This week we cast our doubts in the direction of resolutions and the underwhelming challenges that humans set themselves. Can we stick to our plans and what are ways to game our psychology and do the right things when we really have to? Part of the secret, we decide, is being disagreeable…

Stuff mentioned in this episode:

• Dataclysm by Christian Rudder
• The year of the goat
• Waking Up by Sam Harris
• The golden quarter
• The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System by James Rickards
• Steven Levitt
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Internet Archive’s Software Library of MS-DOS Games
• Incredipede
• Freedom Wars