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Episode 48: An Abrupt Existential Jerk

TOPIC: How habits get made.

Dan and Merlin are back for 2012 to discuss how habits are like little hairs or inertia or homeostasis or something. How we build habits, how they get built for us, and what we can learn about habits from making our daily coffee.

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