Join us as we discuss the 2024 election results, make sense of voting trends, and make predictions for the next few years.
(0:00): Intro snippets
(00:55): Surprised by election results? Breakdown by different groups
(26:03): Predictions for next 4 years
In this episode, Kihong and Thomas celebrate one year of Adulting and Adrift and look back on past episodes :)
(0:00) Preview
(1:10) Intro
(3:00) Gun and Marianne introduce themselves
(4:30) How did you meet?
(10:30) Cultural differences - Korea vs. Finland
(19:00) Sustaining a relationship while moving many times
(23:00) Language dynamics in the relationship - role of English, Finnish, Korean
(38:45) Advice for intercultural relationships
(42:35) Commitment in relationships
(47:40) Adjusting to life in the US
(0:00) Preview
(1:56) Intro
(5:30) High school and college
(49:40) Relationships
(58:05) Career
(1:05:37) Family
(0:00) Preview
(1:32) Intro: Current Events Recap - Trump, Harris, Stocks, Olympics, Boeing
(8:05) Donald Trump's Attempted Assassination
(13:45) Biden Stepping Down
(22:00) Kamala Harris, Charli XCX, Tampon Tim and Political Memes
(29:30) JD Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, Rise of MAGA, Nativism, and Immigration
(1:03:25) Tim Walz, Josh Shapiro, Choosing a running mate
(1:11:00) Stock Market Jitters, Bank of Japan, Uncertainty
(1:17:43) Ukraine invading Russia
(2:00) AI-generated content on social media
(4:30) Social Media and Gen-Z slang
(13:09) Facebook going downhill
(19:50) To exchange numbers or Instagram handles?
(29:10) Getting cyberbullied
(33:20) Attention spans, short-form content, viral trends
(45:18) YouTube
(48:37) Reddit
(57:33) Spotify
(0:00) Highlights
(2:23) Intro
(3:52) What informs your value system? Kihong's turn
(17:45) Actions, habits, and desire
(23:55) What informs your value system? Thomas's turn
(32:40) Cognitive biases
(38:25) Civil discourse and cancel culture
(48:55) Student protests
(56:35) Applying value systems in your career and in the corporate world
(1:00:45) Story of Franz Jaegerstaetter, conscientious objector in WWII
(1:05:00) Utilitarianism
(1:11:00) Trolley Problem
(0:00) - Clips
(1:40) - Intro
(2:30) - TikTok
(12:42) - Messi in Boston
(17:15) - Our friends are all getting married!
(31:25) - Living with roommates
(34:45) - Feedback from listeners on Love and Dating, Career
(07:30) Masculinity: race and culture mixed
(18:00) Expectations growing up as boys: Thomas and Kihong’s story
(25:00) Traditionally gendered spaces
(30:30) Masculinity influencers
(40:00) Talking about what’s going on - why it’s so hard to build a good platform of open discourse
(44:30) Gender relations are at all-time low
(49:00) Breaking down these “male influencers”
(56:00) Having the right role model: how to guide future generations properly
Please provide thoughts! Thomas and I understand that this is a sensitive topic and that we are two straight men talking about this. So please give us constructive criticism and add inputs. Thank you!
Intro
(03:00) Intro to AI - birth of the concept and its evolution
(14:00) Phase 2 of AI: the transformer architecture, element of attention
(20:00) Why hardware is so important
(23:00) AI vs. the human brain
(30:00) How Kihong and Thomas first experienced AI
(43:00) Core principles of “Safe AI” - possible? Maybe humans are the biggest risk….
(53:00) How Kihong and Thomas use AI at work
(01:05:00) AI’s impact on career and capitalism, post-labor economics and UBI
(01:16:00) Societal inequality within a country and between countries; mass exodus
(01:19:00) Misinformation and low-quality content
(01:24:00) How to co-exist with AI
Outro
Check out these links:
Andrej Karpathy blog post from 2015: http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
3blue1brown: https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown
A.I. Artificial Intelligence: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212720/
Alphago vs. Lee Sedol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo_versus_Lee_Sedol
AI and UBI: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-predicts-universal-high-160015532.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACUPQMXHFNi_R9EqHBehchba-6AN8qYzZ2NEHuqglVJSoDdb6rzBDnsto7roPor5IPclW0elIFVyuhrEAY1TLqh2jYlzl1yvC7dhDQwnvOuGvnjJxvQNOiIqN13_5GaH0VySwjmm3gm2-_8tieGpJ42ccsbafIBNOdVcrlGzSMRT
Post-labor economics: https://newatlas.com/technology/post-labor-economics-shapiro/
In this episode, Thomas and Kihong investigate the underlying dynamics of the so-called “elite” U.S. colleges and the post-college implications of such branding. They share insightful and surprising statistics - hope you enjoy this episode. Please leave comments or share thoughts directly.
We appreciate any reactions. :)
(5:30) By how much did the “elite” colleges expand vs. the rest in the last ~30 years?
