Episode 593: One of the Eel Women

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4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Sleep, practice, infrastructure, power, and OCD are themes. As per usual.

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⭐️👉 How to wield power to improve the workplace : Invisibilia : NPR — "Bad bosses. Obnoxious coworkers. Unfair compensation. There are so many reasons people feel disempowered in the workplace. But how can our feelings about power enable or disrupt the larger dynamics we hate at work? This week, Yowei Shaw seeks answers from a power researcher and a union organizer." Do not miss!—mdm
hayden #VALANCENATION on Twitter: "taika naptiti: a thread https://t.co/NgeRkDWr1C" / Twitter — Taika Waititi can sleep pretty much anywhere.
Wired.com: 20 years later | Stopdesign — Twenty years ago today, Wired launched a seminal redesign of its website that helped catapult forward web technology and what our industry understood as possible for commercial websites.
Amazon.com: Scrub Mommy Dual-Sided Sponge and Scrubber - 3ct : Health & Household
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) - Reference View - IMDb — A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush.
Plague Of Tics - This American Life — David Sedaris tells a story from his boyhood, when a voice inside his head commanded him to lick every light switch and tap his forehead with his heel. It's from his book Naked.
Merlin's Playlist: "Pretty Maids" — These are runs of two or more consecutive album tracks that rule. If you play the first song, you must play the others. I do not, as @darth says, make the rules.
How To Use The Phrygian Mode | Beginner Guitar HQ
Leonard Cohen - "Suzanne" (1967) - YouTube
Lou Reed - "I Love You, Suzanne" (1984) - YouTube
Amazon.com: Farberware FDW05ASBWHA Complete Portable Countertop Dishwasher with 5-Liter Built-in Water Tank, 5 Programs, Baby Care, Glass & Fruit Wash-Black/White : Appliances — Merlin's hilarious but kind of adorable "dishwasher."
The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play: Fiore, Neil: 8601400338544: AmazonSmile: Books

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0:00.0	Hey, how are you ready to go?
0:03.0	Oh, yeah.
0:07.0	All right.
0:08.0	You okay?
0:09.0	I'm good.
0:10.0	You sound blue.
0:11.0	No.
0:12.0	Are you blue?
0:13.0	No.
0:14.0	Huh.
0:15.0	You sure?
0:16.0	Yep.
0:17.0	Do you want to use this as an opportunity to air some grievances?
0:20.0	No, I'm ready to get started.
0:21.0	Do you want me to walk you through it, talk you through it?
0:24.0	Yeah, I mean, if you want, sure.
0:26.0	I mean, is this a show or are we doing it?
0:28.0	Yeah, it is.
0:29.0	Yeah, I've got a lot of requests for this.
0:31.0	It seems a little blue.
0:33.0	Maybe Merle and she'll walk them through it, talk them through it.
0:35.0	Okay.
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