Take Back the Day Sam Beckbessinger & Simon Dingle

What gives things value, and how much should we be worried about that? Sam and Simon discover that everything is rubbish, and along the way mention:



Veblen goods
A lot of garbage things that don't deserve extra attention here
Cryptotrunks
Cryptokitties
Sir Digby
Vaccines: A Measured Response
Google Keep
Semiphemeral
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Bo Burnam

Prolific heat-thieves Sam and Simon talk about keeping shit together on this sixtieth episode of Take Back the Day. Things mentioned in this episode:



Radiolab's Kleptotherms podcast.
The Overstory by Richard Powers.
Sam's crazy productivity system (subscribe to her newsletter too).
Simon's silly ZARP website.
Survive the Century climate-change game.
The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel.
Moss and their crypto carbon credits.

When do we self-sabotage? How do we break out of cycles? Can we form new habits? Why did Sam choose to move to a frigid, muddy island off the coast of Europe? We ponder all these questions and more in this episode of Take Back the Day, and along the way we mention:



Steven Pressfield and the War of Art.
Mr. Ferriss.
BF Skinner and his superstitious pigeons.
Atomic Habits by James Clear.
Ira Glass.
How to With John Wilson.
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake.

Yo yo yo. It's another episode of Sam and Simon Speak on the Internet™, bitches! In this episode they touch on:



The stupid US elections.
Simon's stupid book.
Sam's amazing book.
M O N E Y .
Behavioural.... economics?
Vanguard.
Sam's newsletter (sign up!).
Satrix MSCI World ETF (it's a thing you can invest in).
Sam's thing she loves: Geocaching.
Simon's thing he thinks is pretty cool: Wave Accounting.

Sam and Simon are making new things, and talking about it on the internet. Some of the things they mention along the way:



Notion
Super
Product Hunt
Our friend Lauren ♥
Dr. Bronner's - All-One!
Gumroad

Sam and Simon discuss the contents of their bug (or go) bags and what's needed to survive the apocolypse. They also discuss our incredible ability to make things normal, and how careful we have to be about what we allow to become regular things.


Stuff mentioned in this episode:



The Good Place
The Prepared
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Radiolab's Atomic Artifacts episode
Survival biscuits?
Lettuce
Hedonic Adaptation
Our sun entering a 'solar minimum' period
Susan Sontag
Highland 2 word processor
Microsoft Fluid 🤯