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Carp talks about making friends with his AI replacement, Porn, giving your browser history to your grandma, and AA. 

Carp discusses the benefits and power of limitation, the nature of tolerance building, the dopaminergic threshold, the hedonic baseline, and "turning the other cheek". The fear messages we keep getting are getting stronger and the outlook is getting more bleak (in "Their" messag…

Carp discusses our performative nature, evil, death, and the circle of regressive "why's". He also talks about how everything through a screen is a lie in one way or another, and his attempts to understand the world the "youngin's" are living in and how to navigate it. 

This episode focuses on the next step after doubt, validation. In this episode (I've been talking about myself in these descriptions in the third person and it's coming off weird, so I'm changing it) I discuss my attempt to move from using external validation to internal validation t…

This episode rounds out the 3 part mini-series of doubt, validation, and confidence. Confidence is broken down into situational confidence and general confidence. In my attempt to define what those two are and how I'm recognizing them in my life, the episode goes off the rails (as is becoming …

This episode focuses on the nature of doubt, specifically doubt as it pertains to positive and negative states. Carp also discusses truth vs facts and how those things inform his perspective.  With the focus on perspective there is also an exercise on how to challenge your perspectives so that you …

The second episode of the podcast is actually the 6th dry-run attempt at figuring out podcasting. In going back through the practice episodes before publishing this one contained great content that was worthy of seeing the light of day.  While this one doesn't follow exactly in the sequential …

Carp discusses rage-inducing tv mounts, mindsets and expectations that lead to misery, and some of the various diagnoses he's received, namely adjustment disorder, and how working with diagnoses as a tool for improvement rather than a label to identify ourselves with can be helpful in creating…

The first episode to get this podcast up and running! In this episode Carp discusses the plans for the show, a very brief history of his life, and the reason for the show's existence.  Originally intended as a simple outline of things to come the episode evolves into a variety of other topics,…