Julia’s favorite holiday is approaching and we all wish we could attend her Halloween party. Follow up to a listener email about how to handle new requests for work prompts a long discussion about how we choose what projects to work on in general. We should all be saying “no” to a lot of things but don’t.

Theme music courtesy of The Bobby Dazzlers

Links:

• Time and attention — Jonathan Peelle
• PsyArXiv Preprints | Completion norms for 3085 English sentence contexts
• 5by5 | Back to Work #17: Brick Building Full of Lies — Some thoughts on priorities