Rational Delusion

About Rational Delusion

Two millennials conversing about anything; from the factual to the whimsical. Tune in as we speak from the ever-summer island - Singapore. "An attempt to rationalise life while trying unsuccessfully to avoid delusion." Website: https://rationaldelusion.wixsite.com/listen

Publisher

Rational Delusion

Category

leisure

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Apr 2022

Latest episode

10 Sept 2024

Latest episodes

12 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Sept 2024

   12 - Far-Flung Destinations

   Hazel and Vale talk about OpenCert, traveling tips, as well as Black Mirror Season 3 Episodes 3, 4, and 5. ShowNotes: Fake University Certificates | CNA (https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/fake-university-degree-counterfeit-qualifications-companies-3342801) OpenCert (https://www.opencerts.io/faq/) Discussion: How often do Singaporeans travel? | Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/askSingapore/comments/134c2os/how_often_do_you_travel_each_year/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) WikiVoyage (https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Main_Page) Northern Lights Flight | YouTube (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/expeditions/destinations/polar/ocean/antarctica-cruise/) National Geographic Expedition to Antarctica (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/expeditions/destinations/polar/ocean/antarctica-cruise/) Facebook Marketplace (https://www.facebook.com/help/1295340050874305) Propnex Scams (https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/property/property-market-sees-rise-spoof-messages-purported-agents)

2. 

   15 Oct 2023

   11 - Cry First

   Hazel and Vale talk about ANC earbuds, everyday carry items, and emergency protocols. ShowNotes: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (⁠https://www.navalmanack.com/⁠) Carousell Protection Policy  (⁠https://support.carousell.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001545347--Singapore-Carousell-Protection-Refund-Policy⁠ ) Carousell Common Scam Patterns (⁠https://support.carousell.com/hc/en-us/articles/14436609604377) I am a killer | Netflix (⁠https://www.netflix.com/title/80202283⁠ ) Serial Season 3 (⁠https://serialpodcast.org/season-three⁠ ) == What really happened in Playtest (⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQRLCi8QdEg⁠ )

3. 

   9 Apr 2023

   10 - Ctrl + Shift + Down

   Hazel and Vale talk about running marathons, new smartwatches, codeswitching, MBTI personalities, and Black Mirror: White Christmas. ShowNotes: Hazel’s Half-Marathon Experience (⁠https://medium.com/@ongslhazel/behind-the-scenes-of-my-first-half-marathon-adventure-b8cf93b9764⁠) Cardiac Stress Test | Mayo Clinic (⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC4hN0mTRsY⁠) NAPFA Standard ( ⁠https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Physical_Fitness_Award⁠) KFC Double Down  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Down_(sandwich)⁠) Christmas Cooking Session (https://rationaldelusion.wixsite.com/listen/10-just-be-nice) MBTI Type Indicator (⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator⁠)

4. 

   31 Dec 2022

   09 - Screwing Up Consistently

   Hazel and Vale talk about body fat composition, performative streaks, and Black Mirror Season 2. Homework for the next episode: Black Mirror S2E4 - White Christmas (https://www.netflix.com/sg/title/70264888) ShowNotes XiaoMi Body Composition Scale (https://www.mi.com/sg/mi-body-composition-scale/) Bioelectric Impedance Analysis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioelectrical_impedance_analysis) Wikipedia’s own take on whether it’s ok to cite wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academic_use) Urban Dictionary (https://www.urbandictionary.com/) Know Your Meme (https://knowyourmeme.com/) Vale’s 1216 day streak on DuoLingo (https://rationaldelusion.wixsite.com/listen/09-screwing-up-consistently) Duo the DuoLingo Owl | KnowYourMeme (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/evil-duolingo-owl) — Turtle Talk with Crush (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=turtle+talk+with+crush) Natalie Tran - Asians in Media Talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TakJZtGlLJw)

5. 

   12 Dec 2022

   08 - Have a Good Night's Rest

   Hazel and Vale talk about weight tracking, smartwatches, a deep dive into sleep research, and Black Mirror Season 1. Homework for the next episode: Black Mirror Season 2 (https://www.netflix.com/sg/title/70264888) ShowNotes: Contact urticaria caused by the Apple Watch - A case report (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235224101630024X) How to wear your Apple Watch (https://support.apple.com/en-sg/HT204665) What to do when skin irritation develops while using Samsung Gear Sport? (https://www.samsung.com/sg/support/mobile-devices/what-to-do-when-skin-irritation-develops-while-using-samsung-gear-sport/) Sleep Chronotypes | Hazel’s Medium (https://medium.com/@ongslhazel/achieving-dreams-through-sleep-patterns-48e4f7f21181) How much sleep do we really need? | National Sleep Foundation (https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/how-much-sleep-do-we-really-need) Randy Gardner Sleep Deprivation Experiment | Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_sleep_deprivation_experiment) Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI) | Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_insomnia) Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI) | PIC Documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIeTVVAEFn8) — Dogme 95 Film Standards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95)

6. 

