Episode 110 – Failing Well

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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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• Credits:
  • Bad at Magic Logos by Jonica Rich 
  • Transition music by Jarus Rich 
  • Outro music from Cascading by Ammon Rich