Back to Work

Episode 480: A Gracious Dyad


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DISCUSSED: not everything can be everything; pain accumulates; getting weepy about a cool teacher; expanding on our new thought technology for reframing negative thoughts and feelings; abstracting that new thought technology to tons of different endeavors; why won't they just let me win this video game?; the scissors and Scotch Tape are wherever you left them; the joys of ritual and control; the importance of infrastructure; break the big thing into a bunch of little things; Merlin performs a brief recitation of Back to Work's Greatest Hits; please cut up my food for me please; theme dining nights rule; praise for Daniel Kahneman; it used to be so confusing when TV shows had inside film and outside film.

Links for this episode:

  • 5by5 | Back to Work #479: Use or Avoid
    Dan Columbos Merlin with a question about napping, which leads to some surprising insights on our feelings about success and failure.
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow - Wikipedia
  • Fawlty Towers - Wikipedia
  • "Fair is…"
  • Penny Arcade - News - Dear Diary
    So I’ve always worried about things. I also always knew that most of the time there was nothing to worry about. For me it wasn’t even just worrying about something. I understand that everyone worries. The best way I can describe it is "Chain worrying."
  • 5by5 | Back to Work #3: The Second Arrow
    Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin discuss ADD, Buddhism, mindfulness, concentration, and insight.
  • Laozi - Wikiquote
    A journey of a thousand miles started with a first step.
  • Rocky & Philadelphia Morning - YouTube
  • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life: Lamott, Anne: 8601404243813: AmazonSmile: Books
    "The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing that no one is going to see it and that you can shape it later."
  • The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution (Ep. 271) - Freakonomics Freakonomics
    Starting in the late 1960s, the Israeli psychologists Amos Tversky and Danny Kahneman began to redefine how the human mind actually works. Michael Lewis’s new book The Undoing Project explains how the movement they started — now known as behavioral economics — has had such a profound effect on academia, governments, and society at large.
  • Think Fast with Daniel Kahneman | Hidden Brain : NPR
    We found our own mistakes very funny. What was fun was finding yourself about to say something really stupid.
  • CaddyShack Cinderella Story - YouTube
  • The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles: Pressfield, Steven, Coyne, Shawn: 8601420220232: Amazon.com: Books
  • One Zoom to Rule Them All | Reunited Apart LORD OF THE RINGS Edition - YouTube
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