Listen "Episode 110 – Failing Well"
Episode Synopsis
Show Notes
Josh advocates for sending signals through colored Trick-or-Treat buckets, Ben finishes reading “The New Jim Crow” and the hosts show why being Bad @ things is OK thanks to the lens of Amy Edmundson’s “Spectrum of Causes of Failures”.
Intro & Follow-up (0-27:25)
109 IS a prime number
Dear Hank and John return after Hank’s cancer
Marvel Magic cards
Bad at social cues (27:25-40:52)
Colored Halloween Buckets
It’s Not OK to Police Co-Workers’ Pronouns
What I’m Reading (40:52-57:45)
Josh
The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
Ben
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Making It So – A Memoir by Patrick Stewart
Feature – Bad at Failure (57:45-end)
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 2: Life and Death – Freakonomics Radio
Michael Scott being an Amazing Salesman supercut
Do your taxes for free on IRS.gov
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