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Dan Hugo
This is a conversational show about problems and solutions, discussing what is working and what isn't and what "we" might do about it.
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Show Notes * Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: We have talked about a variety of issues that are certainly adjacent to this one, but let us take a look at the so-called Algorithm and where we have some problems.
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Show Notes * Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: We talked about Fragility in Episode 0075 of this audio program, now is a good time to ponder Turmoil in that context.
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Show Notes * Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: As this episode is recorded one of the news items of the day concerns a crime committed in public, with multiple video angles, multiple witnesses, a suspect, and a variety of statements and silence from all corners. Maybe history does rhyme.
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Show Notes * Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Anyone who had never before heard of a supply chain probably did during the infamous Pandemic Lockdowns, when global supply chains were suddenly a part of the problem rather than the amazing global economy. What about your own supply chains?
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Show Notes * Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Recorded on a day with one so-called Political Assassination and yet another school shooting here in the US, the way we share this information is in need of some reflection and improvement.
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Show Notes * Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: In these modern times, everyone is a reporter, though very few are journalists, and those who are may or may not be putting in the time when the next YouTube video or TikTok or Reel or whatever needs to be posted.
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Show Notes * Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Pizza is one of those things that is regional, somewhat tribal, and is always a topic of conversation. The same is true of a great many things, but who doesn’t like pizza? Don’t answer that.
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Show Notes * Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: The hype cycle is real, and we seem to be experiencing them in overlapping fashion, faster and faster, like Tarzan passing from vine to vine through modernity. Gartner Hype Curve cover art image by By Olga Tarkovskiy - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27546041
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Show Notes * Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Who at this point is not on one or both of Twitter and Bluesky, or X and BS if you like, and who finds that a good thing?
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Show Notes * Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Explainers are a real thing, on YouTube especially but on any video media, well-produced explanations about how things work, from people who might know what they’re talking about…
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Show Notes * Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: The philosophical notion of solipsism is a bit extreme, while the more practical definition or common use leans more toward individualism or egocentrism. Whatever the words we use, are we too selfish?
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Show Notes * Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: From sports to driving to preparing food and more, there are so many things we need, or want, to do each day which we choose to learn about, understand, and practice on a regular basis. Why have we made that one big thing that we all use continuously in one way or another, such a mystery?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: If someone is supposed to know something, and others rely on them to know that something, but they do not know that something, what next?
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Show Notes * Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: A graph is a collection of nodes connected in one or both directions by edges, which is a fancy way of saying we can represent notions and their interconnections and relationships with a graph. What might be nice is if we could help the memory of the masses with graphs, but how soon we forget…
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Show Notes * Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Reviews are everywhere, whether stars or hearts or likes with categories or rankings and of course the long form anecdote where we get to tell our stories, relevant or not. Have we lost the plot?
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Show Notes * Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: We all use technology nowadays, why is it so difficult to know when it is working and when it is not? Should this problem not have been solved a long way back?
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Show Notes * Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: The world revolves around corporate internet, whether they are hosting your products to sell, reviews of products or services, your content, your thoughts, your dreams. Yet, you must comply with their terms or face the dreaded Violation email and worse…
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Show Notes * Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Protests are in the news, and Collective Action in general can be a great way to amplify the voice of the masses, but sometimes they became a playing piece on a giant chess board, which usually undoes the possibilities. Can protests be re-imagined for the modern era? Should they be?
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- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: We can spot generated content, we know when it is probably fake, maybe, right? What happens when AI is doing things you cannot see for yourself, doing things you may not understand yourself? Fingers crossed.
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Show Notes * Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: In a world where a great many of us can consume almost anything from a vast menu of written word, imagery, audio, and video, produced by a diverse population of people, companies, and now artificial sources, we find ourselves in a time when we could choose from this tremendous collection of possibilities, but are we not more often chosen instead?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: You know this person, the one who always seems to be involved, to step up, to be the bridge between plan and action, the person who takes the initiative. If you do not know this person, hopefully you are this person.
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: How many times has this happened to you, where you receive a notification of some kind to update your software, your computer, your phone, and all you know is that you will receive Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements by going through the update process. Does that work out every time?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: We live in a consumption world, obviously, and as consumers we will encounter issues when placing an order, completing a purchase, receiving a delivery, using the thing whatever it might be, and dealing with warranties or returns in general. Is it me, or is all of this getting worse?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: I think we all get comfortable with stuff that seems to be working, if it isn´t broken we should not try fixing it, or maybe we should just not mess with it, but then when things go off the rails we learn just how fragile the thing is, or was.
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: We live in a twilight world, and there are no friends at dusk.
