How do you approach reclaiming or disavowing your creative outputs that you don't love?

This week, Aaron, Joey, and Jess talk about Smithee-ing, TV edits, résumé writing, Spike Jonze, sportsball, and the DC Universe. They don’t talk about Cordwainer Bird.

references

• "God of Wine"
• Alan Smithee on IMDB
• Spike Jonze
• Charles Barkley
• The Room
• Spread your wings

How good is hi-res for our imagination? [Insert mid-way time-stamp]

This week, Aaron and Jess talk about smoothing, the boundless powers of creativity, Smell-O-Phone/Vision, imagination reconstruction, gaming, and nurturing our sense of play. They don’t talk about NHL 98 on Sega Genesis.

references

• The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
• Why It's SO Hard to Find a Game You ACTUALLY Like
• Harvard Business Review: How Generative AI Can Augment Human Creativity
• Everything Everywhere All At Once - Hot Dog Fingers Scene
• The Simpsons - 1950's Super Panavision 70
• A Minecraft Movie

How do we make people feel seen?

This week, Joey, Jess, and Aaron talk about the burden of eyes, privacy, showing, acknowledging, surprise parties, and social anxieties. They don’t talk about the Talking Heads.

references

• Dreaming about Cranberries, sans muffin.
• Revisiting Critical Nonsense 302! Thought Bottling
• Critical Incident Stress Debriefing: Helpful, Harmful, or Neither?
• Observer Principle
• Hidden Brain Podcast: Relationships 2.0: The Price of Disconnection

How are we processing uncertainty differently?

This week, Joey and Jess talk about Punxsutawney Phil, tariffs, the meme recession, Jason Bourne, Edmonton, and Sam Cooke. They don’t talk about the bleak and endless hopelessness of it all.

references

• Corrections Department: There's air in between you and I (even if we're not seventeen)
• Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
• "A Change Is Gonna Come"
• Corrections Department: The eleven studio albums Sam Cooke recorded and released before his death in 1964

When do we tool or not tool?

This week, Jess and Joey talk about rules aversion, AI, devil hamsters, banana slicers, tool expertise, and simplicity. They don’t talk about gaffer tape.

references

• Inc.: After a Tragedy, a Year of Magical Thinking for Sylvain
• Arc welding

What do you think makes us spoiled?

This week, Jess, Joey, and Aaron talk about The Lululemon Index, air travel, gender-based differences, hard work, Warren Buffett, and shrooms. They don’t offer any spoiler alerts.

references

• The Mycelium Network

Bonus episode: A takeover! Aaron shares his latest edition from SYLVAIN’s Progress Report newsletter: To Follow or Not to Follow.

For more from SYLVAIN's Progress Report, see progressbysylvain.co.

How should we start bottling things up?

This week, Joey and Jess talk about undesired thoughts, Nietzsche, folk wisdom, Marie Kondo, baggage, and forgetting. They don’t talk about the Young "Black" Teenagers.

references

• perseverate
• Improving mental health by training the suppression of unwanted thoughts