
Midlifing
Two friends Lee and Simon have serious conversations about silly things, and silly conversations about serious things. Together they dig into the pleasures, absurdities and imperfections of being human.
Midlifing
I get involved in the sniff
Lee and Simon start with Jef's deep sniffs. They then move into a brief career as film reviewers before digging into a conversation about perfectionism, being a fraud and the Pomodoro technique.
Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net.
Related links (and necessary corrections):
- The Truman Show (bumping into the edge of the world): https://youtu.be/Gn5kuDdeGzs
- Bas Jan Ader, In Search of the Miraculous: https://hyperallergic.com/336146/in-search-of-bas-jan-ader-the-artist-who-disappeared-at-sea/
- Peter Weir (still alive): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Weir
- The Cars That Ate Paris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cars_That_Ate_Paris
- Dead Poets Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Poets_Society
- Mystic Pizza: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystic_Pizza
- Men's friendships, women's friendships and the alleged inferiority of the latter, by Paul H. Wright (1982): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00287670
- The moment when Lee says a word from last week's episode (at 3:08 min): https://www.midlifing.net/1480717/8457491-two-people-monologuing-about-themselves-near-one-another
- Karl Popper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper
- Pomodoro Technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
- Voltaire, perfect is the enemy of good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good
- Baby industrial complex: https://www.salon.com/2006/02/09/spar/
- Good enough versus perfect parenting: https://www.readbrightly.com/good-enough-parent-better-than-perfect/
- Belbin Team Inventory (completer-finisher): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Role_Inventories
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The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0)
Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net.
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The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0)