The Minimalists discuss organizing, hoarding, and decluttering with professional organizer Dr. Julia Raz, and they answer the following questions:

When should you hire a professional organizer, and what should you look for in one? (01:36)
 
What is a professional organizer? (02:13)
 
How do I create a new space with a minimalist aesthetic when I move? (10:27)
 
What is the crux of most couples’ disagreements? (19:09)
 
How do I find the system of organization that works for me? (21:47)
 
What questions help us get to the ‘why’ of decluttering? (26:43)
 
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Podcast 350 | Professional Organizers

The Minimalists are joined by licensed therapists Vanessa Bennett and John Kim to discuss relationship clutter. Listen to all two hours of episode 358 on The Minimalists Private Podcast: patreon.com/theminimalists
 
Discussed in this episode:
 
How do I search intentionally for a life partner without becoming consumed by that pursuit? (01:45)
 
Does a need for relationships inevitably cause relationship clutter? (03:31)
 
What is the danger in prioritizing my partner’s needs? (5:27)
 
What is your perspective regarding codependency? (06:19)
 
How do you maintain your joy without making others that are suffering feel that you’re not compassionate? (07:15)
 
Is it a matter of personal responsibility to always accept blame? (08:55)
 
What are the pros and cons of legal marriage? (15:46)
 
What did you learn from your first Sunday Symposium event? (24:14)
 
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Podcast 358 | Relationship Clutter

The Minimalists talk about getting rid of excess “friends” on social media. Listen to all two hours of episode 359 on The Minimalists Private Podcast: patreon.com/theminimalists
 
Discussed in this episode:
 
How do we appropriately curate our ‘friends’ lists in our social media accounts? (01:40)
 
Why do we act on social media in ways we would never act in real life? (06:48)
 
How do we tactfully encourage our partners to embrace minimalist practices? (14:05)
 
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Podcast 359 | Decluttering Facebook Friends

The Minimalists talk about avoiding lifestyle inflation. Listen to all three hours of episode 365 on The Minimalists Private Podcast: patreon.com/theminimalists
 
Discussed in this episode:
 
How do I better manage my impulses and my budget as my income increases? (01:46)
 
What is “lifestyle inflation”? (02:29)
 
What is the “casino technique”? (12:04)
 
How will refunding dissatisfied customers and allowing them to keep items affect consumerism? (19:36)
 
How do we determine what luxuries to let go of when we can comfortably afford them? (24:38)
 
What is the “scorched earth approach”? (24:56)
 
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Podcast 365 | Minimalist Budgeting Tips

Class 1 is an introduction to the course and an exploration of questions raised by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He speaks five and reads ten European languages.

Ukraine must have existed as a society and polity on 23 February 2022, else Ukrainians would not have collectively resisted Russian invasion the next day.  What does it mean for a nation to exist?  Is this a matter of structures, actions, or both?  Why has the existence of Ukraine occasioned such controversy?  In what ways are Polish, Russian, and Jewish self-understanding dependent upon experiences in Ukraine?  Just how and when did a modern Ukrainian nation emerge?  For that matter, how does any modern nation emerge?  Why some and not others?  Can nations be chosen, and can choices be decisive?  If so, whose, and how?  Ukraine was the country most touched by Soviet and Nazi terror: what can we learn about those systems, then, from Ukraine?  Is the post-colonial, multilingual Ukrainian nation a holdover from the past, or does it hold some promise for the future?

1: Ukrainian Questions Posed by Russian Invasion

where you are,
there you are,
near is near,
far is far,
there's no forgiveness,
just whispering ears,
my head is a bony bag,
of broken mirrors,

summerset, 
can't forget,
all strung out,
fingers fret,
invisible friend will be keeping the time,
deep in the slake of my slither-pit mind,

the imaginary world that grew from our love,
sleeps in the deep dreaming of the above,
cold and indifferent the cynical skies,
heart that won't start and a head full of lies,

how I love you,

make believe,
starts to rot,
the story world,
you forgot,
whispering ears or a silence so cruel,
borrowing tears on eternal renewal.

