5 Questions: Social Media, Pets, and How to Choose a Foreign Language (Ep. 211)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

Personal Branding, Career, Productivity, Business, Learning, Lifehacking, College, University, Education, 101, Lifestyle Design, Work Smart, Class

4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this five questions episode, we talk about healthy social media use, balancing pets with a busy life, explaining an unimpressive resume, book formats, and how to choose a foreign language. Full show notes This week’s episode is sponsored by: Skillshare — with over 20,000 courses in a wide range of different skills, Skillshare can help you take things to the next level. Get started with 2 months of unlimited learning for just 99¢ at Skillshare.com/cig. Things mentioned in this episode: The College Info Geek Podcast on Facebook Tom on Instagram Tom on Twitter Martin on Instagram Martin on Twitter The College Info Geek Community on Reddit How to Get Into Tea (Ep. 207) Freedom The Happiness Advantage, by Shawn Achor Buffer (iOS | Android) Flume FocalFilter SelfControl Cold Turkey Blocker The Kennel Club PetSmart Dogtime's Dog Matchup Purina's Dog Breed Selector Music Theory 101, by Marc Schonbrun and Brian Boone Young Guru's profile and courses on Skillshare How to Write a Great Resume and Cover Letter (Ep. 209) Weapons of Influence #1: Reciprocation (Ep. 186) LessWrong Duolingo (iOS | Android) LanguagePod101 iTalki (iOS | Android) Rype Tom's music channel on YouTube Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. Timestamps: 0:10:12 - Using social media while also not wasting time on it 0:23:39 - How to take care of a pet if you're always busy 0:31:25 - Sponsor: Skillshare (Learning new skills) 0:33:28 - Applying to internships without much job experience 0:39:56 - Audio books, e-books or paper books? 0:46:41 - Learning a language by "dating" it for a while 0:55:16 - Conclusion If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also [le See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:37.2	podcast. I'm back from Iowa.
0:39.8	Oh man. You're back from Iowa?
0:41.4	That is also true. I'm pretty pumped to get this week. Well I can't say start the week because it's Thursday, but to finish out the week strong. Though I heard that you're not feeling as energetic today. No, I'm dying. Care to tell the audience why?
0:58.6	Because I spent six hours from 10 to 4 in the morning moving the site to a new server?
1:05.8	And I seem to remember a slack message from you saying it won't take very long.
1:11.0	Yeah I put a window I was like time between 8 and 6 a.m.
1:14.0	it probably won't take that long, but we'll see.
1:16.0	And then I took most of that.
1:18.0	Yeah.
1:19.0	Well, it was prudent of you to give the window and to make it conservative.
1:22.0	That's the stuff goes wrong.
1:23.0	Computers are dumb.
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