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: A 2024 survey of people in the US suggests that we are all for more domestic manufacturing jobs, so long as someone else works those jobs. I have often said myself, an Entrepreneur is not a real Entrepreneur if they believe someone else should solve their problem. This might read like a continuation of the previous episode, and maybe it is, someone else should do something about that.
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Two books about similar things, what does the future hold for the US and, more importantly perhaps, those of us who are still here, when it comes to the structure and function of our communities and society, federally and locally. Can we still do things, and if so, how?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: We are living in interesting times, with one sign of the times making the news now and then, maybe not making the news, that is crossing a national border and facing inspection or even confiscation of digital devices to learn more about you, a visitor or resident or citizen of the country in question. The tech can work with you or against you.
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: A lot of talk in the news this week (as recorded) about government officials using a non-government, consumer-aimed messaging tool on their devices to communicate sensitive information, allegedly improperly. Should we be concerned about our own messaging and how we use these tools? You already know the answer.
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: The earliest of cave paintings, the running messenger, the town crier, printed media, radio, television, the Internets… finding out what is going on, who is doing what to whom, and why it matters has always been an important thing, the question is who we should be getting this stuff from.
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: One fun feature of the one single language spoken in the United States, if you believe some executive orders, is that it is always changing. Are you always current on what those words mean, where they come from, and how they are being used?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Debugging is not something everyone does consciously, but we all do it in one way or another. It is about understanding the way something works and taking a close look to try to determine why it is not working. Like everything else it is a skill that needs to be developed, which means knowing that you are doing it and knowing when you need to, take practice.
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Way back in Episode 15 we went into the notion that there are connections that we know about and that we do not know about, between people and systems and things in general that we all interact with, maybe depend upon, on a daily basis. Should we have some idea how these things work?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: A few connected episodes about different parts of the crowd and extracting wisdom from it, based on one view anyway, so what can we do with our fellow humans when it comes to finding out what they know about what we want to know?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: One last supplementary episode in the Crowd Wisdom series, a brief dive into the response to reaction, when there is tumult amongst the crowd and the target of aggression has something to say to correct the record. Does that even matter?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Thinking out loud about Crowd Wisdom, what happens when the crowd encounters some new information, or impression, or perception, that forces a rapid change in opinion, does the crowd become more wise, or can reaction be distraction?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Sports enthusiasm is not a new thing and not unique to the US, but it is certainly a driver for much more than sports in recent and not-so-recent times. We do tend to gravitate toward like-minded individuals, to groups, and eventually to factions that can be a bit more energized than even their most ardent team supporters otherwise. Where does this lead?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: We talked about social media, chaos in that space with and between the big players, and taking back our online presence making use of the Fediverse to syndicate our own content, but what about everything else?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Legacy social media platforms in the US, well-known around the world at this point, are getting a lot of attention, and not necessarily in a great way as some are bolting from the old stalwarts in search of the next place to congregate. Is this a good thing, is Bluesky really the next big thing and for the right reasons? Should we be moving back toward self-publishing?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: We hear a lot every day, more often than that even, about surveys and polls and what people think about the things you may or may not care about. These are numbers coming from, somewhere, and we so often know the numbers but not the questions. Is this good?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Last week it was Big Learning Energy, now we can talk a little bit about where that energy is going, and should we feel good about this?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: As 2024 winds down to a close, this being the final episode of that calendar year, let us consider briefly the energy requirements of our celebrity tech companies training their AI models and compare that to us humans…
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Have you ever been involved in a conversation or perhaps a presentation where you pose a hypothetical to make a point or to illustrate an idea and you find yourself defending your hypothetical instead of the point you were attempting to make? Thinking outside the box is not for the faint of heart…
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: There has been some talk, some concern, about what happens when the big companies run out of new, human-authored content to train their AI models on, and the snake begins to eat its tail, so to speak. Might there be a similar problem for content creators if main stream media falls behind, shrinks away, leaving your own personal Joe Rogan as your primary source of news and insights?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Cryptocurrency is all the rage, with hope in the marketplace that regulations will go their way and we can all benefit from the absolute chaos that is this mathematical magic of The Blockchain turned into anything from a financial transaction medium to a scam machine.
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Our online world is mostly about infinite scroll, a reverse-chronological ordering of events, photos, brief messages, our unread emails and other messages. Are we always catching up, leaving out the items that fall off the bottom of our attention span, and is there a better way to do this?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: The end of Season 0, and with all of the tumult in the news and social media today, why not end Season 0 with some thinking about thinking?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Tangentially related to the recent election outcome, but more generally this is about selecting a goal or collection of goals to accomplish based on principles, rather than politics or something else like power or money. This will be the topic throughout this episode.
