Tagged “podcasts”

First time I heard of Tyler. He seemed super weird! Diversity monoculture quote jumped out at me.

That in some ways, we’re investing in literally a monoculture of diversity. And that’s a little dangerous.
Like every city has restaurants. I saw a Guam restaurant on Mission [Street] when I was walking today. I ate at a Cambodian restaurant. Two days before, I was at Mandalay, a Burmese restaurant. And many cities have these. And we call it “diversity,” but we have to be careful also not to just be fooling ourselves.

I don’t love the forced Q&A format it comes up with, the questions feel leading or forced. But overall well done 5m summaries of papers.

a 3 hour podcast about skunkworks

bad month for podcast apps

years worth of book recommendations in an hour

Or apple podcast link.

A history of invasions of Afghanistan. Curious how many aspects we similar over time, the persistent impact of geography as that hasn’t changed much over the last 2000years. We describe hundreds of years as some era under the rule of X, but consider that’s more than your entire life! And for mountains no significant amount of time has passed

Rostam goes through the creation and production of a few songs. Some wonderfully specific parts, like when he included effects in the recording of a sample, or the attempt to find something completely different to an existing sound to add to a song.

How different you and your brain behave in times of extreme emotion. Makes people bad at empathising with others (“I would never do that…”), and bad at predicting or understanding their own behaviour.

Thoroughly enjoyable listen.

Was great hearing the earlier/wip versions of things (also related to him being a data hoarder! Though he’s done much better at it than me), and going through the various iterations, both good and terrible, seeing what works together and just that process of experimenting.

Really just hearing someone talk about their passion. Him realising that he really enjoyed messing around in garageband, making joke songs and jingles. Sometimes just saying random words to get the sound of something.

Fantastic interview on her background and reasons she had wanted to tell the story

Excellent episode. Need to relisten and write a summary

Super interview. Talks about books, birds, poetry, and spies, Lots of interesting and random tidbits in there

Interesting bit on translating sign language at a standup show (for a kid!), trying to choose appropriate tone & sign choice.