iAlign #53 - A Free Afternoon in the Lab, Spent Scrolling

The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell · Oct 2, 2026 · 8m · transcript

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I had a lab, a full set of equipment, and afternoons I could spend on whatever experiment I wanted. I spent them scrolling the Instagram of a girl I knew in high school, telling myself I'd start at one, then two, then three thirty. By the time someone asked about happy hour I'd say yes just to stop thinking about the afternoon I'd wasted. Two things were actually going on. I was scared of being the guy who couldn't get it to work, and I'd said yes to so much that I couldn't tell what to do next.

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