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Summary
part 1 of a 2 part podcast
Sleaze and anti-sleaze
Paul is with Samantha in a zero-prep podcast.
Paul talks about a book which he says should be titled "how to live your life as a level 9 douchebag", which he feels sums up a lot of what happens these days. This last week there's been an unprecedented amount of sleaze.
Paul used to donate blood when he was young, but they gave him a health warning which turned out to be a false positive, which put him off it. Later, he decided to go donate blood again. He had to fill in a long form but apparently the system had him flagged due to the previous issue so he wasn't allowed to donate. After spending 45 minutes on the phone he thought it was cleared up, so he went back to the red cross but they still wouldn't accept his blood. Nobody seemed to care enough to fix it.
Now he donates blood in Couer d'Alene, where he's not flagged by the system. However, recently their online system refused to let him make an appointment, and it seems it wasn't easily possible to fix that, nor could he talk to an actual person to discuss it. The sleaze is evident in the poor quality of the systems, and the lack of interest shown by the employees.
Paul hopes that permies does better than the blood donor people to handle issues that may arise. He feels that at least in the USA it's at least four times sleazier than 10 years ago. People seem to only care about themselves rather than doing their job. In this way permies staff are different as they do care.
Paul brings up the topic of spoon theory. Being exposed to sleaze eats spoons.
He mentions something Des said when he was commander of the boot camp: In his life before, everything was done from a position of scarcity; by comparison, everything at the boot camp is from a position of abundance.
Paul relates a recent experience where Harry and Stephen were fixing something in Allerton abbey, and the whole way it was done seemed to generate spoons.
Relevant Threads
Spoon theory - Wikipedia
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