Feeding Curiosity

The Feeding Frenzy is a weekly post that is a collection of knowledge to absorb. Every week you can expect something worth listening to, reading, watching, and pondering. Think of this as a boost of the signal above the noise!

In this edition worth listening to, we have a podcast with Dr. Anthony Daniels with Jordan Peterson. Worth reading is an article from Graham Duncan on creating frameworks to understand people. Worth watching is a video explaining the CPU shortage. And always a few other ideas worth your time!

For link head to https://feedingcuriosity.net/feeding-frenzies-2021/20

Show Notes:

(00:00) Intro

(00:23) Dr. Anthony Daniels: Life at the Bottom | Jordan Peterson

(01:57) What’s going on here, with this human? | Graham Duncan

(03:08) Why the World is Running Out of Computers | PolyMatter

(04:46) Kurt Vonnegut - What is Nice?

(05:11) Closing

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My guest, today on the podcast is Stephanie Garcia. Stephanie is a traveler who found herself working and living in a hostel in London for three years alongside this. She has spent a lot of her time teaching children and showing them there's more to life than books.

In this conversation, Steph and I really dive into her travels and the most important one being, or the focal point, the hostel, because from my own experience, the hostel really doesn't have a large play in what I thought about it. I hadn't realized how many different variations on a hostel there could be, and also around the stigma of it.

For someone like Steph, who basically said I'm going to live here and work here for three years, it is one of those moments that really shape and define how you view the world. Especially as someone who's grown and lived in a grown-up and lived in an area that is roughly where I've always lived, is it seems so out of the ordinary. We get into other stories that Steph finds meaningful throughout the conversation, from favorite travel places to stories.

In many cases, these favorite travel stories actually can be stories that one may be considered to be negative or not what one might expect could have actually turned into a bad memory rather than being a good one. But instead, Stephanie has chosen to remember them in a positive way, which is really interesting.

I found this conversation to be really fun after hearing some of Steph's stories through Clubhouse, which we mentioned a couple of times when I connected with her initially. It was interesting to fill in the gaps that normally you don't get as much time to talk about yourself or get into longer stories on an app.

So having this a little bit of extra to understand. Where the stories come from or where the interests come from. Please enjoy this conversation with Stephanie Garcia.

Show Notes

(00:04:12) Who is Steph?

(00:05:17) What was the first hostel?

(00:07:04) Why do hostels have a bad reputation?

(00:09:57) Lessons learned from travel

(00:11:58) A hostel seems like spending time at a campfire 

(00:12:56) Spontaneous trips

(00:14:46) What type of jobs do long time travelers take 

(00:16:49) Getting used to the lack of privacy in a hostel

(00:18:47) Adjusting to a shift in social environment from the pandemic

(00:20:15) Take advantage of where you are

(00:24:34) Test out countries and live like a local

(00:29:58) Top countries or stories

(00:33:58) Making connections with others

(00:36:29) Traveling with a boyfriend

(00:39:08) Hostel Life The Reality Show

(00:43:23) Life in London

(00:49:19) Picking up accents

(00:53:53) Speaking multiple languages

(00:57:11) Visiting Berlin

(01:00:58) Advice for someone taking the first step to travel?

(01:02:46) Where to connect with Steph

The Feeding Frenzy is a weekly post that is a collection of knowledge to absorb. Every week you can expect something worth listening to, reading, watching, and pondering. Think of this as a boost of the signal above the noise!

On this edition worth watching, we have two podcasts, the first being found of Chipotle Steve Ells on How I Built This, and the other was Dr. Sarah Hallberg on Peter Attia's podcast. Dr. Hallberg has an incredible story around cancer diagnosis that anyone could gain from. Worth reading, we have an article from Brain Picking exploring letters of Seneca on Greif. Worth watching. We have a video on Why Hydrogen Cars Flopped. And always a few other ideas worth your time to absorb.

