# Town Hall #13: Pests [^note]: [Subscribe to Taylor's Town Hall via email](https://newsletter.taylor.town). Judgement Day flooded our household -- an insect apocalypse! We fumigated our home after a long battle with termites, mice, and carpenter bees. Honey now drips from the ceiling in our bedroom. I'm not joking. Yet pests remain. Trifles gnaw at my discipline. The Internet™ vies for my attention. Ego and self-doubt battle for my mind. Ephemera eats my time. Your skull cannot be tented nor fumigated. Reduce distractions; insulate your attention. Rid yourself of negativity; don't let mind mold fester. Take your trash out; get a therapist. Proactively prevent pests from getting in your head. --- ## New Writings - ☆ [Spoil Your Secret Sauce](/secret-sauce) - ☆ [Things That Outlive Fancy Rats](/fancy-rats) - [Rucking with Children](/ruck-kids) - [How to Coast with Corporate Camouflage](/corporate-camouflage) - [Productize Yourself](/productize-yourself) - [Find your value.](/find-your-value) - [Select your service.](/select-your-service) - ☆ [Pick your price.](/pick-your-price) - [Sell your service.](/sell-your-service) - ☆ [Do unforgettable work.](/do-unforgettable-work) - [Don't fight customers.](/dont-fight-customers) - [Demonstrate evergreen proof.](/demonstrate-evergreen-proof) --- ## Recommendations [^note]: You may skip to [books](#books), [images](#images), [videos](#videos), [podcast](#podcasts), or [music](#music). [^note]: You can also scour my entire history of [book reviews](/books), [album ratings](/music), and [active podcasts](/podcasts). You may also want to [read about my rating system](/2-stars). ### Podcasts {podcasts} - Deep Questions with Cal Newport - Software Unscripted - Everything Everywhere Daily - Radiolab - Planet Money - 99% Invisible - Memory Palace - Twenty Thousand Hertz - Conversations with Tyler - Joy of Why ### Books {books} | | | | | ------------------------------: | ----- | :--------------------------------------------------- | | [review](/books#first-law) | ★★★☆☆ | _Last Argument of Kings_ :: Joe Abercrombie | | [review](/books#first-law) | ★★☆☆☆ | _Before They Are Hanged_ :: Joe Abercrombie | | [review](/books#first-law) | ★★★☆☆ | _The Blade Itself_ :: Joe Abercrombie | | [review](/books#company-of-one) | ★☆☆☆☆ | _Company of One_ :: Paul Jarvis | | [review](/books#fair-play) | ★★☆☆☆ | _Fair Play_ :: Eve Rodsky | | [review](/books#station-11) | ★★☆☆☆ | _Station Eleven_ :: Emily St. John Mandel | | [review](/books#real-life) | ★★★☆☆ | _We Are Never Meeting in Real Life_ :: Samantha Irby | | [review](/books#your-life) | ★★★★☆ | _Story of Your Life and Others_ :: Ted Chiang | ### Music {music} | | | | ----- | :------------------------------------------------------------ | | ★★★★☆ | The Smiths :: _Hatful of Hollow_ | | ★★★☆☆ | The Olivia Tremor Control :: _Black Foliage: Animation Music_ | | ★★★☆☆ | Regal Lily :: _The Post_ | | ★★★☆☆ | Into It. Over It. :: _Proper_ | | ★★★☆☆ | Arca :: _KiCk i_ | | ★★★☆☆ | Anomalie :: _Métropole, Pt. II_ | | ★★★☆☆ | A Skylit Drive :: _She Watched The Sky_ | | ★★☆☆☆ | Sonata Arctica :: _Winterheart's Guild_ | | ★★☆☆☆ | Menomena :: _Friend and Foe_ | | ★★☆☆☆ | Emily Keener :: _I Do Not Have To Be Good_ | | ★★☆☆☆ | Elephant Gym :: _Under Water_ | | ★☆☆☆☆ | Perfume :: _Cosmic Explorer_ | | ★☆☆☆☆ | Panic! At the Disco :: _Vices & Virtues_ | ### Videos {videos} - ☆ [Monty Python - Seduced Milkmen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJZM3X4dpzo) - ☆ [John I Want a Divorce](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDXrP9HET2A) - ☆ [I watched every Fast and Furious movie to answer this question....](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu-q6-d8GzQ) - ☆ [Oh look a civilian airliner](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERGfao1Acqc) - ☆ [My salami is still alive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfrInBaQalc) - ☆ [I'm a rat, I ain't no snitch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpBHYXPtn9M) - [Can American Cities Save Themselves? This One Thinks So.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRv02yQWkp8) - [The Minneapolis Police: A Criminal Organization](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6DGABIcB3w) - [Designing Urban Places that Don't Suck](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOc8ASeHYNw) - [Una Casa Brutalista Enterrada En Una Colina | OPEN PLAN | House Tour](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iP3wgYXchE) - [Webinar™ - w w w . d e e p d i v e . c o m](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw392gowFu4) - [Run tew yew](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIIOh0Z3a44) - [Love Parade Berlin 1997](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxwWDx-KPY8) - [Hair Growth Time-lapse - 2 Years](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d41A2ENfqjw) - [The first time marmot bathed with a brush](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEX1_NYoPls) - [I'll Sing Your Song (Hatsune Miku Barbershop Quartet)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rHIlStUv8A) - [Combining Two LEGO Botanical Gardens for the ULTIMATE Modular Building!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_orDG-e2uA) - [Absolutely Painful: Curved LEGO Tram Tracks... Lego City Update](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6NKKWDzuME) - [Ether/Or — The story of black holes, and how I temporarily lost my mind over an Amazon review](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0EKaSmtpA0) - [American Football - Never Meant (Sewerslvt and Sadfem Remix)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm4lLN7pktc) - [Analyzing Björk's HUNTER - It took me MONTHS to get this beat right | Drum Patterns Explained](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix4U9eVDJk0) - [Alice Sara Ott: Tiny Desk Concert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XppUz4SkLk) ### Images {images} ![the senate](/senate.jpeg) ![goodnight-monkey](/goodnight-monkey.jpg) ![ugly dog](/ugly-dog.jpg) ![zucked](/zucked.jpg) ![catnip](/catnip.png)