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Now that Election Day 2024 has come and gone, some reflections on what works, what does not, and what we might do about it as an extremely divided electorate, two groups with more in common than not, but with no idea how this could be. Let us consider not so much the candidates, nor the parties, but the voters, you and me, and where we might do better.
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: You may already have mailed yours in, maybe you are thinking about dropping it off, perhaps you will walk in and fill it out there, or you could just skip the whole thing. Whichever path you take, it seems like we should be better at this by now…
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: We all have opinions, the question is whether we form them ourselves based on what we learn, what we can verify, what we know, or are our opinions handed to us to consume and pass on?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: If we label surveys, polls, statistics and data in general as Signals, then we can look at how these various Signals drive, in any direction, our various Systems on which we all rely, yet it is more apparent than ever that neither the Signals, nor the Systems, are reliably considered.
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Not a new topic, but information awareness appears to be on the decline at a faster pace than even the most pessimistic among us could have imagined. With luck this is an artifact of the intensity of this election season, but there may be long term impact.
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Political Debates, you gotta love ´em. Or do you? Are political debates, and we know which ones in particular, worth the trouble, or should we as an electorate come up with something else? Should not those doing the hiring determine how we conduct the interviews?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: We are surrounded by the most cutting edge technology ever conceived or even imagined by humans, with among other benefits more access to more information than most can fathom, yet we appear to be growing less and less connected, less and less aware, and certainly less and less secure in our daily travels and travails. What is going on?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Have you noticed that people seem to prefer to accept information presented to them at face value, assuming it is factual, correct, and safe, and then they share it with someone else to continue the cycle? We have more access to more information today than on any day previous, and that is almost certainly true every day… if you don´t believe me, check for yourself. Will you?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: It is indeed the season of fiction over fact, for at least the next two months or so, but in general this is a time when more people are connected to more data and information than ever, all the time, with almost no delay, yet we rely on others to tell us their version of some truth that fits their narrative. Can facts rule again, please?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Context matters, so does writing things down, reading over these things from time to time, and understanding that what happened before may be similar to what is happening now, but that they may be different is critical and not always factored in to our understanding.
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Politics is no fun but the mechanisms of the US election system and general determinations regarding districting ballot management and the construction of such things as the Senate and the Electoral college, all worthy of some discussion; so let´s plant some seeds today!
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: This being an election year, the topic of Infrastructure comes up once again, more from the Dems than the GOP this time around, but it is always something to talk about, even pass laws about and assign funding to, but what is going on when it comes to making things happen?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: When there is a lack of transparency, a lack if information and clarity can lead very easily to exciting Conspiracy Theories. Some are eventually shown to be pretty close or even accurate, most are not.
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Intersections are tricky, with multiple interactions, multiple parties, multiple states and perspectives. Sometimes they are actual intersections you pass through in a vehicle or otherwise, sometimes they are a bit more complicated, yet somewhat similar…
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Evolve in Tennessee, yet another bank compromised by evil so-called hackers, the penetration vector a phishing email opened and engaged-with by an unsuspecting employee, or so we are told. We bank there, among other places, but this is a solvable problem, sort of, that will never actually be solved. But Why?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: These are interesting times, and keeping track of how interesting they are can be a challenge when there are so many people, and robots, telling us how interesting, for different reasons, and with different agendas. What to do?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: “A lady asked Dr. Franklin ‘Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy’ – ‘A republic,’ replied the Doctor, ‘if you can keep it.’”
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: On the one hand, a good reaction video, to a movie perhaps, a movie already seen, can be interesting and entertaining, watching someone in excerpts experience that which we already have, the big moment, the final outcome, and so on. When those excerpts are news stories, important presentations, or other reactions to similar things, and we treat those reactions as valid analysis of events we may ourselves not have consumed directly, we lose.
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Systemic procrastination is a problem, let us begin to discuss it now, rather than later.
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Phone free schools and surgeon general warning labels are all the rage, on both sides of each and still other routes to fixing the pickle in which we find ourselves, thank you social media and attention and surveillance economy platforms. Something does not seem right about these solutions, though, let´s engineer this thing.
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Woody Allen of all people famously suggested that 80% of Life is Showing Up. Words to that effect, anyway, you really had to be there. If we take that suggestion literally, we may end up where we are now… perhaps we have.
