Something You Should Know
Digital Communication Done Right & Buy What You Love Without Going Broke
Mon, 03 Mar 2025
Beer should be served ice cold. Bottled beer is better than canned beer. These are just 2 incorrect assumptions people have about beer. This episode begins with a look at common beliefs about beer that just aren’t true – and what the real story is. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/61195/11-common-misconceptions-about-beer You have a lot of options when it comes to communicating with others. You can text, video chat, email, phone or speak face-to-face. What you may not realize or think about is that the method of communication you choose itself sends a message. Choose the wrong method and you send the wrong message. Here to discuss the fascinating research behind all this is Andrew Brodsky. He is a management professor at McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and author of the book PING: The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication (https://amzn.to/41h5fQH). Have you ever really examined what you spend your money on in say, the last 90 days? When you do, you just may learn some fascinating things about yourself. That is why it is one of several recommendations you will hear from my guest Jen Smith. She reveals how once you are clear on what is truly important to you, you can stop wasting money on things that don't matter and buy what you really love. Jen Smith is a personal finance expert and co-host of the Frugal Friends podcast (https://www.frugalfriendspodcast.com/) who has written for and been featured in Forbes, Money Magazine and Business Insider. She is co-author of the book, Buy What You Love Without Going Broke (https://amzn.to/41dBBM9). What is the best way to deal with a hostile boss? Perhaps using a little hostility in return. Listen as I reveal how a little passive-aggressive hostility may be the perfect way to manage that belligerent boss. https://news.osu.edu/news/2015/01/20/hostile-boss-study-finds-advantages-to-giving-it-right-back/ PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS!!! FACTOR: Eat smart with Factor! Get 50% off at https://FactorMeals.com/something50off QUINCE: Indulge in affordable luxury! Go to https://Quince.com/sysk for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. TIMELINE: Get 10% off your order of Mitopure! Go to https://Timeline.com/SOMETHING SHOPIFY: Nobody does selling better than Shopify! Sign up for a $1 per-month trial period at https://Shopify.com/sysk and upgrade your selling today! HERS: Hers is changing women's healthcare by providing access to GLP-1 weekly injections with the same active ingredient as Ozempic and Wegovy, as well as oral medication kits. Start your free online visit today at https://forhers.com/sysk INDEED: Get a $75 sponsored job credit to get your jobs more visibility at https://Indeed.com/SOMETHING right now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the common misconceptions about beer?
And we're going to start today with some practical advice you can use in your life if you're a beer drinker. Hi, and welcome to another episode of Something You Should Know. We drink a lot of beer in this country, yet there are some misconceptions about beer and how to drink it. For example, people believe that beer should be served ice cold. Actually, it should be served at 44 degrees.
The reason is that taste buds become dead to the taste of the drink when it's served any colder than 44 degrees, which means you're really not getting the most enjoyment out of the beer. Drinking from a bottle is best. Well, not really. Much of the taste of beer or anything else is smell.
When you drink out of a bottle, the aroma doesn't make it to your nose because the bottle opening is too small. Many people believe that canned beer is cheap beer. But cans are actually a great way to protect beer. In the old days, beer in a can could sometimes take on an aluminum taste. But today, most cans have a water-based liner, so the beer isn't actually touching the aluminum.
You might think that all beer bottles are the same, but they're not. Clear bottles or green bottles might be pretty, but they don't do much to protect your beer from light. Light interacts with the hops in beer and can make it go bad. Dark beer bottles work best to help retain its flavor.
Now, you might think beer causes a beer belly, and maybe it does, but beer is not the worst offender in the alcoholic beverage category. Many cocktails are much more fattening than beer. Margaritas are probably the worst. And that is something you should know. When you choose to communicate with someone miles away or just in the other room, you have a lot of options.
You didn't used to, but now you can telephone or text, email, FaceTime. There's all kinds of apps. Or you could just walk over and talk to the person. What's interesting is that which mode of communication you choose to use sends its own message, which I don't think most of us think about. Some means of communication are much more effective than others depending on the circumstance.
Here to dig a bit deeper into this and explain why it's important to understand is Andrew Brodsky. Andrew is a management professor at McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and CEO of Ping Group. Andrew is author of a book called Ping, The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication. Hi Andrew, welcome. Thanks for having me on, Mike.
So let's start here, because I remember years ago when I first saw this happen, and it just bothered me. And that is how people will use electronic communication, meaning text or FaceTime, or even just the phone function on their phone, to communicate with someone who is 10 feet away. For example, my son might text me from his bedroom, what's for dinner?
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Chapter 2: How does the method of communication affect your message?
And he could easily get up and talk to me, but he doesn't. And I see this a lot.
So when your son texts you from the other room, for instance, that's showing low effort. And when people purposely choose less rich technology that's easier for them, in many ways, it sends a signal like, I can't be bothered to walk the five feet away to ask you that question. And so understanding what we're telling the other person by which mode we choose is really important.
