About this Episode

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• How many plugs is the right number of plugs for your workspace?
• Who even are these people?

Imposter syndrome is our big topic

Who are these psychpaths that don't get imposter syndrome?

Newsy stuff

• Excel turns 40, with a few bloopers of usage in that time
• Google has racked up $2.5 decillion of fines in Russia
• UK Gov website launches an AI chatbot
• AWS CDK flaw exposed accounts to full takeover
• Apple Intelligence Ads are out in the US:
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m0MoYKwVTM
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deNzYrTvqCs

Recommendations

Music:

• The Cure - Songs of a Lost World, recommended by Michael
• Therapy?, recommended by Michael again and again
• Sleep Token, recommended by Jess

TV

• The Day of the Jackal, recommended by Mark
• The Penguin

Books

• Code Dependent - Living in the shadow of AI, recommended by Jess
• How Big things Get Done, recommended by Mark
• Deep Work by Cal Newport, recommended by Michael

Games

• Baulder's Gate 3

Technology

• Dagger.io

Episode Links

• Excel turns 40, with a few bloopers of usage in that time — As the software used by millions around the world nears its 40th birthday, here are some of the low points ... MI5, the UK’s domestic spy agency, tapped 134 incorrect telephone numbers in 2010 following a spreadsheet error that altered the last three digits in the numbers to “000”. A report admitted the errors were caused by “a formatting fault on an electronic spreadsheet”, adding euphemistically that “a degree of unintended collateral intrusion occurred”.