High-low brow conversations about culture, science, and tech. With hosts Joey Camire, Aaron Powers, and executive producer/nerd herder Jess Vander. SYLVAIN is a strategy and design company.
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High-low brow conversations about culture, science, and tech. With hosts Joey Camire, Aaron Powers, and executive producer/nerd herder Jess Vander. SYLVAIN is a strategy and design company.
How much do you think you can change your personality? This week, Joey and Jess talk about life satisfaction, sad auras, nominative determinism, nature versus nurture, Martin Seligman, magical meat sacks. They don’t talk about marinade bags. references * Forbes: How Singer-Songwriter EJAE Found Rumi’s Voice In ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ (https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurasirikul/2025/06/30/how-singer-songwriter-ejae-found-rumis-voice-in-kpop-demon-hunters/) * @thetalesoftayls' sad aura tweet (https://x.com/thetalesoftayls/status/1962422918412927010?t=vBQGHWBS66IV09hhLDB7_A) * Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Most people's life satisfaction matches their personality traits: True correlations in multitrait, multirater, multisample data. (https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Most-people's-life-satisfaction-matches-their-True-M%C3%B5ttus-Realo/4c9913ff06da86d06e52b083ee9afd5297d88c5a) [PDF (https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Most-people's-life-satisfaction-matches-their-True-M%C3%B5ttus-Realo/4c9913ff06da86d06e52b083ee9afd5297d88c5a)] * Nominative determinism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism) * Eeyore (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eeyore) * Martin Seligman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Seligman) * Dungeon Crawler Carl
Critical Nonsense
High-low brow conversations about culture, science, and tech. With hosts Joey Camire, Aaron Powers, and executive producer/nerd herder Jess Vander. SYLVAIN is a strategy and design company.
