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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March 07, 2024Episode 0015: Connections Known and Unknown
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Community is a thing, but it is not always what you think it is, and that gap can be described sometimes by way of some understanding of the connections between members of the community and between communities, and beyond. Do we understand them, do we even know them, and do we know when they disco?
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
Santayana Quotes https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Santayana
Connections by James Burke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_TV_series)
Best-timed shot in TV history (real) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WoDQBhJCVQ
Gantt vs PERT https://www.projectmanager.com/blog/gantt-vs-pert-vs-network-diagram
Interconnectedness of All Things - Dirk Gently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Gently
Community Asset Maps (and more) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset-based_community_development
Complicated vs Complex https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-critical-difference-between-complex-and-complicated/
Personal Space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxemics
55-38-7 YMMV https://www.morethan1answer.com/the-55-38-7-rule-and-the-myth/
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1h
February 29, 2024Episode 0014: The Business of Getting Paid
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: With rare exceptions, we exchange time and/or effort for money. If we do it right we exchange more effort than time, and if we can do it passively, even better. Now about these circumstances that throw a spanner into the works…
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
Gratuity (Tip) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratuity
Mandatory Gratuity (Service Fee) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_tipping
Federal Labor Code on Tipping https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/15-tipped-employees-flsa
Tip Pooling Not Allowed https://www.wcpo.com/money/local-business-news/lawsuit-jeff-ruby-restaurants-violated-labor-laws-by-requiring-employees-to-participate-in-tip-pooling
Big Tip Big Problem https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2024/02/25/hear-from-michigan-waitress-who-was-fired-after-getting-10000-tip/
Gratuitous Vengeance https://nypost.com/2024/02/27/lifestyle/i-didnt-tip-a-pizzeria-for-our-slices-heres-how-they-got-revenge-and-why-im-never-going-back/
The $18 Big Mac https://www.salon.com/2024/02/19/how-an-18-big-mac-meal-became-a-symbol-for-economic-anxiety--and-what-that-means-for-democrats/
Pick Someone´s Brain https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/pick-brain
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1h 22min
February 22, 2024Episode 0013: Everyone in Silos?
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: There is a time and a place for a social silo, where two or more individuals need to conduct business away from others, whatever that business may be. Is it good, though, when silos become the primary landscape feature across an ecosystem?
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
Conway´s Law https://www.melconway.com/Home/Conways_Law.html
Cory Doctorow on Enpoopification https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
Behave… by Robert M Sapolsky https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31170723-behave
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41min
February 15, 2024Episode 0012: Dating Apps Have Had Their Turn
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Many people Meet Online, whatever that may mean specifically, but is meeting people getting easier? Are the people you meet better for meeting them via profile pictures and self-description on a monetized application platform owned by a monolithic matchin-making machine?
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
Linkedin a Dating Site? https://www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-is-a-dating-app-remote-work-online-romance-2024-1
Dating Markets https://econlife.com/2023/02/dating-markets/
The Tinder Economy (2020) https://lynettealh.medium.com/the-economics-of-tinder-de7026d5c3ea
Dating Apps and Profitability… https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2024/02/13/1228749143/the-dating-app-paradox-why-dating-apps-may-be-worse-than-ever
Adverse Selection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_selection
Match Group https://mtch.com/
55/38/7 Rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Mehrabian
Less Hanging Out for Americans https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/america-decline-hanging-out/677451/
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51min
February 08, 2024Episode 0011: Hype Spelled AI
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: AI is everywhere lately, and it is only getting worse. Yes, worse.
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
AI is NOT Artificial Intelligence… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfGchpJRCG8
Apple Sherlock project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software)
Karelia Watson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia_Watson
Colossus: The Forbin Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project
Mechanical Turk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk
Turing Test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
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41min
February 01, 2024Episode 0010: News and Journalism and Media Platforms
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: These are interesting times, particularly right now, with so many layoffs not only in the tech sector, but at major news media outlets. The definition of what News really is may vary per person, and who and where each person gets their news varies as well. Is there still room for investigative journalism and authoritative information outlets?
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
Doing your own research (DYOR) https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2023/12/20/why-doing-your-own-research-may-make-you-believe-fake-news/
Main Stream Media Bloodbath… https://www.axios.com/2024/01/26/media-layoffs-strikes-journalism-dying
Bringing Back Local News https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/local-news-investment-economic-value/674942/
Investigative Journalism https://gijn.org/about-us/investigative-journalism-defining-the-craft/
Reporting vs Journalism https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2009/dec/10/newspapers-pressandpublishing
Rebuilding Local News, maybe https://www.rebuildlocalnews.org/
Las Vegas Patch https://patch.com/nevada/lasvegas
Inverted Pyramid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)
Yellow (Sensational) Journalism https://www.britannica.com/topic/yellow-journalism
Which half? https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgebradt/2016/09/14/wanamaker-was-wrong-the-vast-majority-of-advertising-is-wasted/
Reporting on Reporting https://copyrightalliance.org/copyright-journalism-news-reporting/
History and the Printing Press https://www.history.com/news/printing-press-renaissance
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1h 15min
January 25, 2024Episode 0009: Ceding Everything to Technology
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Since the discovery of fire and the invention of tools from stone and/or the bones of (other) animals, we have been on a quest to make our lives easier and more efficient. Are we cheering on the move to replacing our own selves?
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine
Doonesbury Comic Strip on Newton https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mobile-computing/18/319/1714
First Human Making and Use of Tools https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/behavior/stone-tools/early-stone-age-tools
Human Use of Bone Tools on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_tool
Ethical AI (always do your research) https://www.unesco.org/en/artificial-intelligence/recommendation-ethics
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49min
January 18, 2024Episode 0008: Online Angst
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: These first weeks have seen some high profile YouTubers exclaiming their need to take a break, step back, retire, and so on. What about we normal folk, and being overly-exposed, connected, and dependent on social media platforms? Can we escape, and if so, who do we need to tell?
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
Oompaville - Why is Everyone Leaving…? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7MXRqZM2zo
Tom Scott Announcement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DKv5H5Frt0
MatPat Announcement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R1_TqU68yo
POSSE https://indieweb.org/POSSE
Bonus: Tom Scott, Royal Insti
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1h 9min
January 11, 2024Episode 0007: RSVP
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: We have Like and Share and Friend and Follow and all manner of words corrupted by social media. None moreso, perhaps, than RSVP, which has lost most of not all practical value. Can we fix this? Participez s'il vous plaît!
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
Wikipedia on RSVP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSVP
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35min
January 04, 2024Episode 0006: Drive to Excellence
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: The Drive to Excellence is one of those things we hear about, how they don´t make things the way they used to and all that. Should we settle for others moving fast and breaking things we depend on for the sake of some public valuation?
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
Simon Sinek Start With Why TED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZoJKF_VuA
Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6828896-delivering-happiness
Kevlin Henney, Worse is Better for Better or Worse, GOTO 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3JkpQAbTA4
Cory Doctorow, TikTok´s Enpoopification https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
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49min

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How many episodes does FFS Talk podcast have?

The podcast currently has 166 episodes available.