The Best Way to Understand Something Is to Teach It

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A greater percentage of my time does things that i really love doing. Reading something with the intention to communicate that thing is a very different kind of reading and watching or whatever. People give us it about it, but they don't make fun of us for it any more. We have no plan to stop. Do you have a dream guest for this? Pod gass, not just someone you want to like. Ow, not that chick that you mentioned at the beginning.

David and Tamler return to Borges land to get lost in the infinite, this time with his legendary and tragic character Funes the memorious. What would it be like to have perfect memory, to have full access to every perceived detail no matter how trivial? Would life be infinitely richer, with present experience and memory merging into a perfect Heraclitan flow? Or is William James correct to say that one condition of remembering is to forget, and that “if we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.”?

Plus, we’re sorry, but after 10 years (!) we thought we had the right to get a little self-indulgent and naval-gazey. We do a bit of reminiscing (“though we have no right to speak that sacred verb..”) in the first segment about how the podcast has changed since 2012, and the impact it has made on our lives. Thanks for the memories!