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Ep. 246 - AJ Jacobs: The Puzzler

The Local Maximum with Max Sklar

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How Puzzles Can Teach You Lessons

"I feel like video games could be and it's not like every single thing the New York Times ever called a vice is it ends up being a good thing. You have to actually decide what it is or not," he says. "Not every puzzle is as good as another puzzle at making you think." He was in Asheville, North Carolina recently in the pinball museum where people were banishing them from their cities.

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