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Show Notes:
- Intro and Leftovers (0:00-13:16)
- Ben gets 500 shares of ODP
- Bank accidentally deposits $120,000 in couple’s account; they spend most of it, then get charged with theft
- In the Year 2000…
- Is Josh “the life of the party” or an introvert?
- Bad at English AKA British Word of the Day (13:16-15:21)
- Magic: the Gathering and the player psychographics (15:21-24:21)
- Timmy, Johnny, and Spike by Mark Rosewater – March 2002
- The basics of the 3 player psychographic profiles
- Timmy, Johnny, and Spike Revisited by Mark Rosewater – March 2006
- Expanding the definitions and adding Vorthos
- Timmy, Johnny, and Spike by Mark Rosewater – March 2002
- Kids and Cell Phones (24:21-33:53)
- South Park: Mr Biggles [WARNING: language]
- Avril Lavigne vs. the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (33:53-49:18)
- Avril Lavigne says Lyme disease symptoms left her in bed for 2 years
- Review: Avril Lavigne, in Chicago on her first tour in five years, proved she is still pop’s punk princess
- The Chicago Theater & St. Louis’ Powell Hall
- Setlist.fm – the Setlist Wiki *MUST SEE*
- Review: An inspiring Mahler ‘Resurrection’ Symphony at Powell Hall
- Scarcity: the new science of having less and how it defines our lives (49:24-1:42:50)
- Understanding the Mindset of Scarcity
- The Focus Dividend: the benefit of scarcity that helps you zero in on the important thing
- Tunneling: filtering out non-essential things to focus on the scarcity
- Bandwidth tax: things outside the tunnel that get neglected because of tunneling
- The University of Minnesota starvation experiment
- Understanding the Impact of Scarcity
- The Scarcity trap: having scarcity causes you to make bad decisions that perpetuates the scarcity
- Slack: an abundance that allows you to absorb unexpected shocks to the relevant resource
- Shock: something unexpected that stresses your resources and causes scarcity
- Applying the lessons of that Understanding
- Freakonomics was by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, Ben
- The Strategic Cost of Cumulative Overhead, by Ben Rich on LinkedIn.com
- Ben’s Home vs. Deployed productivity pie chart from 2011
- Life is Chores, Highness
- Understanding the Mindset of Scarcity
- Wrap-Up (1:42:50-end)