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Podcast: 18Forty Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ammiel Hirsch: How To Understand Reform Judaism’s Anti-Zionist Crisis [Denominations Bonus Episode]
Pub date: 2024-07-02
This series is sponsored by Joel and Lynn Mael in memory of Estelle and Nysen Mael.
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we follow up with Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch to break down the anti-Zionist crisis facing the Reform Movement.
As young Jews feel increasingly disconnected from the Jewish People, America’s non-Orthodox synagogues, summer camps, and day schools are challenged to ensure continuity and unity for the Jewish future. In this episode we discuss:
—Do we need to choose between caring about our fellow Jews and caring about the world?
—Why are younger Jews more antagonistic toward Israel than previous generations?
—Can American Jewry survive without a connection to Israel?
Tune in to hear a conversation about the past, present, and future of American Jewry.
Interview begins at 6:12.
Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch is a leader of the Reform Movement. He is the senior rabbi of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue and former executive director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America/World Union for Progressive Judaism, North America. He wrote two books: The Lilac Tree: A Rabbi’s Reflections on Love, Courage, and History (2023) and One People, Two Worlds: A Reform Rabbi and an Orthodox Rabbi Explore the Issues That Divide Them (2003), which he co-authored with Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Reinman.
References:
18 Questions, 40 Israeli Thinkers
Leviticus 19:17
Genesis 12:3
Amos 9
The War of Return by Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf
Jewish Wisdom by Joseph Telushkin
The Book of Jewish Values by Joseph Telushkin
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Podcast: Conversations with B’nai B’rith
Episode: Einat Wilf and Adi Schwartz on Confronting the False Idea of Palestinian "Right of Return"
Pub date: 2020-06-23
Authors Einat Wilf and Adi Schwartz join host CEO Dan Mariaschin to break down their new book, "The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace." Mariaschin speaks with Wilf and Schwartz about how they view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and why they view the notion of Palestinian “right to return” for Arab refugees to be an existential threat to the future of Israel as a Jewish state. They also explore how the refugee issue has become an obstacle to peace, as well as the myths and impediments preventing a peaceful solution between the two sides.
Einat Wilf was a Member of Knesset from 2010 to 2013 for Independence and the Labor Party. She has been a senior fellow at Israeli think tanks, a foreign policy advisor to Shimon Peres and is the author of several books.
Adi Schwartz is a Tel Aviv-based freelance researcher and journalist who is a former staff writer and senior editor for Haaretz. He has particular expertise on the Palestinian refugee issue.
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Podcast: The Rational Egoist
Episode: The Rational Egoist: Untangling the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict with Adi Schwartz
Pub date: 2024-05-24
The Rational Egoist: Untangling the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict with Adi Schwartz
Join host Michael Liebowitz for a compelling episode of The Rational Egoist as he engages in a profound discussion with Adi Schwartz, a distinguished research fellow at the Misgav Institute and postdoctoral fellow at The Ben-Gurion Institute, on the complex and longstanding Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this enlightening conversation, Adi Schwartz offers invaluable insights into the historical context, underlying grievances, and contemporary dynamics that shape this enduring conflict.
Drawing on his extensive research and expertise, Adi Schwartz delves into the multifaceted nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, exploring its historical origins, geopolitical complexities, and socio-cultural dimensions. He provides a nuanced analysis of the various factors contributing to the perpetuation of conflict, from competing national narratives to territorial disputes and security concerns.
Listeners will gain a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities for peace in the region, as Adi Schwartz unpacks the obstacles to resolution and offers pragmatic insights into potential pathways forward. Through compelling anecdotes and scholarly analysis, he sheds light on the human toll of the conflict and the aspirations of both Israeli and Palestinian populations for a better future.
This episode serves as a platform for dialogue and understanding, as Michael and Adi Schwartz engage in a respectful exchange of ideas and perspectives. While acknowledging the complexities and sensitivities involved, they demonstrate a commitment to fostering empathy, mutual respect, and constructive engagement in pursuit of peace and reconciliation.
Tune in to The Rational Egoist for an enlightening conversation with Adi Schwartz as we navigate the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Whether you're a student of geopolitics, a concerned citizen, or someone seeking to gain a deeper understanding of this pressing issue, this episode promises to inform, inspire, and provoke thoughtful reflection on the path to peace.
Michael Leibowitz, host of The Rational Egoist podcast, is a philosopher and political activist who draws inspiration from Ayn Rand’s philosophy, advocating for reason, rational self-interest, and individualism. His journey from a 25-year prison sentence to a prominent voice in the libertarian and Objectivist communities highlights the transformative impact of embracing these principles.
Leibowitz actively participates in political debates and produces content aimed at promoting individual rights and freedoms. He is the co-author of “Down the Rabbit Hole:
How the Culture of Correction Encourages Crime” and “View from a Cage: From Convict to Crusader for Liberty,” which explore societal issues and his personal evolution through Rand’s teachings.
Explore his work and journey further through his books:“Down the Rabbit Hole”: https://www.amazon.com.au/Down-Rabbit-Hole-Corrections-Encourages/dp/197448064X“
View from a Cage”: https://books2read.com/u/4jN6xj
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Podcast: The Wildescast (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Future of Zionism with Dr. Einat Wilf
Pub date: 2024-06-17
0:00 - Welcome
8:58 - Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream
15:45 - Oslo Accords & 2 State Solution
26:35 - Trump Administration
32:31 - Abraham Accords
45:39 - University Protests & Encampments
58:01 - How to Stay Informed
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Podcast: In These Times with Rabbi Ammi Hirsch (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Einat Wilf and David Hazony
Pub date: 2023-11-30
Alongside the shock, mourning, grief, and mobilization of war, there is also revelation. Returning guest Dr. Einat Wilf and author and editor David Hazony discuss the aftermath of October 7's "Black Sabbath" and its implications for the future of the Jewish people.
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Podcast: In These Times with Rabbi Ammi Hirsch (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Einat Wilf
Pub date: 2023-04-27
Why is a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so elusive? Dr. Einat Wilf thinks the answer is simple, but that we've been unwilling to accept it.
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Podcast: Keystone Reckoning Podcast
Episode: Wanna Beat Trump and Actually Save Democracy? Pack the Supreme Court NOW.
Pub date: 2024-07-12
What if the only way to protect democracy is to restore checks and balances by expanding the Supreme Court? On this episode of the Keystone Recording podcast, we confront the political chaos shaking our nation to its core. We dissect everything from Supreme Court rulings on presidential immunity to President Biden’s controversial performance, spotlighting the collective anxiety and lack of clear strategies among Democrats aiming to oust Donald Trump. Drawing bold historical parallels to FDR’s New Deal era, we contemplate the idea of court packing as a potentially necessary measure to counteract the Trump and MAGA movement victories.
If you’ve been doomscrolling and pondering why everything feels like it’s teetering on the edge, you’re not alone. There’s one simple solution: President Biden needs to pack the Supreme Court NOW.
Expect a no-holds-barred look at why Democrats are experts at paralysis by analysis, while Republicans are busy winning with every loophole they can exploit. We’ll revisit FDR’s court-packing attempt and why it’s more relevant now than ever. Plus, hear a clip from FDR himself to remind us that even the greats knew when to shake things up.
We need to stop protecting an "institution" that no longer exists. It’s time to stop worrying about the editorial pages and Twitter trolls, and start fighting like our democracy depends on it—because it does.
We scrutinize the fierce political climate surrounding Trump and his loyal supporters, whose allegiance is rooted in cultural conflicts and a blatant disregard for facts. We delve into the Democratic response, considering the audacious strategy of expanding the Supreme Court to reignite voter enthusiasm and redefine the election narrative. Could recent Supreme Court decisions provide President Biden and Senate Majority Leader Schumer the leverage to appoint new justices? We explore the ethical controversies and constitutional crises this might provoke.
Join us for this cathartic episode where we demand bold action, mock the endless hand-wringing, and get real about what it’s going to take to beat Trump and save democracy. Pack the Supreme Court, President Biden. The time is NOW. Tune in for a blend of wit, sarcasm, and a call to action that’s as urgent as it is necessary. Let’s get to work, Democrats!
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Podcast: The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Nellie Bowles On Ditching Wokeness
Pub date: 2024-06-14
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Nellie is a writer and reporter. She has worked for many mainstream publications, most notably the NYT covering Silicon Valley. Now she is teamed up with her wife, Bari Weiss, to run The Free Press — a media company they launched on Substack in 2021. Nellie’s weekly news roundup, TGIF, is smart and hilarious, and so is her new book, Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History.
For two clips of our convo — on the scourge of Slack, and questioning whether trans is immutable — pop over to our YouTube page. Other topics: Nellie growing up in SF with divorced parents; her mother the writer and stockbroker; her dad the entrepreneur; Nellie the tomboy who ran the gay-straight alliance to find a girlfriend; reading conservatives (Paglia, Rand, Coulter) as a liberal teen; working at the SF Chronicle; the NYT full of “intense, ambitious people on a political mission”; James Bennet; Dean Baquet and the “racial reckoning”; the 1619 Project; Donald McNeil; the MSM ignoring antifa; Joe Kahn taking a stand; NPR refusing to cover Hunter’s laptop; lab-leak theory; disinfo as a “useful cudgel”; CHAZ/CHOP in Seattle; Prager U; the Shitty Media Men list; Jordan Peterson and “enforced monogamy”; James Damore; a NYT editor calling Bari “a f*g Nazi”; Nellie falling in love with her; losing friends over their relationship; Nellie being very pregnant right now; male role models for the kids of lesbians; marriage equality; the queer left’s opposition to marriage; when the straights culturally appropriate “queer”; Ptown and Dina Martina; the importance of Pride for small towns; taking my mum to a parade; the US being way behind Europe on trans kids; the profound effects of hormones; the “the science is settled” campaign by GLAAD; detransitioners; Jan 6 and Stop the Steal; right-wing pressure on courts and Congress due to Trump; RFK Jr’s candidacy; the woke blackout on humor; Elon Musk; the mainstreaming of masks and violent rhetoric after Oct 7; Nellie converting to Judaism; and how her book is “not about heroism.”
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Podcast: Stats + Stories (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Patient Safety Statistics | Stats + Stories Episode 329
Pub date: 2024-05-30
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hospital mortality rates in the US were on the decline in the early 2000s, even as total hospitalizations rose. This came after a 1999 U.S. Institute of Medicine report that suggested tens of thousands of individuals died in hospitals unnecessarily each year. The report focused attention on patient safety in modern hospitals. About 70 years earlier, an organization in the American South was also concerned with patient outcomes. That's the focus of this episode of Stats+Stories with guest Melissa Thomasson. Melissa Thomasson is an American economist. She is the Julian Lange Professor of Economics at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she has also been the chair of the Department of Economics. She studies economic history, focusing on the evolution of health insurance and health care in the United States.
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Podcast: Keystone Reckoning Podcast
Episode: 2024 Democratic Primary Review: Who Won... and Why
Pub date: 2024-04-24
The 2024 Democratic Primary has come and gone, and the voters have spoken. But what did they say? Uncover the seismic shifts within the Democratic Party following the 2024 primary elections with me as we dissect the victories, the protests, and what they spell for the future. President Biden clinches a decisive win, yet the 7% protest vote for Dean Phillips speaks volumes about internal party dynamics as we march towards the general election. We're peeling back the layers on Bob Casey's unchallenged Senate nomination and the upcoming tussle with Dave McCormick, alongside a deep dive into Eugene DePasquale's triumph in a hotly contested Attorney General race. The influence of name recognition, regional backing, and candidate diversity are all on the table as we analyze the ingredients for success in these critical seats.
The State Treasurer's race has set social media ablaze, spurring a discourse that's both heated and revealing. Join us as we spotlight candidate Bizarro's strategic campaign maneuvers, wielding his political roles and relationships to harness institutional support. The potency of endorsements and the impact of a historical vote on abortion rights insurance coverage in 2013 are examined under our microscope, revealing how these factors intertwine with public opinion and campaign results. It's not just about the headline candidates; we're interpreting the broader trends and voter sentiments shaping the Democratic strategy for the upcoming electoral showdown.
Prepare to be surprised as we tease a deep analysis of Philadelphia's electoral landscape in our next episode. Despite a short break from the mic, rest assured that a treasure trove of insight lies ahead, with hard-hitting statistics and angles poised to challenge the status quo. We're gearing up to arm you with a formidable understanding of the City of Brotherly Love's political heartbeat, ensuring you won't want to miss a beat of our compelling narrative. So mark your calendars, and join us for an eye-opening journey into Philadelphia's political surprises.
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Podcast: Stats + Stories (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Health Benefits of Riding an Electric Bike | Stats + Short Stories Episode 319
Pub date: 2024-03-14
Hybrid cars are everywhere now but what is your best option if you want to feel the wind in your hair, or at least under your helmet and you want to get a little exercise as well? Well, e-bikes are an answer and that’s the topic on this episode of Stats + Short Stories with guest Helaine Alessio. Helaine Alessio, PhD, FACSM is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Kinesiology, Nutrition, and Health at Miami University and is a past President of the MWACSM and a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. She teaches Exercise Science-related courses and has received university commendations for her teaching. She has been funded by NIH, private foundations, and corporations to support research, teaching, and service projects. She has published 2 books, 13 book chapters, and 56 journal articles, as well as national and international peer reviewed blogs, infographics, and NPR broadcasts. She is listed in the top 2% of Exercise Scientists cited in the world by Stanford University researchers. Her work on academic integrity includes co-editing a special edition of a journal on the topic that was the most widely published for the Journal of Excellence in College Teaching.
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Podcast: The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: How To Leverage Data Beyond Medical Data?
Pub date: 2024-03-19
Interview with Selena Fisk* Importance of translating data insights into actionable strategies * Focus on reaching the right audience and driving meaningful outcomes * Selena's innovative approach to data strategy for businesses * Tailoring data plans to organizations' goals and maturity levels * Addressing challenges of data overload and providing clarity for leaders * Overview of Selena's "Make Data Talk" podcast and its mission * Advocacy for global data literacy initiatives * Application of data strategy principles in education for student success * Conclusion emphasizing the pivotal role of data strategy in our digital landscape
Selena has been enlightening, showcasing the power of data storytelling and its impact on various sectors, from education to corporate settings.
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Together, let's empower more individuals and organizations to harness the power of data for a better future.
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Podcast: New Books in Psychology (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
Pub date: 2024-02-22
Today’s book is: Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There(Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2024), by Tali Sharot and Cass R. Sunstein, a book that asks why stimulating jobs and breathtaking works of art lose their sparkle after a while. People stop noticing what is most wonderful in their own lives. They also stop noticing what is terrible, due to something called habituation. Because of habituation, people get used to dirty air, become unconcerned by their own misconduct, and become more liable to believe misinformation. But what if you could dishabituate? Could you find a way to see everything anew? What if you could regain sensitivity, not only to the great things in your life, but also to the terrible things you stopped noticing and so don’t try to change?
In Look Again, neuroscience professor Tali Sharot and Harvard law professor Cass R. Sunstein investigate why we stop noticing both the great and not-so-great things around us and how to “dishabituate.” This groundbreaking work, based on decades of research in the psychological and biological sciences, illuminates how we can reignite the sparks of joy, innovate, and recognize where improvements urgently need to be made. The key to this disruption—to seeing, feeling, and noticing again—is change. By temporarily changing your environment, changing the rules, changing the people you interact with—or even just stepping back and imagining change—you regain sensitivity, allowing you to more clearly identify the bad and more deeply appreciate the good.
Our guest is: Cass R. Sunstein, who is the nation’s most-cited legal scholar. For the past fifteen years, he has been at the forefront of behavioral economics. From 2009 to 2012, he served as the administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Since that time, he has served in the US government in multiple capacities and worked with the United Nations and the World Health Organization, where he chaired the Technical Advisory Group on Behavioral Insights and Sciences for Health during the COVID-19 pandemic. He is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School. His book Nudge, coauthored with Richard Thaler, was a national bestseller. In 2018, he was the recipient of the Holberg Prize from the government of Norway, sometimes described as equivalent of the Nobel Prize for law and the humanities. He lives in Boston and Washington, DC, with his wife, children, and labrador retrievers. He is the co-author [along with Tali Sharot, who could not join us for this episode] of Look Again.
Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who is the creator of the Academic Life podcast. She holds a PhD in history, which she uses to explore what stories we tell and what happens to those we never tell.
Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 200+ Academic Life episodes? You’ll find them all archived here.
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Podcast: Intelligence Squared (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Crimes of History, with Linda Kinstler and Peter Pomerantsev
Pub date: 2022-05-30
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How do you put a ghost on trial? In Linda Kinstler's deeply personal new book, Come to This Court and Cry, she uncovers the atrocities of her Latvian grandfather's involvement in the Holocaust. In conversation with author, broadcaster and academic, Peter Pomerantsev, she asks how do we account for the brutality of historical events and our personal links to them, as the passage of time means they slip further beyond living memory? Linda and Peter also discuss whether the history of conflict is repeating itself through Russia's current War on Ukraine.
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Podcast: Forbes Newsroom
Episode: Meet The Democrat Challenging Summer Lee: Voters Want Somebody 'Committed To Actually Delivering'
Pub date: 2023-12-10
Bhavini Patel, Edgewood Borough councilmember, joins Brittany Lewis on "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss mounting a primary campaign challenging Congresswoman Summer Lee.
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Podcast: Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Rep. Summer Lee, Ali Velshi & Heather Cox Richardson
Pub date: 2023-09-27
Congresswoman Summer Lee explains the importance of holding corrupt government officials accountable. MSNBC's Ali Velshi tells us about his new podcast, Banned Book Club, and why everyone should read his book, The Trump Indictments: The 91 Criminal Counts Against the Former President of the United States. Historian Heather Cox Richardson discusses her new book, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America.
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Podcast: The Confluence (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Pennsylvania's first Black Congresswoman Summer Lee wants to act on issues of equity, environment
Pub date: 2023-01-04
On today’s episode of The Confluence: A look at some of the Pittsburgh-area individuals who have been indicted for their involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol two years ago; and we speak to U.S. Representative Summer Lee, who now represents Beaver and parts of Allegheny and Westmoreland Counties as a member of the 118th Congress. Today’s guests include: Torsten Ove, a reporter for the Pittsburgh Union Progress; and Summer Lee, representative for Congressional District 12.
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Podcast: Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Rep. Summer Lee, Justin Wolfers & Marc Elias
Pub date: 2023-12-13
University of Michigan Professor Justin Wolfers parses out the great economic metrics that Bidenomics continues to deliver, despite bad 'vibes.' Congresswoman Summer Lee illustrates how we can achieve a more democratic America. Marc Elias of Democracy Docket details the latest court cases he's battling to protect democracy.
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Podcast: Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why I called Rep. Summer Lee a Misogynist
Pub date: 2023-12-08
In this episode, Riley discusses the Biden administration's proposed changes to Title IX, a law preventing sex-based discrimination. The changes would equate sex with gender identity, potentially allowing men to join women's sports teams. Riley criticizes these changes and the Democrats' stance on women's sports, accusing them of hypocrisy and lack of understanding. The episode also covers a recent Capitol Hill hearing on the issue, including Riley's confrontation with Representative Summer Lee.
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Podcast: The Majority Report with Sam Seder (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 2803 - The Collapse of Venezuela w/ William Neuman & Summer Lee
Pub date: 2022-03-24
Emma hosts journalist William Neuman to discuss his recent book Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela. Then, Emma is joined by Summer Lee, candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania's 12th District, to give up an update from the campaign trail. William Neuman begins by jumping back to his first move to Venezuela at the start of the 2010s, as a correspondent for the New York Times, tracing the story of Venezuela’s economic collapse. He starts with the booming success of Hugo Chavez in the 2000s, as he oversaw an incredible jump in oil prices, and began a spree of government spending and borrowing, without saving the income for any future crisis – thus, when Chavez died from cancer in the wake of his 2010 reelection, passing the reins to Nicolás Maduro, only for a massive drop in oil prices, down to around a quarter of the peak of Chavez’s administration, to completely cripple the economic output of the country beginning in 2012. The rest of the 2010s saw Maduro attempt to grapple with the crisis while uncertain about altering Chavez’s pre-existing policy, as hyperinflation, depression, and rising refugee rates took over, leading up to the mass blackouts in 2019, and eventual controversy over Maduro’s reelection. This brings Neuman and Emma to the role of US foreign policy and sanctions in pushing Venezuela over the edge, as former President Trump and John Bolton pushed intervention to the extreme, with the Defense Department rejecting any actual invasion, before Bolton chose to “go for the win” and push Maduro completely out of office by putting an incredibly stringent set of general sanctions, effectively enforcing a complete oil embargo against the country, cutting them off from the world economy and digging them deeper into this crisis – effectively. This, of course, came alongside the declaration by Juan Guaidó that he was the legitimate president, with much of the West clamoring to support and recognize him, despite the similar illegitimacy of his claim in the wake of large disenfranchisement and voter suppression, with American Republicans attempting to capitalize on the socialist boogeyman to bolster their electoral push in Florida. Emma and William then dive into the counter to this negative branding of Socialism by the US, looking to Chavez’s autocratic rise as a populist, appropriating the socialist rhetoric and symbolism of the 60s and 70s in Latin America, without taking on the actual policy, pushing increasing polarization and capitalizing on the oil boom. After briefly touching on what the country looked like during the economic collapse, and the various unsuccessful (and some successful) policy the government took on at the time, Emma gets Neuman to dive into what the role of the leftist opposition in Venezuela is, as they discuss the discourse from politicians such as Henrique Capriles and the need to not just take down the bad guys in government, but to build up good and functioning institutions in the wake. Emma also touches on the end of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings, the continued Russia escalation in Ukraine, and the disastrous and corrupt shadow docket decision by SCOTUS to overturn the Wisconsin State Supreme Court’s decision regarding redistricting.
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Podcast: Studio 2 (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Unraveling of America’s Suburbs, Embracing Hair Loss, Road Salt and Climate
Pub date: 2024-01-22
With recent heavy snowfall throughout the region, there’s lots of slushy salt on roads and sidewalks, keeping pedestrians and drivers safe. While salting can be good for our commutes, it has a damaging effect on the environment and local waterways. We’ll talk with Stroud Water Research Center scientist John Jackson about the impacts and alternatives.
A house in the suburbs with great schools and safe, green neighborhoods was once the pinnacle of the American dream. But education journalist Benjamin Herold argues the suburbs are in decline. He followed five very different suburban families across the U.S. and says crumbling infrastructure, poor schools, and divisive politics have led to the disappearance of opportunities – especially for Black and brown households. Herold’s new book is Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs.
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Podcast: Free Library Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Benjamin Herold | Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
Pub date: 2024-01-24
In conversation with Kristen Graham, education reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer Public education reporter Benjamin Herold's stories, features, and investigative exposés have appeared in Education Week, PBS NewsHour, The Hechinger Report, NPR, and the Public School Notebook, among other publications. The recipient of a master's degree in urban education from Temple University and first place awards from the Education Writers Association, Herold formerly worked as a researcher, documentary filmmaker, and training specialist for rape-crisis and domestic-violence prevention organizations. In Disillusioned, he offers a timely examination of the hope and hazards suburban public schools and school boards offer in the fight to renew the promise of historical American middle class ideals. Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep our podcasts free for everyone. THANK YOU! The views expressed by the authors and moderators are strictly their own and do not represent the opinions of the Free Library of Philadelphia or its employees. (recorded 1/23/2024)
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Podcast: The Realignment (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 448 | Benjamin Herold: Are America's Schools and Suburbs Unraveling?
Pub date: 2024-01-23
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Podcast: Culture Gabfest (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Very Worst Person in the World
Pub date: 2022-03-02
This week, the panel begins by discussing the Norwegian Oscar contenderThe Worst Person in the World. Then, they're joined by Slate’s TV critic and host of the Decoder Ring podcast, Willa Paskin, to digest the New York Time’s latest hit podcast The Trojan Horse Affair. Finally, the panel is joined by screenwriter, director, and journalist Michael Idov to discuss Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s pivot from the entertainment industry to president of Ukraine.
