{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"A Productive Conversation","title":"Within Tolerance (PM Talks S3E7)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2655,"description":"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?\nFrom 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 end up at Costco, minimalism, graduation dress shopping, and why \"enough\" is really just tolerance wearing a different shirt.\n\nSix Discussion Points\nThe two meanings of tolerance — the \"getting along with people\" sense and the engineering \"range you'll accept\" sense — and the surprising place where they overlap\nPatrick's world of circus rigging: static load versus dynamic load, and why the right tolerance depends entirely on the act being performed\nThe Ted Lasso darts lesson from Productiveness — why accuracy beats perfection, and what \"be curious, not judgmental\" really teaches us\nHow \"enough\" is a form of tolerance, told through Patrick's wife and the great graduation dress hunt — a static need that suddenly turned dynamic\nCostco, the ketchup aisle, and Toffler's idea of \"overchoice\" — how narrowing your options lowers decision fatigue and quietly sets your tolerance for you\nWhy real tolerance demands patience and grace, and why it lives in the reasoned middle rather than at the purely logical or purely emotional extremes\nThree Connection Points\nMy recent conversation with former WWE executive George Barrios...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/RaxQE_yNeOcP9CV60hOV3GBXJq5J7iHtixqMZ6k8ieU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ODBi/MTA3MDFjYjQwMDVj/ZGQ2N2I1MjZiNjhh/YTlhMS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}