Delete Your Defaults

We explore endings, beginnings, their cocreative nature, and how we relate to them. Why is it easier to feel the pain of loss than the delight of gain?

In this episode, we refer to:

Jim Rohn, motivational speaker

breathwork for metabolizing stress and supporting embodied health and wellness

Sahil Bloom and his Curiosity Chronicle newsletter

Our music is by “Music Unlimited” from Pixabay. You can write to us at ⁠[email protected]⁠ (and we really do read all the emails).

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Unsustainable is just another way of saying "losing strategy". We explore layers of unsustainability in our current modern life and expansive reframes for optimism.

Resources mentioned:

Nebula video platform

Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff

Favorite charities mentioned:

Transformative Change

Direct Relief

Brennan Center for Justice

American Civil Liberties Union

Earthjustice

National Park Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Parking Reform Network

America Walks

Our music is by “Music Unlimited” from Pixabay. You can write to us at ⁠[email protected]⁠ (and we really do read all the emails).

Find this and all of our episodes on deleteyourdefeaults.show, or anywhere you get your podcasts. If you’re listening on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, consider giving us a five-star review; it helps us find other listeners like you.

This episode explores the idea of truth, whether objective truth exists, and how to relate to uncertainty. We cover ground from spirituality to politics.

Books, services, and other sources we mention in this episode include:

Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think by Dave Gray

Readwise app

The Curiosity Chronicles by Sahil Bloom

The Dawn Wall (movie) and Free Solo (movie)

Our music is by “Music Unlimited” from Pixabay. You can write to us at ⁠[email protected]⁠ (and we really do read all the emails).

Find this and all of our episodes on deleteyourdefeaults.show, or anywhere you get your podcasts. If you’re listening on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, consider giving us a five-star review; it helps us find other listeners like you.

Us vs. Them, and can we overcome our social programming to become wise? How do we engage with difference while respecting each others' humanity? What do we do with the messiness of reality, where multiple people can disagree and be right at the same time?

Books that are relevant to this conversation include:

Liminal Thinking by Dave Gray

What It Takes to Heal by Prentis Hemphill

What is the point of your life? How our trained incompetence serves a way of life that's not serving us.

We mention the book Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber and his article on the same topic, On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant. and the concept of Vibe Coding.

In our pilot episode, we discuss the challenges and merits of performance reviews.

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