Critical Nonsense

High-low brow conversations about culture, science, and tech. With hosts Joey Camire, Aaron Powers, and executive producer/nerd herder Jess Vander. SYLVAIN is a strategy and design company.

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341! What You Doing?

Posted February 24, 202600:42:14

What you doing and what you sharing? 

This week, Aaron, Joey, and Jess talk about battle rap, knitting, crochet, LitRPG, world building, and...

340! Actuallys

Posted February 9, 202600:25:35

When is the right time to actually? 

This week, Joey and Jess talk about corrections, status, intent, virtue, asymmetric information, and confidence...

339! Medical Experiments

Posted February 2, 202600:25:08

How far would you be willing to go to experiment with your health? 

This week, Joey and Jess talk about peptides, biohacking, Silicon Valley...

338! Short-Form Video

Posted January 13, 202600:29:13

Why do we keep using short-form video? 

This week, Joey and Jess talk about dopamine culture, friction, flow state, floating, smoking, and green...

337! Dressing Up

Posted January 5, 202600:28:37

How do you dress for success? 

This week, Aaron and Joey talk about fashion plates, professionalism, drag, archetyping, navigating differences,...