Within Tolerance (PM Talks S3E7)
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Mike Vardy and Patrick Rhone discuss the concept of tolerance and its various meanings in a light-hearted conversation.
This episode is brought to you by The 10 Second Inbox—a small, tactical system for taming email without chasing inbox zero. One ten-second decision per message, one calm inbox you can glance at and close. It's launch priced at $29 (reg. $49) through July 26th. Get it at mikevardy.com/10secondinbox (code INBOXTODAY auto-applies). Patrick Rhone joins me again for the latest installment of our monthly PM Talks series, and this month we landed on a word that does a lot more heavy lifting than most people realize: tolerance. We start where we always seem to start lately — wandering through names, nicknames, and the strange cadence of how people get called what they get called — before Patrick pulls us back on track and asks the only question that matters: how much tolerance does anyone have for two guys talking about etymology for an hour? From there it opens up. Tolerance isn't just the human, get-along-with-people meaning we all reach for first. It's also a range — the amount of variance you're willing to accept before something stops working. Patrick brings the language of circus rigging, I bring the darts scene from Ted Lasso that shows up in my book, and somewhere in between we…
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