028: Dirtbag Happy

We’re back after a couple weeks of travel, work, and schedule challenges. Shawn reports that he’s feeling a bit stuck and lost in his life at the moment. Milo pitches “Designing Your Life.” We talk about job hunting—networking, soul-killing jobs, being like a shark. We question the saying, “an unexamined life is not worth living,” because the flip side, examining your life all the time, makes you miserable. Then we talk about cringey comedy and empathy, a hack for posting questions on forums, “films” versus “movies,” the internet as “Gutenberg on steroids,” robot plumbers, harbor pilots, and tech bros inventing things that already exist.

Also, f**k ICE

Mentioned in this episode

Designing Your Life (book by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans)

Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Penny for your Thoughts (episode of This American Life that touches on the inner monologue we all hear, except people who don’t!), as well as other studies of the “inner voice” as a phenomenon, mentioned here and here for example.

The origin of the Odon Device, which is used during difficult births to pull the baby through the birth canal.

The “Up” film series

Robot Plumbers and the Limits of Extrapolation (Shawn’s recent piece about the future of AI)

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