What are /r/gimlet's favorite Products & Services?

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Aside from the anxiety, can I just say how much I love Gregor? Was glad to hear him in this episode; he's hilarious.

Post-listen edit: I disagree with a lot (all?) of the posters here. Joey seems incredibly encouraged at the end. Social anxiety sucks, but it is something we have to practice and get better at overcoming. He felt his roommates hated him for being weird and now realizes it's not some character flaw he's doomed to live with; it's an easily fixable issue.

There is a great podcast episode about social anxiety (I will search and link later) about the fact that younger people aren't forced to socially interact as much as they used to be (since we can do so much via technology) that they don't get the practice that they need to succeed in these interactions, and that fear of failure is what gives them that anxiety. The doctor doesn't even suggest that people combat the anxiety and then deal with the situations, but that they learn as they go, which is what I feel was done here.

Good Life Project: How to Rise Above Social Anxiety.

Snigdha is a very reputable journalist for the Hindustan Times. She just wrote a book about young people in India.

I had a theory that they thought I was trying to blackmail them, but I couldn't confirm it, because I wasn't going to blackmail them. It is bolstered by Kamal saying in one of our phone calls "Instead of coming to me, go for them. You'll get more money from there. Because if you come to me you won't get anything. So you're wasting your time."

This is the worst. I will unsubscribe from any Gimlet podcast if this persists. The Koch brothers are working very successfully toward a medieval caste system in America. They literally hate democracy.

"Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding"

• You and your Racist Friend, They Might Be Giants

So to summarize their main talking points regarding account security:

• Check out Have I been pwned to see if your account details have been leaked. Make sure to change your password on these services, and if you use the same password on other services, change those as well.
• To minimize the damage of leaked account details, make sure you use unique passwords on all your services. To ease managing unique passwords, use a password manager. Apple has a built-in password manager, iCloud Keychain, with a unique password generator in their devices that's pretty good if you only use Apple devices. There are a bunch of third-party dedicated services as well that works cross-platform. My favourite is 1Password.
• Use two-factor authentication whenever available. This makes sure that you need approval from a trusted device before being able to log in to a service, which prevents hackers from accessing your account even if they have somehow gotten hold on the password.

When someone makes the mix the for 88% P(A(R(E(N(T(H(E(T(I(C(A(L(S))))))))))))) intro, I hope they cut in this scene:

Dana Chivvis: There’s a shrimp sale at the Crab Crib.

Sarah Koenig: Sometimes I think Dana isn’t listening to me.

I just encountered this issue trying to buy a replacement power supply for a Lenovo laptop. When I search for the part number, most of the results are chinese knockoffs - however there is one listing listed as 'Amazon Choice', that shows Lenovo as the supplier - however when you look at the 'Sold By', it's a bunch of different resellers, and the comments are all over the place. Some people say they received a genuine Lenovo product, the others say they received a chinese knockoff.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RMOYFZI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I really have no way of knowing which supplier is selling the genuine Lenovo product, and am just trusting that the 'default' seller for this listing that amazon marked as Amazon Choice is the valid reseller.

Will see when the package arrives I guess!

I see what you're saying, but some of the features of the app are not just about being "open" but report stats that are supposed to highlight potential "problems". It keeps track of how many likes and views are given and received between people (to my understanding), with the assumption that spikes with individuals might be cheating behavior.

I'm poly anyway, so I wouldn't be in a relationship where I was expected to feel guilty for interacting with people on my own that I like. But that feature feeds some frustrating relationship conspiracy theory.

I did find this by googling "Gobekli tepe cement":

>The main temple at Nevalı Çori was dated to around 8,000 BC, perhaps a thousand years later than Göbekli Tepe. The cult complexes at the settlement had a number of features in common with Göbekli Tepe, such as a terrazzo-style lime cement floor

Yep. A quick Amazon search found this one. And, as bonesawsready said, a serious cyclist likely has a second bike for taking kids to the park, instead of a $5k carbon bike.

Not saying the one on the show was a bad product, but it's a crowded market and it's a relatively inexpensive product.

This is the one I'm using, it does seem to be legit, I guess they're just not charging on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.touchlab.android.onesecondeveryday&hl=en_GB&referrer=utm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_term%3Dapp+store+1+second+everyday&pcampaignid=APPU_1_hlS-WtrRFpm9gAaZ74q4Cg

O you have android. Go to the play store and download podcast addict. You can download them to your phone; if you really want to you can transfer them off you phone to your pc, but I would suggest just using your phone. If you want an help setting it up I'm happy to help.

Edit - here's a link to podcast addict on the play store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bambuna.podcastaddict

Another recommendation, though there's not nearly as much of it: The Empty Bowl, a super chill podcast about cereal, co-hosted by a McElroy (Justin) and the creator of the cereal blog Cerealously, Dan Goubert.

Looking for the tree-planting search engine thing? I had to replay that part of the podcast and then figure out how to spell the name. Maybe this will save someone else the trouble: Ecosia is the search company. (Not acosia which is what it sounded like they were saying to me but of course not because eco- but yeah I'm a little dumb.

Player.fm Their website sucks but the app rocks. It syncs across devices and saves your playlists to the cloud. Then if your phone crashes, you do not have to painstakingly recreate your podcast feed - been there done that.

Your point two and three conflict with each other. A big reason why puberty blockers are so important is because they stop the kid from experiencing the mental anguish of going through the puberty of the wrong sex. Also it is much, much easier to transition and successfully pass as your desired gender if you never went through the wrong puberty.

I highly recommend the book Becoming Nicole which follows the Maines from her birth through her transition in a family where her identical twin brother and mother supported her, but her father did not. It follows all the steps Nicole wanted and did take as she transitioned, including her finally gender reassignment surgery after she turned 18 and after her dad came around and began supporting her. Some of the most striking chapters are about Nicole watching her brother going through male puberty and being terrified, depressed, and riddled with anxiety. Its very powerful.

I do agree with your first question though. What makes it not a mental illness? I'm not really sure we can answer that question without knowing what specifically within our brains dictates what gender any person, cis or trans, dictates our gender. However it is a question I've struggled with despite being very pro-trans rights.

While listening to this episode, I was intrigued so I asked my boyfriend (I was driving, so he was on phone duty) to look it up. We spend a decent amount on nice beer and sometimes make semi-fancy cocktails at home, so it seemed like a splurge right up our alley. We ordered this Moscow Mule mixer, which cost $17 + $5 shipping, plus the cost of booze and a little tonic to top it off. The shipping information indicated it was sent to the wrong state entirely, but it did end up coming on the day it was supposed to so whatever. It says 10 servings; maybe we overserve ourselves at home because we got 4 drinks out of it (2 copper mugs full each). It's delicious, I'll give them that, but for the price it came out to we could have just gone to a bar.

Reviewing my reading I spotted this highlight from The Lean Startup by Eric Reiss.

"We often lose sight of the fact that a startup is not just about a product, a technological breakthrough, or even a brilliant idea. A startup is greater than the sum of its parts;it is an acutely human enterprise."

^Emphasis ^is ^mine.

There aren't many businesses, if any, with no human interaction and dynamics. Human relationships, politics, ego's etc are there in every business, including startups.

So while perhaps they are not charting the early stages of Dov's new business, they can through his last business tell a cautionary tale, of how personalities and ego's affect a company and its employees.

And we can learn from that.

There are plenty of podcasts about entrepreneurship, product management and technology if you are looking for something more detailed. Not many aim to show the human side. I found Season 1 most compelling for feeling like I was on the journey with Alex and Matt. Not because I learnt any new terms or anything about the process. I could get a sense of what it would feel like to start a business.