We Didn't Plan This started because Faith and Isaac have a lot of feelings about life not going according to plan. This episode is probably the most honest that's looked so far. The topic: optimism bias — that very human tendency to believe we'll be the exception, that this time we can handle it, that the numbers will somehow stay good if we just quietly stop taking the meds. It sounds like a psychology lecture. It isn't. It's two doctors sitting across from each other asking: on a scale of one to ten, how much of a sucker for suffering are you, really?

The conversation takes a few unexpected turns. Isaac talks about the period during med school where he was simultaneously doing weekend relief teaching, one-to-one tutoring, and working as an overnight caregiver through a home care app — wiping floors at strangers' houses at 2am and heading  ...