But I'm not sure he sees it that way. I doubt he would say, yes, I'm using low effort to ask what's for dinner. I think he sees it as the most convenient, efficient, and yeah, it takes less effort, but he doesn't see it as low effort. He sees it more as an efficient way to get the message to me.
And that's a great point. I actually did some research and what I was looking at in this set of studies is how do we evaluate effort or authenticity based on the mode of communication that others choose? there's two kinds of authenticity. There's the true authenticity that I really feel what I'm saying.
And then there's a second type of authenticity that I also talk about, which is you wanna seem like you're authentic and you care, but you don't necessarily actually care. And there's a lot of reasons for this. So maybe you had a really bad day. Then you're going out to lunch with one of your friends, and they're telling you some really exciting news.
And you're not excited because you're so upset about what happened earlier in the day, but it wouldn't be good for you to tell them about that when they just announced that They're engaged or something like that. So that's what we call surface acting, where you engage in this in business. They call it service with a smile.
But it's this idea that you're putting on a good face for somebody else, even if you might not be feeling that underlying emotion. So first, what my studies found is when you are being truly authentic, you actually are feeling what you want to express emotionally.
Choosing the richest mode of interaction, whether that's in person or whether that's a video call, that's best because that is seen as the highest effort and it lets your authenticity shine through. But when you're engaging in the surface acting, so you're faking your emotions potentially for the other person's benefit.
It's a little bit tricky because when you choose the richest mode of communication in person or via video, yes, it's seen as the highest effort. But the downside is that your cues of underlying emotion can sneak through and other people can tell.
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Chapter 3: What is the best way to handle hostile communication?
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So, Andrew, is there a hierarchy of for me, an in-person conversation beats every other kind and text is probably at the very bottom of that list. But is that an objective list or is that a subjective list?
It really depends on what you're trying to accomplish. So, for instance, this conversation you and I are having now. I'm someone who's fairly talkative, so each of my answers to you are multiple paragraphs long, and you've got a bunch of questions for me. If you had emailed me these questions and each of my responses were five paragraphs long, this would have taken me a long time to write.
And so here's the time when having this conversation is much quicker than text. But let's push it in the other direction. When is text better than having the face-to-face or the synchronous interaction that we're having? Well, an example is, let's just say we're trying to brainstorm something.
There's a lot of limitations for group brainstorming, whether it's you're in a business team or whether you're a bridal party trying to come up with ideas for the party. And what happens when you're in a group is a few things with brainstorming. Only one person can talk at a time when you're engaging synchronously.
We tend to be more concerned that other people are going to judge your ideas negatively. And we tend to anchor onto other people's ideas. So someone says an idea, and then all of a sudden, all of our ideas are kind of sticking close to their ideas.
But research shows that when you engage in brainstorming the initial stages, separately and virtually, you tend to come up with more novel ideas because A, everyone can do it all at once, and B, you're not anchoring each other on your ideas here. So there are a lot of situations where less rich modes of communication can be really useful.
Yeah, like if I'm at the store and my wife wants me to pick up eggs, a text is probably fine. But only if I have the ringer on to hear the notifications, because it's happened plenty of times where she's texted me to get something and I didn't think to check my phone. I didn't hear the text come in and I forgot.
And maybe if she had called, there would have been a better chance for me to feel the phone ring or hear the phone ring and get the eggs.
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Chapter 4: How can you ensure effective virtual communication?
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You understand enough about money to know that you can't buy everything you want. That would be crazy. But maybe you could buy everything you love, really love. It's a unique way to look at how you spend your money and opens up a conversation you have probably never heard before. But you're about to hear it now as I discuss this with Jen Smith.
Jen is a personal finance expert and co-host of the Frugal Friends podcast. She has written for or been featured in Forbes, Money Magazine, Business Insider, and others. And she is co-author of a book called Buy What You Love Without Going Broke. Hi Jen, welcome to Something You Should Know.
Hey Mike, thanks so much for having me.
So start by explaining the philosophy here, because you're not saying buy what you want, but buy what you love.
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Chapter 5: What are the pros and cons of video meetings?
Chapter 6: How can you buy what you love without going broke?
So there's a disconnect on what we love and what we spend money on. I think when we ask people, what is most important to you? They usually have these answers of like family and friends. But then when we talk about like, what do you love to spend money on? We jump straight to things.
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Something you should know. Fascinating intel. The world's top experts. And practical advice you can use in your life. Today, Something You Should Know with Mike Carruthers.
And we're going to start today with some practical advice you can use in your life if you're a beer drinker. Hi, and welcome to another episode of Something You Should Know. We drink a lot of beer in this country, yet there are some misconceptions about beer and how to drink it. For example, people believe that beer should be served ice cold. Actually, it should be served at 44 degrees.
The reason is that taste buds become dead to the taste of the drink when it's served any colder than 44 degrees, which means you're really not getting the most enjoyment out of the beer. Drinking from a bottle is best. Well, not really. Much of the taste of beer or anything else is smell.
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