Find links or read https://feedingcuriosity.net/feeding-frenzies-2021/19

Show Notes

(00:00) Intro

(00:25) Chiptole: Steve Ells | How I Built This

(01:31) Dr. Sarah Hallberg on Peter Attia's The Drive

(03:04) You Can Only Maintain So Many Close Friendships | The Atlantic

(04:58) Seneca on Grief and the Key to Resilience in the Face of Loss | Brain Picking

(06:23) Why Hydrogen Cars Flopped | Donut Media

(08:51) Worth Pondering - Seneca

(09:24) Closing

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Today on the podcast, I am joined by my friend, Mike Taccona. In this particular episode, we talk about his experiences with joining the whoop community. If you're a longtime listener to the podcast, you know how much I enjoy wearable technologies like Whoop and Oura ring.

Mike has been wearing his Whoop for just over a month at the time of this recording.  Mike is a registered nurse, and I really enjoy talking about wearables because of the impact these devices can have on people with high-stress jobs.

I wanted to get his take on what he's been learning by wearing Whoop. This is a step one conversation since he hasn't been wearing it for too long—this kind of prefaces his opinions early on.

I think technologies like Whoop and others of this class of wearables. As I define them can be massive tools for individuals to have agency. How does their body responds to all aspects of their life, not just physically but also mentally, and then provides you with insights so that you can adjust your behaviors to perform your best in all the situations you want to.

Please enjoy this conversation with Mike Taccona!

Show Notes

(00:03:28) Mike's Jobs and why he chose to get Whoop

(00:07:58) Has Mike noticed how stress bleeds over to the next day?

(00:09:14) Nudging your behaviors

(00:10:46) The physical design of the band

(00:12:57) Difference of the payment model

(00:14:44) Lack of Notifications

(00:16:45) The Strain Coach

(00:20:33) The risk of overexercising 

(00:23:06) Anything from Mike's routine that impacts recovery?

(00:24:19) Breathing exercises and meditation

(00:26:06) Self Tracking

(00:28:55) Consistently good recovery 

(00:32:33) The importance of rest

(00:35:10) It's not only about physical activity

(00:36:35) Recovery as a quality problem as an engineer 

(00:40:08) How Mike's work has improved

(00:43:41) The Centenarian Olympics

(00:46:35) Living longer and living better

(00:50:47) Playing video games is mentally taxing

(00:53:46) Procrastination eats at you

(00:54:43) Up next all things recovery

In this edition, worth listening to, we have a podcast with Georges St-Pierre, who is widely considered one of the greatest fighters in MMA history. Worth reading is an article on an old Soviet Mystery from the New Yorker. Worth watching is a video on an idea crazy enough to work: capturing space junk with a giant claw. I warned it was crazy! And a few more ideas worth your time!

For links head to https://feedingcuriosity.net/feeding-frenzies-2021/18

Show Notes

(00:00) Intro

(00:55) Georges St-Pierre: The Science of Fighting 

(02:53) Has an Old Soviet Mystery at Last Been Solved?

(04:01) Hiking Is an Ideal Structure for Friendship

(06:29) The crazy plan to catch space trash

(09:07) Naomi Shihab Nye - Space between Things

(09:59) Closing

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Today on the podcast is my friend, Nick Buegel. As always, Nick and I have great conversations. This one was the first one we've had in person since the pandemic started. It was enjoyable for me to have him over to record this. There's something special about being in the same room with someone and just having an in-depth discussion about your life or the ideas that we've been thinking about. We expanded on what Nick did to cope with the pandemic, meaning what happened through the pandemic and what did that cause him to explore? What we get into basically is this immersing himself in nature.

Nick spent a lot of the time walking around different forest preserves here in the Midwest, in the Chicago area, and getting closer to it. He put himself on a path to get much deeper with the environmental movement, understanding just how complex and difficult many of these problems are.

This conversation aims not to really talk about how to solve things, but how to tackle these things at a high level, like to behave people. Because at the end of the day, it's all about conflict resolution, and everyone has different set points here. And the hope is that we can agree with the extremes to at least put a plan in place that's better than what we currently have.

