What if we've become less willing to sacrifice our pawns to take the queen?

This week, Jess and Joey talk about Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Obama, game theory, defaulting to passion, and nuclear weapons. They don’t talk about David Lightman.

references

• The Ezra Klein Show: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines
• Nash equilibrium
• Mutual assured destruction
• A Beautiful Mind
• Pareto principle

What's in your notes?

This week, Aaron and Jess talk about internet chalk, bottle lining, the Pantry Challenge, gold bars, word clothes, and golden milk. They don’t talk about Gold Bond powder.

references

• Heinz Breakfast Ketchup
• Paris is Burning trailer
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
• Chinotto
• Astral Chain
• Bossa Bros and Nara
• Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell

How much do you think you can change your personality?

This week, Joey and Jess talk about life satisfaction, sad auras, nominative determinism, nature versus nurture, Martin Seligman, magical meat sacks. They don’t talk about marinade bags.

references

• Forbes: How Singer-Songwriter EJAE Found Rumi’s Voice In ‘KPop Demon Hunters’
• @thetalesoftayls' sad aura tweet
• Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Most people's life satisfaction matches their personality traits: True correlations in multitrait, multirater, multisample data. [PDF]
• Nominative determinism
• Eeyore
• Martin Seligman
• Dungeon Crawler Carl