The Best of The Upgrade 2019
The Upgrade by Lifehacker
Lifehacker
4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
It’s that time of year again! Time for our annual roundup of our very favorite Upgrade moments of 2019. And we’ve had so many—from touring a fecal transplant lab to improving our memorization muscles, this year has been chock-full of life-enhancing upgrades. Prepare for 2020 by hearing this collection of advice on how to be a better conversationalist, how to make or break a habit, how to negotiate like a pro, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the upgrade, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief |
| 0:21.8 | of LifeHacker. And I'm Alice Bradley, LifeHackers Deputy Editor. And today, as is our annual tradition, |
| 0:29.1 | we are celebrating the end of the year and bringing you the best of the upgrade for 2019. |
| 0:35.6 | That's right. We'll be playing highlights from some of our favorite conversations |
| 0:38.8 | with guests like Celeste Headley, |
| 0:41.3 | Farnoosh Tarabi, |
| 0:42.4 | Ramit Sati, and more. |
| 0:44.2 | We learned so many things in 2019. |
| 0:46.9 | Remember how we learned to improve our memory? |
| 0:48.9 | I don't. |
| 0:51.8 | How about how we learned |
| 0:53.0 | how to be better conversationalists? |
| 0:56.2 | And how to treat our microbiome better. |
| 0:58.5 | And most importantly, how to tell if we're dying. |
| 1:00.8 | Later on, Alice and I will be sharing our upgrades of the year. |
| 1:04.8 | Yes, not mere upgrades of the past week, but our biggest, most life-changing upgrades of 2019. |
| 1:10.5 | Get ready. It's going to be bananas. |
| 1:12.4 | Oh, my God. Should we go over some of the upgrades, upgrades from 2019 before we dive in? |
| 1:17.8 | I think we should. All right. Let's see. We moved offices from the very unsheek, flat iron district of |
| 1:25.2 | Manhattan to the cool happening heart of it all in Times Square. |
| 1:29.2 | Yeah, that will happen in Times Square. Yeah, right upstairs from Planet H. And I think listeners can tell |
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