🧪Podcast Potion | Writing, the unknown, soften, third places, how does fruit ripen, president or king, simulate hardship
Week of January 27th
Hi Friends, I’m so happy to be here with you today, even if just through the written word and the sharing of some of the most insightful conversations I heard this week!
Here’s the top 7, one from each day…
Monday//When We Write We Think
Six Pixels of Separation | Roland Allen On Notebooks And Thinking | Jan 19 2025 | 1 hr 7 min
“I think we are going to go back towards a more handwritten paper culture in terms of education certainly. I think that the iPad in the classroom has had its high water mark.”
-Roland Allen
Tuesday//Most Of Life Is Unknown
Hidden Brain | Wellness 2.0: The Art of the Unknown | Jan 27 2025 | 54 min
“Every moment that I have is influencing the future in some ripple effect that I don’t know how it’s going to play out. There’s something so magical and awe-inspiring about that, that it has just utterly transformed the way I think about my life and its made me a much happier person.”
-Brian Klaas
Wednesday//Relax Your Grip
Moving Forward with Jen Baker | Moving Forward with Romay | Jan 27 2025 | 42 min
“The goal is always to soften, to relax that grip and allow what our body is wanting to process, to process, because the emotions that we don’t express naturally in life those are the ones that get suppressed in our bodies. An emotion is energy in motion, it’s real, it’s not like voodoo magic…this energy is real and it’s actually measurable in our somatic bodies, in our actual cellular structure…”
-Romay Nichols
Thursday//More Third Places Please
Fresh Air | The Anti-Social American Life | Jan 29 2025 | 49 min
“Between the early 1900s and 1950 we built a ton of what the sociologist Eric Klinenberg called social infrastructure. We built library branches, community centers, and public pools. And we built places for people to spend time outside of their home and their work. In the last 50 to 70 years we haven’t built nearly as much of this stuff.
Third space or third place is a term some people have… it’s the place you choose to be with people you are not related to and you’re not financially obligated to be around them…”
-Derek Thomas
Friday//The Fruit You Buy At The Grocery Store
Radiolab | Forever Fresh | January 31 2025 | 35 min
“Ethylene is the cue to the banana to ripen…and you have 48 hours to get it to the grocery store before it starts turning into banana bread. […] It (ethylene) ripens bananas and avocados, it keeps celery white, it prevents it from turning green, it turns lemons yellow, and oranges orange. And every lemon you buy has basically been blasted with ethylene to be yellow.
-Nicola Twilley
Saturday// How Could You Simulate Hardship?
The Interview (The New York Times) | Digital Drugs Have Us Hooked. Dr Anna Lembke Sees a Way Out. | Feb 1 2025 | 44 min
“Given this world of abundance…Because our lives have become so easy, so convenient, so sedentary, the default is a state of consumption that ultimately isn’t good for our bodies or our minds. So I do think that we have to simulate hardship and intentionally create inconvenience and create struggle for ourselves.”
-Anna Lembke
Sunday// He Wants To Be King
The Ezra Klein Show | Don’t Believe Him | Feb 2 2025 | 15 min
“Trump is acting like a king because he’s too weak to govern like a president. He’s trying to substitute deception for reality.”
-Ezra Klein
Did you find anything interesting? I promise these are all worth your time!
Bye for now,
Charissa :)
PS: I’ll be back tomorrow, Monday, with another favorite audio rec!