That encapsulates all of this. Nick is by no means an expert. Still, at the same time, it's the point that we can learn and take it upon ourselves to aim at something much bigger than ourselves and hope that by accumulating information or by putting ourselves in a position that we can then talk about a complex issue intelligently, we can help other people jump on board and affect change.  All of us can ever really do is start with ourselves. I hope you enjoy this conversation with Nick Buegel.

You can now check out Nick’s Nature Website - scenicsnaps.com

Show Notes

(00:03:29) How Nick managed the stress of the pandemic 

(00:09:07) The Evil We Know

(00:10:07) Thinking yourself into a corner

(00:12:51) Responsibility for the safety of family

(00:16:27) What changed for Nick the most?

(00:22:07) Adjusting to a slower pace

(00:25:57) Losing weight during quarantine

(00:29:01) Changes in Priorities

(00:33:11) Seeing the food chain in action

(00:35:33) Cellular replacement

(00:37:49) Human food system and understanding the costs

(00:39:31) Nature is metal

(00:40:38) A reason to hunt if you are going to consume animal protein

(00:42:33) Cost of life

(00:47:32) Pine Beetles

(00:48:41) Brutality and Fragility of Nature

(00:50:59) Different values to balance

(00:55:31) Malthusian Economics

(00:57:15) Having better external measures when it comes to nature

(01:00:31) Laura Calandrella

(01:02:21) Making Sense Podcast #244 - Food, Climate, and Pandemic Risk

(01:04:46) Behavioral economics and food choices 

(01:07:09) The higher-level conversation with effecting change 

(01:11:53) Going past Dunar Bar's number loses people 

(01:14:25) Life the Unfinished experiment

(01:16:42) Everyone is looking back at past generations screw up 

(01:21:51) What is Nick most interested in exploring?

The Feeding Frenzy is a weekly post that is a collection of knowledge to absorb. Every week you can expect something worth listening to, reading, watching, and pondering. Think of this as a boost of the signal above the noise!

In this edition, worth listening to, we have a podcast with Rob Reid, who outlines the danger of man-made pandemic and how we can prepare now as a society. Worth reading is an article from The Atlantic on why young people seem to grow up slower. What they uncovered is a bit surprising. Worth watching is a fascinating video on transparent wood, and as a bonus, we provide some additional reading on applications! And as always few other ideas worth your time!

Shownotes:

(00:00) Intro

(01:14) Engineering the Apocalypse

(03:03) George Mumford

(05:09) Psychedelic Drugs Passes a Big Test for PTSD Treatment

(06:28) Why Young People Seem to Grow Up Slow

(08:40) Making Transparent Wood

(10:47) Worth Pondering - The Father

(12:05) Closing

Find links or read this post here https://feedingcuriosity.net/feeding-frenzies-2021/17

May fourth is the day Star Wars nerds rejoice! “May the fourth be with you” in pop culture is the holiday that we all celebrate the impact the galaxy far, far away has on so many of us. At the core of the hero's journey reimagined is a phrase first spoken by Obi-Wan, “May the Force Be With You.” Hearing this phrase for the first time is a bit cheesy. But once you have a deeper understanding of the broader context, it connects you to an in-group. Think about it this way: A phrase has now morphed into a play on words to be celebrated on the day.

Now let's rewind time and go back to the 1970s before George Lucas or anyone had any idea what Star Wars would become.

If you would like to read and explore links, head to https://feedingcuriosity.net/podcast/may-the-force-be-with-you

Today on the podcast, I'm joined by my friend, Joe Jackowski. Joe now holds a bachelor's from the University of Michigan in biopsychology cognition and neuroscience.

As he finished up his degree, he took it upon himself to continue exploring where his interests have taken him in psychology specifically. He's been exploring two very influential psychologists and psychotherapists, Erich Neumann and Camille Paglia.

