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Action Items: On this week’s episode of Track Changes Paul and Rich sit down and share their top 5 tools that keep them productive. We chat about our favorite to-do apps, calorie counting apps and about apps that will make your meetings more productive. From simple tools to complex tools, we share our secrets for staying sane and productive at work. 

Whimsical 

OmniGraffle 

Visio 

Navigator 

Bloomberg - What is Code? by Paul Ford 

Basecamp 

Emacs Org mode 

FatSecret 

CalorieKing 

Google Fit 

Todoist 

Tinysheet by Postlight

Python 4

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Control your data: This week on Track Changes Paul and Rich sit down to chat about storage and subscriptions. We talk about Paul’s new network attached storage setup and why we consider it to be the third wave of computing. We also talk about ongoing and annoying online software subscriptions and Rich gives us some good tips on how to remember to cancel those subscriptions before your free months run out.

Links: 

Basecamp 

SeaGate Ironwolf Pro 

QNap Thunderbolt 4 drive Nas 

CommonCrawl 

Flickr 

Google Take-out 

OneDrive 

SiteCore 

Pi-hole 

Spotify 

Typing Club 

Stripe 

Truebill 

Trim 

SubscriptMe 

Bobby

Subby 

TrackMySubs 

Mint

Plaid 

Yodlee 

Abacus

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Tools to manage your tools: This week on Track Changes Paul and Rich discuss the best way to keep track of company communications and tools. Our verdict, an Intranet. We lay out what an Intranet actually is, what it should and could look like and why it’s so important in an age of using too many apps at once. We also make a pact to build a functional intranet in the next six months. Wish us luck! 

Trello 

Basecamp 

Github 

TriNet 

Pingboard 

Slack 

Abacus 

Airtable 

Dropbox Paper 

Whimsical 

Jira 

Pipedrive 

Greenhouse 

Dash for Slack 

Google Drive 

Zapier 

Chartbeat 

Adobe After Effects 

Sketch 

Apple Numbers 

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Still in reactive mode: On this week’s episode of Track Changes we continue off from last week to talk about broad trends in information technology in 2020. This week we dig into the more unsettling trends, like foreign interference in elections, a need for better and more proactive laws that govern internet use and cloud service confusion. We also chat about the return of bundled content creation and break down an unprecedented year in information technology. 

Ivanka Trump’s Appearance at CES Tech Show Draws Criticism - Time 

CES 2020

The Libertarian Logic of Peter Thiel - Wired 

Google Cloud 

HP Cloud - Wikipedia 

Tata Communications - Cloud Solutions 

Hulu 

Netflix 

Disney+ 

Roku 

Apple TV

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The year to come: On this week’s episode of Track Changes, Paul and Rich sit down to discuss some of the top trends to look for in 2020. From codeless platforms to Product Led Growth we chat about some of the biggest trends in tech right now. We share our thoughts on new products and discuss whether some of these trends should actually be trends. We also talk about the craziness that could be 2020. 

Gina Trepani 

Lifehacker 

Jobs to be Done 

Hasura 

GraphQL 

PostGraphile 

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Elixir 

Erlang

Ruby 

Yap.Chat 

Firefox

Pi-hole 

Gatsby 

AWS 

Netlify 

Notion 

Airtable 

Filemaker

Glitch 

Salesforce 

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Friction is introspection: How did the iPhone come to feel like an intuitive thing to use? This week on Track Changes Paul and Rich sit down with UX designer Cliff Kuang and co-founder of Dalberg Design Robert Fabricant to talk about their new book User Friendly: How the hidden rules of design are changing the way we live, work and play. We discuss the history of the concept and how it’s become something that we demand yet often take for granted. We also chat about the greater paradigm shift that led to the popularity of user experience design and about why we should maybe start to question the view that ease equals progress. 

Links:

User Friendly - Penguin Books 

Dalberg Design 

Frog Design

Paul Rand - Wikipedia 

Carbon Design System 

Plex - Google Fonts 

Three Mile Island 

Raymond Loewy - Wikipedia  

Ideo 

Marvin Minski - Wikipedia

Doug Englebart - Wikipedia 

Health Kit - Apple 

The Softbank Effect: How 100 Billion Left Workers in a Hole - New York Times 

Softbank

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Catering to the masses: On this week’s episode of Track Changes, Paul and Rich sit down to discuss the mess that is app stores. We chat about how the race to produce more and more content and why trying to cater to as wide an audience as possible is making for frustrating user experience. We also discuss our dreams of getting rid of in-app micro-purchases and the need for better app reviews. 

Links: 

Apple Arcade 

Google Play Pass

Monument Valley 

Cut the Rope 

Netflix 

The Verge 

iCloud 

Apple TV 

Pages 

Numbers 

The Morning Show 

Candy Crush 

Nintendo Life 

Death Stranding 

The Wirecutter 

Sago Mini 

Khan Academy Kids

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Answer the question: On this week's episode of Track Changes, Paul and Rich share some interview advice they've learned after conducting hundreds of job interviews. We give some straight-forward tips on what to do in job interviews. We chat about the importance of listening, keeping your answers concise and being able to have a conversation with your interviewer. We also talk about what you shouldn’t do. For starters, don’t act like you don’t want the job.

Links: 

Careers at Postlight

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Facilitating a digital mindset: On this week’s episode of Track Changes, Paul and Rich sit down to chat about the current job description for the Chief Digital Officer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. We go over the demands of the job and talk about the many complexities that come with being a CDO at such a large and political organization. We also talk about why it can be difficult joining a new organization and why you might have to accept that people will hate you for a while. Sadly it’s part of the job sometimes.

Links: 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art 

Job Posting for Met CDO - LinkedIn

Met Gala 2020 - Vogue 

Ralph Lauren Documentary - HBO 

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Accountability is friction: On this week’s episode of Track Changes Paul and Rich sit down to chat about different types of accountability software. Whether it’s a CRM, a to-do list or an app, we discuss what works best for staying on track and getting things done. We talk about the importance of empathy and support and why tactics based on fear never work in the long run. We also discuss why some software is moving away from adding accountability into its workflows despite it’s importance. 

Links: 

Sony Aibo 

Clippy 

Pipedrive 

Dash for Slack 

Postlight Labs 

Mirror 

Peloton 

Mother by The Police 

Sydney Cummings - Youtube

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