by Kristin Neff
• The Magic, by Rhonda Byrne

Our heroes navigate freelancing and money, and Brendan has an update for Mark on fasting, courtesy of everyone's favourite large language model.

• (00:00) - Playing myself at Magic the Gathering

• Lost Connections, by Johann Hari
• The Way of the Superior Man, by David Deida

Brendan's not eating again, and Mark has opinions about education.

• (00:00) - Cheesecake

• Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, by Clay McLeod Chapman

Mark's vibrating internally but has got some funky stuff cooking, and Brendan still wants Mark to stop using TikTok.

• (00:00) - Brendan's tree joke

• Cranking, by Merlin Mann
• Hard as Nails

Brendan's going to church and Mark's starting a choir. No, like, really.

Links

• The Problem with Time & Timezones

• (00:00) - They're just trying to have a Tuesday

How do you like them apples?

Links

• The paradoxical theory of change

Brendan has an app idea and a new tattoo, and the boys both watched The Menu. And have things to say. (Spoiler: they liked it.)

• (00:00) - No powders

• The Menu (2022)
• Triangle of Sadness (2022)

Brendan and Mark talk about pain, shame, and programming; Mark does a recce of Brendan's website; 

• (00:00) - I am more bit than man

Mark's chair is broken, Brendan is still obsessed with The Cable Guy, and AI always has to have the last word.

Links

• Shell Game
• Guns Akimbo (2019)
• Deep Questions with Cal Newport
• We Can Do Hard Things