Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs

By Elias Lanz & Sean LunsfordSociety & Culture
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Breadcrumbs episodes

  • 128: Snow Leopard in a Snowstorm

    Elias and Sean discuss the relationship between good work and creative success, and what makes good or exceptional work.

    Links and Show Notes

    • xkcd: Art Project
    • NTMY - Episode 11 - Stefan Sagmeister by Tobias van Schneider (Overcast | Castro)
    • 1 Year of VR Research
    • Srinivasa Ramanujan - Wikipedia
    • Jackie Chan - How to Do Action Comedy
    • How Animators Created the Spider-Verse | WIRED
    • Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm

      Sean - @splunsford

      Elias - @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
    • 127: Regret Management

      Elias and Sean talk about hubris and having what it takes.

      Links and Show Notes

      • xkcd: Impostor
      • Daring Fireball: Palm CEO Ed Colligan's Head Seems to be Stuck Somewhere
      • Apple Keynote 2007 Complete - iPhone - YouTube
      • Accidental Tech Podcast: 301: I Cut Them Up in the Air (1:07:49 -- Overcast | Castro)
      • Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm

        Sean - @splunsford

        Elias - @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 20 min
      • 126: Olfactory Art

        Elias and Sean attempt to taxonomify the creative fields.

        Links and Show Notes

        • xkcd: Purity
        • Why is it So Hard to Remember What Happens in Transformers? | The Whole Plate: Episode 3 - YouTube
        • Explained | Netflix Official Site
        • MasterClass Online Classes
        • Cortex #82: Screen Crimes - Relay FM (1:12:05 -- Overcast | Castro)
        • Dismaland - Wikipedia
        • Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm

          Sean - @splunsford

          Elias - @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 23 min
        • 125: Magic Pixar Sauce

          Elias and Sean discuss brand personality types, dematerialization, and the Apple services event.

          Links and Show Notes

          • 12 Brand Personality Types To Consider For Revved-Up Retention | Post Funnel
          • Complete 66 Mac vs PC ads + Mac & PC WWDC Intro + Siri Intro - YouTube
          • Dropbox Design
          • Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone -- Trending Buffalo
          • United States v. Microsoft Corp. - Wikipedia
          • Timeline - Time to Play Fair
          • Under the Radar - Relay FM
          • Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm

            Sean - @splunsford

            Elias - @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 34 min
          • 124: Nokia-Hard

            Elias and Sean discuss personality in products.

            Links and Show Notes

            • Type Descriptions -- The Enneagram Institute
            • Strange Planet on Instagram: "b u s i n e s s"
            • Metonymy
            • Synecdoche
            • Neutral
            • Faces in Things (@FacesPics) | Twitter
            • Bouba/kiki effect
            • Ship of Theseus
            • Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm

              Sean - @splunsford

              Elias - @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
            • 123: Grouping Like Snowflakes

              Elias and Sean talk about the legitimacy and usefulness of personality tests.

              Links and Show Notes

              • Are You A Pirate Or A Ninja? | BrainFall
              • The Myers & Briggs Foundation - MBTI® Basics
              • How The System Works -- The Enneagram Institute
              • Type Descriptions -- The Enneagram Institute
              • DiSC Profile - What is DiSC®? The DiSC personality profile explained
              • Learn What the 34 CliftonStrengths Themes Mean | Gallup -- formerly StrengthsFinder
              • Bonus link: this page on misidentifying fives and nines pretty much sums up the Breadcrumbs dynamic
              • Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm

                Sean - @splunsford

                Elias - @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 12 min
              • 122: Fences All the Way Down

                Elias and Sean discuss set theory as it applies to paradoxical barbers and ethical dilemmas.

                Links and Show Notes

                • Barber paradox - Wikipedia
                • Russell's paradox - Wikipedia
                • Trolley problem - Wikipedia
                • 71: A Satisfying Click - Breadcrumbs (Overcast | Castro)
                • 74: Potential Future Regrets - Breadcrumbs (Overcast | Castro)
                • Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm

                  Sean - @splunsford

                  Elias - @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.

                  57 min
                • 121: Chronological Snobbery

                  Elias and Sean give their two cents on a conversation about things that would happen every time were humanity rebooted.

                  Links and Show Notes

                  • No Dumb Questions: 053 - What would happen every time you restarted Earth? (Skittles activity at 1:29:40 -- Overcast | Castro)
                  • Strange Planet on Instagram: "b u s i n e s s"
                  • Body language, the power is in the palm of your hands | Allan Pease | TEDxMacquarieUniversity - YouTube -- the TED talk Sean was blanking on
                  • Dollar Street
                  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies:Amazon:Kindle Store
                  • Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm

                    Sean - @splunsford

                    Elias - @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
                  • 120: The Root Level of Me

                    Elias cracks the folder structure problem.

                    Links and Show Notes

                    • Elias's file groupings
                    • OmniFocus
                    • Things
                    • 2Do
                    • Bullet Journal
                    • Elias's prepended symbols
                    • Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm

                      Sean - @splunsford

                      Elias - @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 46 min
                    • 119: Peak Collaboration

                      Elias and Sean take it in turns to talk about various aspects of file management as it is today, and how it could be improved.

                      Links and Show Notes

                      • OmniFocus
                      • Things
                      • Carbon Copy Cloner
                      • SuperDuper!
                      • Backblaze
                      • Canva
                      • WeVideo
                      • Lightroom
                      • Darkroom
                      • DEVONthink
                      • Keep It
                      • Hazel
                      • Keyboard Maestro
                      • Alfred
                      • Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm

                        Sean - @splunsford

                        Elias - @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 33 min

                      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.