Episode 21: Assistant TO the Regional Monkey
Back to Work
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2011
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Merlin and Dan talk about the problem of permanent zeroes, desiring not to desire, why "hypocrisy" is killing you, stepping back on the path without apologizing, Merlin's new tattoo, and—yeah—going a little easier on yourself.
Also, how almost everything is like a glass of water and John Siracusa is literally and uniquely Squidward.
Links for this episode:
- Heraclitus - The Fragments
- Schadenfreude - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Wire (TV Series 2002–2008) - IMDb
- Sarlacc - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki
- the size of tiny changes in the heart
- [audio] Alan Watts: “Yet, here we are.”…"You are a wave of the stream itself. So, get with it!" - kung fu grippe
- [audio] Introduction to Buddhism by Alan Watts
- The Philosophies of Asia--Alan Watts (Introduction to Buddhism)
- The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything : Monkey See : NPR
- Maha-satipatthana Sutta: The Great Frames of Reference
- The Agendas of Mindfulness
- Brahmana Sutta: To Unnabha the Brahman
- Right Now by Thanissaro Bhikkhu | D.I.Y. Dharma
- The 84th Problem
- Mindfulness: The practice of being "here" | 43 Folders
- Lifehacked by Matt Haughey; mindfulness, ho | 43 Folders
- Sometimes There's a Man - mlkshk
- Decision Maker Pro
- Untranslatability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- B2W Squarespace Signup (coupon code: "backtowork6")
- "Adulthood ultimately means becoming a hypocrite on your own terms."
- "People who regard honesty & hypocrisy as incompatible strike me as either dishonest, hypocritical, or both. Is that hypocritical? You bet."
- "David Simon: 'F*ck the Average Reader'" - kung fu grippe
- Wabi-sabi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- After Dark #30: After Back To Work 021 - 5by5
- Jan Tschichold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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| 0:24.0 | So last time we talked about starting things. |
| 0:28.0 | You want to start the show? |
| 0:30.0 | Yeah, let's start it up. |
| 0:31.0 | How's it going? |
| 0:32.0 | It's going good, how are you? |
| 0:33.0 | Good week, good week here. |
| 0:35.0 | Good week, good, good, good week. |
| 0:37.0 | I've been reading a lot. |
| 0:39.0 | And I've been talking to you on the phone like four times this week. |
| 0:42.0 | Yeah, we talked a lot. |
| 0:43.0 | A lot more than usual, which is good. I see it as good. |
| 0:46.0 | Do you? I like talking to you on the phone. |
| 0:48.0 | You get a little mood sometimes on the phone. |
| 0:50.0 | You get a little like a clown sometimes on the phone, but I like that. |
| 0:52.0 | A clown like me. |
| 0:53.0 | People don't get that. |
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