Tings and Things

With the lives we live, for many of us we find ourselves in situations where we are far away from some of our closest friends. Some of us are lucky to have the people we love nearest to use. Irrespective of proximity, we gotta check up on our people because we have become masters of pretending and brushing things off. We delve into all of that this episode?

So many of us are involved with people that have been our friends that we have been with for a while. In this episode we discuss the conundrum of cutting off people in their lives that aren’t contributing their success/overall well-being. 

Welcome to the age of nostalgia. From live-action remakes of our favorite Disney films to Saturday morning cartoons streaming on Netflix to a renewed interest in everybody’s favorite neighbor, Mister Rogers, it seems like millennials don’t want to grow up.

Nostalgia — the “wistful or excessively sentimental yearning” for the past — is not unique to millennials. But this seeming obsession with all things ’90s looks to some like a failure to launch. Are millennials just stuck in some kind of nostalgic holding pattern? Or is there something else going on here?

Millennials straddle a technological divide that our parents’ generation — or their parents’ generation for that matter — simply didn’t. We remember what it was like before the internet made everything — even the past — readily accessible at the push of a button. We know what it is to lose touch with friends, say, and have no way of finding them again. Or to lose our favorite toy and not know where to go to get another. For most of us, things like computers, iPhones, and social media entered our lives when we were old enough to notice. We remember a time without those things, but we were introduced to them early enough that they are now fully integrated into our lives. This is the Tings and Things take on all things Nostalgia.

Outliers: The Story of Success is the third non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company on November 18, 2008. In Outliers, Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success. To support his thesis, he examines why the majority of Canadian ice hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year, how Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates achieved his extreme wealth, how the Beatles became one of the most successful musical acts in human history, how Joseph Flom built Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom into one of the most successful law firms in the world, how cultural differences play a large part in perceived intelligence and rational decision making, and how two people with exceptional intelligence, Christopher Langan and J. Robert Oppenheimer, end up with such vastly different fortunes. Throughout the publication, Gladwell repeatedly mentions the "10,000-Hour Rule", claiming that the key to achieving world-class expertise in any skill, is, to a large extent, a matter of practicing the correct way, for a total of around 10,000 hours, though the authors of the original study this was based on have disputed Gladwell's usage.[1]

The book debuted at number one on the bestseller lists for The New York Times and The Globe and Mail, holding the position on the former for eleven consecutive weeks. Generally well received by critics, Outliers was considered more personal than Gladwell's other works, and some reviews commented on how much Outliers felt like an autobiography. Reviews praised the connection that Gladwell draws between his own background and the rest of the publication to conclude the book. Reviewers also appreciated the questions posed by Outliers, finding it important to determine how much individual potential is ignored by society. However, the lessons learned were considered anticlimactic and dispiriting. The writing style, though deemed easy to understand, was criticized for oversimplifying complex social phenomena.

We discuss all of these issues in relation to the tings and things and how it affects our relevant audiences 

Share a lot of my life, personal thoughts and feelings here as well as create imagery, useful content and tips. But with this growing online presence comes a new, different responsibility. Primarily, the expectance to be ‘on’ at all times, and to answer everyone’s questions on pretty much everything. Instagram, in particular has made everyone so accessible and really broken down barriers in terms of contacting your favorite chef, asking the opinion of a great stylist – it’s all at your fingertips. Look, you're probably going to use social media to research your online dating matches anyways, so if you like what you see, going straight for the DM just skips a step. But take caution, for this move isn't as simple as it seems: People are sensitive about their DMs, and sliding requires that your moves be smooth, so it demands a little more effort than just a double-tap or swipe right.

So many of us are strong free spirit is with some deep personalities. I know many of us have been raised in a way that is different to the one our parents have laid out for us. With that being said some of us have embarked on “unconventional career  paths or even business ventures that would raise an eyebrow to those in our parents generations this has required us to venture out and seek out mentors to enable us to be successful 

Never before has a young generation paid this much attention to food, nor challenged the food supply chain, championed chef advocacy or focused on sustainability. As a Tings and Things collective we consider ourselves to be some people with some rather sophisticated tastes in food.

Within the past few years, it’s become pretty clear that millennials are the foodie generation. Food-related things like avocado toast, farm-to-table eating, foodstagrams and meal prep services didn’t exist until us "darn millennials" started growing up, and organic sales have almost tripled in the past decade. For millennials, this fascination with food comes from a long list of things, one being a sense of community. We delve into all tings foodie and then get a little carried away! Enjoy

There has been an overwhelming wave of cancel culture that goes on and we tackle this phenomenon in this episode. Every week it’s almost another person that we are cancelling. In this episode we delve deeper into this whole wave and who we are canceling this week? Thinking happy isn’t enough Have you managed the transition between positive thinking and positive doing?

This episode “Free Game” starts with Jono is prying into Simba’s introduction to the music industry and how he managed to established himself in such a competitive industry then unravels into a sequence of interesting and mind-blowing conversations that we wanted to share and things go downhill from there.

This is one of our favorite episodes that we have to have to share with you. Tings and Things is essentially a collection of conversations that we have had in our personal lives and for the most part we have decided to share those conversations with you. This episode is an off the dome conversation of things that we have had on had mind/things that we have decided to share with you.