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.

references

• Subscribe to our Progress Report newsletter
• progressbysylvain.co
• Inside Out 2
• The 6 Types of Basic Emotions and Their Effect on Human Behavior
• Compound facial expressions of emotion: from basic research to clinical applications
• Time: The Real Science Behind the Animated Emotions of Inside Out 2
• Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
• The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: sonder

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.

references

• Tea etymology
• Why Are We Yelling? by Buster Benson
• PEMDAS

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.

references

• Celtic Football Club (pronounced with a soft 'C')
• Boston Celtics name origin
• Jab Like Jayson Tatum
• 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)
• mesophyte
• Red Panda
• Andscape: They Call Her Big Ellie: Meet the New York Liberty's viral mascot
• Ladies Love Cool James
• Coaster Studios' Dollywood Review
• Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

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.

references

• Adam Duritz
• 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.

references

• Dinosaurs eating Joey
• Toe beans and the art of reading them
• poltergeist
• They're here!
• Woah, my love, my darling ...
• Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville "Don't Know Much"
• Teenybopper
• Manwich

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.

references

• L.A. Times: "Talking 'Men of a Certain Age' with Ray Romano, Scott Bakula and Andre Braugher"
• Radiolab Podcast: The Secret to a Long Life
• John Meyer's "Why Georgia?"
• The 5 Regrets Of The Dying: Life Lessons Everybody Learns Too Late...
• New York Magazine: "The 12 Best Nice-Looking Pill Cases"
• System Shock

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.

references

• Chris Brunet's X thread on the ISEF cheating scandal
• Jean Yang's life lessons
• Pause
• The Idea of You (and Maybe Not Harry Styles)