Biz vs Dev

Biz vs Dev

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  • Ep 28. Technology, no wait, food. again.

    This week: How new technologies earn our trust, and why it’s so hard.

    Mik said it was Ep 27 in the intro. But you and me? We know it’s not.

    Thanks for reading the show notes!

    links:

    • Steelcase on Environment in the workplace
    • Gensler on Environment in the workplace
    • HBR (October, 2014)
    • Email Mik: [email protected]
    • New York Times on Soylent
    • Sprouts.io
    • Most corn is fed to cattle
    • Deng Xiaoping: “It doesn’t matter whether a cat is black or white, if it catches mice it is a good cat”
    • Bertrand Russell: “In Praise of Idleness” (full text, or buy on amazon)

      • Books:

      • The Power of Place
      • Pandoras seed
      • The Happiness Hypothesis

        • (music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)

        1 hr 17 min
      • Ep 27. Making your own luck, trust

        This week: How James created a successful open source project, and the parallels between trust in business and romantic relationships.

        links:

        • Pydub
        • City Mapper
        • Plated
        • Blue Apron
        • Sweet Roots
        • Plague Inc (game)
        • f.lux
        • Twilight for Android
        • Nobel prize in Physics: Blue LEDs
        • Google “Why am I…” in NYC will suggest “…so tired”

          • Book recommendation:

          • The Empathic Civilization by Jeremy Rifkin

            • (music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)

            1 hr 9 min
          • Ep 26. Focus

            This week: We talk about Focus. James’ Soylent arrived, and a little about Typography.

            links:

            • Soylent
            • Garden of life
            • Exo bars made with cricket flour
            • Moshe Safdie’s TED talk, How to reinvent the apartment building
            • Paul Graham: Before the Startup
            • Simon Sinek: Start with Why
            • Elon Musk article on Aeon Magazine

              • Book recommendations:

              • M. Scott Peck: The Road Less Traveled
              • Ellen Lupton: Thinking With Type
              • Ellen Lupton: Type on Screen

                • (music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)

                1 hr 4 min
              • Ep 25. Ads and “Wearables”

                This week: How ads work and ahem “Wearables”… Ok let’s be honest. The Apple Watch. But we discuss the form factor in general.

                links:

                • Melting Asphalt: Ads Don’t Work That Way
                • Myo Gesture-control Armband by Thalmic labs
                • “Alone Together” by Sherry Turkle
                • Sherry’s TED Talk
                • Alibaba (info on Wikipedia, Google Finance)
                • Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

                  • Book Reccomendations:

                  • Small is Beautiful
                  • Vampires in the Lemon Grove

                    • (music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)

                    1 hr
                  • Ep 24. Peter Crysdale (StrategyHack)

                    Peter Crysdale founded StrategyHack to close the divide between the startup and marketing communities in NYC. He also runs Startup Grind New York. In this episode Peter shares stories, tactics, and useful resources for entrepreneurs.

                    links:

                    • The Atlantic: Article about how we could have a better web (no ads!).
                    • Peter was the CEO of The Green Economy
                    • Hitlist
                    • Biz vs Dev on Speaking Plainly
                    • One Medical Group (offices where you get proper, pleasant treatment)
                    • Yesterbox
                    • Paul Graham: Maker’s Schedule. Manager’s Schedule
                    • LaunchLM - Paid Internship. Mik’s hiring!
                    • The Scaffold
                    • SumAll
                    • Joaquin Phoenix starred in Her (not She)
                    • GetTaxi
                    • Jared Sinclair (created Unread, an RSS reader) wrote about his App Store sales
                    • Noah Kagan
                    • Early Adopter Network: NYU startup that helps you do QA by recruiting students to test your product. (Via: Hackers of NY)
                    • The Test Tube (monthly NYC meetup on testing UX)
                    • Product Hunt
                    • Duck Duck Go’s Don’t Track Us Campaign
                    • ClickToTweet.com
                    • Peter runs the NYC chapter of Startup Grind
                    • Mark Suster: Why You Need to Take 50 Coffee Meetings

                      • Find Peter elsewhere:

                      • twitter: @PCrysdale
                      • Strategyhack.org
                      • Startup Grind NYC

                        • (music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)

                        1 hr 23 min
                      • Ep 23. Robin Williams

                        Robin Williams was a magical person, gone too early.

