What varietal of mind wine are your grapes lately?

This week, Aaron, Joey, and Jess talk about pattern breaking, the restorative power of boredom, bird brains, pajama day, the productivity mindset, and seizing rest. They don’t talk about when Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

references

• Feng Shui Modern by Cliff Tan
• Boggle
• Five Senses Exercise
• How to use 4-7-8 breathing for anxiety
• Yahtzee

Why are we so obsessed with trying to live forever?

This week, special guest Chandler Saunders joins Jess and Joey to talk about adult superlatives, aging, the soul, compounding experience, afterlife FOMO, and aging reversal. They don’t talk about Irene Cara.

references

• Piaget's 4 Stages of Cognitive Development Explained
• Ray Kurzweil
• Ship of Theseus
• Fermi paradox
• Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
• Kardashev scale
• Telomere
• Dr. David Sinclair

What is it about certain settings that just piss us off?

This week, Joey and Jess talk about Maggie Rogers, live concerts, the unflustered mom, road rage, cycling, and liminality. They don’t talk about mosh pits.

references

• Maggie Rogers
• The Unflustered Mom: How Understanding the Five Anxiety Styles Transforms the Way We Parent, Partner, Live, and Love by Amber Trueblood
• This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
• liminality
• Boom