Episode 51
Busyness
28 November 2016
31 mins 41 secs
About this Episode
We think 2016 could've tried harder. Disheartened as we are, this episode looks at the up and downiness of a strange few months, and whether the world is really getting stupider. We also manage to talk about some productivity stuff.
- Charlie Brooker’s yearly Screenwipe
- Even Kanye is mentally beleaguered
- Le Tigre.
- The Village Square
- Alain de Botton's plan for secular churches
- The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond
- Tom Waits stopped drinking a long time ago
- Sushi Go! (the board game)
- Exploding Kittens & Bears vs Babies (the other board games)
- Google Photoscan
- Modernist poetry in general
- Refly Editor
- Collaboration on Keynote
"The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that, 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'.” -Isaac Asimov