So in this conversation, he lays out some of the ideas that he's been exploring for himself while using these greats before him to provide a foundation. In some sense, that's what we do in this conversation because we don't spend enough time looking back at humanity's past at the ways of being that we all can share or learn from at a symbolic level.

Joe believes that we should be paying deeper attention to the religions of the world and the other stories that are even older than the current modern religions, the Greeks and the Romans and the Egyptians and so forth. There's so much to talk about, so for fear of using up too much time in this intro, I love this conversation for all that it's worth. We get into religion, we get into art, and we get into Parenthood. 

At the end of the day, life is meant to be a journey. Now here in the modern world, we get to share our journeys with so many more people than we would have otherwise. I really hope you take one gem from this conversation and run with it. So with that, please enjoy this conversation with Joe Jackowski.

Show Notes

(00:04:50) The volatility of the weather

(00:05:41) Middle-Class Fancy

(00:06:54) Joe's High School Trip to Colorado

(00:09:07) Reading Rule

(00:10:14) A different way to teach religion

(00:12:52) How we reacted to Christianity or Catholicism

(00:14:26) Connecting back to the history of the Religion

(00:15:18) Familia Sagrada

(00:18:05) Is an artwork just the medium used to create it?

(00:20:36) Joe's visit to Mount Kōya

(00:22:22) A different way of looking at religions

(00:25:32) St. Francis

(00:29:57) Franciscan Monk

(00:31:56) Monastic Brewing

(00:34:21) Vinland Saga (Anime)

(00:36:09) Kobyz - One of the oldest musical instruments

(00:38:15) Why do we have symbols?

(00:40:48) Re-experiencing the oldest stories

(00:42:07) Story of Orestes

(00:46:47) The Ideal Good

(00:48:38) What does someone look like pursuing the highest value?

(00:54:39) Image of the Madonna and Child

(00:56:28) Sacred Duty of Parenthood

(00:59:45) Wellspring of Wisdom

(01:02:46) You are the legacy of billions of generations of life

My guest today on the podcast is my friend Ivy. For reasons you'll soon find out, she wanted to remain anonymous on this podcast so that we could share it on her social platform by the same handle.

Ivy is based in LA and primarily works with paintings. Her style is heavily influenced by street art with themes of self-love and life struggle in different emotions, which she portrays by combining portraiture words and color elements. Her goal is to create art that connects with people on a deeper level by evoking emotions and creating a sense of vulnerability.

I was looking forward to having this because she is a more reserved person when you meet her in public. For me, this was my attempt to allow her to share more about her own interests and passions in an environment where she was comfortable doing so, and I was happy about how this conversation turned out.

This conversation starts with a lot of energy. And by the end of it, I was just rewarded by connecting with my friend for a very long time but hadn't been able to have a conversation as deep as this.

At the end of the day, I hope that everyone here who enjoys art will take away something about what it means to pursue a craft or do something that allows you to feel most present with yourself.

Connect @artbyivy_ on Instagram

Show Notes

(00:03:37) Why Anonymous on Social Media?

(00:06:16) Choosing the name Xpression Art

(00:07:15) How do people respond to commissions?

(00:10:55) Pressure of commissions

(00:12:51) Getting out of your comfort zone

(00:14:44) How do you draw something you've never done?

(00:19:01) Do you send sketches for feedback?

(00:20:04) How do you explore with your art?

(00:21:45) Music to get in the zone

(00:23:02) Starting with a blank canvas

(00:25:24) Talk yourself out of committing to your craft

(00:27:07) Pursuing Art in College

(00:29:46) Balancing full-time work and art

(00:31:02) Art pulls into the present

(00:32:50) Positive Words and Optimism

(00:34:11) How art can help everyone even if you don't have the skill

(00:36:44) Drawing teaches you how to see the world

(00:40:01) Hyperrealistic drawing

(00:41:33) Being a painter allows for a deeper appreciation

(00:44:00) Always seeing ways to improve your work

(00:49:18) Impactful Books and Podcasts

(00:52:43) What advice do you have for someone entering the real world?

(00:54:52) Where to connect?