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.
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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.
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Bonus episode: A takeover! Kristy shares a recent edition from SYLVAIN’s Progress Report newsletter: The State of Youth: A New Paradigm for Growing Up, written by Chief Strategy Officer Chris Konya.
For more from SYLVAIN's Progress Report, see progressbysylvain.co.
What's the best way to unlock a sense of financial security in all of us?
This week, Aaron, Joey, and Jess talk about voting, the economy, financial insecurity, the post-scarcity world, unequal distribution, and intergenerational trauma. They don’t talk about A$AP Rocky.
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What happens when your mind changes?
This week, Joey and Jess talk about nuclear power, Three Mile Island, solar power, the Overton window, abortion, and tokamaks. They don’t talk about Eddie Kendricks.
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What do we do about power distance?
This week, Joey and Jess talk about organizational hierarchy, Geert Hofstede, authoratative leadership, omakase, decision-making, and Mr. Oizo. They don’t talk about Flat Stanley.
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How many things are we surrounded by that have use cases that we're not thinking about?
This week, Joey and Jess talk about Ozempic, Cialis, blockchain, invention, solar panels, and pessimism vs. optimism. They don’t talk about chainsaws.
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How do you do spontaneous brilliance?
This week, Aaron, Joey, and Jess talk about pressure, boredom and safety, theatre, peopling, jewelry making, and Quiplash. They don’t talk about combustion.
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Podcast: Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum: PATTON OSWALT: Refusing to Settle, The Issue for Comedians Today & Emotions Reconciling Loss
Can we learn about coming up with creative ideas from bikes today?
This week, Jess and Joey talk about bike infrastructure, dad wagons, folding bikes, stacked bikes, e-bikes, and mobility mixes. Oddly, they don’t talk about Bike Kill.
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The Asahi Shimbun: High school kids build Edo Period tricycle out of home center buys
The New York Times: The Hustlers Who Make $6,000 a Month by Gaming Citi Bikes
Rascal Rides: 10 Best Family Cargo Bikes For Hauling Your Kids
How do we know if we're doing the right thing for potentially the wrong reasons?
This week, Joey and Jess talk about The Anxious Generation, social media, polio, experimentation, modes, rodents, and sesame paste. They don’t talk about Yusei Kikuchi.
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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics by Eugenia Cheng
The Ezra Klein Show podcast: On Children, Meaning, Media and Psychedelics
The New Yorker How CoComelon Captures Our Children’s Attention
Corrections Department: Colloid
What is your comfort level with abstraction?
This week, Jess and Joey talk about math, the transitive property, cookbooks, slang, strange attractors and chameleons. They don’t talk about cake math.
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What can jazz teach us about making stuff together?
This week, Aaron and Jess talk about mistakes, improvisation, leadership, asking questions, saltine crackers, and Tori Amos. They don’t talk about girls that eat pizza but never gain weight.
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Marc Mommaas and the New York Jazz Workshop
Corrections Department: Miles Davis, not John Coltrane, was the one who didn't fear mistakes.. (Trane was a perfectionist).
Corrections Department: Count Basie, not Cab Calloway
Hidden Brain Podcast: You 2.0: Taking Control of Your Time
Revisiting Critical Nonsense 211!: Question Asking
How do we do math learning better?
This week, Joey and Jess talk about numeracy, literacy, discrete math, Carl Sagan, Cleopatra, and sushi. They don’t talk about Frank Ocean.
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What does fridgescaping tell us about ourselves?
This week, Aaron, Joey, and Jess talk about weirdly shaped foods, bookshelves, trad wives, gelatin molds, cluttercore, and gallery walls. They don’t talk about Jello Biafra's fridge.
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The New York Times: Not Even the Inside of Your Fridge Is Safe From Decorating
The Independent (UK): Marie Kondo says she’s ‘kind of given up’ on cleaning
The New Yorker: The Rise and Fall of the Trad Wife
Southern Living: Cluttercore Is The Design Trend That Embraces More
What turns your ears on?
This week, Aaron, Joey, and Jess talk about Detroit, groove, algorithms, Clyde Stubblefield, sampling, and flow states. They don’t talk about the late, great Biz Markie.
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How do we make more science tourism happen?
This week, Jess and Joey talk about scientific pilgrimage, CERN, the Large Hadron Collider, inspiring awe, Dolly the sheep, and particles. They don’t talk about the six flavors of quarks.
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What can we learn about the state of entertainment when we look through the Olympics Stroboscope?
This week, Jess and Joey talk about the The Rottening, Summer Olympics, streaming platforms, culture wars, sports bodies, and shared viewership experiences. They don’t talk about artistic swimming.
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How does one engage in a generational war?
This week, Joey and Aaron talk about Millenials, marketing demographics, being an afterthought, the policing of cool, Sambas, and othering to in yourself. They don’t talk about Billy Idol. Or Les Gilbert.
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How do we decide what feelings matter?
This week, Jess and Joey talk about Inside Out 2, compound emotions, cognitive development, sonder, motivations, and sandwiches. They don’t talk about Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam.
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How should we be arguing?
This week, Joey and Jess talk about argument realms, Theranos, Steve Jobs, facts vs. feelings, and band names. They don’t talk about Monarch of a Great Kingdom.
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Why Are We Yelling? by Buster Benson