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Podcast: 16mm Film Crew Podcast (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Worst Person in the World
Pub date: 2022-03-22
This week we talk about The Worst Person in the World. A coming of age story from Norway up for Best International Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay. And while this is a genre and film we both enjoy, we take time to voice our concerns with the overall lack of diversity in these types of movies.
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Plot: This film chronicles four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
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Episode: Violet and the Den of Darkness
Pub date: 2022-04-29
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Pub date: 2021-01-20
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Episode: AntennaPod vs Pocket Casts
Pub date: 2021-02-15
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Podcast: Built with Biology: Spaces
Episode: Leaps by Bayer & Ada Health
Pub date: 2021-09-22
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Podcast: Let's Know Things (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Debt Crises
Pub date: 2023-05-09
This week we talk about student debt, real estate, and local government financing vehicles.
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Pub date: 2023-05-16
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Episode: #310 Fudge design thinking with Anna Kirah
Pub date: 2023-03-09
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Pub date: 2020-12-14
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Podcast: The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: One-armed observational studies: fake science?
Pub date: 2023-03-21
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Podcast: The Animal Turn (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: S4E3: Bioacoustics with Mickey Vallee
Pub date: 2021-11-29
In this episode Claudia continues the focus on methodology as it relates to animals and sound. This time Mickey Vallee joins The Animal Turn to talk about the concept of bioacoustics and how using bioacoustics methods alters the ways researchers relate to their research subjects – who are often animals. They discuss some of the theory and ideas circulating bioacoustics generally and Mickey’s experiences more specifically.
Date Recorded: 26 October 2021
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Podcast: It's Not Rocket Science! Five Questions Over Coffee
Episode: Five Questions Over Coffee with Alex Sidorenko (ep. 68)
Pub date: 2022-12-01
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Founder and host of the largest online risk management and decision making conference. RISK AWARENESS WEEK is the biggest global online platform to learn risk management and decision making. Amazing lineup of international speakers share practical case studies on integrating risk management into corporate decision making, planning, budgeting, project management and risk-adjusted performance management. Our aim is to bring together best quantitative risk management practices in a easy to understand and practical fashion for a fraction of the price. You can watch the workshops live or in replay on your phone, computer or tablet. More than 10000 participants watched RAW workshops over the last 3 years, don't miss this opportunity to upgrade your risk game. The workshops will be of value to decision makers and risk professionals alike.
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[2] Humans brains are good at pretending that things don't exist, even though the risk is real and obvious to everyone, our human brain still thinks of ways to justify doing nothing to us.
[3] Risk awareness week for me to became kind of this fresh breath of air, where I brought in scientists, NASA engineers, oil and gas engineers, you had people who actually did something that made a huge difference. And no consulting talk, no hypotheticals, you know how the future is bright. And you know, we'll save the planet. Just very pragmatic, very practical, simple things that everybody needs to understand about making decisions under uncertainty.
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risk, risk management, people, awareness, called, uncertainty, thinking, alex, decisions, choices, averages, scientists, calculators, business, book, irrational, mathematicians, predictably, dot, electricity
Stuart Webb 00:23
Hi and welcome back to it's not rocket science five questions over coffee I'm here today with Alex Sidorenko. I have in front of me my coffee, I better not show you the, the design on the front, it will be advertising, we don't do that sort of thing. So you've got your coffee in front of you, that's great to see Alex run something called risk awareness week and is is really quite important because risk is something I don't think nearly enough. People take seriously in their business risks are around us everywhere. And not a lot of people sort of think about them and and measure them and then do something about them. That's the key thing. It's all very well knowing about risks. But it's then what do you do about it? How do you actually deal with it? So really delighted to have Alex here and have a really interesting conversation about this. Alex, welcome to It's not rocket science, five questions over coffee.
Alex Sidorenko 01:13
Thank you, and welcome to your listeners.
Stuart Webb 01:15
Thank you. Listen, Alex, tell me who is your who is the sort of ideal person that you're trying to reach? With your business? What is it? What is what is it that they're doing?
Alex Sidorenko 01:24
Yeah, well, so me reaching somebody with a business is a bit of a stretch, because my day job is working as an executive, like a risk executive, and then large multibillion dollar corporation. And then as a hobby, I have this desire, this burning desire to share risk competency with anyone, because I think, and my experience kind of tells me that thinking about risk is something humans are very bad at. In general, whenever we make the life choices, you know, marriage, sending kids to private school, relocating, you know, buying a house versus renting, investing, all of those decisions are quite risky. There's a lot of uncertainty associated with that. And we're not very good. So my audiences, in my nine to five job, my audiences, basically, you know, board members and executives and other shareholders that I deal with, on a regular basis. And from kind of in the night, I put on my life, you'll share the video with somebody later, I have my brand in, you know, risk awareness week, hoodie on. And that's kind of my night hat, where I tried to just raise risk awareness around the world, bring this competency of thinking about risks before they happen to people.
Stuart Webb 02:49
So tell us a little bit about sort of the, the, if you like some of the dangers of of, of not, not not being risk aware and about not reacting to risks in the right way.
Alex Sidorenko 03:05
So there's, there's been a lot of fascinating research in in that area. In 2002, Daniel Kahneman and Vernon Smith got the first Nobel Prize in Economics in that area of research. And then in 2014, Richard Taylor got the second Nobel Prize in Economics for kind of continuation of that research. But basically the findings of all of this, there's this whole area of science called neuro, neuro economy, behavioural economics, neuroscience. And what this group of scientists basically studies is how does human brain process uncertainty? You know, thinking about the future thinking about choices, thinking about making decisions when the information is incomplete. And their conclusion is what a an Israeli scientists Dan Ariely calls predictably irrational. So humans in general, whenever they're faced with an uncertain choice, or a risky decision to make, they could, according to this scientists, they will predictably make irrational choices, and sometimes it's just sub optimal. But sometimes it's just playing bad, dangerous bad choices that we as humans make. And corporations are different, because the way companies traditionally planned budget forecast price pretty much ignores uncertainty. So this, this notion that you know, things are not guaranteed they're not set in stone. Somehow, this is us to most of the people on the planet skill. And whenever we're thinking about the future, we just kind of wouldn't not just not appreciate but we completely ignore the fact that there could be multiple futures the future is uncertain. And unless we can have a count for that, and discount for that and plan for various possibilities, various scenarios, we're pretty much setting ourselves for failure. So a lot of a lot of research suggests that, you know, when we look at the situation, we don't see the underlying uncertainties and risks. And even if somebody comes into the room, and tells us well, there's this risk that you haven't considered, our brain immediately starts processing excuses for discounting. And ignoring that person who came into the room to help us make a better choice. So not only we don't see things, we also resist, some, when somebody brings us things like on the plate and says, Here are the risks, and be mindful of that, we will ignore that. And which is what I found absolutely hilarious is when everybody agrees, finally, that the risks are real, and we need to do something about that our brain goes into this kind of stage where it just comes up with excuses on why somebody else needs to do something about that. But we don't, like you know, relocate, you know, move away, for example, you know, there's a big war happening in Europe. And a lot of very difficult choices need to be needed to be made. And there are a lot of people who say, Oh, I am going to stay where I am. Despite this, despite an imminent, very real threat to my livelihood. And people just going to continue to just pretending that things don't exist, even though the risk is real and obvious to everyone, our human brain still thinks of ways to justify doing nothing to us. So why risk management is important is because I think evolution design this, and there's this whole explanation, you know why we need system one thinking what Kahneman calls new because, because thinking about risks and uncertainty, it takes up a lot of energy, it takes basically a lot of glucose, it absorbs a lot of energy that we have. And we can't operate in this energy intensive mode, most of the time. So our evolution designed this to be operating in an energy preservation mode. And we're just basically we kind of idling our brain is idling, looking for some templates, quick solutions in a simple, simple answers. And unfortunately, for some non typical, scary, risky situation, those benign answers are not good enough, they're there. That's why they're predictable, but they're completely irrational.
Stuart Webb 07:45
So tell us about risk awareness week, the the URL that's going across the bottom of the screen just now, which is it's 2022 dot risk awareness. week.com. Tell us tell us a little bit about what what you're doing with that. And you know, are there are resources that we can learn from in order to be able to be more aware of risks in our businesses in in our lives.
Alex Sidorenko 08:08
So four years ago, and this is the fourth year, I'm running risk awareness weekend since then, that became kind of one of the biggest global virtual risk conferences in the world. And four years ago, way before COVID, and virtual conferences became sexy. I very much disliked travelling to various conferences now used to speak at a lot of conferences all over the world. And I'm very much just like the travel and the logistics associated with that. So I was looking for a platform that would allow me to have different speakers from all over the world and have it somewhere virtual that I can share with the rest of the world. And so finally, I've been looking for it for about five years. And finally, in 2019, I found one, which was affordable. And so I created this risk awareness week on this virtual platform. And back in the day, it was 2019 dot risk awareness week. And you can kind of follow the logic and if you could, if you go to 20 nineteen.if, you go to 20 twenty.if, you go to 2021 dot, and 2022 dot. It's it's like four different conferences, and I have another charity and winter dot, you know, charity dots, like there are a lot of risk awareness weeks, over the years. And so that, for me, was an opportunity to bring together some of the best minds in decision science, probability theory, and neuroscience, some of the best minds bring them together on a single platform, which was amazing because some of them are in Australia, others are in US and Canada. Some of them are in Africa, and all different timezones and yet, because it's a virtual platform, everybody could kind of come together. And since then, approximately four to 5000 people watch it every year from about 125 trees, which makes me very passionate and proud of that. But there's, there's the kind of the the underlying reason why I created risk awareness week is that in the risk profession, so it's for what first, it's important to understand kind of, there's this risk angle to everything you do in work. Whenever you make a decision, whenever you plan, whenever you forecast something, whenever you think about the future, there's this risk angle. But unfortunately, it's not, it's not the end of the story. Because in the risk angle, there's this whole profession called Risk Management. And that is separated into two, what I would call Well, I call it risk management, one and risk management, two, and one is astrology, and the other one is astronomy. So the other one is mathematical science based. And the astronomy and astrology side is kind of hypothetical wishful thinking beautiful colours and pictures, but has absolutely no evidence to suggest that it works. And so there's this whole management fad, just like the ESG and GRC. Like that there are a lot of management fads, behind which there are a lot of good things. But the kind of the top layer, this commercialization layer is just nonsense. So in risk management, unfortunately, we have exactly that. And most of the conferences dedicated to risk on the planet. Even if a person wants to Google risk management, just out of the blue, if they were to Google risk management, the chances are 99% of the responses in the search would be horoscopes. So astrology, like no scientific background, like just nonsense. And so risk awareness week for me to became kind of this fresh breath of air, where I brought in scientists, NASA engineers, oil and gas engineers, you had people who actually did something that made a huge difference. And no consulting talk, no hypotheticals, you know how the future is bright. And you know, we'll save the planet. Just very pragmatic, very practical, simple things that everybody needs to understand about making decisions under uncertainty.
Stuart Webb 12:23
Interesting, interesting, I have done a lot of work. In my previous career before I started doing what I do. Now, I was a, I was a scientist dealing with virus viruses. And obviously, one of the things we used to deal with was the the certainty that there would be a virus that would be coming along that would cause a global pandemics. And the uncertainty was when, and obviously, you know, the, the message that we've received over the last two or three years is, many governments knew that there was going to be a global pandemic, but pretty much all of them decided that they didn't really want to deal with it now, because it was too difficult and didn't want to put the money aside, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So I buy into a lot of what you're saying it's very difficult for people to face up to something which is a little bit uncertain. Do you really think it's going to happen? And then when does what what will you know, the the act of dealing with it is, it is not always pleasant?
Alex Sidorenko 13:21
Yeah, absolutely. Especially. And this is, this is one specific case study that I had with my environmental team. So I was working for this large fertiliser company, $10 billion global corporation. Very big. And one of the challenges was, how do we use risk analysis risk information to help our environmental team better build better business cases for the things that they need to change. And one of the things we did was we helped them justify water purification, additional water purification plants, because the water pollution was too significant. And it goes back to how well you kind of you sell the message or you communicate the message, because they've been trying to get approval for this. And it was like a $20 million investment. So not a small, it was a it was quite a sizable investment. And they spent years trying to justify the need to implement these controls and to build the water purification plant. Until we came and helped them to show that the risk exposure that the business was sitting on was about $300 million. And by spending 20, they actually ended up reducing risk exposure to I can't remember 50 or 10 10 million so they we helped them and this is what risk management does. It helps you quantify uncertainty and put it in some sort of measurable terms. And then many decisions that you had a lot of unease and discomfort about made can become a no brainers because you're saying, Well, essentially on 300 million exposure that could hit your business cashflow. Today, tomorrow, or every day, you don't deal with this problem. And then you have this much cost to get rid of this exposure, not completely, but you reduce the exposure quite significantly. And then it kind of becomes an almost no brainer than why you need to spend the money to mitigate the risk. So this is what risk management is about. It's not only just kind of bringing to the surface, what the underlying risks are, but also helping to package the risks into something that business understands.
Stuart Webb 15:38
Brilliant. Yeah, Alex has ever been a particular book or a concept other than sort of Daniel Kahneman, some of the some of the, the Nobel Prize winners, you know, I really appreciate some of the, some of the work they've done to to to, to justify their Nobel Nobel Prizes in memorial of Nobel the economic prizes, in memoriam of Nobel so, so other other books or concepts that are really sort of driven some of your some of your thinking and some of your inspiration.
Alex Sidorenko 16:13
So because the kind of the science of risk management is sitting on three pillars, the the math, the psychology and the decision science, I have kind of two different books that I recommend. So one is on the psychology side, and it's by this Israeli scientists that I mentioned called Dan Ariely. Now it's called predictably irrational. It's it's, despite the fact that and I think this is very fitting for the name of the podcasts, despite the actual underlying neuroscience being very complex and very difficult and quite questionable in some of the conclusions that they make. Dan Ariely does a very good job of popularising it, because some of the findings and his book is like very easy to read very basic introductory level into the concept and the book is called predictably irrational. So it's very easy to find, and he shares a lot of like very domestic cases, you know, why do we buy a new mobile phone? You know, why do we always overspend on vacuum cleaners or cause which is completely stupid, but we still do it. And there's like, there's a scientific explanation where we do it. So that's one on the, on the psychology generally predictably irrational. And on the other side, a book that I highly recommend is by Sam Savage, in us called flaw of averages. And it's more business driven. There's basically in the back in 1904, or 1906, the Danish mathematician, came up with this theory called Jensen's inequality, but you don't need to know that because people already simplified it all for for the average reader. So he came with basically with a mathematical theory, which says that whenever you think about uncertain future, and you're trying to try and dumb it down to a single scenario, like whenever you build a business plan, or budget, and you have single point estimates, especially if you're if those estimates are your averages, you're pretty much setting up yourself for failure, because you're ignoring all of this volatility in your business plan. And you're making not just suboptimal, sometimes really, really bad decisions. And so if law of averages is basically Sam's attempt to but by the way, Sam is a speaker at the risk awareness week and has been since the very inception of 2019. He's a very famous dude and fascinating speaker in us. And so his book flaw of averages, is kind of is very nice introduction into the topic of risk management on why whenever you plan your next trip to a holiday destination, why or whenever you know, the planet wedding budget, you shouldn't use single point estimates. And you should use ranges instead, by the way that I for one had like a whole monte-carlo Like mathematical model for my wedding budget, which my wife absolutely loved. I'm being sarcastic. She did not. But yeah, I am weird in that way I model most of the things in my life.
Stuart Webb 19:44
I'm sorry to hear that. But it's something that I'm sure we can get you some tablets, but that I've asked you. I've asked you some questions. And I'm sure there's one question that you're currently thinking. He hasn't asked me about or he hasn't asked the question that's really critical here. So tell you what, for my final question, My question to you is, what's the question I should have asked you? And then once you've answered once you've asked that question, you better answer it. Otherwise, we'll never know what it was what the answer to that question.
Alex Sidorenko 20:11
So I think in the very fitting in the context of this podcast, the reality is that the underlying science of risk management is rocket science, it is actually very difficult. And your probability theory is actually quite complex. There's, there's kind of there's no dancing around that. But the good news, and, you know, so the question, I wish people asked me more often, that I don't have a PhD in mathematics. And then what do I do? And my answer to that is that think of risk management, just like you think about electricity. Most people on the planet have no idea how electricity is generated. And yet, we have no problem using it. And this is what we, you know, in risk management we call generators and users, we have mathematicians who generate uncertainty distributions, and they forecast and they help you model they build models, they build calculators. And there's a very small percentage of those people go there. These are the people that sit in kind of their basements of pentagon and large corporations have like one or two of these people, they usually very kind of hardcore mathematicians, and they do their own stuff. But that doesn't mean that you need to become like one of them, which is actually impossible for anybody to become a math genius, unless you kind of you've spent your whole career doing that. But that's not that shouldn't stop you from using the risk information and thinking about risk, because as the user, you have no trouble switching on lights, and using electricity. It's exactly the same way with risk analysis. We are trying and this is what risk awareness week is kind of all about. We're trying to create templates and calculators and site sample data points, that you can just put it and put it into into your business plans into your forecast, you can use that to help you make decisions, we have calculators, and sample models for most kinds of problems out there that somebody who is very knowledgeable he is built. And then we just want more people to use it, just like they started using electricity. The only difference is that electricity used to be really, really expensive, you know, using risk analysis and probability isn't really expensive at all. And it's actually much more much more accessible. So the kind of the final message that I want to get across is this is not privileged to some mathematical genius is subsidy in some way in the world. It just if you're not one, it just means you need to find somebody who's done all the pre work. And then you just reap the benefits of, of risk analysis in your work. Whenever you next make an investment decision. Whenever you make your next forecast budget or sales plan. Or you forecast you know, you think about your next budget for your trip or you know, deciding whether you want to buy a house or rent a house. There is probably a math genius who already done all the all the work and then you can just reap the benefit of using using the calculator.
Stuart Webb 23:29
Brilliant. Alex, this has been a really fascinating discussion, I really, I urge you all go to risk awareness. week.com 2022. But 2019 2021 22 You're gonna get to see some of those some of those talks, the discussions. And it's been a fascinating hearing your take on this, it is a subject which is just not as well understood as it should be. I appreciate just how much effort you're putting into trying to raise the awareness of risk. Aren't you doing a great job? Thank you very much. Thanks, Jordan. Listen, if you'd like to get onto our mailing list to hear so I send out an email once a week saying who's going to be on the on the show this week, giving you the opportunity to tune in live ask questions if you want to you if you want to get onto that mailing list, go to https colon forward slash forward slash TCA dot FYI keep it nice and simple. For those of us that don't have PhDs in math, TCA dot FYI, forward slash subscribe, get onto that list and so that you can see the interesting people coming up. People like Alex, Alex, thank you so much for spending sort of 20 Minutes with Us really appreciate this. And I'm sure we're gonna get a few more people at that risk awareness week. Next time. Thank you.
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Podcast: The All Things Risk Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 116: Alex Sidorenko - Get Risk Aware
Pub date: 2019-10-10
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Heard about Sam Savage on a podcast
This episode is all about risk awareness. And in many ways, it’s an unusual episode in that we get into risk management as a profession. I tend to stay away from this as a topic because I don’t believe risk should have its own jargon and rituals that only certain hallowed people can use. We all take risks, and as you will hear, the science of risk and decision-making has been around for a while.
My guest, however, isn’t your ordinary risk professional. He’s Alex Sidorenko and he has been on the show before. For the past several years, Alex has been disrupting the way in which organisations think about and practice risk management. Alex runs something called Risk Academy which offers counterintuitive and controversial views on risk management.
Next week (Oct 14-18 2019), Alex is putting together Risk Awareness Week – an online conference which offers some amazing speakers and content on risk as a management discipline – why it’s broken, how to fix it, and much more. Even if – and especially if – you are not a risk professional, you will get tons of value from my conversation with Alex and from Risk Awareness Week.
Alex is fun, and we cover a range of topics including:
- Why risk management is all about probability theory, neuroscience and decision science – don’t let the marketing fool you;
- Why so much corporate risk management is bullsh*t;
- How to de-bias yourself;
- Some great tips on decision-making;
- How Alex and some of his colleagues beat the lottery;
- Much more
Show notes:
Risk Academy
Risk Awareness Week
Alex on Twitter
Alex on Linkedin
On YouTube
Alex’s interview with Grant Purdy
Alex’s favourite risk management books
The Flaw of Averages by Sam Savage and Jeff Danziger
The Failure of Risk Management – Why It’s Broken and How to Fix It by Douglass Hubbard
Alex and colleagues' lottery experiment
My first episode with Alex on All Things Risk
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Podcast: THE VALLEY CURRENT®️ COMPUTERLAW GROUP LLP (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Valley Current®: What is Chancification and How Will It Change Us?
Pub date: 2022-05-06
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Heard about Sam Savage on a podcast
Electrification replaces technologies using fossil fuels with those using electricity. Chancification replaces calculations based on numbers with those based on uncertainties. When it comes to truly understanding what Chancification is, you turn to the guy who wrote the book on it. Jack Russo asks Professor Sam Savage how welcoming the age of chance will drastically change our future. Click HERE to check out Professor Savage's new book, Chancification: How to Fix the Flaw of Averages
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Podcast: Drunk Agile
Episode: Episode 57 - The Flaw Of Averages
Pub date: 2023-02-27
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Heard about Sam Savage on a podcast
Nisha, Dan, and Prateek discuss Dr. Sam Savage's Flaw of Averages in this episode of #DrunkAgile. Have you been thinking of the world in terms of averages? If yes, hopefully, this episode will cure that ailment.
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Podcast: GRC & Me (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Most Controversial Risk Thought Leader | Alexei Sidorenko
Pub date: 2019-07-31
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Heard about Sam Savage on a podcast
Top 3 Quotes
- Risk Management is not really a profession. It's a competency that should be part of most degrees, if not all the degrees, at universities.
- Most organizations have been disillusioned with the astrology version of risk management.
- Sometimes, even a little quantification improves the quality of decision-making significantly.
Show Highlights
[01:17] Alex shares what the Risk Academy provides
[03:02] How Alex got into risk
[05:13] Alex's "controversial" blog
[08:04] Methodologies, strategies, importance
[13:52] What forces Alex to be controversial
[16:16] Brilliant idea of dumbing it down
[17:42] Approaching risk quantification
[20:37] The real question is, how complex can we go?
[23:29] How and when organizations should approach quantification
[26:00] An unrealistic fairytale based on averages
[29:03] Cultural difference in risk management approach
[30:00] Alex's predictions in the coming years
[34:17] Final nuggets of wisdom
Resources:
RISK-ACADEMY
Connect with Alex on LinkedIn
Connect with Alex on Twitter
Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision Under Risk by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky
Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky
Foundations of Behavioral and Experimental Economics by Daniel Kahneman and Vernon Smith
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of ‘Intangibles’ in Business
Probability Management Conference
Monte Carlo Simulation
Moneyball
The Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty by Sam L. Savage
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Episode: The Flaw of Averages
Pub date: 2022-09-23
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Dr. Sam Savage is the gifted teacher all of us would have loved having as our professor in stats classes.
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Episode: 30: Using Data to Solve Your Most Pressing Questions
Pub date: 2021-09-21
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MBA school professor, Dr. Wayne Winston, from Indiana University Kelley School of Business joins to discuss how powerful data can be in solving problems and making decisions. He shares about his work with several NBA basketball teams, is a Jeopardy winner, a published author and an expert at Microsoft Excel. This wide-ranging conversation covers everything from decision making to how you can up your Excel game.
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Podcast: New Books in Mathematics (LS 35 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Aubrey Clayton, "Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-02-10
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Perlin is reading the book
There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines. In an increasingly statistics-reliant society, this same deeply rooted error shapes decisions in medicine, law, and public policy with profound consequences. The foundation of the problem is a misunderstanding of probability and its role in making inferences from observations.
