Should we donate to charity because it “feels good”? In this episode, we discuss some of the concepts behind effective altruism with our friend Lucia. We touch on her motivations for setting up a public health charity, the Giving What We Can Pledge, and a few other curiosities. Enjoy!
Book Discussion: The 4-Hour Work Week In this episode, we discuss some of Ali’s Kindle highlights from Tim Ferriss’ magnum opus, ‘The 4-Hour Work Week’, the single book that’s most changed Ali’s life.
Bouncing Back, Finding Fulfilment and Being Productive ft. Noah Kagan As we were away this week, this episode is an interview that Ali recorded with Noah Kagan as part of his Deep Dive series on YouTube. Noah is an entrepreneur,
Imposter Syndrome and Other Curiosities In this episode, we sit down and have a chat about random topics on our mind. We touch on kids (as usual), and then we talk about our experiences of
How can we treat children morally? Part 2 In this episode, we talk some more about how we can treat children better. Specifically — what it means to "take children seriously", why we should take children more seriously, and
How can we treat children morally? Part 1 In this episode, we review Ali's unemployment, talk about how to talk about workism, and Taimur finally elucidates some concrete ideas about how society treats children immorally, and how we
Reimagining our relationship with 'Work', ft. Paul Millerd We're joined this week by Paul Millerd, who's spent a lot of time thinking, reading, and writing about 'work'. We talk about the current culture of 'work-ism', the history of
Friends and Relationships ft Valentin and Cliff In this episode we chat to Valentin Perez and Cliff Weitzman about friendships, relationships, and the our ideas of the good life. Some of the highlights from our discussion: People
The Abusive Relationships of Productivity YouTubers In this episode, we discuss one of Taimur's new fledgling theories about the nefarious parasocial relationships that exist between 'productivity' content creators and their audience. We try and figure out
68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice - Part 3 This is the third and final part of our "68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice" series, where we go through an excellent blog post by Kevin Kelly, offering his life advice
How To Understand Things In this episode, we discuss Nabeel Qureshi's recent blog post "How to Understand Things". We go through the post's main points, and talk about our own experiences of learning and
Envy and The Elephant in the Brain This episode is mostly a discussion of Robin Hanson's "The Elephant in the Brain", a book about the 'hidden motives in everyday lives'. We also go on a long tangent
How To Convince Your Friends To Start A Blog In this episode, we explore we often fail to convince our friends to start having an online presence, and what a better approach might be. Possibly applicable to general "convincing"
68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice - Part 2 This week, we dig into more pieces of life advice from Kevin Kelly's recent blog post "68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice". The article can be found here. Below are some
Responses to our ‘racism’ episode In this episode we discuss some of the responses we received to last week's episode ("Racism, Black Lives Matter, and Figuring Stuff Out"), from hate mail to not-hate mail. Ali
Racism, Social Justice, and Figuring Stuff Out This week we talk about the Black Lives Matter movement, social justice, and how our towards these issues have changed over the past few years. Please interpret charitably. Some of
Thinking As Children We talk about Eric Weinstein’s recent podcast episode with his son, which sparks a discussion about how both of our thinking developed as kids and adults and why we
68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice This week, we dig into Kevin Kelly's recent blog post "68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice". We go through the list and talk about a bunch of the advices (?) that resonate
Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships - Transactional Analysis Part 3 Notes from Part 1 and Part 2 of our discussion on Transactional Analysis can be found here and here. This episode is Part 3 of 3 in our Transactional Analysis
Life Positions and Games - Transactional Analysis Part 2 Notes from Part 1 of our discussion on Transactional Analysis can be found here. In this episode, we continue our discussion about Transactional Analysis. We recap the Parent, Adult and
The Parent, The Adult and The Child - Transactional Analysis Part 1 In this episode, we discuss transactional analysis. Taimur talks us through the ideas behind the theory, and how your internal mind can be split up into three parts - the
Money, Stories and Old People In this episode, we talk about a few different things — how to think about giving money to those in need, whether it's helpful to view our lives as stories, and how Taimur has been trying to develop more empathy with old people. Some of
Vision, Leadership and Winning the Lottery - An Open-Ended Discussion In this episode we take a ramble through a number of topics from statistics to value propositions to what we'd do if we won the lottery to Animal Crossing. Enjoy!
The Principles of Productivity In this episode, we talk about Ali's favourite thing - productivity - much to Taimur's joy! Or, more precisely, we talk through the structure and some of the key points
Taimur Teaches Maths - The Flaw of Averages In this episode, Taimur gives us a maths lesson. We learn about why it's bad to rely on 'averages' when making plans, and about how we can make better decisions