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: The availability heuristic, motivated reasoning, groupthink, and more can combine to shape the way we see the world around us, and its finer details, but should we believe what we think?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Online debates are all the rage, but are they even debates anymore? Should a debate have an after action smack-down session, declarations of victory, and celebrations of the crushing and ultimate destruction of the other side?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: What do we do when there is only one substantive choice, when the masses accept that choice, and then the one choice fails miserably? Do we go to the next most popular and make it the new one, and do that again and again? Is it possible to take back a modicum of agency and maybe autonomy into our uncertain futures?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Some observations about modern news coverage, the non-stop news coverage situation, and cameras in the court room. The best time to be aware of biased and incomplete reporting was a few thousand years ago, the second best time is now.
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Once upon a time, products were available to customers when they were Done. Now we are asked to spend real money on all manner of novel thing that is almost ready, or maybe not even that far along. Somewhere in the middle, we all got somewhat used to the Greek alphabet, and we should make a point of bringing it back…
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: The news today is awash with strife at our college campuses, surely a sign of the end times, so long as we believe that a vanishingly small population of students are world-wise enough to represent their generation… in the mean time, where does college and higher learning fit into the near term?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Many engineers, maybe more the ones from the old days but I hope not, will try to find a root cause for some problem and see about fixing it. In an age of personal economics, solving an immediate problem and calling that Done seems to be the new thing, and that always comes back around. Always.
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Reviews have always been a thing, often contentious for any of a number of reasons, from fake to paid-for to fraught with agenda, and more. What is wrong with reviews, or is it, what is wrong with reviewers?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Precision and Accuracy, orthogonal but definitely appealing when encountered together, but so often lacking individually. In a world only moving faster, we have the tools and the devices in our pockets, why are we apathetic?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: We already know that what you find on the internet is not always correct, but how can we tell, if we can tell at all? Maybe it begins with doing it yourself…
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What are you consuming?
Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: If you have the wherewithal to start a company of some kind, operate a business, or simply maintain a personal or professional brand of some kind, why on earth would you or anyone hand that over to others who could not care less about anything you do but for the money it makes them?
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Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: There was a time, maybe too long ago to remember, when excellence, innovation, and individual pride in a job well done. A quick glance across the headlines over these months, years, and even recent decades, reveals clearly the transition very clearly to the priority of profit, financial or otherwise
Links* Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo * Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo * Boeing Needs a Reboot https://www.axios.com/2024/03/25/boeing-ceo-calhoun-culture-change * QR Codes Need a Reboot https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/unraveling-the-cyber-threats-lurking-behind-qr-codes/ * One Thing Southern Nevada gets correct https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/las-vegas-going-all-in-water-conservation-plan-180983974/ * The Bridge Collapse is only the Beginning https://www.businessinsider.com/baltimore-port-closure-could-cost-15-million-per-day-2024-3 * Space Needs a Reboot https://dnyuz.com/2024/03/28/as-threats-in-space-mount-u-s-lags-in-protecting-key-services/ * Google Podcasts EOL, no surprise https://www.wired.com/story/google-podcasts-how-to-transfer-your-subscriptions/ * SBF Gets 25 Years https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-bankman-fried-be-sentenced-multi-billion-dollar-ftx-fraud-2024-03-28/
Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: We live in modern times, with access to so many ways for people to take advantage of us. There are ways to defend ourselves, but like carrying keys to locks, they do require some sacrifice and effort, and some motivation to comprehend and be aware. Do we have these?
Links* Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo * Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo * Three-Card Monte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-card_monte * Nigerian Prince, 419, Advance Money Scam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_scam * The Current Version—Pig Butchering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_butchering_scam * Phishing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing * Catfishing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catfishing * Voice Phishing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_phishing * Know Your Customer (Business SIde) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer * Gmail Bulk Emailer Authentication Rules 2024 https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2024/03/20/new-mass-gmail-rejections-will-start-in-14-days-google-says/ * Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125124328-never-split-the-difference-negotiating-as-if-your-life-depended-on-it-b * Impressarios Episode 0016 Trust but Verify https://open.spotify.com/episode/4sra9XZEoDg540wdfNf6sp
Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: The US Postal Service is actually sort of amazing if you really think about it, and today we are looking at something of a shadow of its actual, historical self. Some truly clueless people would like to see it go away for some reason, but what about…
Links* Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo * Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo * In Their Own Words https://about.usps.com/who/profile/history/ * The US Postal Savings System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Savings_System * APWU Campaign to bring back Postal Banking https://apwu.org/postal-banking * USPS Services Offered FAQ https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-Retail-Services-does-the-United-States-Postal-Service-provide * The Big Picture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service * The most ancient Smoke Signals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_signal * The Battle of Marathon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon * Pony Express https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_Express * Dots and Dashes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_transcontinental_telegraph * Mail on Rails https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_transcontinental_railroad * Letter Carrier Robberies Continue… https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/letter-carrier-robberies-continue-usps-union-lawmakers-seek-108040136 * Largely Self-funded https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12516/3 * Recoding America https://www.recodingamerica.us/
Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Community is a thing, but it is not always what you think it is, and that gap can be described sometimes by way of some understanding of the connections between members of the community and between communities, and beyond. Do we understand them, do we even know them, and do we know when they disco?