Aubrey Clayton traces the history of how statistics went astray, beginning with the groundbreaking work of the seventeenth-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. Clayton recounts the feuds among rival schools of statistics, exploring the surprisingly human problems that gave rise to the discipline and the all-too-human shortcomings that derailed it. He highlights how influential nineteenth- and twentieth-century figures developed a statistical methodology they claimed was purely objective in order to silence critics of their political agendas, including eugenics.
Clayton provides a clear account of the mathematics and logic of probability, conveying complex concepts accessibly for readers interested in the statistical methods that frame our understanding of the world. He contends that we need to take a Bayesian approach--that is, to incorporate prior knowledge when reasoning with incomplete information--in order to resolve the crisis. Ranging across math, philosophy, and culture, Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science(Columbia UP, 2021) explains why something has gone wrong with how we use data--and how to fix it.
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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Aubrey Clayton, "Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-02-10
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Perlin is reading the book
There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines. In an increasingly statistics-reliant society, this same deeply rooted error shapes decisions in medicine, law, and public policy with profound consequences. The foundation of the problem is a misunderstanding of probability and its role in making inferences from observations.
Aubrey Clayton traces the history of how statistics went astray, beginning with the groundbreaking work of the seventeenth-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. Clayton recounts the feuds among rival schools of statistics, exploring the surprisingly human problems that gave rise to the discipline and the all-too-human shortcomings that derailed it. He highlights how influential nineteenth- and twentieth-century figures developed a statistical methodology they claimed was purely objective in order to silence critics of their political agendas, including eugenics.
Clayton provides a clear account of the mathematics and logic of probability, conveying complex concepts accessibly for readers interested in the statistical methods that frame our understanding of the world. He contends that we need to take a Bayesian approach--that is, to incorporate prior knowledge when reasoning with incomplete information--in order to resolve the crisis. Ranging across math, philosophy, and culture, Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science(Columbia UP, 2021) explains why something has gone wrong with how we use data--and how to fix it.
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Podcast: 4OURPLAY - A Swinger Podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 64 -Temptation Resort Vs Desire Resort
Pub date: 2022-11-02
In Episode 64 of the 4OURPLAY Swinger Podcast, Bella and Jase give you an in-depth, honest comparison of Temptation Resort vs Desire Resort in Cancun Mexico and tell you everything you need to know. They go into detail about the accommodations, food, parties, demographic, and more!
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Podcast: Friends With A Twist: A Swinger Podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 19: HO HO HO-tel threesome
Pub date: 2021-12-20
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Podcast: Friends With A Twist: A Swinger Podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 25: So You Wanna Be A Swinger?
Pub date: 2022-05-30
This episode recaps Madison & Barry’s recent trip to Saints & Sinners, Temptation Cancun & a reminder about Podbash! Kenzie shares her & Gary’s positive experiences on the Feeld App, their plans for summer & our recent PGC birthday celebration!Life in the Lifestyle focuses on the tricky situation where you are interested in the LS, but your partner is not. We brainstorm ideas on how to handle this.Our Going Deep segment feature Madison’s one of TWO play session stories from Temptation! We hope you enjoy ;) & as always we wrap things up with a surprise question, this episode it's from Barry.
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Podcast: 4OURPLAY - A Swinger Podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 57 - Temptation Resort Cancun Full Review
Pub date: 2022-09-14
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Research vacation
In Episode 57 of the 4OURPLAY Swinger Podcast, Bella and Jase give you an in-depth, honest review about Temptation Resort in Cancun Mexico and tell you everything you need to know. They go into detail about the accommodations, food, parties, demographic, and more!
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Podcast: The Kinky Hedon Podcast
Episode: Clothing Optional: Hedonism II
Pub date: 2022-03-15
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Research for future vacation
Host G.R. Hedon is giving you a tour and discussing the first trip to #Hedonism2 in Negril, Jamaica, the all-inclusive clothing-optional adult lifestyle resort.
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Podcast: The Jet Set Life (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Best Adults-Only All-Inclusive Marriott Resorts
Pub date: 2023-01-18
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Research for future vacation
Since 2019, Marriott has been busy adding luxury resorts to their All-Inclusive by Marriott Bonvoy collection. These hand-selected all-inclusive Marriott resorts focus on immersion and personalization. As a long-time Marriott Bonvoy member and credit card holder, I’m personally very excited for the company’s newfound interest in the adults-only all-inclusive space. In this blog post, we will take a look at the 11 all-inclusive Marriott resorts that are adults-only within their collection.
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Podcast: Swinger University - A Sexy and Educational Swinger Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Costa Rica 2023 Swinger University Takeover
Pub date: 2022-07-08
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Research for future vacation
Join us for our podcast resort takeover in Cost Rica from June 3rd - 10th, 2023! It's an all-inclusive, clothing-optional, jungle resort takeover with a playroom suite, spa, pool, hot tub, mouthwatering cuisine, and some included excursions!
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Podcast: The Black n Kinky Lifestyle: A Swinger's Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 66: Why more Black people don't go to the paradise that is Desire Resort
Pub date: 2022-03-26
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Research for future vacation
Topic synopsis:Belle and Bomber talk about Desire Riviera Maya, reflecting on the experience, culture and demographics. They also lend their perspective to the question of why Black people are not occupying this luxurious resort. Hitlist:Simone Joy JonesZoe KravitzPodcasts referenced:By the bi podcast Desire Episodeshttps://www.lifeontheswingset.com/27764/btb-136-desire-resort-full-recap-part-1-by-the-bi/That couple next door Desire episodeshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-29-desire-riviera-maya/id1106517231?i=1000404716197Podcast-a-paloozaDesire RM https://www.desire-resort.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjwoduRBhA4EiwACL5RP9bSrK9HFdkdwVhedFFnFvctwn7UJEH02-SthrMcZiHTZkVOClSgbRoCjnEQAvD_BwEDesire Forum http://desiremexico.com/phpbb/index.phpTemptations https://www.temptation-experience.com/Cap d’Agde nude town in Francehttps://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/27/naked-city-cap-agde-sun-swingers-shopliftingSupport us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/blacknkinkyWebsite: www.blacknkinkylifestyle.comEmail us at blacknkinkylifestyle@gmail.comFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/Blacknkinkyfacebook: www.facebook.com/blacknkinkylifestyleSubscribe on itunes: tinyurl.com/y68wdbppTwitter
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Podcast: That Couple Next Door (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Desire 2021 Part Deux
Pub date: 2021-07-16
It's the second half of our 2021 Desire Riviera Maya trip and we talk about Liv's birthday, a sun-drenched orgy and villa gangbang. New friends, glow night fun and much more.
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Podcast: 4OURPLAY - A Swinger Podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 58 - Desire Riviera Maya (Desire RM) Resort Full Review
Pub date: 2022-09-21
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Research for future vacation
In Episode 58 of the 4OURPLAY Swinger Podcast, Bella and Jase give you an in-depth, honest review about Desire Riviera Maya (Desire RM) Resort in Cancun Mexico and tell you everything you need to know. They go into detail about the accommodations, food, parties, demographic, and more!
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Podcast: Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Is Clippy Coming Back via ChatGPT?
Pub date: 2023-01-13
There was a lot of news to go over this week! Marques sits down with David and Andrew to discuss the Nothing Phone 1 coming to the United states along with the end of the Microsoft Duo (or is it the beginning?) After that they discuss what to expect from the Samsung Unpacked event before getting into Microsoft potentially investing $10 Billion in ChatGPT. Lastly, they talk about rumors that Apple wants to begin making its own screens. Of course, we wrap it all up with trivia!
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Podcast: The Journal. (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Company Behind ChatGPT
Pub date: 2023-01-17
ChatGPT was released only a few months ago but the artificial intelligence chatbot has already taken the internet by storm. WSJ’s Berber Jin tells the story of the company behind ChatGPT and how the world is responding to this technology.
Further Reading:
-The Backstory of ChatGPT Creator OpenAI
-ChatGPT Creator Is Talking to Investors About Selling Shares at $29 Billion Valuation
-Microsoft Plans to Build OpenAI, ChatGPT Features Into All Products
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Podcast: UX Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: #305 Dyscalculia and ChatGPT
Pub date: 2022-12-29
Episode 305 is a linkshow. James and Per discuss two articles that have grabbed their attention – we feature articles about designing for people with dyscalculia and low numeracy, and How ChatGPT is blowing Google out of the water: a UX breakdown.
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Podcast: Let's Know Things (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: ChatGPT
Pub date: 2022-12-20
This week we talk about OpenAI, DALL-E 2, and voice assistants.
We also discuss snake oil, AI, and GPT-4.
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Podcast: Pop Culture Confidential (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 210: Director Edoardo Ponti on 'The Life Ahead', directing his mother Sophia Loren and more
Pub date: 2021-01-29
An intimate conversation with writer/director Edoardo Ponti about his critically acclaimed new movie ‘The Life Ahead’. On the directing his mother, screen legend Sophia Loren, his parents influence, award season buzz and so much more‘The Life Ahead’ is available on Netflix
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Podcast: Awards Chatter (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Sophia Loren - 'The Life Ahead'
Pub date: 2020-12-15
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Because we just watched the move
The last surviving major female star of Hollywood's Golden Age reflects on her humble beginnings in Italy, the films and filmmakers that shaped her career and how it feels, at 86, to be garnering raves for a Netflix film directed by one of her sons.
But first: Carlo Ponti, Loren’s second child and a talented filmmaker in his own right, talks about growing up around and directing his mom.
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Podcast: Outrage + Optimism (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 50. Yuval Noah Harari on the History of Our Future | Anniversary Episode!
Pub date: 2020-05-01
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Because yuval is on it
HAPPY 1 YEAR!!! To mark the 1 year anniversary of Outrage + Optimism being a podcast, we have on historian, futurist, philosopher, and best-selling author, Yuval Noah Harari! He is best known for his book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. A phenomenal read.
Yuval shares with us the power of the stories we choose to believe about ourselves. How good they can be, and how they can also trap us. We get his thoughts on the narrative of the climate crisis, and what it would take us to believe to survive it.
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Podcast: UnHerd Daily (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: John Mearsheimer: We’re playing Russian roulette
Pub date: 2022-11-30
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Glenn shared the youtube video with me
In today's episode, Freddie Sayers interviews John Mearsheimer about the West and how it is screwed according to the realist foreign policy scholar, in an UnHerd exclusive interview titled John Mearsheimer: We’re playing Russian roulette.
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Podcast: Pennsylvania Kitchen Table Politics (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Dr. Arvind Venkat's Rx for the North Hills
Pub date: 2022-12-01
Ben Forstate, campaign manager for Dr. Arvind Venkat's historic State House campaign, explains recent Democratic inroads in the North Hills. He discusses how the campaign raised record sums and flipped the seat. Ben also predicts what all this means for the open County Executive race next year.
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Podcast: The Curious Cult (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Nik Rabinowitz - How to be a happy comedian and what to do about the ego
Pub date: 2021-04-02
In this episode of the Curious Cult, I have a fantastic chat with Nik Rabinowitz about how he got into the world of comedy, his relationship with comparison and dealing with the ego.
Nik is a full-time stand-up comedian, a part-time sit-down comedian (thanks to Zoom and online comedy shows), a parent of three, and an all-round fascinating human.
To keep updated on Nik’s movements, catch him on LinkedIn, on Twitter and on Instagram. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it far and wide and let’s start changing the world with curiosity.
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Podcast: The Gareth Cliff Show (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Comic Terrorism
Pub date: 2022-10-28
28.10.22 Pt 2 - Comedian, actor, and author Nik Rabinowitz joins the team to talk about how his upcoming show managed to get the attention of ISIS! George Mienie joins the team to give us the latest motoring news, including the top 5 cars you wouldn't want to drive during Halloween.
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Podcast: Afternoon Drive with John Maytham (LS 33 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Comedian Nik Rabinowitz in studio to introduce - Unmuted - a show that attempts to make sense of it all
Pub date: 2022-07-22
A handful of listeners join John Maytham and Nik Rabinowitz live at Cape Talk’s first POST-COVID (and small) live studio audience.
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Podcast: The Midday Report with Mandy Wiener (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: What do we know about the alert issued by the US Embassy regarding the Johannesburg terror attack warning.
Pub date: 2022-10-27
Ryan Cummings, Signal Risk director | Director of Analysis at Signal Risk
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Podcast: Monocle 24: The Urbanist (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How many minutes?
Pub date: 2021-11-11
We weigh in on one of urbanism’s biggest buzzwords of the past few years, the 15-minute city, and assess a few alternatives.
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Podcast: People Fixing the World (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The 15-minute city
Pub date: 2021-11-16
Everything you need on your doorstep: a radical plan to improve our cities.
Imagine if everything you needed - your work, leisure and essential services - was just a 15-minute walk or cycle from where you live.
With no need to drive, there’d be less time sitting in traffic jams, the air would be less polluted and maybe we would all be a bit less stressed.
That’s the vision that many cities around the world are now trying to achieve - a new concept called the “15-minute city”.
As more and more of us join the urban sprawl, the aim is to make city life healthier, happier and better for the environment.
We visit Paris to see the plan in action.
Produced and presented by Richard Kenny.
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Podcast: The Agenda Podcast
Episode: Episode 33: The Cities of the Future
Pub date: 2020-10-19
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
15 minute city
For many, COVID-19 will change the way we look at work forever. This week on The Agenda podcast with Stephen Cole we look at how the pandemic has changed where we work and also where we live.
First on the podcast we speak to Carlos Moreno, professor at the Sorbonne and scientific advisor to the Mayor of Paris. He is a driving force behind the concept of the 15-minute city: a city where you can live, work and play all within a 15-minute walk.
He tells us why this concept could change the way planners look at designing cities [02:00]. He also explains why this concept has taken so long to introduce and what needs to happen on a planning level in order to make it a reality [05:19].
Across Europe, and especially in Britain, out-of-town countryside homes are suddenly selling at a premium, as working from home means you no longer need to worry about how long it takes to commute to the office.
We spoke to Anna White, the lead property writer for London's Evening Standard newspaper, who tells us why life outside the city could be the answer for millions post-pandemic. She explains why Britain is in a “micro-boom” in terms of real-estate prices and why it won’t last [10:56]. She also predicts a regeneration of the British high street as people become tired of working from home in the long term [13:20].
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Podcast: Transport Talks
Episode: 15 minute city from idea to implementation - Professor Carlos Moreno
Pub date: 2021-03-11
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
15 minute city
Professor Carlos Moreno, is the architect of the idea of the 15 minute city – this was picked up last year by the World Economic Forum and as part of a global TED talk conference. The idea of being able to get all our urban necessities within a 15 minute walk has clearly gained traction across the world.
This podcast explores how the idea is being implemented, focusing on the Corona pistes for cycling in Paris and on recent measures to trial schools as multi-purpose buildings.
The impact of Covid is part of the discussion and looks at imaginative ways of rethinking how art and shopping can interact.
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Podcast: Urbanistica Podcast - Cities for People
Episode: 195.ENG 15 minute City - Carlos Moreno
Pub date: 2021-04-25
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
15 minute city
A quick chat with the godfather of 15 min city.
What is it about? How do cities adapt the 15 min city concept?
Carlos Moreno is a Senior University Professor French-Colombian specialized in the intelligent control of complex systems.
Deeply committed to science, progress and creativity in all its forms, he strives to bring together scientific disciplines and professionals in the innovation ecosystem —from industry to start-ups —with a particular focus on a cross-disciplinary approach.
After leading his start-up Sinovia to success, he was Scientific Adviser to the CEO of ENGIE INEO, exGDF SUEZ Group, he goes on delivering today his strategic and foward-looking vision, his scientific expertise, and his international reputation, on the issues of mutation, innovation, and added value chain. In particular, in the field of the Human and Living City. He was named Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in April 2010. He is expert within complex systems, digital world, city of tomorrow, innovation
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Podcast: Urbanistica Podcast - Cities for People
Episode: 331. 15 minute city & placemaking - Carlos Moreno
Pub date: 2022-09-28
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
15 minute city
Carlos Moreno is a Senior University Professor French-Colombian specialized in the intelligent control of complex systems.
In collaboration with Placemaking Europe Week in Ponteverdra.
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Podcast: TED Climate (LS 39 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The 15-minute city | Carlos Moreno
Pub date: 2021-10-29
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
15 minute city
Living in a city means accepting a certain level of dysfunction: long commutes, noisy streets, underutilized spaces. Carlos Moreno wants to change that. He makes the case for the "15-minute city," where inhabitants have access to all the services they need to live, learn and thrive within their immediate vicinity -- and shares ideas for making urban areas adapt to humans, not the other way around.
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Podcast: The Scoop! – CFRC Podcast Network
Episode: New Research on Social Isolation and Though Patterns with Dr. Jonathan Smallwood
Pub date: 2021-11-05
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Mind wandering research
Professor Jonathan Smallwood from the Department of Psychology here at Queen’s University joins us in this segment. He was recently involved in a research study with several British Universities on the impact of prolonged social isolation and changes to work opportunities on people’s thought patterns. Like Canada, the first UK lockdown caused huge disruption to people’s social and work lives. As part of the study, researchers analysed people’s thought patterns to see what effect these changes had on our everyday thoughts and learned more about he important role our social and working lives play in shaping what we think, and how we think, as we go about our everyday lives.
Listeners with access to scholarly publications are invited to read the full article Dr. Smallwood’s work contributed to, published in PNAS.
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Podcast: MindStew (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Wandering Mind - Jonathan Smallwood
Pub date: 2021-04-29
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Mind wandering research
My guest today is Professor Jonathan Smallwood (@the_mindwanders), Professor of Psychology at Queens University in Canada.
Jonny researches the neuroscience of the phenomenon of spontaneous, internally generated thought, as exemplified by mind-wandering and day-dreaming. To me, this is an interesting topic because it is; a) something that we do all the time, b) relevant to high-prevalence mental health conditions (such as rumination and worry in depression and anxiety), and c) is quite different from other most neuroscience areas that tend to be studied through specific tasks.
In this conversation, we discuss the function of mind-wandering, whether it makes us unhappy, its relationship to the default-mode network, the position of the default-mode network in the brain's processing hierarchy and the challenges and opportunities of studying spontaneous thought.
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Podcast: Unspooled (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: RRR
Pub date: 2022-06-16
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Rrr
Paul & Amy rise up for 2022’s revolutionary Indian epic RRR! They learn the difference between Bollywood and the Telugu-language Tollywood scene, break down the “Naatu Naatu” dance scene, and praise the film’s commitment to emotional truth amidst the wild action. Plus: Who is director S.S. Rajamouli’s favorite non-Indian filmmaker?
Next week, our Heroes series continues with Supercop! You can join the conversation for this series on the Unspooled Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/unspooledpodcast, and on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6. Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. You can also listen to our Stitcher Premium game show Screen Test right now at https://www.stitcher.com/show/unspooled-screen-test, and apply to be a contestant at unspooledpod@gmail.com!
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Podcast: Business of Entertainment
Episode: ‘RRR’ storms the box office
Pub date: 2022-03-29
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Rrr
India’s pandemic-ravaged film exhibition business had pinned much hope on RRR that finally released this Friday. In the latest episode of its show, 'Business of Entertainment', Mint's Lata Jha goes through the financial performance of what’s buzzing in the world of entertainment.
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Podcast: SiftPop (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 345: Jurassic World: Dominion, RRR
Pub date: 2022-06-14
Aaron and Andrew welcome Jon Paula back to the show this week! They review "Jurassic World: Dominion" (2:05) and "RRR" (34:27), rank Best Ever Jeff Goldblum movies (1:06:23), then finish up with Buried Treasure (1:30:09).
Podcast: The Great Indian Soundtrack by Snehith Kumbla
Episode: RRR (2022): Great movie background scores
Pub date: 2022-04-28
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Rrr
On the amazing M.M. Kreem score that surprisingly few are talking about - the brilliant songs and bgm for the exagerrated, over-the-top action entertainer RRR.
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Podcast: Pop Culture Happy Hour (LS 75 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: RRR
Pub date: 2022-07-11
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Rrr
RRR is one of the most expensive and highest grossing Indian films ever made, and also the most-watched non-English language film on Netflix. It's a sweeping and bloody sort-of-historical epic about an unlikely friendship between a villager fighting against India's British colonizers (N.T. Rama Rao Jr.) and a soldier working with them (Ram Charan). Directed by S.S. Rajamouli, RRR has breathtaking stunts and stirring songs that's made it an international phenomenon.
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Podcast: Cinemaholics (LS 41 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: RRR – Run Run Run to the Theater!
Pub date: 2022-04-18
Oh you want to watch a movie with some fantastic beasts and secrets? Great news, we're reviewing RRR this week, one of the best action blockbusters to come out in years. Seriously! This Tollywood film came out a few weeks ago, and we chat about the hype and what this director, S.S. Rajamouli, might do next. We open this week's show with some brief thoughts on the Fantastic Beasts franchise, plus we chat about some of the week's other releases, including Father Stu, We're All Going to the World's Fair, and Dual.
Show Notes:
- 00:00:00 – Why we skipped Fantastic Beasts: Secrets of Dumblewhatever
- 00:16:30 – Father Stu, We're All Going to the World's Fair, Dual
- 00:37:10 –RRR review (no spoilers)
- 01:16:50 –RRR review (spoilers)
Intro Music: “One Hitter” by Clifford, DESH & Louk
Links:
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- Email your feedback to cinemaholicspodcast [at] gmail.com.
- Connect with Cinemaholics on Facebook and Twitter.
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Podcast: Daily Medical News (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Time to switch to automated BP readings?
Pub date: 2019-02-06
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
FIT vs colonoscopy AND automated BP reading
Contact us: podcasts@mdedge
Automated office BP readings best routine measures
https://www.mdedge.com/internalmedicinenews/article/193804/hypertension/automated-office-bp-readings-best-routine-measures
Positive FIT test should prompt colonoscopy
https://www.mdedge.com/internalmedicinenews/article/193798/gastroenterology/positive-fit-test-should-prompt-colonoscopy
Mild aerobic exercise speeds sports concussion recovery
https://www.mdedge.com/internalmedicinenews/article/193748/injuries/mild-aerobic-exercise-speeds-sports-concussion-recovery
Phase 3 studies of antiamyloid Alzheimer’s drug crenezumab stopped
https://www.mdedge.com/psychiatry/article/193578/alzheimers-cognition/phase-3-studies-antiamyloid-alzheimers-drug
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Podcast: Primary Care Update (LS 41 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 37: Top 20 POEMs of 2019, Part 2
Pub date: 2020-02-04
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
FIT vs colonoscopy
Part 2 of our review of the top 20 POEMs of 2019. This week infections (ruling out CAP, typical duration of RTI in kids, and 5 vs 10 days for strep throat) and colorectal cancer screening (yield of FIT over 10 years ~ colonoscopy, no need to stop NSAID or anticoagulant, and family history effect on risk).
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Podcast: GI Pearls Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: GI Pearls Gastroenterology Podcast Episode 47 - January 2021
Pub date: 2021-01-02
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
FIT vs colonoscopy
Show notes for Episode 47, January 2021
- Endoscopic Recognition and management strategies for Malignant Colorectal Polyps: Recommendation of the US Multi-Society Task force on Colorectal Cancer – GIE Polyp morphology: an interobserver evaluation for the Paris classification among international experts – AmJ Gastro Outcomes in lower GI bleeding comparing weekend with weekday admission. – GIE Efficacy and Safety of Ornithine Phenylacetate for Treating Overt Hepatic Encephalopathy in a Randomized Trial – CGH A Trial of Ornithine Phenylacetate and the Arc of Ammonia’s History for Overt Hepatic Encephalopathy – CGH Are Gastrointestinal Symptoms Specific for Coronavirus 2019 Infection? A Prospective Case-Control Study from the United States – Gastro A randomized trial comparing antibiotics with appendectomy for appendicitis. – NEJM FIT test after negative colonoscopy may reduce the risk of incident colorectal cancer in a population-based screening programme – GUT The efficacy and safety of Vitamin C for Iron Supplementation in Adult Patients with Iron Deficiency Anemia – Jama Open Randomised comparison of postpolypectomy surveillance intervals following a two-round baseline colonoscopy. – GUT * Disease Progression and Outcomes of Pregnancies in Women With Eosinophilic Esophagitis – CGH Comparing Laparoscopic Elective Sigmoid Resection with Conservative Treatment in improving QoL of Patients with Diverticulitis. – JAMA Surgery
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Podcast: NB Hot Topics Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: S2 E16 - Blood bottle crisis; community covid treatments; rotator cuff injury; FIT testing for cancer
Pub date: 2021-08-11
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
FIT vs colonoscopy
In this summer holidays episode of the Hot Topics Podcast, Neal Tucker looks at the latest research for the primary care community.
