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Procurement for Your Apartment? Yes, It's a Thing

When listener Daniel moved into a new apartment, his industrial euro boxes worked so well he decided to replace every cardboard box in his life — and suddenly found himself running a procurement operation from his living room. This episode explores the surprising software gap between consumer shopping and full enterprise ERPs, and why a Google Drive folder system hits its limits fast. We break down the actual workflow — RFQs, quote comparison, expiry tracking, cost allocation — and look at lightweight tools like Procurify, Kissflow Procurement, Tradogram, and Precoro that handle exactly this scale. If you've ever bought supplies for a side hustle and wished software existed between "Amazon cart" and "SAP," this one's for you.

Does Getting Things Done Actually Work?

Daniel read *Getting Things Done* and felt seen—but is the science behind David Allen’s "open loops" real, or just intuitively appealing? We stress-test the core claims against the Zeigarnik Effect, Cognitive Load Theory, and working memory research. What holds up, what doesn’t, and why the capture step alone might be making things worse. Essential listening for anyone who’s ever felt guilt over an unpurchased birthday gift.

Nuns on AliExpress: Ancient Rules for Modern Tech

When a nun in full habit picks up an AliExpress package at a Jerusalem post office, it punctures our assumptions about monastic life. This episode explores how ancient religious communities — from Carmelites to Franciscans — manage their relationship with technology through centuries-old frameworks of selective withdrawal, attention management, and intentional design. What can the rest of us, drowning in dopamine-driven devices, learn from people who've been thinking about attention for 1,500 years?

How Screwdrivers Became a Museum of Bad Decisions

Ever wondered why your IKEA furniture requires three different screwdrivers? This episode traces the strange history of screw drives — from hand-filed iron screws in the 1760s to the battle between Robertson's brilliant square drive and Phillips's deliberately flawed cross design. Discover why Canada almost standardized the world's screws, how an assembly line problem created the Phillips head we all love to hate, and why the "better" screw lost to the one designed to fail at exactly the right moment. A story of patents, stubbornness, and physics that explains why your toolbox is full of incompatible bits.

Ghosts in the Talmud: Judaism's Hidden Paranormal Tradition

Most people think Judaism rejects ghosts and the paranormal. But the Talmud's very first tractate features Rabbi Yose hearing a disembodied voice in a ruin—and the sages debate it seriously. This episode unpacks the rich, often-hidden Jewish tradition of spirits, demons, and the afterlife. We explore the ibbur (a righteous soul that temporarily helps the living), the dybbuk (a trapped soul needing repair, not exorcism), and shedim (demons created as a separate order, not fallen angels). We also examine how 19th-century Jewish historians sanitized these traditions to fit European rationalist standards, and what gets lost when we forget that Judaism's map of the afterlife—Gehinnom, Gan Eden, and bodily resurrection—is radically different from Christian heaven and hell.