FFS Talk podcast

FFS Talk podcast

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FFS Talk podcast episodes

  • Episode 0033: Reaction Videos
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: On the one hand, a good reaction video, to a movie perhaps, a movie already seen, can be interesting and entertaining, watching someone in excerpts experience that which we already have, the big moment, the final outcome, and so on. When those excerpts are news stories, important presentations, or other reactions to similar things, and we treat those reactions as valid analysis of events we may ourselves not have consumed directly, we lose.
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        • 1 hr 22 min
      • Episode 0032: Kicking The Can
        Show Notes
        • Host: Dan Hugo
        • Summary: Systemic procrastination is a problem, let us begin to discuss it now, rather than later.
          • Links
          • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
          • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
          • Self-service Street Repairs https://news3lv.com/news/local/east-las-vegas-valley-residents-take-decades-long-road-repairs-into-their-own-hands
          • SeeClickFix Clark County/Las Vegas/Boulder City https://seeclickfix.com/us-nv-clarkcounty
            • 59 min
          • Episode 0031: Re-Engineering The Great Re-Wiring
            Show Notes
            • Host: Dan Hugo
            • Summary: Phone free schools and surgeon general warning labels are all the rage, on both sides of each and still other routes to fixing the pickle in which we find ourselves, thank you social media and attention and surveillance economy platforms. Something does not seem right about these solutions, though, let´s engineer this thing.
              • Links
              • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
              • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
              • Book Site https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/
              • Online Supplemental Notes and Figures https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/research/supplements-for-each-chapter
              • EFF on Surgeon General Warning Labels and Phone Freedom https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/no-online-speech-should-not-have-warning-labels
              • Another proposed solution https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/15/im-an-expert-on-adolescence-heres-why-a-smartphone-ban-isnt-the-answer-and-what-we-should-do-instead
              • Simon Sinek on Raising a Generation on Dopamine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEpogM_fxsQ
              • LetGrow https://letgrow.org/
                • 1 hr 36 min
              • Episode 0030: Attendance vs Participation
                Show Notes
                • Host: Dan Hugo
                • Summary: Woody Allen of all people famously suggested that 80% of Life is Showing Up. Words to that effect, anyway, you really had to be there. If we take that suggestion literally, we may end up where we are now… perhaps we have.
                  • Links
                  • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                  • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                    • 1 hr 27 min
                  • Episode 0029: Perception vs Reality
                    Show Notes
                    • Host: Dan Hugo
                    • Summary: The availability heuristic, motivated reasoning, groupthink, and more can combine to shape the way we see the world around us, and its finer details, but should we believe what we think?
                      • Links
                      • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                      • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                      • Availability Heuristic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic
                      • Motivated Reasoning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning
                      • Groupthink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink
                      • Subjective and Objective https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)
                      • Propaganda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book)
                      • Public Opinion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Information
                      • Perfect Information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information
                        • 1 hr 7 min
                      • Episode 0028: Online Debates Debatable
                        Show Notes
                        • Host: Dan Hugo
                        • Summary: Online debates are all the rage, but are they even debates anymore? Should a debate have an after action smack-down session, declarations of victory, and celebrations of the crushing and ultimate destruction of the other side?
                          • Links
                          • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                          • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                          • Start Here for Debates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate
                          • Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X_KdkoGxSs
                          • Ben Shapiro vs Destiny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYrdMjVXyNg
                          • Chris Cuomo vs Dave Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3cdErzfQnI
                          • Hitchens v Hitchens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngjQs_QjSwc
                          • Bonum Fidei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_faith
                          • Fallacies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
                          • Social Media Has Collapsed Good Debate https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/06/joe-rogan-rfk-jr-interview-debate/674515/
                            • 1 hr 23 min
                          • Episode 0027: Monoliths and Oligoliths
                            Show Notes
                            • Host: Dan Hugo
                            • Summary: What do we do when there is only one substantive choice, when the masses accept that choice, and then the one choice fails miserably? Do we go to the next most popular and make it the new one, and do that again and again? Is it possible to take back a modicum of agency and maybe autonomy into our uncertain futures?
                              • Links
                              • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                              • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                              • Monopoly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
                              • Oligopoly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly
                              • Monopsony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony
                              • Oligopsony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopsony
                              • Information Silo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_silo
                              • 2001: A Space Odyssey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey
                              • The Paradox of Choice (book and concept) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice
                                • 1 hr 22 min
                              • Episode 0026: News to Me
                                Show Notes
                                • Host: Dan Hugo
                                • Summary: Some observations about modern news coverage, the non-stop news coverage situation, and cameras in the court room. The best time to be aware of biased and incomplete reporting was a few thousand years ago, the second best time is now.
                                  • Links
                                  • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                                  • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                                  • The Blind Men and the Elephant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
                                  • The Club Dumas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Club_Dumas
                                  • Motivated Reasoning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning
                                    • 1 hr 19 min
                                  • Episode 0025: Bring Back the Beta
                                    Show Notes
                                    • Host: Dan Hugo
                                    • Summary: Once upon a time, products were available to customers when they were Done. Now we are asked to spend real money on all manner of novel thing that is almost ready, or maybe not even that far along. Somewhere in the middle, we all got somewhat used to the Greek alphabet, and we should make a point of bringing it back…
                                      • Links
                                      • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                                      • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                                      • A Very Long Beta Release https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail
                                      • Says it on the tin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Google_Mail_Beta_logo.png
                                      • What is Beta anyway? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle#Beta
                                        • 1 hr 24 min
                                      • Episode 0024: College or Other and Continuous Learning
                                        Show Notes
                                        • Host: Dan Hugo
                                        • Summary: The news today is awash with strife at our college campuses, surely a sign of the end times, so long as we believe that a vanishingly small population of students are world-wise enough to represent their generation… in the mean time, where does college and higher learning fit into the near term?
                                          • Links
                                          • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                                          • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                                          • National Student Clearinghouse Research Center https://nscresearchcenter.org/
                                          • US Gov goes Skills Based https://www.nextgov.com/people/2024/04/goodbye-degree-requirements-biden-administration-pushes-skills-based-hiring-tech-talent/396185/
                                          • Mark Twain Quote https://www.azquotes.com/quote/298624
                                          • Availability Heuristic Bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic
                                            • 1 hr 41 min

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