Firstly, three treatments for covid-19 in community-managed patients - do they work?
Next rotator cuff injury - can progressive exercise beat usual care and is there ANY role for steroid injections?
Finally, FIT testing for suspected colorectal cancer - do we now have the data to replace colonoscopy?
And as you’re here you probably like podcasts, so have a listen to Tamsin Ellis on the BBC talking about general practice and the environment. Link below.
ReferencesTamsin Ellis BBC Podcast
NHS England Blood Bottle Guidance
Community Covid and Azithromycin, Doxycycline and Colchicine
Lancet Rotator Cuff Injury
BJGP letter
BJGP editorials - infection and CVD, expanding the role of GP
BJGP FIT testing
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Podcast: American Journal of Gastroenterology Author Podcasts (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: ACG Clinical Guidelines: Colorectal Cancer Screening 2021
Pub date: 2021-03-04
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
do they discuss FIT vs Colonoscopy
Aasma Shaukat, MD, MPH, FACG talks with Co-Editor in Chief Dr. Brian Lacy about the new ACG Guideline Colorectal Cancer Screening 2021. She discusses the new screening recommendations for average-risk individuals as young as 45 to reduce indicdence of advanced adenoma, CRC, and mortality from CRC. (22:22)
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Podcast: CyberWire Daily (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: A new member of the Winnti Cluster is described. Cobalt Strike used against unpatched VMware Horizon servers. Ukraine blames Russia for what seems to be a destructive supply chain attack.
Pub date: 2022-01-18
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Lisa Plaggemier spoke at Highmark
A new Chinese cyberespionage group is described. Cobalt Strike implants are observed hitting unpatched VMware Horizon servers. Ukraine attributes last week’s cyberattacks to Russia (with some possibility of Belarusian involvement as well). Microsoft doesn’t offer attribution, but it suggests that the incidents were more destructive than ransomware or simple defacements. The US warns of possible provocations. Ben Yelin looks at a bipartisan TLDR bill. Our guest is Lisa Plaggemier from the National Cybersecurity Alliance on the ongoing threat of phishing. And the REvil arrests in Russia may have been for “leverage.”
For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing:
https://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/11/11
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Podcast: Easy Prey (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Hackers Don’t Wear Hoodies with Lisa Plaggemier
Pub date: 2022-05-11
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
She spoke about bs at Highmark
Everyone is at risk when they’re online. But there are simple security measures that you can implement that will make it more difficult to be hacked. Today’s guest is Lisa Plaggemier. Lisa is the Interim Executive Director for the National Cybersecurity Alliance. She has held executive roles with Ford Motor Company, InfoSec, and Media Pro. She is also a frequent speaker at major events and is a thought leader for innovative security trainings and awareness programs.
Show Notes: * [1:05] - The National Cybersecurity Alliance has a mission to enable a more secure interconnected world. * [1:45] - Lisa was working in sales and marketing with Ford Motor Company, but shares an experience that changed her career trajectory. * [4:27] - Lisa created a series of videos that became popular with viewers. * [5:58] - Security professionals are well intentioned, but when educating people who are not technologists, you want to give just enough to stay interested. * [7:21] - People use technology to enhance their lives. The internet was never built to be secure. * [9:30] - Doing things securely doesn’t always mean that the user should be frustrated. * [11:04] - With keeping track of passwords, Lisa reveals the common misconception of password management sites. * [12:28] - Another problem is with business accounts and corporations where employees think the company handles security. * [14:23] - Unfortunately, there are some sites that don’t make using a password manager easy. * [15:31] - It really isn’t necessary to change your password every 90 days as was previously important to do. * [16:46] - It is important for people to research a company and their possible security breaches before doing business. * [17:57] - Part of many sites are requiring two factor authentication as a part of the setup process. * [19:27] - What if everyone did two factor authentication? * [21:46] - Lisa shares some stereotypes of hackers and phishing emails. But they aren’t like that anymore. Hacking has become very sophisticated. * [24:42] - Advertising and stock images feed this stereotype. * [26:24] - Organized crime is structured just like a professional organization. * [28:40] - People involved with organized crime look at what they are doing as just their job. * [30:04] - Lisa’s prediction in cybersecurity will get worse before it gets better. * [31:54] - In the security world, security professionals are improving their ability to educate the populace. * [33:52] - If we don’t report things, trends will not be noticed. * [35:31] - Always keep your software and apps updated. Updates are usually security driven. * [36:47] - The language barrier between employees of a company and the IT department is something that needs to be bridged. * [39:31] - There are a lot of free resources available on the National Cybersecurity Alliance’s website.
Thanks for joining us on Easy Prey. Be sure to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes and leave a nice review.
Links and Resources: * Podcast Web Page * Facebook Page * whatismyipaddress.com * Easy Prey on Instagram * Easy Prey on Twitter * Easy Prey on LinkedIn * Easy Prey on YouTube * Easy Prey on Pinterest * Lisa Plaggemier on LinkedIn * National Cybersecurity Alliance Website
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Podcast: FitLabPGH (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Podcast 40:18 Cathy Rogers
Pub date: 2018-11-11
Cathy Schnaubelt Rogers, Founder, Aero Tech Designs Cyclewear, fell in love with cycling at age 12, where she attended a girl scout camp with her spider bike. From this humble beginning, she has ridden all over the world. Cathy has bicycle toured self contained with panniers across the United States riding from Tampa, Florida up the east coast to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She also has bicycle toured through eight European countries. The most she ever rode in one day is 140 miles!
Cathy is an avid cyclist who, with her husband recently rode across the United States from Washington state to Washington DC. She is a former USCF licensed bike racer, who cycled for the University of South Florida in many sanctioned races. In addition, she was a competitive triathlete. Cathy continues to ride in bicycle tours and organized bicycle events. Ms. Rogers describes her fascination with the bicycle as a form of neurosis or disease that she can’t shake off. She collects bike art and describes her home as a shrine to the bicycle. She says: “Riding my bicycle makes me happy” which is the essence of her love affair with the bicycle.
Use the links below to connect with Aero Tech Designs – “Ride Longer, Feel Stronger”
Show Notes: Cathy Rogers, Founder, Aero Tech Designs, – contact info:
E-mail: cathy@aerotechdesigns.com
Website: https://www.aerotechdesigns.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/aerotechdesigns
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aerotechdesigns
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aerotechdesigns/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/aerotechdesigns/
Links mentioned in the Podcast:
Rick Holzworth, La Prima Espresso Co. Racing
Check out the FitLabPGH Podcast episode featuring Rick Holzworth, released 8/5/18.
Link: https://www.fitlabpgh.com/2018/08/05/podcast-2918-rick-holzworth-la-prima-espresso-co-racing-cycling-advocate/
InterBike, Industry Bike Show
https://www.interbike.com
Montour Trail, 60+ mile rail-trail around Pittsburgh, PA
https://montourtrail.org
Check out the FitLabPGH Podcast episode featuring Bill Orr of the Montour Trail Council, released 1/28/17.
Link: https://www.fitlabpgh.com/2017/01/28/podcast-montour-trail-council-bill-orr/
Three Rivers Heritage Trail, Pittsburgh, PA – Friends of the Riverfront
https://friendsoftheriverfront.org/trails/three-rivers-heritage-trail/
Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) Trail, Cumberland, MD to Pittsburgh, PA
https://www.gaptrail.org
Bike Pittsburgh, Scott Bricker, Executive Director
https://www.bikepgh.org
Contact Info for FitLabPGH:
Web: FitLabPGH
Email: fitlabpgh@gmail.com
Twitter: @fitlabpgh
Instagram: @fitlabpgh
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Podcast: Outspoken Cyclist (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Outspoken Cyclist – 1/16/2021
Pub date: 2021-01-16
I always think of Alaska as being exotic and so far away. I know many of you have been there, but I haven’t. So, almost like being there, we’re going to talk with AJ Roan.
AJ writes for North of 60 Mining News and you might wonder what we’d have to talk about since his work is in mining – which is another whole topic we don’t get into a lot in our conversation.
What we DO talk about is a gentleman named Edward Jesson who lived in Alaska at the time of the Great Gold Rush.
We’ll speak with Chris Carmichael of CTS Training Systems out in Colorado Springs in the second of our 4-part series about training. Today we talk about cadence, how and why it’s an important indicator of your performance, and how to determine what is optimal for you.
Then, we head on over to Pittsburgh. Yes, Browns fans, you can gloat about football, but when it comes to a great advocacy organization, I think Pittsburgh is probably at the top of the list.
Scott Bricker is the Executive Director. We talk about how the organization managed to get through 2020 – both financially and with their programming – and what’s in store for 2021.
In 1899 Edward Jesson he was a successful businessman. It was during the time of the insanity of the Gold Rush and thousands of people were heading to Nome, Alaska to stake a claim. It was also the beginning of the new-fangled safety bicycle – similar to what we know today.
Edward decided to sell all his belongings, buy a bicycle – something he didn’t even know how to ride at the time – and ride from Dawson City in the Canadian NW to Nome – 1,000+ miles.
The story that unfolded is fascinating and we’ll dive into it in a moment.
AJ Roan is a writer for the North of 60 Mining News. If you are interested in reading his article – and who wouldn’t be? – Thousand Mile Ride from Dawson to Nome, log on to miningnewsnorth.com/story for January 1st, 2021.
Lt’s take a short break and when we come back, we’ll check in with Chris Carmichael, head coach and founder of CTS Training systems in Colorado Springs for part II of our training tips series. You’re listening to TOC.
We are back on TOC. I’m your host Diane Jenks.
Do you use cadence as an indicator of your pedaling performance? Should you? Let’s ask Chris Carmichael. Chris knows!
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Podcast: Active Towns (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Move Forward PGH w/ Scott Bricker (video available)
Pub date: 2022-07-01
Watch the video version of this episode to get the full effect
Biking in Pittsburgh is truly moving forward and I get the details directly from Scott Bricker, co-founder and Executive Director of Bike Pittsburgh (aka BikePGH) on the tremendous progress that has been made over the past 20 years since he helped launch the BikePGH advocacy organization.
Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):
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- PeopleForBikes Final Mile profile
- PFB 2 Days On 2 Wheels Pittsburgh video
- My episode w/ JFR Velo Quebec
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Hi Everyone, my name is John Simmerman.
I’m a health promotion professional with over 30 years of experience and my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization of how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.
In 2012 I launched the non-profit Advocates for Healthy Communities as an effort to help promote and create healthy, active places.
Since that time I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be, in order to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities".
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Podcast: Deep State Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Showstopper
Pub date: 2022-06-28
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
After I found David Rothkopf on twinner
Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony in front of the January 6th committee was explosive. David breaks down all of the new facts we learned about the President and Mark Meadows in the lead up to January 6th with Harry Litman of the Talking Feds Podcast, Dahlia Lithwick of Slate, and Norm Ornstein of the Words Matter Podcast. What was the most damning fact that Hutchinson brought to light? Will the testimony change anything? Is Trump finally in the sights of the Department of Justice? Find out during this far reaching episode. Join us!
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Podcast: Background Briefing with Ian Masters (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: November 30, 2021 - David Rothkopf | Trita Parsi | Ronnie Yearwood
Pub date: 2021-12-01
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
After I found David Rothkopf on twinner
Reports Emerge That Trump Played a Hands-on Role in the Coup Attempt | Mixed Messages From Iran as the Nuclear Talks Resume | Barbados Cuts Ties With the British Crown to Become a Republic backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Podcast: The Lincoln Project (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Russia/Ukraine Report Card with David Rothkopf
Pub date: 2022-04-29
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
After I found David Rothkopf on twinner
Host Reed Galen is joined by David Rothkopf (Contributing Columnist for The Daily Beast and Host of Deep State Radio) to discuss the grades each of the major world leaders should receive in regards to how they’ve responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Plus, the GOP is in complete disarray but you wouldn’t know it by how they’re portrayed in the media…and are there any correlations between the recent French elections and what is going on in the United States?
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Podcast: Eye On A.I. (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 10 - Pedro Domingos
Pub date: 2019-03-07
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Anthony Chang recommended his book Master Algorithm
In this week's episode, I talk to Pedro Domingos, author of the bestselling book, The Master Algorithm, which is about the ongoing effort to unify machine-learning paradigms in a single model. But the conversation was much broader than that. Pedro believes strongly that the great powers are engaged in an AI arms race with America's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, pitted against China's military and industrial dynamo. We also talked about the future of democracy and authoritarianism in an AI-driven world.
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Podcast: Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: #65 Prof. PEDRO DOMINGOS [Unplugged]
Pub date: 2022-02-26
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Anthony Chang recommended his book Master Algorithm
Note: there are no politics discussed in this show and please do not interpret this show as any kind of a political statement from us. We have decided not to discuss politics on MLST anymore due to its divisive nature.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst
Discord: https://discord.gg/HNnAwSduud
[00:00:00] Intro
[00:01:36] What we all need to understand about machine learning
[00:06:05] The Master Algorithm Target Audience
[00:09:50] Deeply Connected Algorithms seen from Divergent Frames of Reference
[00:12:49] There is a Master Algorithm; and it's mine!
[00:14:59] The Tribe of Evolution
[00:17:17] Biological Inspirations and Predictive Coding
[00:22:09] Shoe-Horning Gradient Descent
[00:27:12] Sparsity at Training Time vs Prediction Time
[00:30:00] World Models and Predictive Coding
[00:33:24] The Cartoons of System 1 and System 2
[00:40:37] AlphaGo Searching vs Learning
[00:45:56] Discriminative Models evolve into Generative Models
[00:50:36] Generative Models, Predictive Coding, GFlowNets
[00:55:50] Sympathy for a Thousand Brains
[00:59:05] A Spectrum of Tribes
[01:04:29] Causal Structure and Modelling
[01:09:39] Entropy and The Duality of Past vs Future, Knowledge vs Control
[01:16:14] A Discrete Universe?
[01:19:49] And yet continuous models work so well
[01:23:31] Finding a Discretised Theory of Everything
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Podcast: QuickRead Podcast - Free book summaries (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Summary of The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos | Free Audiobook
Pub date: 2020-10-03
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Anthony Chang recommended his book Master Algorithm
How the Quest For the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World.
According to Pedro Domingos, one of the greatest mysteries of the universe is not how it begins or ends, or what infinitesimal threads it’s woven from, it’s what goes on in a small child’s mind: how a pound of gray jelly can grow into a seat of consciousness. Even more astonishing is how little role parents play in teaching the brain to go through this transformation, as it largely does it all on its own. Today, scientists, computer engineers, and more are working towards a machine that can do exactly what the human brain does: learn. With all the technology of today, machines may one day even become smarter than the human brain. Computers can learn from large sets of data that we may not even realize is getting collected. This means that our future can be run by technology, changing the way we live and interact with each other. As you read, you’ll learn how machines will one day be like the human brain, how there is no such thing as a perfect algorithm, and how a Master Algorithm is on its way to being created.
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Podcast: Briar Patch Observatory (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Wokeism & AI - Pedro Domingos
Pub date: 2022-02-12
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
Anthony Chang recommended his book Master Algorithm
CS professor Pedro Domingos talks history, technology and the woke revolution with Corey and Passer.
Find Pedro on Twitter: @pmddomingos
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Episode: Pushkin Presents: The Future of Drones from What’s Your Problem?
Pub date: 2022-03-17
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Episode: 2022 Debuts: Rachel Krantz's 'Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy'
Pub date: 2022-03-15
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When Rachel Krantz, a founding editor of Bustle, fell in love with a man named Adam, he suggested they explore an open relationship. So Krantz decided to dip her toe into the world of non-monogamy. But while she found some aspects of polyamory exciting, other experiences led to miscommunication and jealousy. Krantz explores the world of non-monogamy in New York City in her first book, a memoir titled, Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy. She joins us as part of our series, "2022 Debuts."
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Episode: 356 - Open: Non-monogamy and Sexual Liberation (with author Rachel Krantz)
Pub date: 2022-01-25
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I read about book in times of Israel
This week we are joined by journalist and Bustle founding editor Rachel Krantz to talk about her new book, Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-monogamy. Rachel goes into depth about sexual liberation, feminism, gender, abusive dynamics, spirituality, and more during this comprehensive look at her newest work. Visit Rachel's website at www.racheljkrantz.com to learn more about her and her writing or to order Open.
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Episode: #284 – Navigating Non-Monogamy with Rachel Krantz
Pub date: 2022-02-15
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Episode: Why we need a fourth revolution in healthcare
Pub date: 2019-12-06
William bird discusses how healthcare focused on communities and acitve lifestyles can lead to greater wellbeing. We are entering the fourth revolution of healthcare.
The first revolution was Public Health with sanitation, cleaner air and better housing. The second is medical healthcare with the advancement of diagnostics and treatment with a focus on disease cure. The third is personalised health, through individual knowledge, technology, behaviour change and precision medicine.
However, these revolutions have left three major problems unresolved; unsustainable healthcare, rising health inequalities and climate change driven by unsustainable living.
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Episode: The New & (Un)Improved Doctor-Patient Relationship
Pub date: 2018-05-31
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The doctor-patient relationship is a key determinant of the quality of our health care. But this relationship is changing quickly, and may actually be endangered. What does that mean for patients and providers? And what can we do about it?
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Episode: Protect the Spots with NO Bulletholes, w/ Adam Harstad
Pub date: 2021-11-23
Adam Harstad is one of the few guests that have been on with us twice! And we could have him on 100 times and still not cover everything to discuss (or debate in many cases). This time around, we cover some pitfalls that data people fall into including cognitive bias and how people behave in the face of uncertainty, how these traps can be applied and avoided in life and in data, and we do throw in some Fantasy Football talk! Adam is, after all, a key member of the Football Guys Forum!
References in this episode:
The Return of the Revenge of Dr. Blowhole
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Instinct Can Beat Analytical Thinking
Calvin And Hobbes - Time Travel Homework
The Revised Psychology of Human Misjudgment by Charlie Munger
The Cube movie
Episode Transcript:
Rob Collie (00:00:00): Hello, friends. Today, we have The Return of the Revenge of Adam Harstad. Now, it's a little bit of a dangerous game as a podcast host to deliberately bring on a guest that you know is going to repeatedly tell you politely, but repeatedly, that you're wrong. And that is definitely what Adam does. He is a very sharp, very intelligent, and very polite contrarian. The first time we had him on as a guest, he caught me completely off guard. This time, of course, I knew what to expect. We like to say that you don't sharpen one's edge using Nerf. You want to be pushed, you want to be tested, and he does not disappoint. So of course this time around, one of my secret, or not so secret, motivations was to beat him at his own game, even just once or twice.
Rob Collie (00:00:50): But true to the philosophy, steel sharpens steel, and I did start to hold my own a little bit better near the end. He is of course, a football writer and analyst by trade, and we did talk about some football stuff. But really, even then, it's all about uncertainty. The entire conversation in one form or another comes down to, how do we behave ourselves rationally in the face of an uncertain future? And this is really something that's completely apart from analytics, because the vast majority of analytics and business intelligence does work on certainty and having confident and borderline omission mastery of the things that you know are happening.
Rob Collie (00:01:32): When you lack that kind of certainty and confidence about the things that are already happening, naturally, that is a tremendous disadvantage, and filling that void makes all the difference in the world in terms of business and in the competitive world. Which is, of course, where P3 earns its keep, it's where we make our money, it's where we provide value. Even in the places where the analytics and BI industry get into things that are actually predictive, usually that prediction is at a very micro level, "Will this particular customer enjoy seeing this other piece of content? Is this particular customer a flight risk? Will we lose them in the next six months?" It's very micro. It's very narrowly bounded.
Rob Collie (00:02:13): But so much of the human experience, so much of life is not like that. "Should I take that job in the other city or not? How should I invest my money? What go was into a good marriage?" Most of human life consists of making decisions like that in the face of an uncertain future. So in some sense, these sorts of things are squishy, they're not analytical in the strictest sense of the word. And at the same time, there is a chance, there is the opportunity to behave ourselves intelligently in this space. And I'm pretty sure that whenever we bring Adam on, that's the kind of thing we're going to be talking about. It is central to life.
Rob Collie (00:02:51): And what could be better than speaking with someone very intelligent about something as important as life. So let's get into it.
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Rob Collie (00:03:25): Welcome back to the show Adam Harstad. So Adam, when you were first here, you told us that your family has a saying, "Harstads try new things."
Adam Harstad (00:03:34): Yes they do.
Rob Collie (00:03:35): Fortunately for us, that's not exclusive. You don't just do new things, you're willing to come back and do something that you've already done. There's different forms of this statement. And if something is new, does that mean that you necessarily have to try it?
Adam Harstad (00:03:47): Well, I think you're overlooking the fact that you can never stand in the same stream twice. You can go back and you can go to the same river and you can stand in it, but the river's changed, it's a new river.
Rob Collie (00:03:55): Oh my gosh. Yeah. That's it. End of episode. Deep thoughts by Adam Harstad. You're right, we're definitely not the same stream today. I'm glad that you decided to come back and stand in our stream, so to speak. You have kids, right? Is the timing right? Did you watch the TV show, The Penguins of Madagascar?
Adam Harstad (00:04:15): I have not. I'm familiar with The Penguins, but we have not watched The Penguins. No.
Rob Collie (00:04:19): There's a Penguins episode that's called The Return of the Revenge of Dr. Blowhole. They had this villain on multiple times on the show over time, and so they just go ahead and lean into the return of the revenge. It's a dolphin, porpoise played by Neil Patrick Harris. And The Return of the Revenge of Dr. Blowhole is one of the greatest and most genius things I've seen on any screen ever. It is worth looking up. We'll make sure that we link it. But anyways, this is the return of the revenge of Adam Harstad.
Adam Harstad (00:04:50): I have an article that I do every year, at the same time every year called Revisiting Preseason Expectations. So the first time I did Revisiting Preseason Expectations, and then the second time I called it Revisiting Revisiting Preseason Expectations. I think we're at year nine, so it's Revisiting Revisiting Revisiting Revisiting Revisiting Revisiting Revisiting Revisiting Revisiting Preseason Expectations.
Rob Collie (00:05:11): Have you ever wanted to like use like scientific notation or exponents or something to represent this?
Adam Harstad (00:05:16): Not yet. Hopefully, Footballguys doesn't get sick of me. I'm there long enough that I get that urge.
Rob Collie (00:05:22): It's coming. It's coming. So I really enjoyed our first conversation. I felt pushed. I've recovered since then, I'm back on my feet. So we bring you back on, have you push our brains a little bit? Are you down for that?
Adam Harstad (00:05:35): Sure. Whatever. I'm willing to try new things.
Rob Collie (00:05:37): That's right. That's the #credo. We talked a little bit in the intervening time over Twitter, direct messages, which are just the most substantive thing that can be exchanged between human beings. There are a couple things we talked about that we might be interested in getting into, and let's talk about common myths or fallacies or traps that people fall into. And as we bounce back and forth on Twitter, you got into talking about a number of behavioral economists. This sounds delicious. You mentioned that there's one person who underpins your entire fantasy football dealing with uncertainty. Who is the hero on the Mount Rushmore of Adam Harstad?
Adam Harstad (00:06:22): Really, it's a story that has two main characters. And when I got into fantasy football writing, it was 2013, I believe, and a guy named Daniel Kahneman was really hot at the time. He'd done a couple TED Talks, he'd written a book up called Thinking Fast and Slow. Daniel Kahneman is a psychologist who was awarded the Nobel prize in economics, the only non economist to win it, I believe. And he was awarded this for his research on cognitive biases, which are all of these ways that we think we're behaving optimally, but there's these bugs in our mental operating system.
