Episode 48: An Abrupt Existential Jerk
Back to Work
5by5
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2012
⏱️ 78 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
TOPIC: How habits get made.
Dan and Merlin are back for 2012 to discuss how habits are like little hairs or inertia or homeostasis or something. How we build habits, how they get built for us, and what we can learn about habits from making our daily coffee.
Links for this episode:
- Shutting Down My Porno Site | Pat Dryburgh
- Amazon.com: Thinking, Fast and Slow (9780374275631): Daniel Kahneman: Books
- Availability heuristic
- Turn your key, sir!
- Photic sneeze reflex
- kung fu grippe • annicka: zombiesenelghetto: Black Flag,...
- Homeostasis
- Amazon.com: Cuisinart DCC-1200 Brew Central 12-Cup Programmable Coffeemaker, Black/Brushed Metal: Kitchen & Dining
- Food drives: Charities need your money, not your random old food. - Slate Magazine
- Better
- Amazon.com: Sakura IDenti-Pen Permanent Dual-Point Pen, Black: Arts, Crafts & Sewing
- Amazon.com: uni-ball Gel RT Micro Point Retractable Pens, 12 Blue Ink Pens(69035): Office Products
- Amazon.com: uni-ball Deluxe Fine Point Roller Ball Pens, 12 Black Ink Pens (60052): Office Products
- JetPens.com - Japanese Pens and Stationery
- Thinking, Fast and Slow - FT.com
- This explains so much. | MetaFilter
- The Forehead Ticket Trick | 43 Folders
- Useful Landmines - 43FoldersWiki
- Daniel Kahneman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- [SPONSOR] Squarespace.com (use code `bigweek` for 30% off 3 months)
- Between the Lines - Features - Los Angeles magazine
- Antonio Gramsci - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Category:Cognitive biases - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Golden Gate Bridge: Construction Information
- Big Miracle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sponsored by Squarespace and Sponsor 5by5.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello, hi, Merlin. Hello, Dan. How are you? How are you doing? Oh, man, I think I'm hot again. Oh, you're |
| 0:07.8 | hot. No, you're real hot. Yeah, not again. It's a constant thing with you. Always happy new year. |
| 0:14.9 | Are you sick a little bit? Yeah, I'm getting old, getting better. I don't know, crime. And hang on, |
| 0:18.8 | let me see if this works. Hello, hello, hello. I said, okay, my two hot too cold. My hot. I don't |
| 0:24.4 | feel any better. Yeah, not bit. Was that what you were trying trying to do with the coffee? Turn |
| 0:30.7 | ahead and cough just a little bit. Okay. Okay. Now close your eyes and think of England. I didn't say |
| 0:36.8 | Simon says, God, I'd be a terrible doctor. Hi, I still. Hi. Can I ask you a question? You have |
| 0:46.6 | filled under the weather, cough, cold, flu, full of your answer. I don't think anyone can explain |
| 0:52.7 | what a mole is. Now here's the thing. Everybody's going to say, I'll tell you what a mole is. |
| 0:56.4 | It's a unit unit of measure. Exactly. What the what does that mean? |
| 1:01.5 | Everybody has to be a smart people about this and they're like, of course, there's something |
| 1:04.6 | called a mole. I'm like, okay, what is this? There's a certain amount of a thing. I'm like, |
| 1:08.8 | didn't, didn't Niels Bohr invent the mole? No, I think you think of the Heisenberg Borsen plus |
| 1:13.6 | city. No way to miss. That's that's known as a Niels Bohr syndrome. I think you're thinking of |
| 1:19.4 | what's his name? I think you're thinking of Vandero Niels Vandero. It's pronounced Niles. Niles. Niles |
| 1:26.4 | Rogers. Vandero. Do anything special for the effort? Bring in the new year. Some special. |
| 1:33.4 | Oh, I'll bring it all over the place. No, what do you got? Don't don't don't don't don't don't |
| 1:36.3 | kick your heels back a little bit. I had my heels removed years ago. Yeah, it runs in the family. |
| 1:42.3 | I had to get rid of them. They just dry and cracked. Yeah, cough due to cold. My question for you |
| 1:47.5 | is what is your problem? Do you have you got a head cold? Why do people call it a head cold? |
| 1:53.9 | What other kind is this? What is the deal? Hey, do you ever notice this? |
| 1:57.6 | You get a whole plane and it's got weight. No, man, I'm serious. It's a question. I've heard |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from 5by5, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of 5by5 and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

