Four Pints In

This week we talk about Thriva, side projects, Adobe buying Magento and WWDC.

This week we talk about a puking chihuahua, Tom's new side project and Facebook

The results are in! We talk about; health, our 23andMe results and where we see health technology going.

We get excited by Estonia's e-Residency offering and the UK's open banking API iniative. We also talk about the challenge of setting salaries and being more comfortable with failures.

We make our 2018 predictions on cryptocurrencies, brexit, voice devices and non-animal meat!

Beers

Northern Monk Black Forest Gateau Stout

https://www.northernmonkbrewco.com/beer/black-forest-stranniktm-russian-imperial-stout

Uiltje Brewing Co Lemon & Vanilla Cheesecake Wit Beer

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/uiltje-grandmas-cooking-recipes-vol-2-lemon-vanilla-cheesecake-wit-beer/529825/

Saugatuck Brewing Co Blueberry Maple Stout

https://saugatuckbrewing.com/beer/blueberry-maple-stout/

Bitcoin electricity consumption

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

What gets taught in Computer Science Degrees

Contentful API

https://www.contentful.com/

Forecast.money

https://forecast.money/

Meanbee Acquired by Space 48

https://www.space48.com/news/meanbee-acquisition/

Backblaze backups

https://www.backblaze.com/

Indiehackers Course

https://www.indiehackers.com/@rob_race/how-i-earned-more-with-2-months-of-book-sales-than-18-months-of-saas-f117fee85b

Jack Freelancer Business Insurance

https://withjack.co.uk/

Belching Beaver

http://belchingbeaver.com/core-beer

iPhone X

https://www.apple.com/uk/iphone-x/

Facebook App Analysis

https://blog.timac.org/2017/0410-analysis-of-the-facebook-app-for-ios-v-87-0/

http://quellish.tumblr.com/post/126712999812/how-on-earth-the-facebook-ios-application-is-so

iPhone App optimisation

https://blog.halide.cam/one-weird-trick-to-lose-size-c0a4013de331

Forecast.money

https://forecast.money/

Nick

https://twitter.com/nickj89

Tom

https://twitter.com/bobbyshaw

Red 

https://twitter.com/reddavis

Toast Ale

http://www.toastale.com/

Tyranny of Universal Basic Income

http://quillette.com/2017/10/09/universal-basic-income-threat-tyranny/

Send money directly to people living in extreme poverty.

https://www.givedirectly.org/

Tesla Solar Energy in Puerto Rico:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/24/tesla-makes-quick-work-of-puerto-rico-hospital-solar-power-relief-project/

BaseCamp “pings”

https://m.signalvnoise.com/from-an-internal-basecamp-announcement-re-pings-ims-e0f61ec9e3bd

Deep Work by Cal Newport

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/dp/0349411905

Forums versus Slack.

https://twistapp.com/

- https://trackssl.com/

- https://www.destinythegame.com/

- http://peopleperhour.com

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/04/livestock-farming-artificial-meat-industry-animals

Send your feedback to us on Twitter

https://twitter.com/bobbyshaw

https://twitter.com/nickj89

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Show Notes

- Mt gox: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2017/09/17/kim-nilsson-of-wizsec-how-the-bitcoins-were-stolen-from-mt-gox/

- http://setapp.com

- https://forecast.money/

- https://heyfocus.com

- https://tomrobertshaw.net/2017/02/refocussing-on-deep-work/

Let us know your feedback at:

https://twitter.com/bobbyshaw

https://twitter.com/nickj89

https://twitter.com/reddavis