I love you,

you left me here, all whispering ears,
the shadowless Queendom that you used to rule,
sleeps in the deep 'neath a silence so cruel,
and I'm laying to rest,
the skipped beat in my breast,
and the hiss of my whispering ears

           ....

happily never after,
a moment of sad sobbing laughter.

well, you know my head's a squat house,
and I've boarded up the eyes,
so that no one else can see,
that I'm fooled by my disguise,

happily never after,

        ...

how I let them in,
and how they piss on the floor,
deep in my squat house head,
drowning in my powdered rapport,

I only live one day in eternal refrain,
it's a Burmese repeater, again, again, again, again,

are you a beautiful melody,
with horrible words?
there was a sermon of insects,
and it was all I ever heard,
bestowed a blessing of filth,
and I was high on the stain,
it's a Burmese repeater, again, again, again, again,

Burmese Repeater...

Whispering Ears/Happily Never After/Burmese repeater

E535 | When you think of the history of science, what people and places come to mind? Scientific knowledge production flourished in early modern Morocco, and not in the places you might expect. This episode transports us into the intellectual and social worlds of Sufi lodges (zawāya) in seventeenth-century Morocco. Our guest, Justin Stearns, guides us through scholarly and educational landscapes far removed from the imperial urban centers of Fez and Marrakech. We discuss his new book, Revealed Sciences, which examines the development of the natural sciences through close study of works produced by rural Sufi scholars. Challenging the idea that the early modern period was one of intellectual decline, Stearns reveals the vibrant multi-ethnic, intellectual networks of the early modern Maghreb and the implications of their story for the history of science and the writing of history. We speak about paper mâché astrolabes, Borgesian fantasies, resisting the lure of triumphant narratives, and the importance of failure for creativity and innovation.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/12/stearns.html

Justin Stearns is Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi where he teaches classes on the pre-modern Islamicate world and the relationship between science and religion. His research focuses on the premodern intellectual history of the Islamic West (Maghrib).

Shireen Hamza is a doctoral candidate in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the history of medical exchange in the medieval Indian Ocean world.

Taylor M. Moore is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

CREDITS

Episode No. 535
Release Date: 14 December 2022
Sound production by Shireen Hamza
Music: "Touicha & Jabir," Moroccan Folk Music, Lyrichord
Bibliography and images courtesy of Justin Stearns at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/12/stearns.html

Season 12

The Natural Sciences in Early Modern Morocco | Justin Stearns

We continue to explore the importance of exercise - the forgotten remedy. To set goals that are reachable and not too strenuous and to have fun is key when you want to establish habits for your everyday training. And with habitual training our bodies improve, little by little, but with time with fantastic results. The amazing effects of rebounding (or trampolining) are presented. And as a bonus, Barbara also presents why barefoot shoes and barefoot running is beneficial.

Compass

34. True Remedies - Exercise [2], by Barbara O'Neill

Inspired by the Youtube video of Magnapinna (Big fin squid) filmed in the Gulf of Mexico.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To2_Gq14UVs

Created using
4ms Spherical Wavetable Navigator  Oscillator
MakeNoise Wogglebug
MakeNoise Mimeophone
ALM Pamela's New Workout
DivKid 0chd

Image taken from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  "Windows on the deep 2021" project https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex2107/media-resources/bigfin-squid.html

Magnapinna

Frazer Hines reads his own adaptation of a classic adventure for the Doctor and Jamie.

Young astrophysicist Zoe wishes to join Jamie and the Doctor on their travels. To give her fair warning of the dangers she may face, the Doctor uses a mind projector to share one of their most harrowing adventures…

And so, Jamie is forced to relive his struggle against the evil Daleks at their most powerful and calculating. In a complex plot that drags him from modern-day London to Victorian times and finally to the Dalek world of Skaro, he endures ordeals that test his courage, strength – and his friendship with the Doctor – to the limit…

An inventive new retelling of one of Doctor Who’s all-time classic TV stories from Frazer Hines, who starred as the show’s longest-running companion, Jamie McCrimmon.

© 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/455481/doctor-who-the-evil-of-the-daleks-by-hines-frazer/9781529906516

Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks by Frazer Hines

Meditation For Days You Can Barely Deal (Bonus Meditation)

The Monkey is the Messenger Bonus Meditation

Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus discuss living a meaningful life with less.

Podcast 359 | Decluttering Facebook Friends

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