The Armen Show

Daniel Kahneman wrote the book Thinking, Fast and Slow when I reached out for an interview, he wasn’t inclined to take part today’s episode of Hidden Brain podcast included him in on their 100th people are too busy to work with you mainly if you don’t bring enough value find out how you can bring more, or if the situation fits you included some tangential messages about life and understanding

Steven Pinker has a recent book called Enlightenment Now about progress it includes descriptions of humanity’s growth in wealth/health/life quality here I discussed some of the charts in it and what they represent includes content on global GDP changes and child mortality rates message of the book is that the baseline of the world population has risen recommended by Bill Gates as one of top 2 books of 2018 so far

welcome speech pathologist Rachel Hart to episode 130 she received her M.S. in Speech Language Pathology at Cal State East Bay we discussed speech therapy and the importance of the field the presence of Xanga and temporally specific sites/services of past usage went over some books of note because you know we always include books brought up some of the background behind my content-making intro/ending/transition music made by Alex from episode 48

when I was little I was in spelling bee competition at a county spelling bee I got nervous and spelled slingshot wrong those times when you focus on something are remembered later did you take part in some cool periods of focus or competitions? be the sharpened pencil and not the one that is not sharpened

doubling of numbers on the scale of 2s potentially will create a video or content that catalogs all my making having a record of things you have done is key for new people to see the things we say today look old in a few years stick with your viewpoint in the face of adversity

did a vlog with Gia who came from a physics conference in LA she is into physics, and many scientists I interviewed were there the vlogs go up on The Armen Show channel on Youtube you can run into people who share some interests Gia did a comedy show touring across the country about science

society is becoming more exclusive over time in this current cycle this is visible through interacting with Los Angeles County it is worth looking at past trends and how they relate to the moment access to the individuals of high control reduces by percents yearly getting into places labeled as nice is less doable for the average person

we look at the display around us: is it made for us? or is it for us to make? do you act for or to that which is around? the choosing is of your own is it a decision, or was it to be already?

gave out awards near Runyon Canyon you can make your own thing and have people be part of it don’t always get caught up in others stuff the rain is done and gone away

I saw someone have a seizure after falling from a chair no one responded until I got up and made a point of the moment the fire department came and took the person away look at the responses of the people around you and what they do we have chances in life to show how we lead the moment