[A.J. Jacobs, what’s coming up]: The benefit of sharing your ideas with people while you’re still working on them + baking for democracy Ep 1148

Finding the Throughline with Kate Hanley

Welcome to the final installment of my interview with A.J. Jacobs, who is a multiple New York Times bestselling author of books that chronicle his attempts to live differently and share what he's learned from his experiments.

A.J.'s latest book is “The Year of Living Constitutionally,” where he attempts to understand our country better by adopting the mindset and technology of our founding fathers. Fun fact: A.J. wrote “The Year of Living Constitutionally” with a goose quill pen and a pot of ink while wearing a tricorn hat.

We covered:

- His Election Cake Project–what it’s about and how you can take part (I mean, cake!)

- The Oxford University professor whose work inspires him

- How a song from “The King and I” reminds him of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy–and inspired a recent article

- Why he now doesn’t hesitate to tell people about an idea he’s still thinking about or working on–when he used to keep those closely guarded until he had finished creating them

- Why he wants to get back to time blocking

- The idea he’d love to implement after his kids go off to college

- Why his morning cup of coffee only contains 40% coffee (and what makes up the other 60%)

For full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com.

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