                        links:

                        • Ugly Fruit and Vegetables campaign
                        • “You can’t just live off vitamins and drink water” Food is more than the sum of its parts
                        • Book: “Dune”
                        • “People are tricked into liking a song”: article with a featuring sensationalist words such as, “literally”, “hostage”, and “brainwashing”
                        • Book: “This is Your brain on Music”

                          • (music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)

                          1 hr 23 min
                        • Ep 22. iPhones have the same problem

                          links:

                          • Ben Thompson’s Stratechery
                          • Blue Bottle - and their venture round.
                          • Bluestone Lane
                          • Blossom vegan restaurant
                          • Blood Libel
                          • Tabata Technique (4 min workout which HIIT is based off)
                          • The Scientific 7 Minute Workout
                          • Startup Weekend, Social Impact
                          • WunWun
                          • Pop, an app prototyping tool
                          • Jon Stewart parodied CNN’s “good or bad, good or bad?”
                          • Egregious Facebook messenger privacy policy (Disregard odd article date)
                          • Oxford Comma (comic, stalin)
                          • Chicago, “Does anybody really know what time it is?”
                          • Brain Pickings, on “Small is Beautiful” (buddhist economics)

                            • (music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)

                            1 hr 8 min
                          • Ep 21. Refactored Writing

                            links:

                            • INE ventures
                            • James’ Toy Swift app (Grocery List)
                            • BuzzFeed reported on a tobacco ad which reportedly invented the word “like” (#14)
                            • Hemingway App
                            • “Hemingway” on Hemingway
                            • Free Jazz
                            • Article about books most frequently abandoned and article about most unread books and the Hawking Index
                            • On Writing Well
                            • George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”

                              • Writing sample (From Das Kapital)

                              I originally planned to just cross out words. But since that required changing tenses and conjugations, I’ll just provide the original and the revised version.

                              The desire after hoarding is in its very nature unsatiable. In its qualitative aspect, or formally considered, money has no bounds to its efficacy, i.e., it is the universal representative of material wealth, because it is directly convertible into any other commodity. But, at the same time, every actual sum of money is limited in amount, and, therefore, as a means of purchasing, has only a limited efficacy. This antagonism between the quantitative limits of money and its qualitative boundlessness, continually acts as a spur to the hoarder in his Sisyphus-like labour of accumulating. It is with him as it is with a conqueror who sees in every new country annexed, only a new boundary.

                              James’ revisions:

                              The desire to hoard is fundamentally unsatiable. Qualitatively, money has unlimited efficacy – it’s the universal representation of material wealth – because it’s convertible into any commodity. But, every actual sum of money is a fixed amount, so it has a limited efficacy as a means of purchasing. This antagonism between the limits and boundlessness of money continually acts as a spur to the hoarder in his Sisyphus-like labour of accumulating. He’s like a conqueror who, with each new country they annex, just sees a new boundary.

                              (music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)

                              1 hr 20 min
                            • Ep 20. Season Three

                              links:

                              • Zoolander “In the computer” (preceded by this)
                              • Forbes: “Why Marc Andreessen Knows Nothing About Low-Income America and Neither Do You”
                              • Hailo - Helps you hail a cab
                              • Colorado embraces ride-sharing by being the first state to legalize it
                              • Mik claimed that clear alcohol is easier on the liver, which wasn’t entirely accurate. A few related bits to discuss here: Darker beers and wines tend to have more antioxidants. But they also contain more cogeners, the toxic chemical byproducts of the fermentation proces. The darker the alcohol, the greater the cogener concentration. Darker spirits=worse hangovers More detailed reading on alcohol myths
                              • Perfumes ward off infection: Museum of London
                              • Robert Bly’s, “Iron John: A Book About Men”
                              • Wade Davis’s, “The Wayfinders”
                              • Book: “Original Wisdom”
                              • Ubuntu
                              • Britain’s cigarette ban for people born after 2000
                              • Bacchus was the Roman equivalent of Dionysus, which would explain the interchangeable modern day usage of ‘dionysian’ and ‘bacchanalian’
                              • Roger Dodger Trailer
                              • Fred Wilson: “No Pain No Gain”
                              • Mik confused two Emerson essays. Naturlangsamkeit (the slowness of nature) is from his essay, “Friendship”. Both “Friendship” and “Self-Reliance” are chockfull of wisdom, and likely worthy of an annual re-reading.
                              • Jobr (not Tippr): Tinder for jobs
                              • Grassroots Tavern A bar in St Marks Place that is on the quieter side

                                • (music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)

                                1 hr 7 min
                              • Ep 19. Emotional Contagion

                                links:

                                • DOD Civil unrest study
                                • Facebook’s research (the actual study)
                                  • New York Times
                                  • Pew Research
                                  • the Atlantic
                                  • Wired
                                  • James’ Hypothesis: Priming
                                  • New York Times article on strangers People feel better if they talk to a stranger
                                  • The audibility and clarity of MTA subway announcements has declined, but it was worse before 2006 Thankfully, Straphangers.org work was (indirectly) recognized and the MTA launched their first Rider Report Card
                                  • Writing class with Richard Price at Baruch College
                                  • Movie from the poster in his bathroom, New York Stories
                                  • First nuclear weapons were not megaton bombs, they were much smaller (like 12k tons)
                                  • Tsar Bomba (~50 megatons)
                                  • Words That Are Most Known to Only Men or Women
                                  • The History of Pink for Girls and Blue for Boys Lots of internal links within, for delightfully curious minds
                                  • Goldie Blox

                                    • (music: Happiness by Tondrae Kemp)

                                    56 min

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