Links* Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo * Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo * Santayana Quotes https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Santayana * Connections by James Burke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_TV_series) * Best-timed shot in TV history (real) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WoDQBhJCVQ * Gantt vs PERT https://www.projectmanager.com/blog/gantt-vs-pert-vs-network-diagram * Interconnectedness of All Things - Dirk Gently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Gently * Community Asset Maps (and more) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset-based_community_development * Complicated vs Complex https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-critical-difference-between-complex-and-complicated/ * Personal Space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxemics * 55-38-7 YMMV https://www.morethan1answer.com/the-55-38-7-rule-and-the-myth/
Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: With rare exceptions, we exchange time and/or effort for money. If we do it right we exchange more effort than time, and if we can do it passively, even better. Now about these circumstances that throw a spanner into the works…
Links* Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo * Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo * Gratuity (Tip) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratuity * Mandatory Gratuity (Service Fee) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_tipping * Federal Labor Code on Tipping https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/15-tipped-employees-flsa * Tip Pooling Not Allowed https://www.wcpo.com/money/local-business-news/lawsuit-jeff-ruby-restaurants-violated-labor-laws-by-requiring-employees-to-participate-in-tip-pooling * Big Tip Big Problem https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2024/02/25/hear-from-michigan-waitress-who-was-fired-after-getting-10000-tip/ * Gratuitous Vengeance https://nypost.com/2024/02/27/lifestyle/i-didnt-tip-a-pizzeria-for-our-slices-heres-how-they-got-revenge-and-why-im-never-going-back/ * The $18 Big Mac https://www.salon.com/2024/02/19/how-an-18-big-mac-meal-became-a-symbol-for-economic-anxiety--and-what-that-means-for-democrats/ * Pick Someone´s Brain https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/pick-brain
Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: There is a time and a place for a social silo, where two or more individuals need to conduct business away from others, whatever that business may be. Is it good, though, when silos become the primary landscape feature across an ecosystem?
Links* Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo * Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo * Conway´s Law https://www.melconway.com/Home/Conways_Law.html * Cory Doctorow on Enpoopification https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/ * Behave… by Robert M Sapolsky https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31170723-behave
Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Many people Meet Online, whatever that may mean specifically, but is meeting people getting easier? Are the people you meet better for meeting them via profile pictures and self-description on a monetized application platform owned by a monolithic matchin-making machine?
Links* Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo * Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo * Linkedin a Dating Site? https://www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-is-a-dating-app-remote-work-online-romance-2024-1 * Dating Markets https://econlife.com/2023/02/dating-markets/ * The Tinder Economy (2020) https://lynettealh.medium.com/the-economics-of-tinder-de7026d5c3ea * Dating Apps and Profitability… https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2024/02/13/1228749143/the-dating-app-paradox-why-dating-apps-may-be-worse-than-ever * Adverse Selection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_selection * Match Group https://mtch.com/ * 55/38/7 Rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Mehrabian * Less Hanging Out for Americans https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/america-decline-hanging-out/677451/
Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: AI is everywhere lately, and it is only getting worse. Yes, worse.
Links* Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo * Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo * AI is NOT Artificial Intelligence… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfGchpJRCG8 * Apple Sherlock project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software) * Karelia Watson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia_Watson * Colossus: The Forbin Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project * Mechanical Turk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk * Turing Test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: These are interesting times, particularly right now, with so many layoffs not only in the tech sector, but at major news media outlets. The definition of what News really is may vary per person, and who and where each person gets their news varies as well. Is there still room for investigative journalism and authoritative information outlets?
