Mere Mortals Conversations

You feel that ....... it feels 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…

How do you say in a foreign language 'sorry I ruined your birthday cake' eeeep.

In Episode #345 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: why I yeeted my friends cake all over myself and my car, how Juan changed up his reading style of Ryan Holiday's 'Stillness Is The Key' to finish his monthly goals, why…

Are past humans enough like us to learn from and if so, what do you try to apply to look forward in time?

In Episode #344 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: how a 5am question brought this about, viewing 50 year old people as young, why the coming generations might have it easy, whether technology could mitigate the worse points…

Will any of us live to 150, and if so, are we essentially immortal?

In Episode #343 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: the annoying fact that time goes fast when you're having fun, ways to slow time without it being unpleasant, the hubris of life extension scientists, people whose actions are markedly different from…

How are you developing your character to become a better person?

In Episode #342 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: the new change to releasing episodes at 7pm AEST, how leadership is important for a companies character, the difficulty of changing innate personality traits, the good characteristics we look for in people, an…

Juan gives us a debrief of his freezing Tassie trip and I explain my recent NFT investigations.

In Episode #341 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: why Juan absolutely loved the MONA in Hobart, having fun with randoms in an art exhibit, intentionally exposing yourself to cold, our appreciation of companies with…

It's a wild and crazy world out there. So we'll be going over our ideas on how to tune it out and find some tranquility.

In Episode #340 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: Ryan Holiday's book called 'Stillness Is The Key', Juan's definition involving external influences, a lack of stillness whilst…

What exactly is money to you?

In Episode #339 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: why rich people can move mountains and alter reality, how BTC, ICO's and DEFI/NFT's where the last 3 crypto trends, why Juan thinks things will only get more centralised in the next 4 years, how a 9/5 job made me stupid and examples of…

It's a slightly uncomfortable topic this week as we're examining our worst habits and how we deal with them.

In Episode #338 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: why my backsliding required I bring this up, examples from each of us in where we are failing, how our minds are quite different, why there is no one-stop…

What could be more selfish than defending our eyes from swooping birds, we must be so greedy :(

In Episode #337 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: all our recent altercations with birds in the QLD springtime, why I struggle to connect with animals and likely will never have a pet, a therapy session on whether I am leading my…