My Librul Dad

14: Skinnerian Target Slab


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Dad and Nick discuss what makes a nerd and there are any subjects one can be passionate about that won't make you considered a nerd.

In follow-up, Dad wonders if there's any company small enough to be considered a person. He also comes out of the closet on being "Bernie-skeptical."

The subject of technology is fully explored, from Nick's earliest Koala Pad memories and Stunt Copter hijinks, to Dad's long career in the industry. But all that history brings us to today and the way our tools have become the tools of big corporataions who are targeting us with behavioral science to obsessively provide them with our innermost motivations. Are we okay with that?

Finally they discuss the President's really bad week in Vietnam.

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