Adam Harstad (00:06:57): And he and his colleague, Amos Tversky spent decades just meticulously cataloging all of the different bugs in our operating software that they could find. And I was really enchanted with this idea, this heuristics and biases program. And I thought, "This is something I can bring to fantasy football. It's something that I can write about and I can educate people on all of these biases, and we can all work together to overcome these biases and become like this Superman who has transcended our operating system limitations into like the platonic ideal fantasy football players." So that was where I started.
Rob Collie (00:07:32): We would be making the world a truly better place there, right?
Adam Harstad (00:07:35): Absolutely, absolutely.
Rob Collie (00:07:35): Fantasy football would be like utopia.
Adam Harstad (00:07:38): And the big him with that is that, really, it doesn't work. And Daniel Kahneman says it doesn't work in the introduction to his book, Thinking Fast and Slow, where he's detailing a lot of these. He says, "I don't have any illusions that this is going to help people overcome their biases. Because one of the biases I found is that you can't see your biases in yourself." It's called the bias blind spot. If I teach you about a bias, you're going to see it in everybody else and be convinced that it doesn't affect you at all. It's easy to spot in everybody else.
Adam Harstad (00:08:06): And he said his goal with the book wasn't really to improve decision making so much as it was to improve the quality of our conversation about decision making, that his aim was mostly just to improve the quality of the conversation around the water cooler. Sometime around there, I'm not even really sure when, I discovered a guy named Gerd Gigerenzer and I didn't know this at the time, but-
Rob Collie (00:08:26): Is that a real name?
Adam Harstad (00:08:27): Yes. Gerd Gigerenzer. Gigerenzer seems like something that Gerd Gigerenzes, but I don't know what Gerd Gigerenzing is-
Rob Collie (00:08:34): Or Renzes at giga scale.
Adam Harstad (00:08:37): Maybe. Maybe. Anyway, he is a top-notch Gigerenzer, he can Gigerenze like nobody's business. So I stumbled upon him and I didn't know the backstory at the time. But apparently, Gerd Gigerenzer is the arch nemesis of Daniel Kahneman. It's Montagues and Capulets. There's this huge running feud between the behavioral economists who are all about nudges and heuristics and biases and how to make better decision making given the limitations of our software. Gigerenzer's position is that, "Look, you're calling these flaws in our operating system, but they're not really flaws so much. Sometimes they're adaptive, sometimes they're useful. And in a lot of cases, in cases of extreme uncertainty, a lot of times these heuristics, these simple rules of thumb will actually outperform stunningly complex models. They are investment strategies."
Adam Harstad (00:09:26): And he's back tested all of these extremely complicated investment strategies about how to allocate your funds. And he finds that the strategy that performs best is one-over-n where if you want to invest in n different funds, you put one-nth of your money in each one, you just do it evenly. And it's very simple heuristic, and it's outperforming all these staggeringly complex. And typically, the more complex and uncertain a system is, the more simple rules of thumb can outreform staggeringly complex ones. Whereas the more limited a system is, the more complex you want your models to be.
Adam Harstad (00:10:01): If you're modeling chess, you can have a very, very complicated model because there's an unfathomable number of different possible board states, but it's clearly known how you get from one to the other. The rules of the game are very well known. If you're modeling the stock market, you can't really have these super complex models because you've got a super complex model, and all of a sudden, somebody in a wet market somewhere in China catches a disease, and all of a sudden the entire world that you modeled no longer exists, you're operating in a completely different world that you never even imagined.
Rob Collie (00:10:33): Yeah, they're in that market, they're like, "Hey, I'm going to grind up this bat and I'm going to snort it."
Adam Harstad (00:10:40): I read an interview with Gerd Gigerenzer on the Harvard Business Review called Instinct Can Beat Analytic Thinking. I've probably linked to that more than anything else, and I revisit it every year and I go back over it. And it was really useful for me. First of all, because it gave me new knowledge. I didn't know that the simple rules of thumb could be so adaptive and so useful. And also because it gave me permission to be lazy, which is what I was always looking for. Because coming up with very complex models is complex, coming up with simple rules of thumb as much simpler.
Adam Harstad (00:11:12): And it doesn't mean it's necessarily easy because you need safeguards. Anybody can come up with a simple rule, it's hard to come up with a simple rule that's actually good and useful. And you need to test it and you need to expose them to this level of investigation and curiosity. But at the end of the day, I write about fantasy football and I'm competing in a space with people who have very complex models. Like, CeeDee Lamb is a wide receiver, he gets drafted for the Dallas Cowboys and the of Dallas Cowboys already have two very good wide receivers and Amari Cooper and Michael Gallup. And people with complex models. Now, have to say, "How can I fit CeeDee Lamb into this offense? How am I going to distribute the ball among all of these different receivers? How are things going to work out? I don't see the path from here to there."
Adam Harstad (00:11:56): My simple rule is, if a guy's good, he's going to get the ball. Very simple rule, tested. You can demonstrate it over years. And so then my question is, is CeeDee Lamb good? Yeah, I think he is. He's going to get the ball. Somebody asks me, "How is he going to get the ball when they have those other receivers there?" I don't know. But over time, I call it the Dr. Ian Malcolm hypothesis, and I always post a picture of like Jeff Goldberg shirtless from Jurassic Park, "Life finds a way." I don't know if the other guys on the team are going to get injured, I don't know if just the team's going to throw the ball a zillion times and the passing pie is going to expand. I don't know if somebody's going to get traded, somebody's going to get cut, but over time, good players get theirs.
Adam Harstad (00:12:35): This is a simple rule of thumb that bears out over and over again.
Rob Collie (00:12:39): It's so funny. I have such complicated feelings about this feud you're talking about. First of all, I tend to just love it when academics get like really, really, really upset at each other, because it's just so absurd. It's just like next level absurdity and I love some good absurdity. A couple of ivory tower Denisons screaming, insults at each other, but neither one of them dares come down out of the tower. At the same time though, this Gerd fellow, the Gigerenzer, the Renzer, as his friends call him, he seems almost like anti ivory tower. I've been on this whole arc in my life where growing up, I would've been on in my teens and 20s and maybe even into a little bit in my 30s, I would've been on team Kahneman.
Rob Collie (00:13:23): Do other people want to pronounce that Kahneman ever? Because I've heard people talk about Kahneman, I'm just not sure if they're the same.
Adam Harstad (00:13:28): Yeah. I have no idea how it's actually pronounced. So if I'm mispronouncing anybody's name and you happen to hear this, I apologize. I'm doing my best.
Rob Collie (00:13:35): Well, and that's how it is. If you read a lot of things and you're not in the presence of other human beings to discuss these things verbally, pronunciation is actually really, really, really tricky. To be engaged in any intellectual affairs, especially increasingly in the remote world, is to have no idea how these things sound out loud. I have no idea.
Adam Harstad (00:13:56): Yeah. I think to some extent, this tendency to mispronounce complicated words is probably a good sign of intellectual curiosity. It's somebody's reaches exceeding their grasp.
Rob Collie (00:14:07): I've just been around a lot of people in my life who always seemed to know the proper pronunciation because they went to the right schools and all these sorts of things. I always felt like this blue collar hick in their presence when I would say something like, "I will not use that German word schadenfreude or whatever because I have no idea.
Adam Harstad (00:14:23): You got it right, that was right on.
Rob Collie (00:14:25): I'm still not going to confidently use it.
Adam Harstad (00:14:26): If it makes you feel better, I think I was 20 when I learned that subtle, I thought there were two different words, subtle and sub-tle. And I thought that they both meant the same thing, until I was 20 and I realized, "Oh yeah, that's the same word."
Rob Collie (00:14:40): I was playing a game of Trivial Pursuit when I was 12 against my parents. The answer that they gave to a question was something clue related, and they go, "Colonel Mustard." And I go, "No you're wrong, it's Colonal Mustard." I was so excited that they were wrong.
Adam Harstad (00:15:03): Being wrong is not a big deal, being confidently wrong, that's when things start to get a little bit dicey.
Rob Collie (00:15:07): Yeah. I was like, "In your face." It was brutal. I have another pet theory of mine, which is that assholes ruin everything. On the one hand, I've come around to almost like this post intellectualism. The idea that these formulas and all you do is stand out there at your chalkboard and do a Beautiful Mind things, and you predict what your neighbor is going to eat for dinner tomorrow night. That's a very comforting world view for nerds in particular. We might not grow up with the best social skills, we might not be the most popular, but we're like, "Fools. We know all. We have the formula."
Rob Collie (00:15:48): And it turns out that that mindset runs rampant through tech. And it does not really reliably survive contact with the real world. It turns out that the real world is, if you want to talk about it in terms of math, what you've been hinting at, the real math behind all of this is so complicated that no human being could ever navigate it. If you wanted to have a truly mathematical model, it's beyond what we can do. Turns out that sometimes these simple heuristics absolutely outperform your illusion of certainty, your illusion of control. And so when I have come to this point in my life where I believe these sorts of things, I think I would be pretty firmly on team Gigerenzer in this feud.
Rob Collie (00:16:30): At the same time, I'm aware of the fact that there's were people of multiple different mindsets who would seize on this and take the wrong conclusion from it. "Yeah. See, I told you analytics never worked. It doesn't even make sense to look at the data. Just use your gut." No, that's not right.
Adam Harstad (00:16:48): I hesitate to say I'm really on team Gigerenzer. He's been more useful for me just because he justifies tendencies that I already had. I don't want to do all of that hard work when I can do something simple that gets me to the same place anyway. But I think a lot of the criticisms of him are very fair too. It's been said that he has zero constructive agenda, which is probably true. In that respect, I relate to him because I sit on the sidelines, throwing bombs. Other people do hard work and say, "Oh yeah. But you made this mistake here. And did you consider this?" And I'm not really contributing. I think it's an important role, but also I don't think it's the sort of role that endears you to anybody.
Adam Harstad (00:17:25): I think at some point, he gets a little strident and he overstates his case and he's trying to find things that fit his argument rather than fitting his argument to reality. I enjoy both, and I am grateful for having read and encountered both. I definitely consider and incorporate insight from both. I just think as a practical matter, in terms of how I approach things, I tend to be more of a simple rules of thumb guy, that's more of my wheelhouse.
Rob Collie (00:17:55): Yeah. And I guess even for me, I'm not really on, as you've described it, I'm not really on team Renzer either. It's the other mindset run amok that really bothers me. There's application of good thinking and good models. Clearly, I'm on that team. That's our business. But when it comes to predicting the future in particular, when it comes to predicting macro events of the future, I think that there's an academic tendency of hubris that these things re a lot more foolproof than the actually are. And that's where I think there needs to be someone like Gigerenzer running around calling that complacency. I think it's a useful role.
Adam Harstad (00:18:39): I wonder too how much of that is selection bias though? From my experience in the fantasy football space, there are people who are very, very certain and there are people who are very, very uncertain. And if you are just casually exploring the space, you're much more likely to run into one of the people who are very, very certain because certainty sells. Their reach is bigger. It gives this false impression about how certain the typical person is in that space just because the most certain voices are the loudest. And I wonder if there's not something to that in academia too. The studies that you hear about say, "This definitely exists and it's awesome, and nobody's ever heard of it or thought of it ever before, and this will change how the world works."
Adam Harstad (00:19:22): And the studies that you don't hear about are the ones that come out and say, "This might possibly have an effect, but it's a small effect. But on the margins, it might matter a little bit. And maybe we should be behaving slightly more in this manner just to account for the possibility of it."
Rob Collie (00:19:37): I think it was Fineman, one of the Fineman father, son physicists, I think he explained why he never voted. And he said his two candidates example. You have one candidate for office that says, "This is a very complicated set of problems facing our country. Little sound-bity answers aren't going to do it. We actually have to work on this. We have to think about it. We have to get the right experts working on it in developing approaches for it and choosing and testing between those and all of that."
Rob Collie (00:20:04): And then you got the other candidate that says, "No, I know exactly what we should do. Damn it, we should just do this, this really simple thing that everybody can understand." The public's going to vote for that second candidate every single time when we need the first candidate. He just said, "Nope, I'm out. I'm not playing."
Adam Harstad (00:20:24): I'm actually glad you mentioned that because we were talking about not knowing how to pronounce things. And I have a couple good Fineman anecdotes and I've never actually heard his name said out loud.
Rob Collie (00:20:32): You know what, don't take it from me.
Adam Harstad (00:20:36): If we're mispronouncing it, we mispronounce it the same way.
Rob Collie (00:20:39): It might be Fineman. I forget how it's spelled, to be perfectly honest, which is why... I might be adding a syllable in there just to do it. It might be just Fineman.
Adam Harstad (00:20:47): Well, I come from the hobby that gave us Brett Favre, spelled F-A-V-R-E, but pronounced F-A-R-V. But he had another one of mine. He tells a story about how his dad taught him early on the difference between knowing something and knowing the name of something. That's actually one of Gigerenzer's critiques of the heuristics and biases program. So there's this cognitive bias called loss aversion that says, "If you have something and you lose it, that'll hurt twice as much as if you don't have it and you gain it that feels good." Losses hurt twice as much as gains.
Adam Harstad (00:21:20): And it's one of the most robust and replicable findings in the field that there's certain situations where it can go away and there's some discussion about what it be causes it and what mitigates it and what the underlying mechanism is but that gets lost because they found this effect and they slapped the name loss aversion on it. And now people think they know it, but really, they just know the name that was given to it. You could call it whatever, you could call it extra feel bad losing this. You don't understand it, you've just observed an effect and given it a name, and that's different than having a model for why, why is it doing that? What purpose did this serve? What purpose does it not serve?
Adam Harstad (00:21:59): That's one of the criticisms, is that there's a tendency to find a bias, name a bias, move on. Pretty soon, you wind up with a theory that explain everything and predicts nothing.
Rob Collie (00:22:09): Yeah. This is rampant in the medical community. There's so many things running around that's just names. There's not even any attempt. Like chronic fatigue syndrome. "Oh yeah. It's basically like this lump dismissal of all those people that are always, always, always tired, always low energy. Something's clearly wrong with them, and we don't know what it is. But by slapping a name on it, chronic fatigue syndrome, now we can stop paying attention to it." And that's exactly how that was treated, and basically still to a large degree is. And there's so many things like this.
Rob Collie (00:22:40): Like when we're in the course of trying to get something diagnosed for one of us or for one of our kids or whatever, and there's this moment where you start to smell it. You're like, "Oh, this diagnosis is one of those things where they gave a name to the thing they don't understand," as opposed to, "No, we actually found the cause." There are some diagnoses that are actually very mechanically specific, we understand what's going on here. There's a whole host of them that aren't.
Adam Harstad (00:23:01): Right. I think the field knows it. And there'll be some cases where they'll say, "This diagnosis means this." It could be one of like three possible causes, and depending on the possible cause, you treat it differently. But yeah, that's basically all the DSM is, "These are names that we attach to symptoms and here are some things that might work or might not depending on what the cause is, but we don't know the cause just here are some names that we attach to symptoms."
Rob Collie (00:23:24): The sinister part of it though is that, like you were saying earlier, being given something is sometimes an excuse to be lazy. These terms, they do tend to be a little bit of a dead end in the mystery. I've encountered two very, very, very, very different flavors of medical professionals in my life. There are the ones who are curious and the ones who are just there to apply the flow chart. Heaven help you if you're in the flow chart person's office and you fall off the flow chart. At that moment, they basically kind of make it your fault. I could really go off on some of these biases in the medical community. You really want your doctors to be intellectually curious, and a large percentage or not.
Adam Harstad (00:24:09): I'd push back on, even limiting that to the medical community. I think if you look at every profession, there are probably some professions that lend themselves more to diagnosis by flow chart. I'd imagine plumber probably does better with flow charts because it's a very simple mechanical system whose causes and effects are very well understood. But fantasy football, there's a lot of flowchart thinking versus curiosity. And I think anything where uncertainty exists, where there's this fog of uncertainty around the edges, you're going to see that same dichotomy between the flowchart approach versus the detective Sherlock Holmes type approach.
Rob Collie (00:24:44): Well, I'm going to push back a little bit on your pushback.
Adam Harstad (00:24:46): Please do.
Rob Collie (00:24:47): Not in a binary sense. I would say that on average, the average plumber I've encountered is a little bit more intellectually curious and willing to go off the edges of the flow chart than the average physician. And this is particularly funny when you consider the reputation that doctors very much want to have as being the smart ones. Relative to the expectations and the image that's projected, I think the medical industry might be the champion in this space. But again, you've got to consider the context and that's the thing that's particularly frustrating, especially when the stakes are that high, as something like your health. To me, it's probably the most egregious industry for this.
Adam Harstad (00:25:25): It's definitely one, I think, where stakes are the highest. I think one of my big core beliefs is that people are people. You compare populations like Germans versus Americans, doctors versus plumbers. I think a lot of times, we like to categorize that, we talk about bugs in our faulty operating system. And one of these bugs is this burning desire to categorize that everything, and especially to affiliate ourselves with one group or another group. But I think at the end of the day, people are people. What's the famous old article about something like, who'd go Nazi?
Adam Harstad (00:25:57): Where a writer was talking about, I'll go to cocktail parties and I'll think like if The Third Reich happened here, which of these people would go Nazi and which of these people will wouldn't. They're comparing like the same tendencies and thought. We in America think we're better because we did not go Nazi, but that's really because we weren't in that situation. I think if you put a group of people in a similar context, you're going to get similar results. In that respect, again, most of my pushback is just that I always feel uncomfortable isolating tendencies or habits to a certain subgroup when I really think that most of these flaws, most of these conditions are really endemic just to humanity and to the human condition.
Rob Collie (00:26:38): You said people are people and I'm like, "Ah, damn it. I'm going to have that Depeche Mode song in my head the rest of the day. And I'm trying to flush it out, trying to flush it out. And then you came back to it and said it again, and now I'm done. Why is it, Adam, that you and I should get along so awfully?
Adam Harstad (00:26:52): I don't know. I think the real question to hear is, why doesn't everybody get along awfully with me?
Rob Collie (00:26:58): Oh, come on. I find you very pleasant. You don't agree ever a single thing that I ever say, but I know that now and I had you back anyway.
Adam Harstad (00:27:08): It's like I said, I'm a bomb thrower, I have zero constructive agenda. I'm willing to own that. I don't know why anybody really gets along with me, but apparently people do.
Rob Collie (00:27:19): I find you very thoughtful at the same time. Non-thoughtful bomb throwers, not a lot of use for them around my campfire. Gigerenzer serves a purpose.
Adam Harstad (00:27:31): If that was not a verb, we could make that a verb. To gigerenze is to stand on the sideline throwing bombs.
Rob Collie (00:27:37): See, I actually think Gigerenzer has a constructive purpose. I just think that for whatever reason, his personality prevents him from leaning into it.
Adam Harstad (00:27:45): Anything can be useful. Even people without a constructive purpose can still be used to construct events, it's just what you choose to do with what's handed to you.
Rob Collie (00:27:54): He checks runaway complacency, he checks runaway hubris. I think that's a very, very valuable thing, especially in academics, because a lot of times as an academic, you spend all of your time in that bubble, isolated from the actual reality. Even leaving Microsoft and going out into the real world felt like leaving the eco dome to me. I couldn't believe what it was actually like out there. We sat around all the time and talked back at Microsoft about how the world out there works, how we should build software. Now, things have changed at Microsoft.
Rob Collie (00:28:32): Microsoft's increasingly, their software is instrumented, so they know exactly how it's being used at all times. But back then, we didn't have that benefit. So we had to build software. We had to tell the world the way it was going to operate. It was just so silly for a bunch of people in their mid-20s who'd never even smelled the real world. I got out into the wild out here, and I was like, "Whoa, I can't believe it." For example, Adam, this will be a really interesting thing for you. Back at Microsoft, I often had lots to do with data import functionality into various apps. So you're going to import some data from a different source into Excel, for instance.
Rob Collie (00:29:10): Well, a really simple question. What order should you put that menu in? There's different kinds of data sources, there's databases, for instance, there's web pages, and then there's like XML files, but then there's also text files, like CSV files, comma separated value files, tab delimited files, and things like that. Well, we always put databases first because those were the best. Those were the best, most robust, most real data sources. Those are the professional data sources. So of course those go first. And the least professional data sources, the text files, would always go last.
Rob Collie (00:29:48): Now, this error has been since corrected, but I get out into the real world and I see no, one's got a database that they're allowed access to, it's all text files, it's all exports. Everyone's exporting, exporting, exporting, exporting from all of these various systems and then dumping that data into their spreadsheets. And I was just sitting just laughing so hard. A decade of having this exactly wrong in the sequence. Nothing crystallizes the experience of inside the dome versus outside the dome quite it like that. It's like any environment.
Rob Collie (00:30:23): When you're in academics and you have the academic incentives pushing on you at all times, the person who goes out there slumming on the street isn't going to get funding. They're not going to get their grants, they're not going to get published. But we need them, we need them out in the streets. We need them getting their hands dirty.
Adam Harstad (00:30:37): I like how you anticipated my pushback there that I was going to say, "Is this an academia problem or is this a human problem?"
Rob Collie (00:30:43): Yeah, I'm getting better. My stead Harstad armor and my reactive armor that moves around. I'm getting there.
Adam Harstad (00:30:51): Yeah. I'll say, until this year, 100% of what we did was all just CSVs. Because it's the one thing everybody has. Everybody's got a different whatever, but no matter what you're using, you can get it in CSV. And now we got a fancy system where we can just copy and paste directly from a spreadsheet and dump it into our back end. Somebody built us a fancy projection uploader, and now we're living large.
Rob Collie (00:31:12): Man, that's awesome. I want to see that, just out of curiosity. I've marveled a little bit, and for a long time actually, about the football guy's site and how interconnected everything is. In articles, a player's name is very often hyperlinked, and there's so much structure interplaying between all of these unstructured, paragraphs of texts are fundamentally unstructured. These are things that are not easy to do. You even have a master data problem. How many different ways can you spell D'Onta Foreman's name? At least three. With and without apostrophe. Do you have the apostrophe? Do you have a space instead of an apostrophe or do you just truncate the apostrophe and leave it out?
Rob Collie (00:32:00): Now, somewhere, there needs to be a master universe of player IDs so that when someone's talking about D Onta Foreman, you can connect that with D'Onta Foreman, the different spellings. And even in my efforts, back when I was really heavy into all of this in the early 2000s, just consolidating all the information I was getting from various sources and aligning like player names, or hell, even just aligning team names-
Adam Harstad (00:32:28): Yeah. Or the abbreviation, the team abbreviations.
Rob Collie (00:32:31): Yeah. This is a problem that in our world is called master data management. Master data management tends to happen within a single enterprise. This system over here has this ID for a customer, but this other system over here has the same customer identified differently. In the football world, it's not within one enterprise, it's on the wild, wild internet.
Adam Harstad (00:32:52): If you're curious, our CMS, it's pretty ancient at this point, our content management system, that's handling a lot of that on the backend. And I think getting that upgrade is one of our priorities. But we have to do a bunch of work rounds. You mentioned D'Onta Foreman. Any player with apostrophes in their name, you have to spell it without apostrophes, and then the CMS will recognize it and put apostrophes in and hyperlink it. But if you put the apostrophes in, CMS won't recognize it because the apostrophes break it.
Rob Collie (00:33:17): Interesting.
Adam Harstad (00:33:18): And then like juniors, Odell Beckham Jr, you just have to put Odell Beckham and then it will append the junior. But if you put the junior yourself, it'll come out as Odell Beckham Jr. Jr.. There's still some clutches there that we're working on bringing up to date.
Rob Collie (00:33:33): That sounds like something that you would exploit. Pretty soon we'll be having the revisiting, the revisiting, the revisiting, the Odell Beckham Jr. Jr..
Adam Harstad (00:33:40): Yeah. I don't know. I was about to say I don't know how to get CMS to append more than one junior at a time. It might be something to look into.
Rob Collie (00:33:47): SQL injection something. You'll figure it out. I think that's been, you mentioned it as being ancient, but that problem was, another way to say it is ahead of the curve. There was a solution in place for Footballguys for a very difficult problem a long time ago, and it showed. A data professional, I was always impressed with that.
