Warren Sack is back for a conversation of the Natural and Institutional Language from the French Encyclop

On this episode Lyle interviews his daughter Gwendolyn about the social software she uses in High School – iMessage, Instagram, SnapChat, TikTok.

And they play with Lyle’s new RodeCASTER Pro.

• Rode RODECaster Pro Integrated Podcast Production Studio RCP B&H
• All possible pythagorean triples, visualized - YouTube
• Cat puts paw in water and freaks out funny vine - YouTube
• The SnapChat video we record during this episode.

Ben and Lyle chat about elevators, the fear of dropping things, Podcasting, how we experience thoughts, drawing, learning, music, meditation, Time Tracking, Theme:Focus, Memory and being Present.

• Are you a 1,2,3,4 or 5 in this apple visualization exercise?
• Toggl - Free Time Tracking Software
• Qbserve app - Mac Time Tracking and Productivity Improvement

What does it mean to implement “hailing a cab” in software and how does this new translation stack up to the existing institution?

Discussions based around “The Software Arts: Chapter 2”, "Translation"with the author Warren Sack.

We talk about the differences of the humanities understanding of translation where meaning is lost, created, or changed, and compare it with the software concepts of perfect translation like compiling code.

Make sure to check out Part 1.

• Francis Bacon - Wikipedia
• History of calculus - Wikiquote
• Ludwig Wittgenstein - Wikipedia
• Software is not problem solving...

What I am saying is that software is an art and a form of design. Where you don’t necessarily know what the problem is.

This episode kicks off a limited series of discussions with Warren Sack centered around his book The Software Arts, MIT Press, forward by John Rajchman

The Software Arts offers an alternative history of software that places the liberal arts at the very center of software’s evolution.

• Join us in this discussion...

  Warren’s book is available from MIT Press – grab a copy and enjoy a multi-episode virtual book club with me and the author. We plan to release an episode for each chapter:

Reading along is not necessary to enjoy this series or episodes. And feel free to give us feedback and ask questions. Please contact us via Twitter: @WarrenSack, @Lyle.

MicroLEDs, Google Chrome Extensions are more private, macOS is locking things down, Expanse and other shows we are watching, and a post show covering wonderfully geeky PostGraphile.

• MicroLED Displays Could Show Up in Products as Soon as 2020
• Lyle Surgery Update
• Google to Minimize the Data Collected by Chrome Extensions
• macOS Lockdown and merging with iOS
• Expanse fans, no need to worry—Amazon orders season 5 of its new sci-fi show
• We’ve got our first peek at S4 of The Expanse and an airdate: December 13
• Louisiana declares state of emergency in response to ransomware attack
• Is the Phone Dead
• Graphile | Powerful, Extensible and Performant GraphQL APIs Rapidly

Brad Smith (@brad), the founder and CEO of Simplecast, talks with me about the creation of Simplecast from initial musings to venture capital infused growth, and building partnerships. Brad is also an expert on the podcasting landscape and walks us through some wonderful changes that Apple and Google have recently made that should help the podcasting community.

• Podcast Hosting, Distribution & Analytics - Simplecast
• Podnews podcasting news
• Google Podcasts rolling out to desktop, iOS in Google Search - 9to5Google
• Lyle's Setup for Podcasting

Lyle Troxell and Ben Jaffe about the current state of the Geek Speak podcast, conversation styles, and Lyle’s L5 S1 Back Surgery Fusion with instrumentation.

New Geek Rich Zurad joins Ben and Lyle to cover the JRR universe badly, the Star Wars vs Star Trek argument, cover some of the podcasts they like, and their pet health problems.

• This gravity-powered battery could be the future of energy storage - Archpaper.com

For the Netflix podcast I did a quick jaunt to Amsterdam – here is an audio-blog type entry of my time there – Lyle.

• Lyle's Photos Amsterdam - Kinda over-doing it.
• BanksyLaugh now - Moco Museum
• Yayoi Kusama - Moco Museum
• Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) - IMDb