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Brendan's not eating again, and Mark has opinions about education. * (00:00) - Cheesecake * (04:46) - Brendan is not eating * (17:32) - Teaching by experience vs study * (19:47) - Profit vs compensation * (28:20) - Study vs experience revisited * (47:04) - Finding intrinsic confidence

If you have to meet any kind of regular publishing schedule, you’ll know how time can stretch out into infinity until the night before you have to hit Publish, when suddenly it feels like you have to cram 8 hours of work into 30 minutes. But Benjamin Franklin had

Mark's vibrating internally but has got some funky stuff cooking, and Brendan still wants Mark to stop using TikTok. * (00:00) - Brendan's tree joke * (00:20) - Manic Mark * (03:18) - Undo update * (08:52) - It's all coming together * (22:17)

Inbox Zero is a pretty good way of organising your email, but behind the system is a dude who stepped off the hamster wheel of productivity, got some perspective, and became one of the Internet’s true treasures. Support the show from $3 and get * Episodes early and ad-free * Join

Brendan's going to church and Mark's starting a choir. No, like, really. Links * The Problem with Time & Timezones * (00:00) - They're just trying to have a Tuesday * (00:12) - Mark's other podcast * (11:44) - C90 Community Chorus * (32:

Simple mistakes are more common than it’s comfortable to admit. But there’s a dirt-simple technique that has dramatically reduced the number of preventable deaths, and it’s stuff we can use to make our own lives run more smoothly. Thanks to Ayesha Khan of Every Single Sci-Fi Film

How do you like them apples? Links * The paradoxical theory of change

When things look bleak, either in your head or out in the world, being “productive” is probably the furthest thing from your mind. We live in difficult times, no doubt, but two outliers a hundred years apart, fought oppression, propaganda, and dehumanisation all while under their own personal dark clouds.

Brendan has an app idea and a new tattoo, and the boys both watched The Menu. And have things to say. (Spoiler: they liked it.) * (00:00) - No powders * (00:14) - The Godmode app * (20:49) - Mark has discovered Substack * (27:55) - Content as an act

Can this analogue system for a digital age really help us get more done? Has it strayed from its roots and become synonymous with people who call things “super aesthetic”? And, if we can learn what we need to about the system in 3 minutes, why does it cost three