New format this week. We've talked about lots of different subjects, now we're committed to doing something every week.

Here are some highlights:

1. Don’t be a perfectionist
2. Carve out specific time to work on each thing 
3. Learn to say no
4. Have an arrangement if you miss a commitment and be able to anticipate
5. Put the most important thing in your diary first
6. Involve others
7. Volunteer because you will make friends who have your values

---- This week's links ----

[1] Deborah Frances-White on Have I Got News for You - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06sp23b 

[2] Why China is so Good at Building Railways - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JDoll8OEFE 

[3] Kanye West’s private fire fighters https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a25014279/kim-kardashian-kanye-west-firefighters-wildfires/ 

[4] 100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming - drawdown.org 

[5] Italian mother denied pregnancy termination drugs - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37713211 

[6] Verona declares itself a “pro life” city - https://www.thelocal.it/20181005/verona-pro-life-city-italy-abortion-law 

[7] Violent Treatment During Childbirth: Croatian Women Speak Out - http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/violent-treatment-during-childbirth-croatian-women-speak-out-10-31-2018 

[8] Oxfam Yemen Appeal - https://www.oxfam.org.uk/what-we-do/emergency-response/yemen-crisis 

[9] Microfinancing female entrepreneurs around the world - https://www.worldfinance.com/banking/microfinance-empowering-female-entrepreneurs 

[10] Vegan Brighton protest - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/vegan-protest-activists-steakhouse-touro-brighton-recording-cow-animal-rights-a8654381.html 

[11] Extinction Rebellion - https://rebellion.earth/who-we-are/ 

[12] Karen Buck they work for you - https://www.theyworkforyou.com/search/?q=karen+buck&pid=10075 

[13] Caroline Lucas - https://www.theyworkforyou.com/search/?q=caroline+lucas 

[14] Peter Kyle - https://www.theyworkforyou.com/search/?q=peter+kyle 

[15] Habits app - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/good-habits/id573844300?mt=8 

[16] Brene Brown TED talk on shame - https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame 

[17] Shia Lebeof: Do it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsQAXx_ao0 

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In the second half of our post-Meaning Conference recording we get down to brass tacks, asking ourselves (like so many others who attended) "what are we actually going to do?". There's a lot of discussion of Fairphone-inspired 21st Century tech talk, and we may or may not talk about Apple quite a lot. Do we want a thinner phone? Find out here. Multiple times...

---- This week's links ----

[1] Extinction Rebellion - https://rebellion.earth/ 

[2] Fairphone - https://www.fairphone.com/en/ 

[3] Recycling mobile chargers video - 

[4] Louis Rossmann vs Apple on repairability - https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup 

[5] Look Mum No Computer - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCafxR2HWJRmMfSdyZXvZMTw 

[6] Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - https://amzn.to/2E2yeQ7 

[7] glassdoor - workplace reviews - https://www.glassdoor.co.uk 

[8] ifixit.com 

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We went back to Brighton Meaning Conference since we decided to start this podcast after attending last year. Last week we talked about what meaning is and this week we talk about what we saw at Meaning. We also talked about Brighton and stuff.

---- This week's links ----

[1] Conscious capitalism - Timothy Henry - https://www.consciouscapitalism.org/people/timothy-henry 

[2] Amazon warehouse workers in UK 'peed in bottles' over fears of being punished for taking a break

 - http://uk.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-workers-have-to-pee-into-bottles-2018-4 

[3] Amazon earns more through government grants than it pays in tax: 

 https://www.independent.co.uk/money/tax/revealed-amazon-earns-more-through-government-grants-than-it-pays-in-tax-8617919.html 

[4] Amy Whittaker - https://design.blog/2016/08/25/amy-whitaker-on-art-thinking-where-creativity-and-commerce-intersect/ 

[5] Fairphone - https://www.fairphone.com/en/ 

[6] Zaytoun - Palestinian Olive Oil - http://www.zaytoun.org/ 

[7] Piero Manzoni - Kunstlerschiesse- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piero_Manzoni 

[8] Couple who named their baby after Adolf Hitler found guilty of being members of banned neo-Nazi group - https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/12/uk/neo-nazi-adam-thomas-claudia-patatas-guilty-scli-gbr-intl/index.html 

[9] Forest Green Rovers - Vegan Football Club - https://www.theguardian.com/football/shortcuts/2017/may/15/forest-green-rovers-the-almost-100-vegan-football-club 

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We're pre-empting Meaning Conference (the event that spawned this podcast last year) with our current thoughts on the subject of meaning. We talk about meaning vs survival, the differences between everybody's definition of meaning, self-awareness and the fragmentation of shared meaning. We talk about the nature of signs and language and the dangers of advertising.