Links* Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo * Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo * Doing your own research (DYOR) https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2023/12/20/why-doing-your-own-research-may-make-you-believe-fake-news/ * Main Stream Media Bloodbath… https://www.axios.com/2024/01/26/media-layoffs-strikes-journalism-dying * Bringing Back Local News https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/local-news-investment-economic-value/674942/ * Investigative Journalism https://gijn.org/about-us/investigative-journalism-defining-the-craft/ * Reporting vs Journalism https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2009/dec/10/newspapers-pressandpublishing * Rebuilding Local News, maybe https://www.rebuildlocalnews.org/ * Las Vegas Patch https://patch.com/nevada/lasvegas * Inverted Pyramid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism) * Yellow (Sensational) Journalism https://www.britannica.com/topic/yellow-journalism * Which half? https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgebradt/2016/09/14/wanamaker-was-wrong-the-vast-majority-of-advertising-is-wasted/ * Reporting on Reporting https://copyrightalliance.org/copyright-journalism-news-reporting/ * History and the Printing Press https://www.history.com/news/printing-press-renaissance
Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Since the discovery of fire and the invention of tools from stone and/or the bones of (other) animals, we have been on a quest to make our lives easier and more efficient. Are we cheering on the move to replacing our own selves?
Links* Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo * Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo * The Time Machine by H. G. Wells on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine * Doonesbury Comic Strip on Newton https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mobile-computing/18/319/1714 * First Human Making and Use of Tools https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/behavior/stone-tools/early-stone-age-tools * Human Use of Bone Tools on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_tool * Ethical AI (always do your research) https://www.unesco.org/en/artificial-intelligence/recommendation-ethics
Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: These first weeks have seen some high profile YouTubers exclaiming their need to take a break, step back, retire, and so on. What about we normal folk, and being overly-exposed, connected, and dependent on social media platforms? Can we escape, and if so, who do we need to tell?
Links* Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo * Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo * Oompaville - Why is Everyone Leaving…? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7MXRqZM2zo * Tom Scott Announcement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DKv5H5Frt0 * MatPat Announcement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R1_TqU68yo * POSSE https://indieweb.org/POSSE * Bonus: Tom Scott, Royal Insti
Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: We have Like and Share and Friend and Follow and all manner of words corrupted by social media. None moreso, perhaps, than RSVP, which has lost most of not all practical value. Can we fix this? Participez s'il vous plaît!
Links* Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo * Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo * Wikipedia on RSVP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSVP
Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: The Drive to Excellence is one of those things we hear about, how they don´t make things the way they used to and all that. Should we settle for others moving fast and breaking things we depend on for the sake of some public valuation?
Links* Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo * Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo * Simon Sinek Start With Why TED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZoJKF_VuA * Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6828896-delivering-happiness * Kevlin Henney, Worse is Better for Better or Worse, GOTO 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3JkpQAbTA4 * Cory Doctorow, TikTok´s Enpoopification https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: A lot of us have mobile phones, maybe a tablet, possibly a laptop. Evolutionary changes are becoming more and more specific, with each iteration extra safe. Minimally Advanced Yet Acceptable is a thing, yes, but we need a little bit more surprise…
Links* Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo * Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo * Raymond Loewy and MAYA https://www.raymondloewy.com/why-some-brands-disrupt-successfully-while-others-fail/ * Screenrant on Unusual Phone Designs https://screenrant.com/weirdest-mobile-phones-ever-released/ * Framework Laptops https://frame.work/ * Phonebloks on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonebloks * Phonebloks on OneArmy https://www.onearmy.earth/project/phonebloks * Phonebloks to Google Ara on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara * Seeed Studio RePhone https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/RePhone/ * LEGO Phone stuff on eBay (for fun) https://www.ebay.com/b/lego-phone/bn_7024807797 * Google Fuchsia https://fuchsia.dev/ * Humane OpenAI-powered Star Trek ai pin https://hu.ma.ne/
Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: In our ever-more-connected world, is it becoming easier, or more difficult to find people, places, and things?
Links* Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo * Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo * History of Search Engines https://www.seomechanic.com/complete-history-search-engines/ * Enpoopification on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification * OKR vs KPI (Atlassian View) https://www.atlassian.com/blog/productivity/okr-vs-kpi * Reconnaissance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconnaissance * Perfect Information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information * OpenSearch scheme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch * A9 and OpenSearch and others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9.com * Open Source AI/ML Tools https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/open-source-ai/ * Yahoo! Pipes on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Pipes
Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: We live in modern times, and more people than ever have a pocket computer always connected to the Internets. We so rarely rely on a purely-wordy description of a location or how to get there, yet we demur when it comes to these mature, functional tools and methods. Why is the calendar such a challenge?
Links* Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo * Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo * iCalendar https://icalendar.org/ * CalDAV Access https://icalendar.org/RFC-Specifications/CalDAV-Access-RFC-4791/ * CalDAV Scheduling https://icalendar.org/RFC-Specifications/CalDAV-Scheduling-RFC-6638/ * CalDAV (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalDAV * OpenGraph https://ogp.me/ * Schema.org https://schema.org/Event
Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: The sort-of-open internet but existing and communicating within corporate silos is a real challenge, is there a way to enable that open part without corporate overlords and without watching words turn to deeds and then into the destruction of civilization? Is mob rule and cancellation a suitable replacement for due process?
