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ENGINEERING HAPPINESS

When I go for a stroll at lunch, I’m thinking about errands, my to-do list, upcoming interviews. On a good day, I ponder a recent read, percolate on a problem. Plot my course for 2018, of late. I do not, generally, decide to create the conditions for world peace in my lifetime. Then again, I’m not Chade-Meng Tan.

This week, we search for happiness with Google employee 107. The road to peace starts with a single deep breath. Let’s take it together.
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Meng created a class at Google called Search Inside Yourself. It was about mindfulness, with an engineering twist. Like, he never said go deep into your emotions, because engineers would ask “How do you quantify deep or shallow?” Which itself is kind of a deep question, really...

The Jolly Good Fellow (yes, that was his actual title at Google) shares his insights on meditation under capitalism and finding joy in Pokemon Go.
 

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Our listeners are the sparkle in our show. And you have shined bright this year. Like listener Jake Sturtevant, who made a boredom earworm BEFORE he heard ours. It is amazing.

You confessed to hoarding amazing domain names, you analogized Facebook to vampires, you pushed back on your IT department. Go check out our roundup of your brilliance, and thank you, thank you, thank you.


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See you in 2018,

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