FFS Talk podcast

By Dan Hugo

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

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The podcast currently has 166 episodes available.

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May 16, 2024Episode 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…
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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
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1h 24min
May 09, 2024Episode 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
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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
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1h 41min
May 02, 2024Episode 0023: Forget Good If Good Enough Will Do
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Many engineers, maybe more the ones from the old days but I hope not, will try to find a root cause for some problem and see about fixing it. In an age of personal economics, solving an immediate problem and calling that Done seems to be the new thing, and that always comes back around. Always.
Links
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Office Space sums up everything with this famous 47-second scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmq8N4A1u6A
The Pareto Principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
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1h 25min
April 30, 2024Episode 0022: Reviewing Reviews and Reviwers
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Reviews have always been a thing, often contentious for any of a number of reasons, from fake to paid-for to fraught with agenda, and more. What is wrong with reviews, or is it, what is wrong with reviewers?
Links
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Net Promoter Score https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_promoter_score
The Worst Product I've Ever Reviewed... For Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TitZV6k8zfA
Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QztFpzKsdeA
Satisfaction over Quality https://www.businessinsider.com/customer-satisfaction-surveys-scourge-annoying-ratings-email-marketing-research-workers-2024-4
Example of intense focused objective reviews of cameras https://www.imaging-resource.com/
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1h 36min
April 18, 2024Episode 0021: Precision and Accuracy and You
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Precision and Accuracy, orthogonal but definitely appealing when encountered together, but so often lacking individually. In a world only moving faster, we have the tools and the devices in our pockets, why are we apathetic?
Links
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Accuracy and Precision on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision
Units Matter even near Mars https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars-climate-orbiter
Time is Money, with or without laziness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_is_money_(aphorism)
German Precision and Bearings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Zc3Go2WLY
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1h
April 11, 2024Episode 0020: Intellectual Laziness
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: We already know that what you find on the internet is not always correct, but how can we tell, if we can tell at all? Maybe it begins with doing it yourself…
Links
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Frontline on Boeing 737-MAX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z76YpCz9N2Y
Debunking Jordan Peterson and Destiny on Vaccine argument https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi9VrF7EXIQ
JFK Assassination Solved. Again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjkaYboVDOQ
Capitalism is Not Physics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ3l_cGpBWQ
Two people who should not be debating transgender anything (Tyson, Shapiro) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w89etN8QqNQ
Truth putting its pants on… https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/
Simon Whistler https://www.simonwhistler.com/about
Motte-and-Bailey falacy (wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
Confirmation Bias (wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
Motivated Reasoning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning
What are you consuming?
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1h 35min
April 04, 2024Episode 0019: Own Your Brand
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: If you have the wherewithal to start a company of some kind, operate a business, or simply maintain a personal or professional brand of some kind, why on earth would you or anyone hand that over to others who could not care less about anything you do but for the money it makes them?
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
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Indieweb POSSE https://indieweb.org/POSSE
Do Businesses Need Conventional Websites Anymore? (Medium Members Only) https://medium.com/user-experience-design-1/do-businesses-need-conventional-websites-anymore-ae1bf5ba79d4
Amazon kills Diapers.com https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/emails-detail-amazons-plan-to-crush-a-startup-rival-with-price-cuts/
YouTube Adpocalypse https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/5/18287318/youtube-logan-paul-pewdiepie-demonetization-adpocalypse-premium-influencers-creators
Apple Sherlocking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software)
Epic Suit https://www.reuters.com/legal/apple-ask-us-supreme-court-undo-app-store-order-epic-games-case-2023-07-03/
Google Podcasts is Dead, of course https://www.techradar.com/computing/software/google-podcast-shuts-down-on-april-2-and-heres-what-you-can-do-about-it
Netcom and their storied times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcom_(United_States)
Cory Doctorow on Enpoopification https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
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1h 21min
March 28, 2024Episode 0018: Profit First, Fix Later
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: There was a time, maybe too long ago to remember, when excellence, innovation, and individual pride in a job well done. A quick glance across the headlines over these months, years, and even recent decades, reveals clearly the transition very clearly to the priority of profit, financial or otherwise
Links
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Boeing Needs a Reboot https://www.axios.com/2024/03/25/boeing-ceo-calhoun-culture-change
QR Codes Need a Reboot https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/unraveling-the-cyber-threats-lurking-behind-qr-codes/
One Thing Southern Nevada gets correct https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/las-vegas-going-all-in-water-conservation-plan-180983974/
The Bridge Collapse is only the Beginning https://www.businessinsider.com/baltimore-port-closure-could-cost-15-million-per-day-2024-3
Space Needs a Reboot https://dnyuz.com/2024/03/28/as-threats-in-space-mount-u-s-lags-in-protecting-key-services/
Google Podcasts EOL, no surprise https://www.wired.com/story/google-podcasts-how-to-transfer-your-subscriptions/
SBF Gets 25 Years https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-bankman-fried-be-sentenced-multi-billion-dollar-ftx-fraud-2024-03-28/
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47min
March 21, 2024Episode 0017: Scams, Shams, and Flim-Flams
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: We live in modern times, with access to so many ways for people to take advantage of us. There are ways to defend ourselves, but like carrying keys to locks, they do require some sacrifice and effort, and some motivation to comprehend and be aware. Do we have these?
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
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Three-Card Monte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-card_monte
Nigerian Prince, 419, Advance Money Scam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_scam
The Current Version—Pig Butchering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_butchering_scam
Phishing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing
Catfishing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catfishing
Voice Phishing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_phishing
Know Your Customer (Business SIde) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer
Gmail Bulk Emailer Authentication Rules 2024 https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2024/03/20/new-mass-gmail-rejections-will-start-in-14-days-google-says/
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125124328-never-split-the-difference-negotiating-as-if-your-life-depended-on-it-b
Impressarios Episode 0016 Trust but Verify https://open.spotify.com/episode/4sra9XZEoDg540wdfNf6sp
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1h 17min
March 14, 2024Episode 0016: A US Postal Service Reboot
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: The US Postal Service is actually sort of amazing if you really think about it, and today we are looking at something of a shadow of its actual, historical self. Some truly clueless people would like to see it go away for some reason, but what about…
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
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In Their Own Words https://about.usps.com/who/profile/history/
The US Postal Savings System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Savings_System
APWU Campaign to bring back Postal Banking https://apwu.org/postal-banking
USPS Services Offered FAQ https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-Retail-Services-does-the-United-States-Postal-Service-provide
The Big Picture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service
The most ancient Smoke Signals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_signal
The Battle of Marathon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon
Pony Express https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_Express
Dots and Dashes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_transcontinental_telegraph
Mail on Rails https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_transcontinental_railroad
Letter Carrier Robberies Continue… https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/letter-carrier-robberies-continue-usps-union-lawmakers-seek-108040136
Largely Self-funded https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12516/3
Recoding America https://www.recodingamerica.us/
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1h 4min

FAQs about FFS Talk podcast:

How many episodes does FFS Talk podcast have?

The podcast currently has 166 episodes available.