Links* Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo * Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo * Six Phases of Content Moderation (2010) https://www.socialmediatoday.com/content/6-types-content-moderation-you-need-know-about * Some Best Practice suggestions https://extension.psu.edu/best-practices-for-managing-and-moderating-community-social-media-groups * The Business/Revenue Side of Moderation https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3969938 * Social Credit System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System * POSSE https://indieweb.org/POSSE
Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: Social Media is getting tired, and causing problems. Is there anything better? Of course there is, we already had it, let´s bring it back.
Links* Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo * Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo * American Psychological Association: Social Media´s Growing Impact on Our Lives https://www.apa.org/members/content/social-media-research * Harvard Business Review: How Boredom Can Drive Innovation https://hbr.org/2011/05/how-boredom-can-drive-innovation * Simon Sinek on Dopamine Overdosing (10 years ago) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEpogM_fxsQ * Fortune: Socials are for Creators https://fortune.com/2023/11/27/social-media-creator-economy-ai-influencers-meta-tiktok-instagram-youtube/ * Doctorow on Enpoopification https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys * Doctorow at DEF CON 31 on reversing the poop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4
Show Notes* Host: Dan Hugo * Summary: The return of the FFS audio program, still talking about what works, what does not work, and what we might do about it. Maybe more emphasis on what does not work, but still, if we are going to try to make it work, we need to know what does not.
Links* Our profile page on Spotify for Podcasters https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ffstalk * Quoggling Sand https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/quogglingsand * Let´s Innovate for Vegas https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lets-innovate-for-vegas/ * Caffe Genius Impressarios https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caffe-genius-impressarios/ * Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo * Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
Rounding out the introduction of this topic arc, surely only the beginning of the beginning. Work in an office, in a restaurant, in a retail store, on a beach, in your own home office... be an employee, be your own boss, what will work for you in the exciting world that appears to be arriving now from the future...
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Essential work for less-than-essential pay, and these are the workers who will be replaced early in our automated present and future. The entire Work topic should extend far into the distance and out of view to left and right, it is so cast and rife for discussion...
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Have you been working from home? Does your workplace follow old school organization structures, or maybe they're trying out a New Way to engage their employees? Would you rather work from home, for yourself, into the future? Hmm.
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Perhaps Sir Isaac Newton said it better. He certainly said it in English, and so it was a little bit meta on top of its other implications...
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The true origins and history of tipping and gratuities is up for debate, but not today. Let's talk about moving people into a modern approach to participation in the service industry and business in general. Care to argue your point? Join the show for an episode to make your case!
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There is only more to know, and the consequences continue to be significant when we do not. How can individuals build a picture of comprehension from the megapixels flying at them from reliable and unreliable sources...
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This is a Meta Episode, which is an episode about the FFS Talk podcast.
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Should consumers of data generated, curated, and presented by our computer overlords be made aware of the nature of those overlords, or are we destined to receive what we are given without any clear idea what, how, and why? This is the beginning of a very long discussion, guests welcome...
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Why are you here? Why am I here? We may not soon be able to answer that question, but we can try to answer some other questions about what we do while we are here, and why. This is the beginning of a very long discussion, guests welcome...
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The internets present us all with fabulous opportunities to express ourselves, communicate with friends and family around the world in real time or over years or both, and to conduct business out of our homes (whether we're stuck inside them or not). While the advancements in real technology and impressive gee-whiz chrome appear to work, what doesn't might end up being yours and my ability to do all of these nice things the way we want to, rather than the ways for-profit interests allow us to.
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Have you ever made a product or service, launched it into the market, and discovered it was not what people wanted? Have you ever watched a product or service which you need and have been waiting for, crash and burn because it didn't match the needs of people like you? Is there a way to tackle that before it happens? Hint: Yes.
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News is reported as stories for humans most of the time. Not so true when it comes to weather, sports, finance, and anything where there are tangible facts which might be compared and referred to in the story. Make no mistake, though, news is about telling a story and evoking a response, especially when tabulated facts aren't so clearly available.
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Catching the tail end of the 2021 Memorial Day Weekend, wherein we all gave pause to consider the sacrifices made by some of the best-trained and most capable collaborators the world has ever know, the Men and Women of the United States Military.
Now, let us begin a conversation about the rest of us and how we can use the tools at our disposal to work together...
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When at first you don't get your point across in a completely coherent manner, try (try) again? Well, the real goal was to establish the underlying and unifying theme of the show itself, to examine the all-to-easy-to-say expression "Change the World" in the context of the tag line, looking at what works and what doesn't (and what we might do about it, don't forget that part).