Adam Harstad (00:34:06): Well, I think you'll understand too. When I say that a lot of it is organizational philosophy. At Footballguys, and it's one of the reasons I really enjoy being at Footballguys, is everything we do always has a clear vision, we're trying to make the customers' life easier, are trying to help the customer. Which seems like a pretty basic thing, but a lot of businesses, especially fantasy businesses, start out in their purposes to show how smart they are. You'll write long articles, making low percentage calls, and then you can point back to them later and be like, "Look, I called this one. Nobody else was calling it."
Adam Harstad (00:34:37): And it's about managing your own brand creating a name for yourself. Whereas Footballguys from the beginning has always been a very low ego company. It's about, "Is this going to help the customer? Is this not going to help the customer?" And so we'll do some things that are not really industry standard, we project kick and punt returners, which I think something like one or 2% of fantasy leagues actually use those projections, but for the leagues that use it, this is a very big value add, but there's other standard article types like the Sky's going to smash projections or in DFS daily fantasy sports.
Adam Harstad (00:35:12): When that first came out, there were a lot of sites that are saying like, "We guarantee you, you're going to get a positive return or your money back." And we had a lot of conversations about, "We can't guarantee a positive return." Clearly they're hoping that they'll get more people get a positive return and not ask for a refund than get a negative return and ask for a refund. That's clearly the calculus there, but we had a lot of philosophical discussions about what happens if we're operating in a world where everybody was following it, our advice? It would be impossible for us to guarantee a positive return. I've worked for various organizations throughout my life and I'm sure you have as well and you know the difference between a really functional culture and ethos versus just a toxic or maybe not even toxic, but just not pointed in the right direction.
Rob Collie (00:35:57): Even at Microsoft, I worked on so many different teams, that you might as well consider them different companies. There was some background similarity, of course, but there were some functional teams and there were some dysfunctional ones. You learn the difference.
Adam Harstad (00:36:11): I've said that I think this is the first job I've ever had where I've never once gotten the impression that my boss wishes I was just a little bit more of a sociopath. And every other time I'll say something like, "Oh, hey, my kid's in a play, I want to go see it." And they'll be like, "Oh yeah, sure. Of course, family comes first, but you really need to see it. Do you really want to see it, because you could stay here and work?" And I never get that impression there, it's always like, "Absolutely family comes first, no qualifiers. I don't wish you loved your family less and loved your work more."
Rob Collie (00:36:42): That's great. One of the things that our company is that I've felt a lot of pressure over the years. Some of it direct, but I think most of it just unconsciously like this devil sitting on my shoulder that says, "You really can't run a business and be humane. You're so naive, Rob." But we've leaned into it and said, "Okay, we're going to remain humane, we're going to be good people, we're going to do good human things." I'll get on all hands meetings and say, "Look, there's two standards that I try to hold myself to, it's be a good human and a good CEO." You have to do both and it's hard. It's hard to do both at the same time sometimes.
Rob Collie (00:37:21): But what I've discovered is that it's not as hard as everyone would want you to believe, it's this paper wall that they painted to look like concrete, "You can't go through that wall, you just scratch it." It's like, "Really? That was it?" Now, of course, a big part of the problem them in the world, I think is the real power exists at great distance from the problem. Once a company, for instance, is publicly traded, now, it's just pure chasing return, your company as a security is only returning 10% annually, and this other one over here is returning 15% annually, what are you going to do about it?
Rob Collie (00:37:59): And the CEO or whoever that pushes back and says, "No, we have a really good thing going here. We're doing really good things for the world and for our people," well, they get replaced because the shareholders are in charge. They don't want to hear about Adam Harstad's kids play. Being privately held, I think is a big, big, big part of being able to still do both. We've proven to be very successful. I think we still pretty clearly have a no sociopath rule.
Adam Harstad (00:38:28): It's good. I have nothing against sociopaths. Sociopaths are people too, but-
Rob Collie (00:38:32): People are people.
Adam Harstad (00:38:33): Right. I don't want to give non-sociopaths the impression that I wish that they were sociopaths.
Rob Collie (00:38:40): Let's not engage in absolutely base discrimination against sociopaths. They have feelings. Wait.
Adam Harstad (00:38:48): Since this is the cognitive bias episode, supposedly. I think a lot of this goes down to hyperbolic discounting, which is basically the idea that we wait short term gains more than we wait long term gains. The closer something is to us, the more we wait it. And to some extent, the time discount is rational. I would rather have $100 today than $100 a year from now because I can take that money and invest it and there's expect deposit returns.
Adam Harstad (00:39:16): But when you use a hyperbolic discounting system, it's characterized by things like preference reversals, where you'd make a trade today, and two days from now, you'd make the opposite side of that trade. It's not consistent over time. I get how hard it is to be ethical and to invest in the long term because you always see like, hey, there's these short term gains to be had, "Hey, if I overwork my team here, I'll get this extra productivity for the next two weeks." And you don't really look at, "Well, but then I'm going to lose productivity the two weeks after that as they recover from the burnout and as I give them a time to rest, or maybe I don't give them a time to rest and now I've got higher employee turnover and I've got to replace that."
Adam Harstad (00:39:56): All you see are those short term gains staring you in the face and everything else is future use problem.
Rob Collie (00:40:02): Yeah. And there's not a lot of thinking about future.
Adam Harstad (00:40:04): You screw that guy.
Rob Collie (00:40:06): Yeah. I seriously, Have you seen the Calvin and Hobbs homework time travel strip?
Adam Harstad (00:40:11): Mm-mm (negative).
Rob Collie (00:40:12): It seems like they're up your alley. They're sitting around, Calvin has to do his homework and he's really pissed off about it, so he goes, "Oh you know what, it's six o'clock right now, eight o'clock me is going to have the homework done. So let's just travel to eight o'clock and get the homework and come back." Right you are. So they build the time machine, they go to eight o'clock Calvin, and eight o'clock Calvin is sitting like, "I don't have the homework." He's like, "I'm supposed to already be done. Seven o'clock Calvin was supposed to do the homework.
Rob Collie (00:40:43): So they both agree at that moment that seven o'clock Calvin is the real villain, and they jump in the time machine to go get seven o'clock Calvin. Awareness of these things isn't some panacea that solves them. I agree with that. But a lot of these things are by significant degrees retrainable. Really simple example, we talk about being good to your future self-in our training. In our training programs when we're instructing people on how to use Power BI, make this a very, very, very explicit theme, is that the original tool for analyzing this, for analyzing data just like standard spreadsheets and stuff, they're not 100% responsible for this, but they are fertile ground for you to learn the habit of neglecting future you.
Rob Collie (00:41:29): And there are things in Power BI that might take an extra minute or two to set up than they would in a normal spreadsheet. And yet, from that point forward, the next time you need to do that thing, it's instantaneous payoff. You don't need to do any work whatsoever. You can retrain yourself to be a bit better to your future self as soon as you start to think of your future self as a construct, you just introduce that player into your mind space, into your game. I have seen it, I can change my own behavior in the present by going, "Oh, future me is going to be really pissed off." Eight O' Calvin is not going to understand the actions of six o'clock Calvin.
Adam Harstad (00:42:12): Yeah. And I think, again, this is where I hesitate to call myself purely a Gigerenzer, because I think knowing these biases is useful, even if you can't stop yourself from having them, even if you can't even make yourself aware that you have them, you can build systems, you can build basically safety nets that automate a lot of behavior where this bias would normally kick in. And basically, just take the decision away from yourself too. Was it Odysseus who was going to sail past the sirens and he knew that everybody who heard the sirens cast himself into the sea?
Adam Harstad (00:42:45): So he had his crew chain him to the mast so then they're sailing past the sirens, trying to cast himself in the sea, he can't because he's chained to the mast. And I think having that knowledge that anybody who hears the sirens cast himself into the sea is useful only if you're going to take that extra step and create that system that takes the decision, takes the agency away from you in situations where that's going to be a problem.
Rob Collie (00:43:08): On our previous conversations, did I mention to you the Charlie Munger essay?
Adam Harstad (00:43:13): You might have.
Rob Collie (00:43:14): I think this would be an interesting one. You know how you send me links and I don't read them? It's time to reverse that, I'll send you a link and then you cannot read it. But I think actually you might, I don't know, I give you a lot of credit. You have a higher chance of reading the thing I send you.
Adam Harstad (00:43:28): Always follow the links. The fun stuff always happens in the links.
Rob Collie (00:43:31): Really?
Adam Harstad (00:43:32): Life hack, always follow the links.
Rob Collie (00:43:34): What if I attach a PDF instead of sending you a link?
Adam Harstad (00:43:38): That's fine.
Rob Collie (00:43:38): Okay. That'll work? So Charlie Munger is Warren Buffett's right hand man. He had this, I think it was originally like a college graduation speech or something, but it's an essay now. So it's about these sorts of biases and things like that. He's using it, for him, this isn't without agenda. He lives by these principles and by awareness of them and he uses it in his business all the time. And so this is a very actionable essay, even just the very, very, very first of these categories of misjudgment that he identify. It'd be pretty interesting, I think, to see if his categories, one to one align to things in these other guys work, Kahneman, or Kahneman or whatever, if basically Munger is rediscovering in parallel the same things or-
Adam Harstad (00:44:32): He might not be rediscovering. I know the investment community is a big fan of the work of the behavioral economist, and they were one of the first communities to really embrace that probably because there were huge sums of money on the line for being right.
Rob Collie (00:44:46): Rediscovering or parroting, whatever. I eagerly await your review of this.
Adam Harstad (00:44:51): Sure. Fire away.
Rob Collie (00:44:52): The very first one in this essay has had a lot to do with how we've constructed our company and it's just like this overwhelming power of incentives. He has a great way of saying, he is like, "I've always been like in the 90 plus percentile of my age cohort at all points in my life, in believing in the power of incentives. And yet, every year I discover something that shows me that even I wasn't in enough on my own thing, the thing that I believed the most." There's something I think that comes back to what you were saying earlier, was it the hyperbolic?
Adam Harstad (00:45:25): Hyperbolic discounting. Hyperbolic discounting.
Rob Collie (00:45:28): Even if you are the most calculating Machiavellian person in the world, if you take a long enough timeline, I think you end up coming back around to things that in certain lights might seem altruistic because what's really good for you long term, is that everyone around you is also happy. We did something that consulting firms don't usually do, we implemented very, very, very aggressive and valuable incentive plans for all of our consulting team in addition to the base salary. It's been phenomenal. There are certain adjustments we've made to that incentive program, like the way the formula is calculated, it's not subjective, it's 100% mathematical.
Rob Collie (00:46:11): There's no human jet in how much the bonus check is each month. We made changes to that formula that have increased revenue that year, but we can look at it, we can look at the two different trajectories and go, "Yep. That was like a 30% difference in revenue. Just that one little tweak to the incentive program." I don't even remember all those other, I tend to digest nonfiction, I read like the first thing and go, "Okay, I'm going to go off and act on that." But even he and his essay emphasizes this as important as the rest of them combined.
Rob Collie (00:46:42): Offline I'll send you this essay. We'll also link it, Luke. I'm sure we've linked it before on the podcast because it's one of my favorite things that I've read one 10th of, but it's pretty cool.
Adam Harstad (00:46:51): I was about to say, better to read a 10th and understand it than read the whole thing and not.
Rob Collie (00:46:56): Yeah, I completely agree. That's also part of our trainings too, is there's this line we draw in the training and say, "Look, everything above this line, up until this certain point in the training, we really, really, really need you to understand all of that really well. Everything after this, we don't want you to be scoring yourself because you'll tend to remember the things you didn't understand at disproportionate weight to the things that you did. Here's the line at which we really want you to hold yourself and ask us questions and hold yourself to a solid understanding. The rest of this, everyone's mileage is going to vary in terms of how much they understand in their first exposure to it, but that's okay."
Rob Collie (00:47:32): Again, all these things learned from experience over the years, training people and talking to them later about how they felt about it and stuff. You learn, you adjust.
Adam Harstad (00:47:41): Or you don't and you perish.
Rob Collie (00:47:42): Yeah, we haven't done that yet. We've come close once, long time ago, and we learned a lot and changed a lot.
Adam Harstad (00:47:50): There's this philosophy that people will look to successful companies and they'll try to draw lessons from those successful companies. They'll say, "Oh, Amazon does this. Amazon's worth billions of dollars. Let's do that because Amazon does it." And they're trying to learn lessons from companies that did not fail, which makes some plausible intuitive sense. If you don't want to fail, do what companies that didn't fail. But in reality, all you can say about Amazon is they didn't discover the thing that will definitely kill your company, so maybe let's look at some companies that did fail because they did discover that thing. Let's see what they did and let's make extra sure not to do that.
Adam Harstad (00:48:27): And that's survivorship bias. The famous example is there were fighter planes in World War II and they were coming back and the general said like, "Oh, we can put a little bit extra armor on these fighter planes, but only a little bit, because otherwise they're too heavy and they won't fly right. So we're going to look at the planes that come back and we're going to look at where all the bullet holes are and we're going to put that extra armor right there." And a mathematician called Abraham Wald said, "No, this is a terrible idea. Put the armor where the bullet holes aren't because if a plane comes back and it's got bullet holes, a bunch of bullet holes on the wing, all you know is that a plane can survive being shot in the wing a bunch of times."
Adam Harstad (00:49:02): "If a plane comes back and there's no bullet holes in the fuselage, this doesn't tell you that my planes are never getting hit in the fuselage, it tells you that the planes that are getting hit in the fuselage are aren't coming back."
Rob Collie (00:49:12): Finally. Finally, Adam, I have you. These were not fighters, these were bombers.
Adam Harstad (00:49:17): Bombers? Okay.
Rob Collie (00:49:18): Yes. There we go. All right. Podcast adjourn forever. We're going to end on a high note. I know why this is fresh in your mind because there's a tweet recently that Twitter had the foresight to tell me that you would like to tweet, and it's a picture of exactly it's the bomber with the red dots all over it in certain areas. When you see that picture of where all the bullet holes are, the planes have come back with bullet holes here, if you just look at that diagram, it's like, "Oh my gosh, you know what, they never ever, ever hit the cockpit. And they never hit the engines. It's crazy. Can you believe that they never hit the cockpit or the engines?"
Adam Harstad (00:50:03): Have you ever seen, I don't know if this is way out of left field, there's an old cult sci-fi movie called Cube and the basic idea is a bunch of people get dropped into this giant cube. It's made up a bunch of different rooms, it's like Rubik cube, but it's like 27 by 27. And some of the rooms are completely safe and some of the rooms are just absolute death traps. You step in the room and all of a sudden like the floor turns into lava or the air gets filled with poisonous gas. And I did a whole fantasy football article about that. It was Canadian, it's a cheesy Canadian sci-fi movie.
Adam Harstad (00:50:37): And the idea is like, if you're going to go into the cube and you have this time to prepare, maybe you want to stand at the exit and interview people as they come out and be like, "What were the worst rooms you saw?" And you can gather all this data and you fill up your notebook and then you go into the cube and you have a choice between two rooms. And one of the rooms is like, everybody comes back, says, "Man, this room is a total hellscape, we barely got out with our lives." And the other room you look and there's no data in your book about it. You're like, oh, "Hey, yeah, I don't have anything about this room."
Adam Harstad (00:51:03): Go into the first room, go into the hellscape, because all that means is that the people who went into that room never came out and told you about it.
Rob Collie (00:51:11): Counterintuitive. But again, I'd heard that story about the bombers in World War II so many times, but I'd never seen the diagram.
Adam Harstad (00:51:20): Oh, it's stark. I'm surprised it took a mathematician to point it out, because it's one of those things where once you see it, you can't unsee it, but also it hard to think about before I knew about this, I probably would've reached that same conclusion because people are people.
Rob Collie (00:51:32): Yeah. It's the power of visualization. You've got all these different planes, all these different places with holes in them, but until you superimpose all of them on one plane, it doesn't just leap out at you like, "Look at the vulnerable spots. The engines, the cockpit, of course, it's not chance that there's no holes there."
Adam Harstad (00:51:52): The lesson is, don't take marriage advice from people who are happily married, get marriage advice from people who are miserable in their marriage or whose marriages have failed. Don't get business advice from successful companies, get business advice from companies that went under and say, "Hey, what killed your company? Let's not do that." Take parenting advice from terrible parents not from good parents. It's the old Anna Karenina principle that every happy family is alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Rob Collie (00:52:19): This is one of my favorites as well, the only way to be happy is to avoid all of the myriad possible failures. And so that means if you avoided them all, that means that you're just like all the other happy families, you have a lot in common. But everyone else has this unique set, this unique combination of the things they didn't avoid. I feel bad doing this because we're just switching roles here, but obviously we're overstating this, failed companies are often failed because the leader had no self-awareness.
Adam Harstad (00:52:48): They need some level of introspection.
Rob Collie (00:52:50): And they wouldn't be able to tell you anything interesting, but they'll more than likely tell you it wasn't their fault.
Adam Harstad (00:52:55): You don't necessarily have to listen to them, but if you get like a forensic anthropologist who's studying the ruins of their culture, they can probably figure out what went wrong.
Rob Collie (00:53:06): I think I'd want to go look for the companies that almost failed and then didn't, that might be my favorite group to talk to. Those are hard to identify because most companies that almost fail don't like to talk about it. Let's do just a little bit of football talk.
Adam Harstad (00:53:21): Sure.
Rob Collie (00:53:21): And talk about my own biases and everything. I have what passes for a heuristic, which is, we don't know anything. What happens in an NFL season is fundamentally unknowable. Position yourself to take advantage of that fluctuation, swing for the fences and keep swinging. And I had so many opportunities this year to draft Cooper Kupp, and I knew things were changing. It should have been right in my heuristic wheelhouse, new quarterback, new capabilities could be an outlier situation. Take the Rams, take the Rams receivers. No, boring, says my priors. Boring, boring, boring Robert Woods and Cooper Kupp.
Rob Collie (00:54:04): Those aren't world beaters, those are the singles in the baseball metaphor. They've always been singles, they're dependable, but I don't like the dependable singles. That's not how I construct my teams at all. Boomer bust. At this point, if we redrafted, there'd be people very, very rationally taking Cooper Kupp number one overall, which is just absolutely jaw dropping. It's like one of the best examples of we know nothing that I can come up with. And I didn't take him, not once.
Adam Harstad (00:54:35): I'm in a unique place in the industry. I'm the only guy I know of who's doing this, although it's possible that other people are doing it and not advertising the fact, especially in DFS, where I think a lot of people try to keep their edge as a secret. But for Footballguys, I do a lot of work on player upside, because it's basically that idea that you're talking about, that the singles aren't really getting you that much closer to the win. If you're not first, you're last right, unless you're in a league that has graduated payout structures. But for the most part, everybody who's not first place, lost.
Adam Harstad (00:55:05): So you want to take risks that have that disproportionate payout. And one of the things I consistently find is that in terms of upside, we really don't know who has asymmetric upside. Basically upside is a function of expectations. The higher we are on a player, the higher their upside is. And there are guys who we aren't as high and who have that disproportionate upside, and it's tempting to think that we can identify who they are in advance. You thought that, "Oh, Cooper Kupp clearly is not the guy with this upside." But we really can't.
Adam Harstad (00:55:37): In terms of asymmetric upside, there are some indicators, having a high yards per touch average, yards per catcher, yards per carry, does tend to indicate a little bit more upside and weekly variance. Let me distinguish upside from variance. A lot of people say upside and what they mean is asymmetric upside, which means there's a higher ceiling, but there's not a lower floor. And when I talk about it, I try to be very careful to distinguish that really what I'm talking about is variance, that the guys who have a higher ceiling also have a lower floor and I'm very skeptical of claims to identify asymmetric upside.
Adam Harstad (00:56:10): But even this symmetric upside, this variance, Cooper Kupp didn't really hit on any of them, he wasn't especially touchdown dependent before now. He doesn't have an especially high yards per reception average, he doesn't operate in an area of the field that tends to lend itself to disproportionate fantasy scoring. And people like you said, they don't really respect the amount of variance that there is just naturally that everybody has. Who has league winning upside? Everybody has league winning upside. We can try and distinguish this guy might have a tiny bit better chance of hitting that than this guy, but the variance is way larger than anybody wants to expect.
Adam Harstad (00:56:47): One of my rules, I do one redraft league a year, which is where you draft your players every year, and it's against the other people on Footballguys staff. So these are fantasy experts who've been playing for decades and have a lot of experience and they're tested and they're proven, I don't do any of that. I'm team heuristics, I don't do player projections, I don't draft a lot of leagues, I don't have any edge. And so my strategy is always, I draft the guys that they don't like. If normally Cooper Kupp is going in the fifth round of drafts and he falls to me in the sixth round, sure, I'll take Cooper Kupp.
Adam Harstad (00:57:20): I don't love Cooper Kupp, I don't hate Cooper Kupp, I'm just going to take whatever value falls to me. Then it just so happened that Cooper Kupp was one of the guys that fell to me and I'm just demolishing them all in that league. And of course, I trash talk nonstop about like, how does it feel to be beaten by the guy who drafts off of ADP? How much work did you guys put in the off season? This is my only league. My prep work was 30 minutes before the draft kicked off. How is this even possible?
Rob Collie (00:57:46): I have this image of you painted up like William Wallace with your sword. You raised the sword to the sky and you say, "Gigerenzer."
Adam Harstad (00:57:56): Yeah. I talk so much trash. It's funny, I tend to think that I'm relatively unassuming and people might not expect that of me, but fantasy football's supposed to be fun, dude. Why are you doing it?
Rob Collie (00:58:06): Yeah. You need villains.
Adam Harstad (00:58:07): Yeah. I view myself as a hero and everybody else is a villain. Their perspective on that might be different, but I think you need heroes.
Rob Collie (00:58:14): I tend to view myself as a villain, it's fun. You want to take down the villain. We have a guy who's leading our league, our work league, our 14-team work league right now. He's undefeated, I don't think he's ever played before. And oh, he has taken the villain mantle. It was like it was made for him, he was like, "Oh, I put this on, oh, it fits so nice." He's doing really well. It's going to be a real shame when I beat him and knock him out of the playoffs.
Adam Harstad (00:58:38): But see, that's my thing, that's why I view myself as a hero because it makes the league more fun for everyone. If you beat that guy, it's going to be so much more fun because he did all that trash talking. That's all I want. At the end of the year, all I want is a good story. Win, lose, whatever, I just want something that tells me that the time I spent on that was worthwhile, that I got something from that I will take with me going forward. Winning tends to be more fun, but as long as I get a good story, it was a successful year.
Rob Collie (00:59:09): Yeah. I like the story, but I wait the story about equal to winning, it's not like 90/10, it's 50% story and 50% winning. Let's be clear. I still can't tell myself that, "Oh yeah. I'm just one of many in the running here." No, no, no. That's my trophy.
Adam Harstad (00:59:26): You do know that fantasy football is about 50% skill and 50% luck though, right?
Rob Collie (00:59:31): It is.
Adam Harstad (00:59:31): Because when I win that's skill, and when I lose that's the luck. So that's 50/50.
Rob Collie (00:59:35): Oh, I see. I see. It's about 50/50. It's like the chances of a hole in one are 50/50, either it goes in or it doesn't. It is like that.
Adam Harstad (00:59:43): It's true.
Rob Collie (00:59:44): There's a lot of things break down to 50/50. It's the magical heuristic. Uh, whatever, it's 50/50. I don't know, I just thought that the Kupp was probably and Cordarrelle Patterson. Journeyman, not even a single, he hasn't even been a dependable single ever, and now Atlanta's like, "Well, let's try using him. We don't have anybody else."
Adam Harstad (01:00:09): Yeah. I don't fall in love with anybody, I just get whoever falls, and some of my coworkers will joke that I'm basically letting everybody else draft my team, which to some extent is true, I'm drafting the guys that they don't want. But the key thing here is I'm drafting the guys that they don't want at a discount. So basically, I'm letting them give me extra draft picks. I'll trade you my fifth rounder for your sixth rounder. That's what's happening when they let a fifth rounder fall to the sixth.
Rob Collie (01:00:37): Well, so it's a combination of them and consensus, right?
