Convergence

著者: Mark Steadman & Brendan Hutchins
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  • What is the work of a middle-aged man? To improve himself and help those around him contribute to a fairer, more tolerant society. Mark is a digital producer with a coaching mindset. Brendan is a home remodeler with plans to become a men’s health coach. As men entering their second phase of life, they push each-other to be better and achieve more, without the hustle and grind mindset of the Internet bro. They also do battle with music, writing original songs on the topic of the day.
    © Mark Steadman & Brendan Hutchins
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What is the work of a middle-aged man? To improve himself and help those around him contribute to a fairer, more tolerant society. Mark is a digital producer with a coaching mindset. Brendan is a home remodeler with plans to become a men’s health coach. As men entering their second phase of life, they push each-other to be better and achieve more, without the hustle and grind mindset of the Internet bro. They also do battle with music, writing original songs on the topic of the day.
© Mark Steadman & Brendan Hutchins
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  • Now I have a bag of pegs
    2025/04/04

    Mark opens a can of worms full of aspartame, and Brendan has both joined a dodgeball league and started a meditation circle. Now who's being a productive dynamo!?

    • (00:00) - Now I have a bag of pegs
    • (00:42) - Dopamine Nation
    • (07:52) - Does Mark trust Brendan?
    • (19:09) - Mark pokes the bear on aspartame
    • (38:47) - Brendan brings up the Potato Famine
    • (40:08) - Mark was write about community
    • (44:09) - Mark ruins Brendan's apology
    • (52:04) - Does food carry a message?
    • (01:00:11) - Brendan takes another run at the apology
    • (01:04:02) - Brendan unveils his meditation group
    • (01:06:06) - Brendan goes back to dodgeball
    • (01:09:36) - Brendan tells his joke

    Links
    • Ultra-Processed People, by Chris van Tulleken
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    1 時間 11 分
  • We're senseless to our selves
    2025/03/28

    Brendan and Mark kind of have a fight a little bit. In as much as two enneagram 9s can.

    • (00:00) - We're senseless to our selves
    • (00:59) - Mark's chat history
    • (05:22) - Brendan and the holy trinity
    • (13:59) - Mark gets triggered by the word "recover"
    • (27:56) - The tug of war
    • (38:33) - Another parable of the blind man
    • (43:05) - Part 1 of Mark trying to make a short-form video series
    • (49:46) - A men's group structure
    • (56:13) - Mark wants to open his own beer
    • (01:08:33) - Roscoe being a pest

    Links
    • Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, by Kristin Neff
    • The Magic, by Rhonda Byrne
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    1 時間 9 分
  • Playing myself at Magic the Gathering
    2025/03/21

    Our heroes navigate freelancing and money, and Brendan has an update for Mark on fasting, courtesy of everyone's favourite large language model.

    • (00:00) - Playing myself at Magic the Gathering
    • (00:12) - Brendan consulted ChatGPT on fasting
    • (06:16) - The YouTube diet
    • (12:31) - The forthcoming men's group
    • (14:11) - Make a plan B
    • (19:25) - Just exist
    • (28:21) - Freelance hubris
    • (36:43) - We don't have a template to follow
    • (45:31) - Capitalism corner
    • (50:07) - What is the authentic self?
    • (58:25) - Value-based pricing vs hourly billing
    • (01:09:02) - Last week

    Links
    • Lost Connections, by Johann Hari
    • The Way of the Superior Man, by David Deida
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    1 時間 10 分

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