(10:00) Scarcity, brand, and satellite campuses
(18:00) Open-sourcing education
(25:00) Financial aid of “elite” colleges
(29:30) The UC system - the one that worked
(33:00) Inequality of education through privatization
(40:00) What a high school senior should really think about
(45:00) The great filtering - life after college
(49:00) Why Kihong wanted to do this episode so much
If you want to learn more about this topic through different channels, check out:
Freakonomics -
Episode 500: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6R2fvzdzmLRi3THmiWMY6U?si=1919a3b90249453d
Episode 501: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5mDKTQ6iuiUg59Ghev2WOf?si=fae3dc4252a64546
Episode 502: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5eV24SuhVG9NFP2bnzvibf?si=e7bb77861bb34725
Episode 503: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6kBXTSJQcDaObF0QmwOAYG?si=b8442a1cd73e4cc9
Malcom Gladwell on elitism, dining, and colleges: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0sB5WgKiAyvFkkecvItEki?si=521680c3aa2a4c5e
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
(0:00) Intro - brief overview of each of our backgrounds
(5:43) Defining religion and spirituality
(8:00) Positive/attractive aspects of religion
(17:50) Doubts, cognitive biases, critiques of religion
(41:46) Faith, spirituality, meditation, ethics
(49:10) Question for Kihong: What value do you see in religion, spirituality, and meditation?
(1:04:55) Discussing the play "A Case for the Existence of God"
Thomas and Kihong explores everything about friendship - what defines friendship, what helps people be good friends, how does it evolve over time? How do you navigate?
(02:00) How do you define friendship? What is the best way to approach it?
(14:00) What makes people become friends? Our stories and the element of chance
(22:30) Is there such a thing as a best friend? Different levels of friendship?
(33:00) Loneliness vs. Solitude
(45:00) Connecting people, cultivating relationships, building a community, overcoming your fear
(56:00) How friends influence your views and lifestyle?
(01:12:00) Can a boy and a girl be friends? Controversial topic
(01:23:00) How do you repair the relationship after arguing with a friend?
We also started a YouTube channel!! Please search Adulting and Adrift, or click on this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwL37EJNB3hFColLCcQsQJQ
(03:00) Our own histories with money
(15:10) Money and status: fashion, music, and everything
(19:10) Boomers vs. Gen Z narrative
(35:10) Personal finance: Thomas’ story
(49:10) Kihong’s journey with personal finance
(01:06:10) Budgeting!
(01:10:00) Credit scores and closing out
(00:00) Highlights + Intro
(04:00) Andie’s childhood and how she ended up at a boarding school
(17:15) The application process
(25:00) First day of school and the importance of luck
(30:30) Academics: the challenges; how to design your experience
(40:10) Interacting with faculty as an Asian person
(45:50) Designing life beyond boarding school, finding her true passions
(50:00) Thomas on the shortcomings of what is taught as success in boarding schools
(54:00) Posturing and systemic privilege
(01:02:00) Life after boarding school and what Andie is looking forward to in 2024
(01:04:50) Would you send your kid?
(00:00) Highlights
(02:30) Intro
(05:30) Childhood, family, and sibling dynamics
(21:50) Kihong's experiences
(42:00) Being deliberate about little choices as parents
(45:00) Rewards and punishments: a legitimate system of teaching children?
(1:00:00) Why it’s so dangerous for parents to not communicate
(1:04:00) Thomas talks about “training”
(1:19:00) Kihong on South Korea’s low birth rate and the meaning of family
(1:25:30) Thomas on the responsibilities and duties as a parent
(0:00) Introduction and Holidays Update
(5:00) Today’s Topic: Job and Career
(6:20) As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
(12:55) How did you end up in your current career trajectory? - Thomas
(26:30) How did you end up in your current career trajectory? - Kihong
(32:45) Finding a job based on passion, impact, and/or financial security
(38:30) Work-life balance across industries and academia
(49:30) What does your future trajectory look like?
(1:34) Importance of thoughts
(7:30) Importance of mental fortitude against criticism
(13:00) Importance of rest
(00:00) Intro - Kihong’s explanation on why he chose this book to discuss and the impact
(02:40) Who was Dale Carnegie?
(07:00) Part 1 Discussion
(09:00) Kihong’s own experience of worry on health, Discussion of Part 2
(00:50) Intro
(02:45) Asian-American or Asian and American
(5:30) Thomas’ story: Born in US, grew up in Japan as a mixed race person
(22:20) Kihong’s story: Asian lunchbox
(26:00) Navigating through different friend groups
(28:00) Different cultural values and priorities - how they impacted our lives
(33:50) Speaking up for yourself and apologizing less
(38:20) Asian representation in media and its impact
(42:30) Kihong’s take on the late Korean culture’s popularity and the relatively short history of Asian immigration
(45:45) Thomas on the Last Samurai
(53:30) Asian names, Western conventions, and representation in science
(1:01:13) "Model minority": the danger of narratives and expectations
(1:11:00) Wrapping up