Adam Harstad (01:00:40): I'm going off ADP.
Rob Collie (01:00:42): So you're like wisdom of the crowds against the other 11 people in your league who let those people slide?
Adam Harstad (01:00:50): But I try to do an idealized version of ADP that's the sense of the market at this moment. If I'm in a league in Footballguys staff, quarterbacks always fall further than they do in more casual leagues. So I mentally adjust for that and I say, "Well, ADP says this is a good deal." But knowing the market that I'm actually in, really I would expect him to go later. But I'm basically just letting them give me, they're upgrading my draft picks, they're giving me a third rounder for my fourth round pick. They're giving a fourth rounder for my fifth round pick.
Adam Harstad (01:01:21): And I don't think I am better at them at identifying who's going to hit and who's going to miss, but I think if you give me enough extra draft picks, I can probably beat you.
Rob Collie (01:01:30): Just like Belichick, except he can't draft a receiver apparently. So the way to defeat you or to really handicap you to the greatest degree is to always give you the first pick.
Adam Harstad (01:01:42): Yeah. When I'm drafting at the turn and when I'm in another league, this is one of those strategies that doesn't scale. Obviously, if you're in a league where everybody's following it, then your chances of winning are one in 12. At that point, everything's pure luck. But that's the nice thing about Footballguys League is everybody has an opinion. There's nobody who's on the fence about players, everybody has their list of guys that they like, so that there do tend to be big deviations between expected draft position and actual draft position, which means there's usually a lot of bargains for me to scoop up on the way back.
Rob Collie (01:02:14): Someday all of us that engage in this game, this silly yet very addictive and enjoyable game, maybe we should be picking financial securities instead. Maybe we should bring this same game like, "I don't have any particular opinion about which of these software firms is going to dominate their market, but we're just going to do that one over end thing."
Adam Harstad (01:02:34): Yeah, no, just dump it all on index funds. I say all the time that my approach to fantasy football is basically just, I dump everything into index funds, which-
Rob Collie (01:02:42): That doesn't sound fun.
Adam Harstad (01:02:43): Well, it's fun for me. The expected returns just as good and the fees are lower. You're going to spend 300 hours this off season grinding tape and coming to opinions and I'm going to spend 30 minutes before the draft just downloading the app and checking the player list. And we both have about the same expectation of success.
Rob Collie (01:03:02): Okay. What we really need to do is create some fantasy league where we actually use real money and draft real stocks so that we can draft against each other. We need to be able to use that to harvest a method. We need use the market pricing, the ADP, the index fund against the people in our league who are making specific decisions. So we need to find a way that we can zero-summit like that and take our friends real money. That doesn't sound very good. Let's not do that.
Adam Harstad (01:03:29): Just make it an auction. Let everybody else overpay. That's the key, don't fall in love with anything, just go where the value is.
Rob Collie (01:03:36): Yeah. I agree. And take Cooper Kupp.
Adam Harstad (01:03:40): Yeah. Who I did not love. He was there and it's the five, six turn and I'm looking at it and I'm like, "I guess, Cooper Kupp." But just to show how none of us knows anything, my next pick, after that, I was looking at wide receivers and I'm like, "I want another wide receiver here." And the sharp two guys on my board were Michael Thomas of the Saints and Deebo Samuel of 49ers. And I'm like, "I want a league winner, and I think that Michael Thomas can be a league winner." Deebo Samuel at this point he's a known commodity, there's no asymmetric upside there. And of course, Michael Thomas is not going to play it down this year, and Deebo Samuel is like a top 10 wide receiver.
Rob Collie (01:04:14): Oh, I did have one question for you. A year is just long enough for memory to fade just the right amount, are we having more injuries to key players this year than usual?
Adam Harstad (01:04:25): I don't think so.
Rob Collie (01:04:27): You don't think so? God, it just seems like we are. And I think I say this every year though. We need like an overall variance score for a year.
Adam Harstad (01:04:35): The only year I can think of that was especially bad for injuries was 2015, was a terrible year for running backs, just famously bad. It's sometimes referred to in the industry as the RV apocalypse, just because everybody got hurt, and then a lot of people drew lessons from that. They didn't view that as statistical noise, they viewed that as trend. And for years after that, a lot of people thought, "Oh, investing in running backs a fool's errand, look what happened in 2015." Rather than saying, "Okay, but what happened in 2014? What happened in 2013? What happened in 2012?"
Rob Collie (01:05:11): It helped launch Zero RB.
Adam Harstad (01:05:13): Which has been around for a long time. I have to say, it's started 20, 30 years ago, really. as long as fantasy football's been around and running backs have been as popular, it's been called do the opposite or upside down drafting, but that particular Zero RB article was the right piece in the right place at the right time, and it just captured the imagination and took off.
Rob Collie (01:05:38): Well, next year, I'm switching to ADP contrarianism.
Adam Harstad (01:05:42): Yeah. Draft ADP followers. That's what I call it.
Rob Collie (01:05:44): All right. Well, that's it.
Adam Harstad (01:05:46): I don't know if draft ADP followers is the best fantasy strategy. In fact, if you have 1,000 fantasy football strategies, I think it's very unlikely that this is the number one or the number two or the number three, but it is the strategy that I am most convinced is positive EV. If you drafted a million leagues using this strategy, I would guarantee you, on pain of death, that you would finish the year with a winning record.
Rob Collie (01:06:11): Or your money back.
Adam Harstad (01:06:12): Yeah. I don't give guarantees like that lightly, but it's a mathematical certainty provided two basic assumptions. The first assumption is that players drafted higher are better in expectation than players drafted lower, which seems trivially true. You can go through the effort of proving it, but it's true. And then the second assumption is that players who have higher variants in their ADP are just as good or better than players who have lower variants in their ADP. And that one's a little harder to prove, but I've looked at it enough to feel confident that probably that's the case.
Adam Harstad (01:06:44): And if those two assumptions are true, I could walk through the mathematical proof that draft ADP followers is a plus EV strategy. And it's perfect for lazy people like me who want to do the minimum amount of work possible.
Rob Collie (01:06:56): In your pro-football reference t-shirt. Pretty slick, pretty slick. Any just advice for a new habit that people can acquire and the way that they think about things that would be most impactful?
Adam Harstad (01:07:07): One thing I work on a lot is it's tempting in society, and I think it might be a uniquely American pathology to view everything as a zero-sum competition, that my wins are necessarily somebody else's losses and somebody else's wins are necessarily my losses, that the pie is fixed and we're all fighting for the same pie and we want the biggest piece possible, and that has to come from somewhere else. It's very tempting and easy to see the world that way, when in reality, most of the time, unless you're in a situation like football where the rules are fixed and there's very little uncertainty.
Adam Harstad (01:07:53): Football is definitely a zero-sum game, what's good for one team is bad for another, but in the real world where the possibilities are not so constrained, it's usually not zero sum. Fantasy football, we've been competing for attention, for audience, for market share. One way we could do that is we can trash other sites and we can say, "Oh, we're the best. We're better than these other people, we're going to steal market share from somewhere else." That's a zero-sum approach. And the other way to do that is say, "Hey, fantasy football is really fun, let's show everybody how fun fantasy football is. Let's let that market grow leaps and bounds, rising tide lifts all boats." And that's the non-zero-sum solution.
Adam Harstad (01:08:31): And fantasy football over the last 20 years has experienced massive non-zero-sum growth where everybody's doing better today than they were 20 years ago. And in all areas of my life, I try to look at it through that lens. And sometimes it's conscious effort where it's very tempting to say, "I want to do something that's good for me," and it's going to come at the expense of someone else, where if I often reframe it and say, "I want to do something that's good for someone else." And often this will redouble to my benefit as well. That's not necessarily why I'm doing it, but the pie is not fixed.
Rob Collie (01:09:04): Well, I'm super, super, super tempted to skewer you with your own sword and say, "Well, but Adam, people are people and this isn't just an American thing now, is it?" But I think you're right.
Adam Harstad (01:09:14): Yeah. Well, everybody's a function of their context. And I think the context is uniquely American there.
Rob Collie (01:09:20): So we need to change the Depeche Mode's song, People Are People, but context matters.
Adam Harstad (01:09:25): Context always matters.
Rob Collie (01:09:26): I will be rewriting the lyrics today. I won't sing it because I can't sing, but I'll definitely rewrite the lyrics. Adam, thank you so much. Really appreciate you coming, especially on such short notice. This was a hastily scheduled, urgently scheduled, and I appreciate your flexibility.
Adam Harstad (01:09:40): Well, if there's one thing you should know, it's that I'm not going to prepare either way.
Rob Collie (01:09:44): Well, you've come to the right place. Thanks man. Much appreciated. Have a good one.
Adam Harstad (01:09:49): Awesome.
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Episode: How To Make Good Decisions, with Gerd Gigerenzer
Pub date: 2019-10-28
Risk-taking is essential for innovation, fun, and the courage to face the uncertainties in life.
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Episode: 117. Gut Feelings by Gerd Gigerenzer
Pub date: 2021-09-06
This episode feels almost nostalgic, as it is a return to the theme of the roles and interactions of the conscious and subconscious mind, something which I focused on early in the podcast and came out strongly in my main series on expertise (around episode 20). It also shares some relation to books on the topic of cognitive biases on the one hand, and the complexity of the world on the other.
Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has two main points to make: firstly, that ignorance and cognitive biases often outperform knowledge and "clear thinking"; and secondly, he proposes a way in which gut feelings work.
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On the second point, Gigerenzer proposes that gut feelings are simple rules that cut out most of the information, and they often make use of an algorithm called "take the best". The algorithm works like this: you compare whether the available options in the most important feature, then the next important feature, and so on, until in one of the comparisons one of the options is clearly better, at which point you choose that one. So, for example, if you're choosing a restaurant, maybe you first think about the food, but two places both have good food; then you compare atmosphere, but both atmospheres are good; then you compare price, and find one is considerably cheaper, so you go there.
Overall Gigerenzer's work makes a welcome contribution to thinking about the nature of intuition. Probably the most insightful idea is that gut feelings use simple rules, because that way they can cut out the noise and make decisions easier. Richard Dawkins apparently once claimed that when we catch a ball we must be implicitly solving partial differential equations; Gigerenzer shows that this is probably not what happens.
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Highmark Health CEO David Holmberg joined hosts Laura Evans and AHIP President Matt Eyles to discuss how Omicron is affecting our health care system, what policies will impact our health care system in the upcoming year, the future of telehealth, and more.
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Podcast: Rabbi Yakov Bronsteyn - Parsha Classes (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: 242. Beshalach - Execution of Infidels - Not
Pub date: 2022-01-13
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
searched for something like 2 minutes of torah
We discuss the how one is conduct themselves against enemies during war and with people in general during peace time. This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 1/12/22
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Podcast: The Love Lab Podcast: Sex | Love | Relationship (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Our Trip To The ’Naked City” Of Cap D’Agde And More...
Pub date: 2019-10-03
In this episode, Kevin & Céline describe their visit to the French city of Cap d'Agde known as the "Naked City". You've probably heard stories of the naked city and it's nightlife before, but find out what it's really like.
Kevin & Céline also address a listener question about naturism and how it can help your relationship. Find out 8 benefits of being naked!
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Podcast: From Our Own Correspondent Podcast (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Can India cope with Covid-19?
Pub date: 2020-09-12
India now has the second highest number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the world, having overtaken Brazil. This is placing huge demands on hospitals and ambulances. The medical services, particularly in smaller cities and rural areas, can find it hard to cope, sometimes leading to what relatives think were preventable deaths, as Yogita Limaye reports. Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, is retiring. His politically conservative party will elect his successor on Monday. Mr Abe has taken his observers by surprise more than once. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo looks at the effect of those surprises, and at his legacy. In Poland, some politicians’ hostility to gay rights has become a flash-point in a culture war pitting the religious right against the more liberal-minded. Last month the EU denied funding to six Polish towns which had declared themselves “LGBT ideology-free zones”. Lucy Ash has been to one of them, Tuchow. Wildfires have raged through central and northern Argentina for most of the year. Apart from forests and grasslands, about half a million acres of wetlands next to the mighty Parana river have been lost in the worst fires in over a decade. This has endangered livelihoods and sparked concern among environmentalists, as Natalio Cosoy reports. Cap d'Agde on the French Mediterranean coast is home to the biggest nudist resort in Europe. But with France’s recent surge in coronavirus cases, how have the naturists and also the considerable number of swingers there fared with the restrictions? Chris Bockman went to find out.
Presenter: Kate Adie Producer: Arlene Gregorius
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Podcast: Kitty Marroni (aka K of M)
Episode: K of M 🌳Trees Of Eden #257 🌳 2020 Cap d´Agde France
Pub date: 2020-08-01
K of M returns this week with a new episode from a pool party at the French Riviera, Cap d´Agde. Today she plays tracks from Stan Kolev, Jeremy Olander, Kamilo Sanclemente, Alex O'Rion , Monojoke, Einmusik, Olivier Weiter, Alex Preda.
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Podcast: The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X Podcast (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Dave Grohl, Dom’s Nudist Holidays & Who Are You #270
Pub date: 2021-02-05
Holy smokes! Is it that time of the week already? Time for another Chris Moyles Show on Radio X Podcast! And this week was an absolute belter. First up, rock god and all round legend DAVE GROHL caught up with Chris about the brand new Foo Fighter’s album Medicine At Midnight. He talked us through the new sounds the band has experimented with during lockdown and how he’s been making copious amounts of lasagne. Second up, the team made an amazing discovery this week two. When asked where his favourite holiday destination was - Cap d’Agde - Dom discovered it was also the nudist capital of France! (and possibly the world). We found some amazing reviews of this destination and quizzed Dom all the best spots to visit. Plus, we were in the company of another Who Are You Guest and Pippa’s Weekend Round Up Quiz to keep you entertained. Fun!
And if that wasn’t enough, here’s more…
Popmasters Music Arrangement Game Fart-ic Monkeys
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Podcast: SDC Presents: Seek, Discover, Create with Lexi Sylver (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Naked in Cap d'Agde with Lexi Sylver
Pub date: 2019-09-24
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
beach
Join Lexi Sylver LIVE during SDC's Takeover of Cap d'Agde, the world-renowned Naturist Village in the South of France.
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Podcast: Sharing is Caring (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: S1E8 - Our first visit to Cap d'Agde
Pub date: 2019-05-29
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
beach
Swinging in the south of France
Welcome to Episode 8 of Sharing is Caring the podcast!
We are Kiwi and Cherie, a New Zealand and French couple living in London. This podcast is about our journey into sex positivity and ethical non-monogamy.
In this episode we jump forward in time and talk about our first fisit to le Cap d'Agde!
Main topic Since we are getting in the mood for our Cap d'Agde visit in August, we discuss our first visit to Cap d'Agde.
Le Cap d’Agde is literally translated as the cape of Agde and it is one of the largest leisure ports on the French Mediterranean. When most people talk about Cap d’Agde they talk about the naturist village, which is a self contained complex which is fenced off from the rest of the town, you need to pay to get in. In the naturist village there are hotels, shops, supermarkets, restaurants, night clubs, bars, post office, bank and ATMs, launderettes, hairdressers and other facilities. Looking on the official website, in all there are about 180 businesses in the village and the population grows up to 50,000 over peak season.
Listener Question We answer a question about how to decide which swingers club to choose.
Feel free to get in touch or to submit a listener question for future episodes.
Contact us: * Twitter: @KiwiAndCherie * e-mail: kiwi.and.cherie@gmail.com * web: www.sharingiscaringpodcast.com
Music: * Intro/outro: "Once have I" by Boogie Belgique, Licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
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Podcast: BACK STORY with DANA LEWIS (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: CONFRONTING AMERICAN RADICALIZATION
Pub date: 2021-01-19
How do we confront radicalization in the internet, and then on the street?
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Podcast: Naked Humanity (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 21: Extremism in the Modern World with Arie Kruglanski
Pub date: 2019-03-18
Arie Kruglanski was born in Nazi Poland is today one of the world’s leading experts on the psychology of extremism, terrorism, and close-mindedness. In this episode he chats with Stefani about how badly humans tend to need certain kinds of certainty and significance. Without them we (usually) become close-minded, easily persuaded by demagogues and the crowd, and begin to hate those who oppose us. These problems are especially important for the modern world. Listen in to get a keen understanding of how and why our world has become as tense as it has.
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Podcast: Behavioral Grooves Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Andy Luttrell: Pro’s and Con’s of Persuasion When Issues are Moralized
Pub date: 2020-10-05
Andy Luttrell, PhD is an assistant professor of psychological science at Ball State University and the podcaster/host of Opinion Science, one of Kurt and Tim’s favorites.
Andy’s research centers on people’s opinions, including when and how attitudes change. More importantly, Andy is curious about what happens when people moralize their attitudes and how moral arguments can sometimes be compelling and sometimes backfire. Our conversation focused on these areas and we loved the research Andy presented.
We were particularly interested in hearing about how people who based their positions on careful analysis tend to be the ones who open enough to be persuaded with the right argument.
So our willingness to be open to a fresh idea is in part based on how strong or weak the arguments were in coming to our own conclusions. We found the research fascinating that indicates that people with weak arguments are harder to persuade to new ideas. That was a head-scratcher.
Our discussion also covered some thoughtful positions on the so-called Replication Crisis and Andy’s first-hand experience with replication – and non-replication – was insightful.
We also want to remind you that Andy’s podcast, Opinion Science, is one of our favorite podcasts – period. We highly recommend it.
© 2020 Behavioral Grooves
Links Andy Luttrell, PhD: http://www.andyluttrell.com/
Opinion Science Podcast: http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/episodes/
Richard Petty, PhD: https://psychology.osu.edu/people/petty.1
Arie W. Kruglanski, PhD: Need for Closure: https://psyc.umd.edu/facultyprofile/kruglanski/arie
PSA (Public Service Announcement): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_service_announcement
Matt Feinberg and Rob Willer on Moral Reframing: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337861541_Moral_reframing_A_technique_for_effective_and_persuasive_communication_across_political_divides
Moral Foundations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_foundations_theory
Registered Report Experiments: https://www.cos.io/initiatives/registered-reports
RadioLab: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab
99% Invisible: https://99percentinvisible.org/
Petty, DeMarree, Brinol, Xia, “Documenting individual differences in the propensity to hold attitudes with certainty”: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-45471-001
Musical Links Weird Al Yankovic: https://www.weirdal.com/
Blue Man Group: https://www.blueman.com/
“Robots” Movie Sound Track: https://music.apple.com/us/album/robots-the-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/723430411
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Podcast: The Middle Way Society (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Interview 125: Arie Kruglanski on Close-mindedness and the Middle Way
Pub date: 2017-08-28
Our guest t0day is Arie Kruglanski. a Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland College Park, and has been at the forefront of research into closed-mindedness-or, the "need for closure"— in particular its relationship to fundamentalist belief systems and violent extremism. He is is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and has edited a variety of prominent journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition. During his long career he has received numerous awards, including the Donald Campbell Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology. His work in the domains of human judgment and belief formation has been disseminated in over 300 articles. He’s the author of six books including the psychology of close-mindedness and the psychology of terrorism and the themes explored in these books will be the topic of our discussion today
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Podcast: Cloud Giants (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Jeff Lawson, co-founder and CEO of Twilio
Pub date: 2020-03-30
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
finding out more about Twilio
Jeff Lawson is the co-founder and CEO of Twilio, founded in 2008. Twilio allows software developers to programmatically make and receive phone calls, send and receive text messages. As a customer, anytime you call or text your Uber driver, you are using Twilio! Today Byron will talk with Jeff about his career leading up to founding Twilio, how they built the company and the challenges along the way to their IPO.
Insights and key takeaways from Jeff Lawson * Internet connection can be the source of invention and inspiration in college: “I arrived at school in 1995. And so, many people arrived at college and the thing they were most excited about was alcohol or other girls or boys or whoever it was, and the freedom of leaving home. And for me, I arrived in the dorm and I was like, “Oh my God, there’s a 10 megabit ethernet jack in this,” remembered Jeff. “That was the thing that was most exciting to me. That was the most life-changing part about going to college. Not the alcohol or the parties or anything. And it was ‘95, so it was right after the Netscape IPO, and I remember one of the first things I did after I said goodbye to my parents was I FTPed down a copy of Netscape Navigator 1.0, and suddenly was able to start browsing this brand new thing called the web.” * When Jeff was working on a startup he realized the importance of following your passion: “Why am I grinding out code with these skate kids all around me breaking my flow, when really I belong in tech?” asked Jeff. “I realized I had made that same mistake again, of not following my passion. I was pouring all my blood sweat and tears into a company where it was a good business opportunity, but wasn’t where my heart was.” * Twilio was started because Jeff always believed that software is a super power: “Developers can build software quickly and iteratively to serve customers,” said Jeff. “Your work is never done because you can always hear the next problem or the next improvement, and put your mind to work and build a better version of your product.” * Experimentation is the prerequisite to innovation. “If you can help a developer and help companies run more experiments for what their customers need, then you’re going to get more innovation. If you ruthlessly remove the friction, the barriers to experimentation, that is what you need to enable innovation. That was the guiding principle that we started the company with,” said Jeff. * In the cloud your number one value proposition you’re selling is trust. “No matter what you do. If you’re a communications API, if you’re infrastructure as a service, or if you’re a SaaS product. What you’re fundamentally telling your customer is, “Trust me to run this part of your business for you.”
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Podcast: The Razor's Edge (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The Razor's Edge #21: Captain Twilio On His Only Position, Twilio
Pub date: 2020-07-29
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
trying to find more about twilio
Today’s episode continues our conversation with Captain Twilio. Our guest, a financial professional and a friend of Akram’s, invests personally in a very concentrated fashion. Last time, we spoke about his previous position, Netflix. This time, we cover his current position, that’s a single position, Twilio. Akram and he talk about why he’s so confident in the stock, the risks of such concentration, and how to think about SaaS companies or really any sort of company in the current market.
Topics Covered - 5:00 minute mark – The initial TWLO long case and the inherent risks from the start
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12:30 – The Uber ‘gift’ and the shift to selling to firms; and Flex
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15:30 – The value of new technologies – cost savings – and do they really deliver?
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18:15 – Uneconomic end markets for Twilio – a risk?
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21:00 – The dynamics of pricing models, and Twilio’s competitiveness
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28:00 – The relative value of valuation vs. focus
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31:45 – What cost savings means for TAM analysis, and the importance of TAM analysis (or its limits)
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36:00 – Wild IPO pricing and what it means
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40:15 – Why the concentration
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45:40 – Survivorship bias and growth investing
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49:00 – Market multiples and the importance of company culture
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53:30 – Revisiting the macro element, and what sort of 100-year events are happening
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59:00 – Echoes of 2000
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1:01:00 – If things go back to normal, what happens to SaaS
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1:07:00 – Risk to Q2 earnings season and guidance
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Podcast: Safety Net (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Telemedicine in the COVID-19 Era
Pub date: 2020-07-17
Telehealth, or virtual health care: two national experts explain the patient safety and risk management issues related to virtual visits, and how has the pandemic affects all of this.
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Podcast: The Wendi Cooper Show - StoryViews Humans Over 50 (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Who is Generation Jones, and Why a Podcast?
Pub date: 2018-11-25
Wendi Cooper - Host explains the purpose of the Generation Jones podcast, a generation lumped into the latter half of Baby Boomers born loosely between 1954-1964, and her purpose in creating awareness for this 50 million+ segment of the population and the most influential of our time.
Every 60 seconds 13 people turn 60 years old. This is where we talk about life's 2nd half. Remarkable conversations with people who have shaped our world.
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Podcast: Jetpacks Are Overrated: a technology show
Episode: Getting data right for humans with Ellen Broad
Pub date: 2020-06-03
Ellen Broad is a boardgame designer. But that’s not actually why I’m talking to her. The boardgames was something of a byproduct – her main focus is being a rather brilliant thinker on all things data and AI.
In her career, Broad has worked for governments and UN bodies to help plot the future of data, digital issues and AI ethics, and she has also worked for Australia’s digital transformation and innovation body, Data61.