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At long last, a return to production, with an episode that is essentially The Show... when we talk about "What Works, What doesn't, and what we can do about both," we are talking about changing the world at some scale, and that means Delivering Big Delta...
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Has it been a year already? The theme of this show is generally failure analysis, or as I say from time to time, a discussion about what works, what doesn't, and what we do about it. The global pandemic brought by SARS-CoV-2 and covid-19 is going to be a treasure trove, so to speak, of failure analysis, from which we should all learn a great many things...
The first presentation I came across by Nickolas Means, really well done and interesting, on YouTube
Who Destroyed Three Mile Island
The book that Nickolas refers at near the end of the presentation, on Amazon
The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'
The pandemic visualization that launched a world of headlines and amateur analysis
Johns Hopkins Pandemic Map
As well a newly-available data view on Vaccinations, let us see how this unfolds
Johns Hopkins Vaccination Data
A favorite resources for authoritative, intelligent discourse on the state of affairs as quickly as it has been changing, available via YouTube and as podcasts, TWiV in particular...
Microbe.tv
The point of this show is to explore topic arcs over time, and for better or worse the top-level topic that is the global covid-19 pandemic will certainly provide fodder for discussion and learning for years, and episodes, to come...
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(Keep Feeling) Fascination, by The Human League, on YouTube
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First meta episode, about the show itself! It has been a while...
A quick touch on a few things that have gone on since the most recent previous episode, including vaccination and a weekly podcast (in addition to this one) that has confirmed it for sure... guests or co-hosts make for better discussion.
As well, there will be live stream discussion and text, it is the only interesting way to have discussions about the topics on the agenda.
Yet another (third!) podcast is entering production, domain names got, websites, next, and that's just getting started!
do not joinClubHouse.
Do check out the HugoFloss podcast, and watch for QuogglingSand...
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You cannot talk about economy without being an economist, can you?
Actually, you can, and if you've ever added "engineer" to the end of whatever it is you do, you know where this is going.
- Is MMT the next big thing?
- Is supply side economics ever going to work for anyone in the lower 90%?
- Universal Basic Income vs Job Guarantees, do they make sense?
- Economists like Macro, but the people make the economy, how about some Micro?
- And so much more as we take on this huge topic into the future...
A few books mentioned
- The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton
- Arguing With Zombies by Paul Krugman
- The Case For a Jobs Guarantee by Pavlina R Tcherneva
Several references as well to Prof Mark Blyth, proper links to some excellent presentations (available via YouTube) coming for the next lap around the Economeering topic...
This one is vast so while this is the planting of seeds for what is likely several topic arcs, it did not get into so much of the what works and what doesn't facets, which will follow as we focus on particular issues with, one might hope, particular guests and audience in our interactions.
Note this episode is posting on New Years Eve (UTC-8), just in time to wrap it up with a 2020 sticker. Listen for Meta episodes about the show itself, wherein we can figure out how best to interact with people in live streams.
As with all topic arcs, this is To Be Continued...
The first planting of topic arc seeds, to expound on topics, what works, and what does not, and what we can do about it.
Connecting the Last Mile, typically associated with delivery of goods and services from a local hub or central office to a destination at a business or residence, but today arguably including delivery of virtual goods and services via the internet including the ordering, tracking, and customer service aspects of those physical last mile deliveries.
How does the Last Mile relate to the Downtown Project, the effort in the Downtown Las Vegas area to change and uplift the energy and entrepreneurial spirit of the locale with some of the ingredients to transform a city into a Tech Hub.
What works about the Last Mile, and didn't work about the Downtown Project, and a few points in between, these are two great topics we hope to revisit with ongoing conversation with people who were there and did that, and where we can go next with what we've learned.
Specific reference to a Tech Cocktail talk given by Bambi Francisco in September 2014 in Downtown Las Vegas about this very thing, and the eight building blocks needed to make a Tech Hub.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrcgKOQqCBk
Special thanks to Dan Gunn for an original riff that is the current intro music, and to Phil, Mark, Bryan, and Pete for their respective Exclamations. We encourage participation from our listeners over time so that we may include you in the production.
Show Zero is the first episode of the first show in the Return to Digital Media. A former podcaster, I (Dan Hugo) am an engineer, technology nerd, and eager learner looking beyond bickering and sniping on social media, to discuss what is working and what isn't, and how we can deal with both.
This first episode of FFS is solo and introductory, I look forward to guest and listener interaction in the usual and unusual places...
Look for FFStalk...