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Ep. 246 - AJ Jacobs: The Puzzler

The Local Maximum with Max Sklar

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The Sleeping Beauty Problem

A lot of people I interviewed say puzzles and stories are very similar. You have to have conflict and resolution. Steven Zondheim, the great lyricist of Broadway,. He was also a huge puzzle nerd. And he talked about, yeah, it provides all of the same satisfaction as a great story. So yeah, very much. It's what we crave sort of these aha moments along the way leading to the big aha moment at the end.

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