---- This week's links ----

[1] Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - https://amzn.to/2QGNswv 

[2] The Alt-Right Playbook - You Go High, We Go Low - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAbab8aP4_A 

[3] Measure B - https://ballotpedia.org/Los_Angeles,_California,_Measure_B,_Public_Bank_Charter_Amendment_(November_2018) 

[4] Dr zhivago - https://amzn.to/2OGvqZF 

[5] Vox on the biohazard symbol - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOEqzt36JEM 

[6] New York Times Daily Podcast - https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-daily

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Let's make some generalisations about people! What do they want, expect, love? Or are we talking about specific people? Inspirational people? Annoying people? Hear all about Michael's experiences on the People's Vote (Brexit) march and his experiences eliciting meaning from people at a tech conference.

---- This week's links ----

[1] The Man in the Arena - Theodore Roosevelt - http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html 

[2] Starving children in Yemen - https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-37423263/children-dying-of-starvation-in-yemen-s-conflict 

[3] Greta Thunberg on Twitter - https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg 

[4] Diane Finegood on Twitter - https://twitter.com/dtfinegood 

[5] Grey literature - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_literature 

[6] Lizzy Hodgson - https://twitter.com/lizziehodgson 

[7] Rob Ryan - https://robryanstudio.com 

[8] Jon Ronson www.jonronson.com/

[9] Rwanda rejecting foreign aid - http://www.therwandan.com/rwanda-to-reject-foreign-aid/ 

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Talking is by Ivanka Majic and Michael Forrest

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We may have been recording too long - we'd gone a bit loopy by Space Part 2... We talk about the heat death of the universe and explore the transhuman condition between diversions.

---- This week's links ----

[1] Dyson Sphere - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere 

[2] The Purpose of Life - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxTnqKuNygE 

[3] Dan Aykroyd on aliens and 9/11 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-a8KTB5rK4 

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A realistic discussion of the challenges of space travel and colonisation preceded by a bit of nerding-out about rage and spreadsheets. We both know someone who went to space and Michael studied Physics so we're reasonably well-qualified to give you some original tidbits.

---- This week's links ----

[1] Thinknation - https://thinknation.co/ 

[2] Banksy's thing was supposed to work - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45900314 

[3] Frontier game (Elite 2) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier:_Elite_II 

[4] Astronaut: The Last Push (film with protagonist called Michael Forrest) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1541123/ 

[5] Rob Shrab why don’t they go down? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_Q0fYG5ajM 

[6] YouTube video about Halo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNmHC5qfJfU 

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We talked about the Brett Kavanaugh result and tried to figure out how to make that rage count. Michael's got a bit of a cold.

---- This week's links ----

[1] Going to parties, not meeting rapists - https://percolately.com/aimee/not-a-rapist/ 

[2] Real Law Review: Kavanaugh v. Ford Hearing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUTDZDpdJFM 

[3] space invader - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWji8okeeWA 

[4] Trevor Noah on Kavanaugh - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvFXs41RbQ8 

[5] The Guilty Feminist - http://guiltyfeminist.com/episodes/ 

[6] Anita Hill vs Clarence Thomas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Hill#Allegations_of_Sexual_Harassment_against_Clarence_Thomas 

[7] New climate report - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/08/world-leaders-have-moral-obligation-to-act-after-un-climate-report

[8] Eat ten a day, not five - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/10735633/Healthy-diet-means-10-portions-of-fruit-and-vegetables-per-day-not-five.html 

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Second art part in which we delve into the role of critics, the responsibilities of the artist, the role of privilege and/or cleverness in creativity.

---- This week's links ----

[1] Brexit mad cow snopes page - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mad-cow-versus-brexit/ 

[2] Alexander Calder - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Calder 

[3] Yaoi Kusama - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_Kusama 

[4] How “Instagram traps” are changing art galleries - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx_r-dP22Ps 

[5] #dearmoon - https://dearmoon.earth/

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What art gets made? What gets to be liked? We discuss the role of art, different types of art from music and painting to deconstructivist comedy.

---- This week's links ----

[1] Schneidersladen - https://www.schneidersladen.de/de/ 

[2] Clay balls microorganisms / probiotics: http://www.sutivan.hr/novosti/poziv-na-sudjelovanje-u-eko-radionici-ciscenja-podmorja/

[3] Why cancer drugs are being found in the ocean - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XEPv8nfxHI 

[4] About Elizabeth Thompson on Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast - http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/01-the-lady-vanishes 

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