Mere Mortals

You hear that ....... it sounds like it's goal time.

Do you set yourself monthly goals and if so, how many do you set? Juan and I on the first week of every month go over our progress from the previous month and where we are heading for the next. Emphasis as always is on the shortcomings; what we didn't achieve in the previous…

Today is a mix of physical training and philosophical pondering, as all good podcasts should be!

In Episode #319 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: how my brother is eating 5 servings of fruits and veg to glow up, whether there is any merit in forcing people to do things for 'the greater good', Juan's…

So how much do we care about food? Well it turns out not that much!

In Episode #318 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: why our taste of food is lower than the average, how our lifestyles impact our food choices, the Spartan Juan life of tuna/beans/chicken/bread, why we both need partners who are better cooks than we are, my…

Odd stuff all around this week. Juan actually worked, I exposed my sock fetish and weird photos from space.

In Episode #317 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: why we enjoy manual labour but only in small doses, trying to explain BTC to my dad, how I met and lost a kindred soul, why Dothraki was copyrighted and Luis von Ahn…

I'm going to become a world class handbalancer, here is my plan on how I want to do this.

In Episode #316 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: what it means to be world class at something, why conscious effort on improving and fixing mistakes is critical, a common occurrence of people getting injured whilst trying to show…

Why did Juan cause a car crash?

In Episode #315 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: the random as disturbance on a narrow road, our disagreement on being left behind and getting overwhelmed by new tech, the Tim Ferriss episode with Balaji, slang and how words get invented or adopted, Oscar Merry's podcast app and why…

Are there any current trends that will impact history as much as 9/11, COVID, social media or the iPhone?

In Episode #314 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: how this topic could be easy to confuse, how history is quite subjective, what type of moments matter to an individual, why current hot topics aren't necessarily…

Alexander Watanabe is an artist, coder, architect and creator of the 'Unsigned Algorithms' on the Cardano blockchain.

In Conversation #76, Alexander and I discuss: why he had the time to read lots of books during his useless undergraduate, how he went about creating the code for his NFT's on-chain, his views on art and…

Juan has been teaching his family about Ethereum and I've been changing the way I look at the difference between Bitcoin and everything else.

In Episode #313 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: how a Piccolo latte should be made, how The Coffee Club screwed over Juan (again lol), reading Saifedean Ammous's book on…

How do we physically and mentally prepare ourselves for periods of productivity?

In Episode #312 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: whether it is possible to be jacked and going all the time, why routine can take away effort in hyping oneself up, how we trigger ourselves into focused concentration, why Juan likes the Ultradian…