Episode 2760 CWSA 02/24/25
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What is the simultaneous sip?
Ask a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of dopamine today, the thing that makes everything better. I hope. It's called the simultaneous sip. Happens now. Go. Tremendous. So good. Well, I'd like to apologize in advance in case I fall asleep sometime during this show.
What are the key elements for feeling good?
You know, the three things that you need to do to feel good. You need to get your sleep. You need to eat right. You need to exercise. Those are three things I haven't been able to do for about a month. So I'm on my last thread here. So I've got a little brain fog going on. So whatever you think is the best this show could be, dial it back about 40%. You'll be good.
How does the 'scalpel vs axe' analogy relate to business cuts?
Well, as you know, everybody's talking about Doge and should we be cutting with an axe or cutting with a scalpel? So I've decided that Dilbert's company is going to go through the same thing. So Dilbert's CEO is going to... Wait, what's that? Wow. So... Dilbert's company, the CEO is going to ask the pointy-haired boss to make some deep cuts, but with a scalpel, not an axe. How do you think that's going to go? Well, let me give you an idea. CEO to pointy-haired boss, I need to make some deep cuts. I've got to cut 20%. And since you're the manager who knows what everybody's doing, you can do it with a scalpel. Otherwise, I'd have to do it with an axe because I don't know what anybody does. So the point of ear manager goes away and he says, all right, give me a month to study it and I'll come back with some recommendations. A month later, the point of ear boss comes back and says, I studied everything, talked to every person that works for me, and we decided that we need more money, not less. OK, the job was to cut 20 percent. Yeah, I know.
But it turns out that when I took the scalpel as opposed to the axe, everything looked like it was necessary. So nothing to cut. And we really need to expand a few things. So I'll need about 20 percent more. You really need to find a way to cut. All right. I've got an idea. How about this? How about you fire my rival in another department and then fold that department under me? And then you save some money with that other guy. And then the CEO says, well, that other guy said the same thing about you. How about we fire you and fold your department under him? And then the CEO says, all right, give me a list of all your projects. We'll find something to cut. And then he looks at the projects and realizes he doesn't know what any of them really are because they're just names of things. And so the CEO says, well, what about this one? And then the pointy-haired boss says, oh, no, you can't cut that one. That one's essential. All right, what about this one? Oh, my goodness. If you cut that, we'll all die by this afternoon.
All right, but what about this one? No, that one's going to have to increase the budget. We're going to need twice as much budget for that one. Do you think it works to do a scalpel? Scalpel might work up to 5 or 10%. But if you're trying to make a deep cut, I don't think it's going to work. Here's some Zuby wisdom. You all know Zuby. How do you even describe Zuby? He's so many things at the same time. Anyway, Zuby says the biggest reason why Western society is in trouble is is that the culture dictates that telling inconvenient truths is hateful and feelings are more important than the truth. As a result, people are in a constant state of lying and denying of reality and nothing gets fixed. Right.
We are in a continuous state of lying to each other about everything. All the time. So here's some inconvenient truth. I'm just going to say the thing that I haven't seen anybody say. I tend to watch a lot of YouTube about ancient civilizations, and I love it when we dig up some new ancient civilization that used to be quite advanced for its time, but now it's completely gone. And then I say to myself, huh, why didn't any of those ancient civilizations, including the really powerful ones like Rome, why didn't any of them survive? And then I think, well, the United States is different because the United States has figured out how to solve all kinds of problems and we're not going to run into any big problem. So we'll probably survive for a long time. But the U.S.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the simultaneous sip?
0:00–0:30
2
What are the key elements for feeling good?
0:30–0:59
3
How does the 'scalpel vs axe' analogy relate to business cuts?
0:59–8:29
4
What are the consequences of civilization collapse?
8:29–15:16
5
What are the implications of the ABA suspending DEI?
15:16–18:29
6
Who is Dan Bongino and what is his significance?
18:29–21:16
7
What is the status of UnitedHealth's investigation?
21:16–27:51
8
What does recent polling say about Trump’s approval ratings?
27:51–46:16
Speakers
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