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Breadcrumbs
By Elias Lanz & Sean LunsfordSociety & Culture
Breadcrumbs episodes
- 188: Spreadsheets Are Ziplines
Elias and Sean share stories of hard work and then talk about hard work as climbing a mountain.
Links and Show Notes
- See where projects really stand with Hill Charts: Basecamp
@breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks
Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
1 hr 19 min - 187: Make the Work Work
Elias and Sean try to define hard work.
Links and Show Notes
- P versus NP problem
- Millennium Prize Problems - Wikipedia
- The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy (Part 1/2) - YouTube
- Apple's Relentless Strategy, Execution, and Point of View | by Steven Sinofsky | Jun, 2020 | Learning By Shipping
- Is Anyone Watching Quibi?
- HEY - Email at its best, new from Basecamp.
- Juicero
- The Chosen (TV series)
@breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks
Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
1 hr 2 min - 186: Low-Hanging Biological Fruit
Elias and Sean discuss the messiness of working with humans.
Links and Show Notes
- Thread by @natalienagele
- Conveyor -- Version control meets task management.
- Companies | People-First Jobs
- Automattic -- Making the web a better place
- Ghost: Turn your audience into a business
- Zapier | The easiest way to automate your work
- Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps - The Verge
- Brave New World - Wikipedia
@breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks
Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
1 hr 4 min - 185: Built on the Backs of Body Counts
Elias and Sean talk about companies treating people fairly and showing humanity.
Links and Show Notes
- ATP 383: Demand-Paged Outrage -- Accidental Tech Podcast (1:44:27 -- Overcast | Castro)
- Amazon.com: Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World eBook: Harrison, Scott, Sweetingham, Lisa: Kindle Store
- Netflix to start cancelling inactive customers' subscriptions -- TechCrunch
- Alto's Odyssey on the App Store
- 'Warren Buffett's Paper Wizard' is Apple's First iPhone Game Since 2008 - MacRumors
@breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks
Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
55 min - 184: You Don’t Fire Family
Elias and Sean talk about companies who just want to be a happy family.
Links and Show Notes
- Basecamp: About our company
- 3 Reasons to Treat Employees Like Family | Inc.com
- Why treating people like family is the key to effective leadership
- Bob Chapman: Why You Should Treat Your Employees As Family
@breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks
Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
53 min - 183: Building Ships, Not Writing Poetry
Elias and Sean compare and try to learn from the company cultures of Netflix and Basecamp.
Links and Show Notes
- Netflix Culture
- Gaussian elimination - Wikipedia
- Netflix Jobs
- Basecamp: About our company
- Greatest Hits Archives - Signal v. Noise
- The presence prison - Signal v. Noise
- Employee-surveillance software is not welcome to integrate with Basecamp - Signal v. Noise
- Scientific management - Wikipedia
- Plex
- How we structure our work and teams at Basecamp - Signal v. Noise
- Status meetings are the scourge - Signal v. Noise
@breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks
Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
1 hr 9 min - 182: Playdough Formalization Committee
Elias and Sean talk about the process of formalization and get into a debate about what counts as a checklist.
Links and Show Notes
- formalise - Google Search
- 22 Mesmerizing Pasta GIFs You Won't Be Able To Stop Watching
- Basecamp: Project Management & Team Communication Software
- Mechanistic Vs. Organic Organizational Structure | Bizfluent
- Things
- Fantastical
@breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks
Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
54 min - 181: Weird, Awkward, but Beautiful
Elias and Sean talk about systems before and after they get named and formalized.
Links and Show Notes
- Kanban - Wikipedia
- Agile software development - Wikipedia
- Trello
- Airtable
- The Toyota Way
- The Checklist Manifesto
- Getting Things Done
- H.I. #39: Getting Things Done -- Hello Internet (Overcast)
- Things
- OmniFocus
- Bootstrap · The most popular HTML, CSS, and JS library in the world.
- React Native · A framework for building native apps using React
- Inbox Zero - YouTube
- Bullet Journal
@breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks
Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
1 hr 11 min - 180: More Names for Snow and Blue
Elias and Sean discuss the effect of language on one’s perception of reality.
Links and Show Notes
("Arrival" spoilers between 1:38 and 4:39)
- Does the Linguistic Theory at the Center of the Film 'Arrival' Have Any Merit? | Science | Smithsonian Magazine
- Arrival (2016) - IMDb
- Ready Player One (2018) - IMDb
- Linguistic relativity - Wikipedia
- Amazon.com: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World eBook: Epstein, David J. : Kindle Store
- Economist Debates: Language: Statements
- About -- x-callback-url
@breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks
Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
45 min - 179: Data Whisperers
Elias and Sean consider the problem of too much information.
Links and Show Notes
- Urban Dictionary: TMI
- Urban Dictionary: t.m.i. TMZ
- Walk on water (Liquid Mountaineering) - YouTube
- Big Data or Too Much Information? | Innovation | Smithsonian Magazine
- Why Too Much Data Is A Problem And How To Prevent It
- Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms - Kindle edition by Fry, Hannah. Arts & Photography Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
@breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks
Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
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About Breadcrumbs
From the publisher's feed
Elias and Sean grew up together overseas before studying engineering in Germany and the US respectively. Breadcrumbs is their weekly chat about things past, present, and future.