She has worked as the head of policy for the Open Data Institute and today she is a Senior Fellow at ANU’s 3Ai Institute. You can also buy her book – Made By Humans: The AI Condition.
(This episode first ran on Uplink, but is now available here as Jetpacks takes priority in the Byteside podcast network.)
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Podcast: The InfoQ Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Martin Hadley on R and the modern R ecosystem
Pub date: 2017-07-21
Werner Schuster talks to Martin Hadley, data scientist at University of Oxford. They discuss the state of the R language, the rich R ecosystem that covers development (RStudio), notebooks for publication (R Notebooks, RPubs), writing web apps (Shiny), and the pros/cons of the different data frames implementations.
Why listen to this podcast:
- R is the tool for working with rectangular data
- Modern data frame implementations are Tibble and data.table (for large amounts of data)
- RMarkdown and R Notebooks allow to explore data and then publish it the results and (interactive) visualization
- Use Shinyapps to publish server side R applications
- Tidyverse is the place to look for modern R packages
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Podcast: New England Journal of Medicine Interviews (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: NEJM Interview: Dr. Thomas Lee on the financial incentives that keep providers from reducing patient waiting times.
Pub date: 2017-06-14
Dr. Thomas Lee is a professor at Harvard Medical School and chief medical officer at Press Ganey. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. J. Ryu and T.H. Lee. The Waiting Game - Why Providers May Fail to Reduce Wait Times. N Engl J Med 2017;376:2309-11.
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Podcast: Personal Finance with Warren Ingram (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 6 things to watch post-election, considering your investments in South Africa
Pub date: 2019-05-09
Personal finance guru Warren Ingram has a beady eye on the following things, and he’s ready to adjust his strategy accordingly.
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Podcast: As It Is - VOA Learning English (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: As Election Arrives, South Africa World's Most Unequal Country - May 08, 2019
Pub date: 2019-05-08
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Podcast: 80,000 Hours Podcast with Rob Wiblin (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: #2 - Prof David Spiegelhalter on risk, stats and improving understanding of science
Pub date: 2017-06-21
Recorded in 2015 by Robert Wiblin with colleague Jess Whittlestone at the Centre for Effective Altruism, and recovered from the dusty 80,000 Hours archives.
David Spiegelhalter is a statistician at the University of Cambridge and something of an academic celebrity in the UK.
Part of his role is to improve the public understanding of risk - especially everyday risks we face like getting cancer or dying in a car crash. As a result he’s regularly in the media explaining numbers in the news, trying to assist both ordinary people and politicians focus on the important risks we face, and avoid being distracted by flashy risks that don’t actually have much impact.
Summary, full transcript and extra links to learn more.
To help make sense of the uncertainties we face in life he has had to invent concepts like the microlife, or a 30-minute change in life expectancy. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microlife)
We wanted to learn whether he thought a lifetime of work communicating science had actually had much impact on the world, and what advice he might have for people planning their careers today.
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Podcast: More or Less: Behind the Stats (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Rounding up the weed killer cancer conundrum
Pub date: 2019-04-08
A recent scientific review claims the weed killer glyphosate raises the risk of developing the cancer non-Hodgkin lymphoma by 41 percent. But deciding what causes cancer can be complicated and there are lots of people and organisations on different sides arguing for against this. So in this edition of More or Less, we look at the disagreements and how the authors of the review came up with the results. With cancer epidemiologist Dr Geoffrey Kabat, Toxicologist Dr Luoping Zhang and statistician Sir David Spiegelhalter. Producer: Darin Graham Presenter: Charlotte McDonald Editor: Richard Vadon Picture: Tractor spraying a field of wheat Credit: Getty Images
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Podcast: Instant Genius (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: There’s no such thing as Blue Monday - Sir David Spiegelhalter
Pub date: 2019-01-16
Statistician and Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge Sir David Spiegelhalter explains the pseudoscience behind Blue Monday, the power of numbers, and how to spot a dodgy stat.
Podcast: The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Making Algorithms Trustworthy with David Spiegelhalter - TWiML Talk #212
Pub date: 2018-12-20
Today we’re joined by David Spiegelhalter, Chair of Winton Center for Risk and Evidence Communication at Cambridge University and President of the Royal Statistical Society. David, an invited speaker at NeurIPS, presented on “Making Algorithms Trustworthy: What Can Statistical Science Contribute to Transparency, Explanation and Validation?”. In our conversation, we explore the nuanced difference between being trusted and being trustworthy, and its implications for those building AI systems.
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Podcast: Secrets of Data Analytics Leaders (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Audio Blog: Power User Networks - The Key to Self Service Analytics by Wayne Eckerson
Pub date: 2018-10-01
Data analysts who sit in each business function (i.e., sales, marketing, finance) are critical to the success of a self-service analytics strategy. The problem is that most data analysts don’t receive the training and support they need to be proficient with self-service data and analytics tools. The easiest way to improve the skills and satisfaction of most data analysts is simple: bring them together into a power user network.
Originally published at https://www.eckerson.com/articles/power-user-networks-the-key-to-self-service-analytics
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Podcast: Secrets of Data Analytics Leaders (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Audio Blog: Self-Service Triumvirate - The New Data Analyst Work Bench by Wayne Eckerson
Pub date: 2018-11-07
A data analyst workbench will inevitably integrate data catalog, data preparation, and data analysis functionality. Data analysts don’t want to jump from tool to tool when executing a workflow that is both linear and iterative. Data analysts with this kind of workbench will be more productive and foster higher levels of reuse and data literacy.
Originally published at https://www.eckerson.com/articles/self-service-triumvirate-the-new-data-analyst-workbench
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Podcast: Secrets of Data Analytics Leaders (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Audio Blog: The Impact of AI on Analytics - Machine Generated Intelligence by Wayne Eckerson
Pub date: 2018-10-09
We’re at the dawn of a new era in decision making made possible by the intersection of business intelligence and artificial intelligence. Rather than replace BI, AI will make BI more pervasive. AI-infused BI tools will be easier to use, generate more useful insights, and make business users more productive. Rather than replace human decision makers, AI will free them to focus on value-added activities and make decisions with data rather than rely solely on gut instinct.
Originally published at https://www.eckerson.com/articles/the-impact-of-ai-on-analytics-machine-generated-intelligence
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Podcast: DM Radio
Episode: Data Warehousing and Data Lakes: The Big Picture
Pub date: 2018-02-02
Original Air Date: February 1, 2018 The Guests Wayne Eckerson Founder and Principal Consultant of Eckerson Group Steve Wooledge, VP, Marketing at Arcadia Data Lakshmi Randall, Director of Product Marketing at Denodo Alexandra Gutow, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Cloudera About the discussion For decades, the Data Warehouse has dominated the information landscape. Then Big…
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Podcast: Secrets of Data Analytics Leaders (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Joe Caserta: Exploring Modern Data Platforms
Pub date: 2018-01-16
In this podcast, Wayne Eckerson and Joe Caserta discuss what constitutes a modern data platform. Caserta is President of a New York City-based consulting firm he founded in 2001 and a longtime data guy. In 2004, Joe teamed up with data warehousing legend, Ralph Kimball to write to write the book The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit. Today he’s now one of the leading authorities on big data implementations. This makes Joe one of the few individuals with in-the-trenches experience on both sides of the data divide, traditional data warehousing on relational databases and big data implementations on Hadoop and the cloud. His perspectives are always insightful.
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Podcast: CoffeeCAST
Episode: CoffeeCAST – #19 – Jim and I on The Blog
Pub date: 2006-06-27
Welcome to the 19th Episode of the CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X.
I had a chance this week to sit down with Jim (a regular poster and past guest on the CoffeeCAST) where we talked about some of the topics that I have been exploring on the blog. Through the discussion we covered the gambit of my evolution of thinking that has driven me to some areas of strong passion. In this weeks show we talk about:
- Guiding Principles
- Reference Architecture
- Claudia Imhoff
- Teradata
- Bill Inmon
- Active Data Warehousing (Extreme Data Warehousing)
- Rapid Results Approach / Breakthrough – Robert Schaffer
So I hope you have a nice coffee, we did. Listen we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation. So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topics.
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Podcast: The freeCodeCamp Podcast (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 37 - The Rise of the Data Engineer
Pub date: 2018-07-02
When Maxime worked at Facebook, his role started evolving. He was developing new skills, new ways of doing things, and new tools. And — more often than not — he was turning his back on traditional methods. He was a pioneer. He was a data engineer! In this podcast, you'll learn about the rise of the data engineer and what it takes to be one.
Written by Maxime Beauchemin: https://twitter.com/mistercrunch
Read by Abbey Rennemeyer: https://twitter.com/abbeyrenn
Original article: https://fcc.im/2tHLCST
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Transcript:
I joined Facebook in 2011 as a business intelligence engineer. By the time I left in 2013, I was a data engineer.
I wasn’t promoted or assigned to this new role. Instead, Facebook came to realize that the work we were doing transcended classic business intelligence. The role we’d created for ourselves was a new discipline entirely.
My team was at forefront of this transformation. We were developing new skills, new ways of doing things, new tools, and — more often than not — turning our backs to traditional methods.
We were pioneers. We were data engineers!
Data Engineering?
Data science as a discipline was going through its adolescence of self-affirming and defining itself. At the same time, data engineering was the slightly younger sibling, but it was going through something similar. The data engineering discipline took cues from its sibling, while also defining itself in opposition, and finding its own identity.
Like data scientists, data engineers write code. They’re highly analytical, and are interested in data visualization.
Unlike data scientists — and inspired by our more mature parent, software engineering — data engineers build tools, infrastructure, frameworks, and services. In fact, it’s arguable that data engineering is much closer to software engineering than it is to a data science.
In relation to previously existing roles, the data engineering field could be thought of as a superset of business intelligence and data warehousing that brings more elements from software engineering. This discipline also integrates specialization around the operation of so called “big data” distributed systems, along with concepts around the extended Hadoop ecosystem, stream processing, and in computation at scale.
In smaller companies — where no data infrastructure team has yet been formalized — the data engineering role may also cover the workload around setting up and operating the organization’s data infrastructure. This includes tasks like setting up and operating platforms like Hadoop/Hive/HBase, Spark, and the like.
In smaller environments people tend to use hosted services offered by Amazon or Databricks, or get support from companies like Cloudera or Hortonworks — which essentially subcontracts the data engineering role to other companies.
In larger environments, there tends to be specialization and the creation of a formal role to manage this workload, as the need for a data infrastructure team grows. In those organizations, the role of automating some of the data engineering processes falls under the hand of both the data engineering and data infrastructure teams, and it’s common for these teams to collaborate to solve higher level problems.
While the engineering aspect of the role is growing in scope, other aspects of the original business engineering role are becoming secondary. Areas like crafting and maintaining portfolios of reports and dashboards are not a data engineer’s primary focus.
We now have better self-service tooling where analysts, data scientist and the general “information worker” is becoming more data-savvy and can take care of data consumption autonomously.
ETL is changing
We’ve also observed a general shift away from drag-and-drop ETL (Extract Transform and Load) tools towards a more programmatic approach. Product know-how on platforms like Informatica, IBM Datastage, Cognos, AbInitio or Microsoft SSIS isn’t common amongst modern data engineers, and being replaced by more generic software engineering skills along with understanding of programmatic or configuration driven platforms like Airflow, Oozie, Azkabhan or Luigi. It’s also fairly common for engineers to develop and manage their own job orchestrator/scheduler.
There’s a multitude of reasons why complex pieces of software are not developed using drag and drop tools: it’s that ultimately code is the best abstraction there is for software. While it’s beyond the scope of this article to argue on this topic, it’s easy to infer that these same reasons apply to writing ETL as it applies to any other software. Code allows for arbitrary levels of abstractions, allows for all logical operation in a familiar way, integrates well with source control, is easy to version and to collaborate on. The fact that ETL tools evolved to expose graphical interfaces seems like a detour in the history of data processing, and would certainly make for an interesting blog post of its own.
Let’s highlight the fact that the abstractions exposed by traditional ETL tools are off-target. Sure, there’s a need to abstract the complexity of data processing, computation and storage. But I would argue that the solution is not to expose ETL primitives (like source/target, aggregations, filtering) into a drag-and-drop fashion. The abstractions needed are of a higher level.
For example, an example of a needed abstraction in a modern data environment is the configuration for the experiments in an A/B testing framework: what are all the experiment? what are the related treatments? what percentage of users should be exposed? what are the metrics that each experiment expects to affect? when is the experiment taking effect? In this example, we have a framework that receives precise, high level input, performs complex statistical computation and delivers computed results. We expect that adding an entry for a new experiment will result in extra computation and results being delivered. What is important to note in this example is that the input parameters of this abstraction are not the one offered by a traditional ETL tool, and that a building such an abstraction in a drag and drop interface would not be manageable.
To a modern data engineer, traditional ETL tools are largely obsolete because logic cannot be expressed using code. As a result, the abstractions needed cannot be expressed intuitively in those tools. Now knowing that the data engineer’s role consist largely of defining ETL, and knowing that a completely new set of tools and methodology is needed, one can argue that this forces the discipline to rebuild itself from the ground up. New stack, new tools, a new set of constraints, and in many cases, a new generation of individuals.
Data modeling is changing
Typical data modeling techniques — like the star schema — which defined our approach to data modeling for the analytics workloads typically associated with data warehouses, are less relevant than they once were. The traditional best practices of data warehousing are loosing ground on a shifting stack. Storage and compute is cheaper than ever, and with the advent of distributed databases that scale out linearly, the scarcer resource is engineering time.
Here are some changes observed in data modeling techniques:
further denormalization: maintaining surrogate keys in dimensions can be tricky, and it makes fact tables less readable. The use of natural, human readable keys and dimension attributes in fact tables is becoming more common, reducing the need for costly joins that can be heavy on distributed databases. Also note that support for encoding and compression in serialization formats like Parquet or ORC, or in database engines like Vertica, address most of the performance loss that would normally be associated with denormalization. Those systems have been taught to normalize the data for storage on their own.
blobs: modern databases have a growing support for blobs through native types and functions. This opens new moves in the data modeler’s playbook, and can allow for fact tables to store multiple grains at once when needed
dynamic schemas: since the advent of map reduce, with the growing popularity of document stores and with support for blobs in databases, it’s becoming easier to evolve database schemas without executing DML. This makes it easier to have an iterative approach to warehousing, and removes the need to get full consensus and buy-in prior to development.
systematically snapshoting dimensions (storing a full copy of the dimension for each ETL schedule cycle, usually in distinct table partitions) as a generic way to handle slowly changing dimension (SCD) is a simple generic approach that requires little engineering effort, and that unlike the classical approach, is easy to grasp when writing ETL and queries alike. It’s also easy and relatively cheap to denormalize the dimension’s attribute into the fact table to keep track of its value at the moment of the transaction. In retrospect, complex SCD modeling techniques are not intuitive and reduce accessibility.
conformance, as in conformed dimensions and metrics is still extremely important in modern data environment, but with the need for data warehouses to move fast, and with more team and roles invited to contribute to this effort, it’s less imperative and more of a tradeoff. Consensus and convergence can happen as a background process in the areas where the pain point of divergence become out-of-hand.
Also, more generally, it’s arguable to say that with the commoditization of compute cycles and with more people being data-savvy then before, there’s less need to precompute and store results in the warehouse. For instance you can have complex Spark job that can compute complex analysis on-demand only, and not be scheduled to be part of the warehouse.
Roles & responsibilities
The data warehouse
A data warehouse is a copy of transaction data specifically structured for query and analysis. — Ralph Kimball
A data warehouse is a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant and non-volatile collection of data in support of management’s decision making process. — Bill Inmon
The data warehouse is just as relevant as it ever was, and data engineers are in charge of many aspects of its construction and operation. The data engineer’s focal point is the data warehouse and gravitates around it.
The modern data warehouse is a more public institution than it was historically, welcoming data scientists, analysts, and software engineers to partake in its construction and operation. Data is simply too centric to the company’s activity to have limitation around what roles can manage its flow. While this allows scaling to match the organization’s data needs, it often results in a much more chaotic, shape-shifting, imperfect piece of infrastructure.
The data engineering team will often own pockets of certified, high quality areas in the data warehouse. At Airbnb for instance, there’s a set of “core” schemas that are managed by the data engineering team, where service level agreement (SLAs) are clearly defined and measured, naming conventions are strictly followed, business metadata and documentation is of the highest quality, and the related pipeline code follows a set of well defined best practices.
It also becomes the role of the data engineering team to be a “center of excellence” through the definitions of standards, best practices and certification processes for data objects. The team can evolve to partake or lead an education program sharing its core competencies to help other teams become better citizens of the data warehouse. For instance, Facebook has a “data camp” education program and Airbnb is developing a similar “Data University” program where data engineers lead session that teach people how to be proficient with data.
Data engineers are also the “librarians” of the data warehouse, cataloging and organizing metadata, defining the processes by which one files or extract data from the warehouse. In a fast growing, rapidly evolving, slightly chaotic data ecosystem, metadata management and tooling become a vital component of a modern data platform.
Performance tuning and optimization
With data becoming more strategic than ever, companies are growing impressive budgets for their data infrastructure. This makes it increasingly rational for data engineers to spend cycles on performance tuning and optimization of data processing and storage. Since the budgets are rarely shrinking in this area, optimization is often coming from the perspective of achieving more with the same amount of resources or trying to linearize exponential growth in resource utilization and costs.
Knowing that the complexity of the data engineering stack is exploding we can assume that the complexity of optimizing such stack and processes can be just as challenging. Where it can be easy to get huge wins with little effort, diminishing returns laws typically apply.
It’s definitely in the interest of the data engineer to build [on] infrastructure that scales with the company, and to be resource conscious at all times.
Data Integration
Data integration, the practice behind integrating businesses and systems through the exchange of data, is as important and as challenging as its ever been. As Software as a Service (SaaS) becomes the new standard way for companies to operate, the need to synchronize referential data across these systems becomes increasingly critical. Not only SaaS needs up-to-date data to function, we often want to bring the data generated on their side into our data warehouse so that it can be analyzed along the rest of our data. Sure SaaS often have their own analytics offering, but are systematically lacking the perspective that the rest of you company’s data offer, so more often than not it’s necessary to pull some of this data back.
Letting these SaaS offering redefine referential data without integrating and sharing a common primary key is a disaster that should be avoided at all costs. No one wants to manually maintain two employee or customer lists in 2 different systems, and even worse: having to do fuzzy matching when bringing their HR data back into their warehouse.
Worse, company executive often sign deal with SaaS providers without really considering the data integration challenges. The integration workload is systematically downplayed by vendors to facilitate their sales, and leaves data engineers stuck doing unaccounted, under appreciated work to do. Let alone the fact that typical SaaS APIs are often poorly designed, unclearly documented and “agile”: meaning that you can expect them to change without notice.
Services
Data engineers are operating at a higher level of abstraction and in some cases that means providing services and tooling to automate the type of work that data engineers, data scientists or analysts may do manually.
Here are a few examples of services that data engineers and data infrastructure engineer may build and operate.
data ingestion: services and tooling around “scraping” databases, loading logs, fetching data from external stores or APIs, … metric computation: frameworks to compute and summarize engagement, growth or segmentation related metrics
anomaly detection: automating data consumption to alert people anomalous events occur or when trends are changing significantly metadata management: tooling around allowing generation and consumption of metadata, making it easy to find information in and around the data warehouse
experimentation: A/B testing and experimentation frameworks is often a critical piece of company’s analytics with a significant data engineering component to it
instrumentation: analytics starts with logging events and attributes related to those events, data engineers have vested interests in making sure that high quality data is captured upstream
sessionization: pipelines that are specialized in understand series of actions in time, allowing analysts to understand user behaviors Just like software engineers, data engineers should be constantly looking to automate their workloads and building abstraction that allow them to climb the complexity ladder. While the nature of the workflows that can be automated differs depending on the environment, the need to automate them is common across the board.
Required Skills
SQL mastery: if english is the language of business, SQL is the language of data. How successful of a business man can you be if you don’t speak good english? While generations of technologies age and fade, SQL is still standing strong as the lingua franca of data. A data engineer should be able to express any degree of complexity in SQL using techniques like “correlated subqueries” and window functions. SQL/DML/DDL primitives are simple enough that it should hold no secrets to a data engineer. Beyond the declarative nature of SQL, she/he should be able to read and understand database execution plans, and have an understanding of what all the steps are, how indices work, the different join algorithm and the distributed dimension within the plan.
Data modeling techniques: for a data engineer, entity-relationship modeling should be a cognitive reflex, along with a clear understanding of normalization, and have a sharp intuition around denormalization tradeoffs. The data engineer should be familiar with dimensional modeling and the related concepts and lexical field.
ETL design: writing efficient, resilient and “evolvable” ETL is key. I’m planning on expanding on this topic on an upcoming blog post.
Architectural projections: like any professional in any given field of expertise, the data engineer needs to have a high level understanding of most of the tools, platforms, libraries and other resources at its disposal. The properties, use-cases and subtleties behind the different flavors of databases, computation engines, stream processors, message queues, workflow orchestrators, serialization formats and other related technologies. When designing solutions, she/he should be able to make good choices as to which technologies to use and have a vision as to how to make them work together.
All in all
Over the past 5 years working in Silicon Valley at Airbnb, Facebook and Yahoo!, and having interacted profusely with data teams of all kinds working for companies like Google, Netflix, Amazon, Uber, Lyft and dozens of companies of all sizes, I’m observing a growing consensus on what “data engineering” is evolving into, and felt a need to share some of my findings.
I’m hoping that this article can serve as some sort of manifesto for data engineering, and I’m hoping to spark reactions from the community operating in the related fields!
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Podcast: The Final Cut - Separate stories podcast
Episode: Son of Saul - review and interview with director László Nemes
Pub date: 2016-02-26
I felt myself becoming less interested in the film’s carefully moulded suspense, more fascinated by the way its images – and its sounds – spoke so eloquently in the abstract.
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Episode: Son of Saul, The Sound Barrier, 1916 v 2016
Pub date: 2016-04-28
With Francine Stock
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1916 was the year that the pictures got big, but with Snow White, Sherlock Holmes and special effects blockbusters taking over cinemas, what has really changed 100 years later. Historians Matthew Sweet and Kevin Brownlow explain.
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Episode: The Most Haunted Leading Man
Pub date: 2015-12-09
The antithesis of nearly every Holocaust movie ever made, the Hungarian film Son of Saul is slim on happy endings. Directed by László Nemes, it tells the story of a member of the Sonderkommando, the Jews who ushered their co-religionists off the trains into the showers and who, after the gassings, cleared those showers out to ready them for the next batch of victims. Saul, portrayed by Géza Röhrig, is shaken out of his numbness and despair by the body of a child who survives the gassing and suddenly, amid the true-life rebellion of the Sonderkommando in October 1944, engages in his own form of resistance.
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Episode: Son of Saul, Mark Haddon, Kings of War, Love Nina, Pablo Bronstein at Tate
Pub date: 2016-04-30
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Episode: Lisa Birnbach's Five Things That Make Life Better on February 22, 2019
Pub date: 2019-02-22
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Episode: Podcast #32 Different for Girls, Fearless and More
Pub date: 2019-01-05
Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later:
shtisel
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Pub date: 2019-01-28
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Episode: Brad Llewellyn on Statistics, Data Science, R, CBIG, Gaming, and Vanilla Ice
Pub date: 2017-08-15
Frank and Andy speak with a real, live unicorn (data scientist), Brad Llewellyn.
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On Predicsis.ai… ([15:12])
On Amazon Machine Learning… ([15:45])
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Game reference: The Incredible Machine ([17:30])
Statistical terms ([19:15])
Microsoft SQL Server R Services ([21:12])
Movie reference: The Blues Brothers ([22:25])
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Video: Trapping a self-driving car ([26:20])
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Episode: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and that meme life
Pub date: 2019-01-24
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We also take a look at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her near-perfect ability to troll the GOP through her social media presence. Sparking our conversation, and Catherine Shu’s look into Ocasio-Cortez’s internet prowess, was a story about AOC voicing her support of transgender youth group Mermaids on Twitch.
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