Episode Details

What does it say about us that we have this love/hate relationships with institutions but never want to follow through disrupting them? And how do we all figure out the same rules for naming things at the exact same time? [29:29]

This week, Jess and Aaron talk about Ozy, sparkling water, astrophysics, the current rules of naming, creating and erasing tethers, and Black names. They don’t talk about what baby names nerf herders prefer.

references

• Like Ra-i-ain
• NYT's DealBook: Balancing Honesty and Optimism in Silicon Valley
• The New York Times: Let Me Tell You What It Was Like to Work at Ozy
• Revisiting previous episodes of Critical Nonsense, including Episode 119 on institutions, Episode 103 on Joey wanting to fix things, and Episode 139 on sharing names.
• The Science of Sameness
• The Lindy effect
• A brief history of black names, from Perlie to Latasha
• Salon: What's up with black names, anyway?
• Insider: 'Distinctively Black names' still get fewer callbacks for job applications
• BBC: Does a baby's name affect its chances in life?