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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