   13 Nov 2022

   07 - You Slept for Nothing

   Hazel and Vale talk about sleep tracking, pure mathematics, and credit cards. Homework for the next episode: Black Mirror Season 1 ShowNotes: Revenge Bedtime Procrastination | Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedtime_procrastination) Notebook with inspirational quote (https://rationaldelusion.wixsite.com/listen/07-you-slept-for-nothing) Money Explained | Netflix (https://www.netflix.com/sg/title/81345769)

7. 

   2 Oct 2022

   06 - Running Is the Solution to Everything

   Hazel and Vale talk about running goals (again), sleeping goals, data driven solutions, humour and optimistic nihilism. Vale orders coffee in bulk (https://rationaldelusion.wixsite.com/listen/06-running-is-the-solution-to-everything) How many Singaporeans actually sleep for at least seven hours? | YouGov (https://business.yougov.com/content/41611-singaporeans-would-sleep-least-seven-hours-only-qu) XiaoMi Weighing Scale (https://www.mi.com/sg/mi-body-composition-scale/) How many (close) friends do we need? (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adsp.12086 ) Episode lengths correlate almost perfectly to a linear model (https://rationaldelusion.wixsite.com/listen/06-running-is-the-solution-to-everything) Four Humour Styles (https://quiz.humorseriously.com/) Optimistic Nihilism | Kurzgesagt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBRqu0YOH14)

8. 

   3 Sept 2022

   05 - Alternate Universe Careers

   Hazel and Vale talk about running goals, vlogging, potential alternative careers, and forcing yourself to get things done even if you’re not in the mood. Relationship between sleep deprivation and dementia (https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lack-sleep-middle-age-may-increase-dementia-risk) Vale does poledancing | TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@valeonthepole) The Monty Hall Problem | MessyWorkings (https://youwei96.wixsite.com/messyworkings/single-post/the-monty-hall-problem) Synthetic Division | MessyWorkings (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcG5Sb-FNUg) Not in the Mood and How to Get Things Done Anyway | Hazel's Medium (https://medium.com/@ongslhazel/not-in-the-mood-and-how-to-get-things-done-anyway-f1c325e977c7) Guzheng | Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guzheng)

9. 

   9 Aug 2022

   04 - "Look at my Masterpiece"

   Hazel and Vale talk about their earliest childhood memories, smartwatches, and Never Losing the Spark Within. Running Graph (https://rationaldelusion.wixsite.com/listen/04-look-at-my-masterpiece) Childhood memories tend to be characterised by distinct emotion (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8325000/) Children are more likely to recall memories in the language they spoke or are exposed to at the time the memory was formed (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1354067X0064001) Children must have developed a coherent sense of self (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9243962/) Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory (https://www.verywellmind.com/the-id-ego-and-superego-2795951) Childhood amnesia and systematic bias in age estimates of early memories (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4709485/) Serial Season 1 (https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/1/the-alibi) Memory Implantation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_implantation) Confabulation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation) Never Lose the Spark Within | Hazel’s Medium (https://medium.com/@ongslhazel/never-lose-the-spark-within-9d3f493fdc63)

10. 

    30 May 2022

    03 - Turtles Are Gonna Hate This

    Hazel and Vale talk about work life balance, space telescopes, and plastic straws. ShowNotes Cities with best (and worst) work life balance | Kisi 2021 (https://www.getkisi.com/work-life-balance-2021) Number of ATMs per hundred thousand adults | World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/FB.ATM.TOTL.P5?contextual=aggregate&locations=1W-SG&name_desc=true) “I don’t know what the point of being a human is, but I know that somewhere close to the root is curiosity. We want to KNOW. We want to LEARN. We want to look really deep into ourselves, into our world and into our universe.” - Hank Green Hank Green talks about the James Webb Space Telescope (https://youtu.be/f6e-cGrPNtE) James Webb Space Telescope Launch | Official NASA Broadcast (https://youtu.be/7nT7JGZMbtM) Single Income, Single Identity (https://twitter.com/sngabirano/status/1301393365641105408) McDonalds is getting rid of straws: Here (https://www.instagram.com/p/CXQglHZMSFL/ ) and here (https://www.instagram.com/p/CXaDsXZB6s3/). The Straw Chart (https://twitter.com/rollwthepunches/status/1022355150554492929) Content Creation Guide | The Woke Salaryman (TWS) (https://thewokesalaryman.com/2021/11/26/the-tws-guide-to-creating-content/)

11. 

    14 May 2022

    02 - Don't Call Vale

    Hazel and Vale talk about taking breaks, and how to work sustainably without losing the spark within. ShowNotes The Woke SalaryMan | I feel guilty about resting, and it’s a problem. (https://www.instagram.com/p/CXxSDEShKts/) Never Lose the Spark Within | Hazel (https://medium.com/@ongslhazel/never-lose-the-spark-within-9d3f493fdc63)

12. 

    26 Apr 2022

    01 - Pilot

    Hazel and Vale discuss embarking on a new podcasting adventure together, and their other projects outside this podcast. ShowNotes Write the “Good” in your “Good Life” (https://medium.com/@ongslhazel/write-the-good-in-your-good-life-694472e1d8a9) Rubber Duckie Programming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging) MessyWorkings - Vale’s Site (https://youwei96.wixsite.com/messyworkings)

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