FFS Talk podcast

FFS Talk podcast

By Dan HugoSociety & Culture
Download on the App Store

FFS Talk podcast episodes

  • Episode 0053: Rivers and Walls and Feeds
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Our online world is mostly about infinite scroll, a reverse-chronological ordering of events, photos, brief messages, our unread emails and other messages. Are we always catching up, leaving out the items that fall off the bottom of our attention span, and is there a better way to do this?
      • Links
      • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
      • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
        • 52 min
      • Episode 0052: Logic and Reasonng
        Show Notes
        • Host: Dan Hugo
        • Summary: The end of Season 0, and with all of the tumult in the news and social media today, why not end Season 0 with some thinking about thinking?
          • Links
          • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
          • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
          • Never Split the Difference book https://www.blackswanltd.com/never-split-the-difference
            • 54 min
          • Episode 0051: Pick a Path
            Show Notes
            • Host: Dan Hugo
            • Summary: Tangentially related to the recent election outcome, but more generally this is about selecting a goal or collection of goals to accomplish based on principles, rather than politics or something else like power or money. This will be the topic throughout this episode.
              • Links
              • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
              • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                • 58 min
              • Episode 0050: Post Election Ideation
                Show Notes
                • Host: Dan Hugo
                • Summary: Now that Election Day 2024 has come and gone, some reflections on what works, what does not, and what we might do about it as an extremely divided electorate, two groups with more in common than not, but with no idea how this could be. Let us consider not so much the candidates, nor the parties, but the voters, you and me, and where we might do better.
                  • Links
                  • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                  • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                    • 1 hr 30 min
                  • Episode 0049: Ballots and Polls
                    Show Notes
                    • Host: Dan Hugo
                    • Summary: You may already have mailed yours in, maybe you are thinking about dropping it off, perhaps you will walk in and fill it out there, or you could just skip the whole thing. Whichever path you take, it seems like we should be better at this by now…
                      • Links
                      • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                      • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                        • 1 hr 32 min
                      • Episode 0048: Assume The Position
                        Show Notes
                        • Host: Dan Hugo
                        • Summary: We all have opinions, the question is whether we form them ourselves based on what we learn, what we can verify, what we know, or are our opinions handed to us to consume and pass on?
                          • Links
                          • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                          • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                          • Motivated Reasoning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning
                          • Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
                          • Ad Hominem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
                          • Political Spectrum/Compass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum
                          • Pew Research Political Topology Quiz https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/quiz/political-typology/
                          • Ranked Choice/Instant Runoff Voting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
                            • 1 hr 10 min
                          • Episode 0047: Signals and Systems
                            Show Notes
                            • Host: Dan Hugo
                            • Summary: If we label surveys, polls, statistics and data in general as Signals, then we can look at how these various Signals drive, in any direction, our various Systems on which we all rely, yet it is more apparent than ever that neither the Signals, nor the Systems, are reliably considered.
                              • Links
                              • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                              • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                              • Signal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal
                              • System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System
                                • 56 min
                              • Episode 0046: Informed Public
                                Show Notes
                                • Host: Dan Hugo
                                • Summary: Not a new topic, but information awareness appears to be on the decline at a faster pace than even the most pessimistic among us could have imagined. With luck this is an artifact of the intensity of this election season, but there may be long term impact.
                                  • Links
                                  • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                                  • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                                  • Data Information Knowledge Wisdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_pyramid
                                    • 52 min
                                  • Episode 0045: Debate v2
                                    Show Notes
                                    • Host: Dan Hugo
                                    • Summary: Political Debates, you gotta love ´em. Or do you? Are political debates, and we know which ones in particular, worth the trouble, or should we as an electorate come up with something else? Should not those doing the hiring determine how we conduct the interviews?
                                      • Links
                                      • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                                      • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                                      • Debate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate
                                      • Kennedy-Nixon https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/history/debate/kennedynixon/kennedynixonscholarly.html
                                      • All of the debates https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/presidential-documents-archive-guidebook/presidential-campaigns-debates-and-endorsements-0
                                      • Debate History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_debates
                                      • 2000 Bush-Gore Debate 2 Seated Town Hall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irzSo578gmg
                                      • Jeopardy! Rundown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy!
                                      • Jeopardy Board Template https://jeopardylabs.com/
                                        • 1 hr 13 min
                                      • Episode 0044: Adopting Modernity
                                        Show Notes
                                        • Host: Dan Hugo
                                        • Summary: We are surrounded by the most cutting edge technology ever conceived or even imagined by humans, with among other benefits more access to more information than most can fathom, yet we appear to be growing less and less connected, less and less aware, and certainly less and less secure in our daily travels and travails. What is going on?
                                          • Links
                                          • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                                          • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                                          • Modernity Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernity
                                          • Modernity Britannica https://www.britannica.com/topic/modernity
                                            • 43 min

                                          About FFS Talk podcast

                                          From the publisher's feed

                                          This is a conversational show about problems and solutions, discussing what is working and what isn't and what "we" might do about it.