Alie Ward

So remember, ask smart people the big questions, even if it's about the littlest stuff, because how else in the world would you discover that there was another you eating puffer fish and cutting banks and texting your crush?

Also, if you're jealous of that person, then go do those things yourself, except maybe the poisonous poisson.

That means fish.

So more links are up in the show notes and up at AllieWard.com slash ologies slash quantum ontology.

And you can get merch through that site or at ologiesmerch.com.

And be sure to follow Dr. Adam Becker on Blue Sky at Adam Becker and on Instagram at Freelance Astro.

And once again, get his book, What is Real or his new one, More Everything Forever about AI overlords.

And for shorter, kid-friendly episodes, we have Smologies.

They're in their own feed.

Wherever you get podcasts, you can tell your friends or students.

Also, updates, editors, thank you Jake Chafee and Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio for working on this updated one, as well as Susan Hale, who is our managing director, and of course, Noelle Delworth is our scheduling producer.

and Aaron Talbert for admitting the wonderful Facebook group and to Jared sleeper of mind jam media for assistant editing.

And of course to the wizard of awe, Stephen Ray Morris, who edits all these pieces together and also hosts the kiddie pod, the percast and the dino centric podcast.

See Jurassic right.

And the theme song was written by Nick Thorburn of the band Islands.

Thank you also to Emily White and everyone in the transcribers group making transcriptions available at alleyward.com slash ologies dash extras.

I'll link it in the show notes.

Now, if you stick around to the end of the episode, I'll tell you a secret.

This week, my friend Simone Yesch was in town, and I was telling her that I wish there was a word for when you try to improve something, but you make it way shittier.

Essentially, a word for one of those things where you want to make something good, and somehow it would have been so much better if you had just not.