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Hello and welcome back to BigMood, LittleMood. I'm your host, Daniel M. Levery.

And with me in the studio, this week is Rose Tremlet, who writes a weekly advice and lifehack column

and co-hosts an optimization podcast for the online edition of the German National newspaper

Dietzeit. Rose, welcome to the show. It's an honor and a privilege to be here, Danny.

I'm so pleased that you're here and I think it's kind of fun and interesting that I was so

anxious about pronouncing Dietzeit correctly that I ended up mispronouncing my own name and the word

podcast and had to retake your intro several times, which they're both very challenging. It's fine.

It just goes to show that the Wacomall principle applies to pretty much any situation that you

can think of and wherever you're looking. I know that the Wacomall principle.

Wherever you're looking for danger, it will pop up right next to it instead.

How is that going? How is the optimization guidance for Germans going as a sort of pursuit of life?

It's going very well. Thank you. I've been doing the column for a long while now,

released it feels long. It's a weekly thing. I try to answer reader questions as often as I can

and the reader questions are coming in more and more as time goes on. It's become a permanent

fixture of the weekend section. That's really cool. The podcast is doing great. We're just about

to kick off our new season, but we've decided to move away from the seasons model and go to just

straight every two weeks for the rest of time. I'm really excited about that because I didn't enjoy

taking a break. That was too. I don't like being far away from podcasts. I like to be near podcasts.

That makes a great deal of sense. I have a lot of questions about how particularly Germans

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