The Importance of Movies

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Jesse: Dartmouth has been doing a lot of events in addition to my class. I am going to go see it in the next couple of days in 35 millimeter. It leaves the local theater here in Hanover on Thursday. Oh man, they're going to be mad at you now, Jesse. If you don't see it in large format. Mad Dog has talked about it.Yeah, I hear it's really good, but I heard it's like probably 25 minutes too long. Yeah. There's like a long 70 millimeter sequence of just fire from the main explosion scene where they show the Trinity test and they built a super high speed iMacs camera so they could

One of the most popular (and widely forgotten) slogans of the ancient world was Festina Lente, or, “Make Haste Slowly.” In this episode, Cal looks deeper at what this phrase meant, and in doing so uncovers an ancient version of slow productivity.

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Today’s Deep Question: What can Octavian Caesar Augustus teach us about productivity? [5:37]

- How can I help my team move fast to slow productivity? [26:12]

- How do I figure out how long to spend on a task? [33:08]

- What’s up with Cal’s podcast album art? [38:14]

- Why is my partner so slow? [40:49]

- How does Cal’s Remarkable tablet change his working memory.txt habit? [46:23]

CASE STUDY: Not allowing work to dominate your life [53:28]

The 5 Book Cal Read in July 2023 [1:03:21]

Links:

bigthink.com/the-learning-curve/festina-lente/