The Chaos Doctrine

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Tidiness is tyranny, and Tim Harford is here to set you free. The author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives makes the case for routine-busting labor strikes, cluttered desks, and leaving your emails unsorted. He also explains why we're smart to want scatterbrained musicians and orderly accountants. Harford writes the Undercover Economist column for the Financial Times. For the Spiel, exciting times! Let's dig into the Indiana tax code. Today's sponsors: Rocket Mortgage from Quicken Loans. Rocket Mortgage brings the mortgage process into the 21st century with an easy online process. Check out Rocket Mortgage today at QuickenLoans.com/gist. InterContinental Hotels & Resorts. Take a multisensory journey into the InterContinental life and discover the Empathy stories where you learn about other cultures and expand your own life simultaneously. Download the Empathy audio stories on iTunes. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.4	["The New York State My State"]
0:07.7	It's Friday, December 2, 2016.
0:10.6	From Slated to the Gest, I'm Mike Pasca, New York State,
0:13.4	my state went ahead with signs that the federal government
0:17.4	looked at and said, oh, too noisy.
0:20.0	Too much info.
0:21.8	Over there, it says, I love New York.
0:23.8	Over there, it says, where to stay.
0:25.4	Over there, it says, where to eat.
0:27.5	New York's highway signs are too loud, too busy, too pushy.
0:32.2	In other words, America thinks New York signs
0:34.7	are too much like New Yorkers.
0:36.3	Oh, maybe we should have California signs.
0:39.4	Sleeping in full laid back, but passive aggressive.
0:43.3	Next up, gas.
0:45.0	If you really want to kill the birds, bro.
0:47.7	Or maybe like South Carolina signs, which
0:50.0	seems so sweet on the surface, but underneath pretty dark.
0:53.3	Next up, Lodgein.
0:55.3	Kozy, home in Lodgein.
0:57.8	Or maybe for you, and continue on the road a little while.
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