Show Notes: 

• Intro and Leftovers (0:00-13:16) 
  • Ben gets 500 shares of ODP 
  • Bank accidentally deposits $120,000 in couple’s account; they spend most of it, then get charged with theft 
  • In the Year 2000… 
  • Is Josh “the life of the party” or an introvert? 
• Bad at English AKA British Word of the Day (13:16-15:21) 
  • “Crocodile nearest the canoe” 
• Magic: the Gathering and the player psychographics (15:21-24:21) 
  • Timmy, Johnny, and Spike by Mark Rosewater – March 2002 
    • The basics of the 3 player psychographic profiles 
  • Timmy, Johnny, and Spike Revisited by Mark Rosewater – March 2006 
    • Expanding the definitions and adding Vorthos 
• Kids and Cell Phones (24:21-33:53) 
  • South Park: Mr Biggles [WARNING: language] 
• Avril Lavigne vs. the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (33:53-49:18) 
  • Avril Lavigne says Lyme disease symptoms left her in bed for 2 years 
  • Review: Avril Lavigne, in Chicago on her first tour in five years, proved she is still pop’s punk princess 
  • The Chicago Theater & St. Louis’ Powell Hall 
  • Setlist.fm – the Setlist Wiki *MUST SEE* 
  • Review: An inspiring Mahler ‘Resurrection’ Symphony at Powell Hall 
• Scarcity: the new science of having less and how it defines our lives (49:24-1:42:50) 
  • Understanding the Mindset of Scarcity 
    • The Focus Dividend: the benefit of scarcity that helps you zero in on the important thing 
    • Tunneling: filtering out non-essential things to focus on the scarcity 
    • Bandwidth tax: things outside the tunnel that get neglected because of tunneling 
    • The University of Minnesota starvation experiment 
  • Understanding the Impact of Scarcity 
    • The Scarcity trap: having scarcity causes you to make bad decisions that perpetuates the scarcity 
    • Slack: an abundance that allows you to absorb unexpected shocks to the relevant resource 
    • Shock: something unexpected that stresses your resources and causes scarcity 
  • Applying the lessons of that Understanding 
    • Freakonomics was by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, Ben 
    • The Strategic Cost of Cumulative Overhead, by Ben Rich on LinkedIn.com 
    • Ben’s Home vs. Deployed productivity pie chart from 2011 
    • Life is Chores, Highness 
• Wrap-Up (1:42:50-end) 
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