Unsustainable - Conversations to Keep you Going: Recent Episodes
Sean Cross
So many things we do are unsustainable, be that to our personal lives, our businesses or the planet. This podcast is about opening up these things. Talking them out with others but also exploring how my personal experiences of starting a business, finding out the secret to real happiness, coming to terms with money and the pace of the modern world and learning to be a better occupant of this planet.
This one goes off on a tangent. I was thinking about a discussion more like the one in this video from OCC: https://youtu.be/x0ckvo2Z5BU
Generations might not be Real, but they are pretty real and we are the poorest, sort of.
Phil Edwards (the Vox guy) talks about generations and the fourth turning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9AeQgUZyOk
Van Neistat talks about generations and the fourth turning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeVyfiP0cLk
A week is a week right? It isn't a social construct, or is it. ohhh spooky.
Philosophy Tube: https://youtu.be/koud7hgGyQ8
I made a video about feeling acutely lonely (Link here) but I didn't realise that I was becoming chronically lonely. I wonder how many people that has happened to.
My thoughts on Ben Shapiro's questions about why you cannot identify as a different age or why you know the sex of your dog.
In this episode I talk about rewinding the countryside and what that really means as well as the reintroduction of the British beaver to help with the ecology of the English wilderness.
Rewilding
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-59944245
Re-beavering
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-59922072
The story of Enset, the Ethiopian crop set to save us all and the plight of plastics in the Isle of Man.
Banana saviour: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60074407
No plastic for you, IOM: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-60082938
There's a commonly stated statistic that I can't find the provenance of which states that the average American home has in it 300,000 items, where as the average European home reportedly has only 10,000 on average.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/50133/are-there-300-000-items-in-the-average-american-household-and-10-000-items-in-t
This little video from Russel Brand got me thinking about the problems with the conversation around processed food and chemicals
I placed an order with a company called Oddbox, they promise to divert waste from landfill by sending you wonky veg. Turns out it was the service that was wonky.
Strava's deep dive into their data has shown that most people have given up on their resolutions by the 19th of January. I may be one of those people, not by choice.
In this episode I talk about how I overcomplicate things to the point that they become to difficult to sustain. I talk about the state of minimalism in 2022 and how subscriptions like Oddbox and Huel might be my way to sustainable eating.
Todays podcast is on three topics:
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Grace under fire. A hiking YouTube came under fire in a shitty piece of journalism
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Rest can be stressful
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Strava data says that the end of peoples resolutions is the 19th of January
Grace's adventures: https://www.youtube.com/c/GracesAdventures/videos
End of resolutions: https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/training/a776013/today-is-the-day-youre-most-likely-to-let-your-new-year-fitness-goals-slip/
This is a bulk book review of book that I read recently.
A Monks Guide to a Clean House and Mind: https://amzn.to/3qhRtKT
Jack Reacher Better off Dead: https://amzn.to/3H2YV3m
The Outrun: https://amzn.to/3sxh1GG
This podcast with video: https://youtu.be/5ZZTlNLHL-Q
Our Changing Climate: https://www.youtube.com/c/OurChangingClimate/videos
Answers in Progress: https://youtu.be/vbDObzI-CTc
The book I mentioned: https://amzn.to/3oIgiAq
The video version: https://youtu.be/6GRjGxTNsp4
Video Version: https://youtu.be/UnYe7CrDA6w
Free will is an interesting topic, is it real, is it necessary. Why would you even care, its not like we are ever going to be offered up the roadmap. If that road map does exist and we could see it then I would concede that the lack of free will would matter, if you couldn’t change anything even if you knew what was going to happen, that would be quite scary.
You could know that you were gong to make a decision that would for example kill you and you wouldn’t be able to change it. How could that be possible?
I think that this is less of an argument for the concept of free will and more an argument against the possibility of manned time travel.
One of the sources for supplements given to cows and sheep: https://extension.uga.edu/publications/detail.html?number=B895&title=Mineral%20Supplements%20for%20Beef%20Cattle
Particularly looking at the cobalt for B12 Production
Video Version: https://youtu.be/gv5QDWYVWNY
Articles:
https://www.brightzine.co/news/2020/6/2/lets-talk-about-intersectionality
https://womanofvegan.com/blogs/news/let-s-talk-about-the-intersectionality-of-veganism-and-feminism?locale=en
https://humanrightsareanimalrights.com/2014/12/22/margaret-robinson-indigenous-veganism-feminist-natives-do-eat-tofu/
Storage Wars, Powerful Computers & Extreme Veganism
Cosmic Skeptic: https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmicskeptic
I did a photoshoot that was probably illegal and I don't know whether or not its an honourable trait to be able to fix things and work with your hands.
Video Version: https://youtu.be/vVNPnKJ3VwQ
In todays episode I talk about my tentative start in cryptocurrency, how amazon is damaging but using it isn't the end of the world if you do have to use it. I also talk about how I'm trying to negotiate the difficult world of camping in the uk.
The video about Aphantasia: https://youtu.be/ewsGmhAjjjI
The video version: https://youtu.be/vgGxovuLxjk
Have a look at my instagram account and let me know how the screen time stats make you feel: https://www.instagram.com/unsustainable.yt/
The OCC video I mentioned: https://youtu.be/Asxg3qqkAi8
The Japanese Jazz background music that I've really been loving: https://youtu.be/G68Q4lCM5pQ
This episode is about a little more than what I've written below but I thought it went nicely together. If you would like to read more from me check out seancross.co
We thought we’d lost our biggest gatekeepers when the internet was born. When it didn’t take a publishing house, radio station or tv network to get you, words, music or film out into the world.
We had, the last 20 years have been a boom for self publishing, new media, blogging, Indie film makers and many more. Unfettered access to an audience that had chosen to engage with the thing you were putting out there. It was great. It gave us things like Andy Weir’s ‘The Martian’. He began publishing that as a blog, week to week. Gaining an audience until it thrust him into the main stream.
We don’t have those same gatekeepers in place anymore, not like they used to be but we do now have new ones.
Anytime a huge tech company puts an algorithm between you and your audience, they are becoming a gatekeeper. They are effecting your ability to reach that audience. But unlike the gatekeepers of old, they aren’t a huge wall with only one entrance, only letting through the very tip of what they deemed best. The new gatekeepers have millions of doors but they only let through the controversial and things that look like things that have already done well.
However it’s done, it’s still doing the same thing. It’s making you have to work harder to be seen.
Links
Tom Scott video about the YouTube algorithm: https://youtu.be/BSpAWkQLlgM
Philip DeFranco video about being suppressed by YouTube: https://youtu.be/0t1Ng1mOEY0
That other video I watched about being blocked by YouTube: https://youtu.be/tmQYskXD1EQ
My review of The Planet of the Humans: https://youtu.be/rTMe8-ZiQdg
The books I mentioned:
Profit first: https://amzn.to/3s2v439
Deep Work: https://amzn.to/3afcU8v
Essentialism: https://amzn.to/3wEgQZQ
Video version of the podcast: https://youtu.be/upbxarw-3uU
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