Midlifing

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In this two-parter Simon and Lee talk about feeling self-righteous, being taken for granted, anger, asking for what one wants and talking about feelings at work.

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Related links (and necessary corrections):

• Slavoj Zizek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavoj_Žižek

Get in touch with Lee and Simon at [email protected].

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Simon and Lee talk about risk, watching skilled people, how we humans spend our time, and the relative values of different types of work. Oh, and Simon gives a wee update on his 'bakery' and they both get into their changing relationship to beauty. 

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Lee and Simon head deep into midlife territory with a conversation about money for now or money for the future.

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Related links (and necessary corrections):

• Merton Bakery: https://www.mertonbakery.com
• warez: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez
• COGs of Coventry: https://sites.google.com/view/cogsofcoventry/
• Un amico vecchio oppure un vecchio amico: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcw2lAun6Uo

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Lee and Simon mark the coronation by talking about stratification and invisibility in society and those moments in which events or people puncture that invisibility. They then shift gears into a conversation about events out of their hands that have most strongly shaped them.

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Simon and Lee talk about being busy, being appraised, being in meetings, what one's real job is, the word 'quite', figuring out what Midlifing is about ... and Lee makes an offer that some listeners probably will not want to refuse (an offer that might sound like they are running out of ideas when that couldn't be further from the truth).

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Lee had a late night partying and then after a difficult week in the news Simon and Lee talk about the US constitution's 1st and 2nd amendments. Definitely NOT their wheelhouse. Episode includes some Ted Lasso spoilers.

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Related links (and necessary corrections):

• Post-Vietnam addictions: https://jamesclear.com/heroin-habits
• Going troppo: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/troppo
• active shooter drills: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47711020

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Lee recalls a 1970s street party that involved candy floss and an aspirational neighbour, and Simon gets gazumped and is forced into an alternative business idea. They end up talking about unfinished things, poverty, noticing change and taking care of one another.
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Related links (and necessary corrections):

• Simon's conversation with Lucy Suchman about AI: https://youtu.be/gm1Zwiw9kl8
• Readymades of Marcel Duchamp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readymades_of_Marcel_Duchamp

Get in touch with Lee and Simon at [email protected].

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Simon mentions something he mentioned last week and Lee doesn't edit it out. The shame of repeating one's self! He and Lee then get into a conversation about inspiring (or not) teachers while trying to remember if they've had the conversation before on Midlifing. 

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Lee and Simon have a fantastic idea for a new business. You can invest anytime you like. They also talk about being listened to, not being tricked, holding power in interviews, Microsoft Lists and huncles, funcles, shuncles and duncles.

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Simon and Lee discuss what some people might consider to be a shocking piece of performance art and whether it would get made post #MeToo. 

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