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
This week, Joey, Aaron, and Jess talk about the Boston Celtics, Jayson Tatum, Nikola Jokić, celebrity, debates, and Caitlin Clark. They don’t talk about Simone Biles' 10,000 crystals.
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Hollywood Reporter: What Tina Fey Told Bowen Yang About Expressing Opinions Publicly
What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith (summarized nicely here)
Andscape: They Call Her Big Ellie: Meet the New York Liberty's viral mascot
How do we predict the future?
This week, Joey and Jess talk about polling, phone phobia, targeted advertising, e-mail compartmentalization, stacking ambiguity, and Airheads. They don’t talk about nomophobia.
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Irish Times: Why younger people don’t make phone calls
This week, a takeover! Aaron shares his latest edition from SYLVAIN’s Progress Report newsletter: Automating Our Instincts: How AI Can Be Embraced Rather Than Feared By Creatives.
For more from SYLVAIN's Progress Report, see progressbysylvain.co.
How do y'all deal with your digital poltergeists?
This week, Aaron, Joey, and Jess talk about search results, the endless repository of stuff, digital cleanup, emails, collateral distraction, and friendly ghosts. They don’t talk about warlocks.
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How do we age right?
This week, Joey, Aaron, and Jess talk about aching, supplements, cognitive decline, Tom Brady, LeBron James, and the future. They don’t talk about Alphaville.
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What types of folk knowledge or rules of thumb do you live by?
This week, Joey and Jess talk about cheating at science fairs, sleep, the rule of threes, tenets, the How I Met Your Mother pause, and concavity. They don’t talk about what Werner Herzog's thumb tastes like.
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Why don't we have more public art?
This week, Joey and Jess talk about toy poodles, graffiti, sidewalk chalk, murals, face painting, and sandals. They don’t talk about ESPO.
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How does one deal with being an acquired taste?
This week, Aaron and Joey talk about stinky fish, mole vs. mayonanaise, blue cheese, safe spaces, leadership, and sandwich lubricants. They don’t talk about surströmming.
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Aaron: We need antiheroes in the boardroom to spark progress in the workplace
Spread your wings and fly, Butterfly
How are we using bowls?
This week, Jess and Joey talk about diversification of delivery methods, quick-serve restaurants, slushies, mush, ratios, and salads. They don’t talk about Prince.
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"Frozen in the Face of Tech": Joey @ Web Summit Rio 2024
How has neighborliness changed in the past five years?
This week, Aaron and Jess talk about lost dogs, trash pandas, the pandemic, masking, isolation, and marble runs. They don’t talk about the McFeelys or Cousin Mary Owl.
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Aaron keeps your head ringing while The Sequence funks you up.
"Frozen in the Face of Tech": Joey @ Web Summit Rio 2024
Why should we be concerned wth generationally slow timebombs?
This week, Joey and Jess talk about trees, the Bradford pear, city planning, Barcelona, pilot programs, and the candy bowl theory. They don’t talk about Cameo.
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@jjvincent on the tree timebomb in the UK.
The Guardian: Hidden giants: how the UK’s 500,000 redwoods put California in the shade
The New York Times from 1964: BRADFORD PEAR HAS MANY ASSETS; New Ornamental Fruit Offers Sturdy Form And Early Bloom
The New York Times from 2021: A Tree That Was Once the Suburban Ideal Has Morphed Into an Unstoppable Villain
What does this "trend-mill" mean, what does it say about us as people, and how bad is it, really?
This week, special guests Claire and Chloe join Jess and Joey to talk about the mob-wife aesthetic, accessibility, TikTok, blueberry milk nails, social networks vs. social media, and Trader Joe's totes. They don’t talk about why the combination of peanut butter and jelly is a gotdamn abomination.
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What happens if we're all deathly affraid of the cringe?
This week, Jess, Joey, and Aaron talk about pain, yips, shame, fremdschämen, the Apple Vision Pro, and Michael Jordan. They don’t talk about Gracious K.
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Revisiting Critical Nonsense 253! Teaching Agency and the Scandinavian Swimmers
Why is cheating in some places treated differently than cheating in other places?
This week, Joey, Aaron, and Jess talk about fairness, tribalism, insider trading, meritocracy, winning, and wallpaper. They don’t talk about Pete Shelley.
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USA Today: Who is Shohei Ohtani and what is his connection to the gambling scandal that's rocked baseball?
The Meritocracy Myth by Stephen J. McNamee
Aaron's Interior Decorating Corner: Anthropologie, Spoonflower, Hovia, Janovic, and Lamps Plus
This week, a takeover! Joey shares his latest edition from SYLVAIN’s Progress Report newsletter: Awaiting the Eruption: Innovation Strategies for a Post-ZIRP Era.
For more from SYLVAIN's Progress Report, see progressbysylvain.co.
Why are we always searching for the right answer?
This week, Jess and Joey talk about gray spaces, equifinality, value judgments, hiring, multifinality, and quantum physics. They don’t talk about the Alignment Theory.
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Joey's nerd piece: Progress Report: The State Of...Awaiting the Eruption
The New York Times: ‘I’m Sick of Seeing My Face,’ Says the Internet’s Kombucha Connoisseur