19 min

NEURONS - EP 5 ABU A Year from Now...

    • Society & Culture

My friend Abu can be frustrating because he has all these ideas of how he'll change the world, and he has in small ways, but that's not enough. He has a kind of all-or-nothing state of mind. Saving the world sounds similar to gambling, if he's got one lifetime, one hand to play, better go all in, anything less would be a waste. This, IMO, hasn't been working.

When I first interviewed him, it had been a couple years since he quit his job and, by my calculations, he was running out of money. You'd think it's not too hard to get a job but Abu has other mental things going on and the possibly of homelessness was a real concern for me. For Abu, not so much, which only made me more worried.

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The music for this episode comes from MUSICAL CORPSES, a live improvised song creation collective. Watch the process on YouTube:
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My friend Abu can be frustrating because he has all these ideas of how he'll change the world, and he has in small ways, but that's not enough. He has a kind of all-or-nothing state of mind. Saving the world sounds similar to gambling, if he's got one lifetime, one hand to play, better go all in, anything less would be a waste. This, IMO, hasn't been working.

When I first interviewed him, it had been a couple years since he quit his job and, by my calculations, he was running out of money. You'd think it's not too hard to get a job but Abu has other mental things going on and the possibly of homelessness was a real concern for me. For Abu, not so much, which only made me more worried.

Support the show with a suggested one time donation at $27 or $5 per batch.
Venmo - account.venmo.com/u/ayearfromnow
PayPal - www.paypal.com/paypalme/ayearfromnow
Check in to see how much money we need to raise for the next round of episodes
www.instagram.com/ayearfromnow_podcast/

The music for this episode comes from MUSICAL CORPSES, a live improvised song creation collective. Watch the process on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCW6eKtclEX3BZReuDypE9fw

19 min

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