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The Inforium

How to Have a Social Life When You Can't Leave the House (Ep. 14)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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

4.8998 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Being stuck at home doesn't mean we have to become a bunch of lonely loners. We talk about how to maintain a social life when you can't go out.

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0:55.7

Then the worst is probably worse than you have anticipated.

1:00.8

But yeah, we were just talking about how like, you know, there's, what if you just walked away

1:05.0

from your email inbox? What's the worst that could happen? Would you, would you die?

1:10.1

I don't think so. You probably, you probably wouldn't. Unless, except for very specific cases,

1:14.4

let's say that you needed a life-saving medication and you exclusively use email. That's fair.

1:19.6

That's fair. In that case, you should check your email. Or you signed up to the government's email

1:24.4

alerts on which day is wrecking ball swinging through general thoroughfare's day.

1:30.8

Like most of us do. And then you didn't check your email and you walked out the same spam wrecking ball.

1:38.8

But honestly, the homework of a good government is email alerts about that kind of thing.

1:43.3

Not, not a phone alert, not like an amber alert. No, it's, it's your email.

1:47.3

My client would like to file suit against the United States government because the spam

1:54.3

filters on Gmail sent his wrecking ball alert to spam. And now he's gravely injured. Yeah.

2:00.9

This is unacceptable. All right. We're going to do an episode about social lives today.

2:09.4

You know, which implies that we each have one that may be a stretch. I would say I have the word

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