Metamuse

By Adam Wiggins, Mark McGranaghan

Tools for thought, product design, and how to have good ideas.... more

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The podcast currently has 170 episodes available.

Metamuse episodes:

December 10, 202019 // Progress with Jason Crawford
Jason Crawford writes about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. He joins Mark and Adam to talk about technologies like messenger RNA vaccines, nanotech, and supersonic jets. Plus society-level questions like whether we are in a period of stagnation, how we fund maverick ideas, and why we need hubris.
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Jason Crawford / The Roots of Progress / @jasoncrawford
Fieldbook
A Small Matter of Programming
We Need a New Science of Progress
The Torch of Progress — Ep. 13 with Adam Wiggins
The Great Stagnation
Bessemer steel process
germ theory
We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters
The Rise and Fall of American Growth and Jason’s summary
Where Is My Flying Cars? and Jason’s summary
Luddites
Victorian-era concept of Progress
A Culture of Growth
Francis Bacon
growth mindset
The March of Progress
World’s Fair posters
phase 3 clinical trials
Hardcore History
techno-optimism
1927 Charles Lindbergh ticker-tape parade
Why haven’t we celebrated any major achievements lately?
Academy of Thought and Industry
Boom
747: Creating the World’s First Jumbo Jet
Concorde
...more
58min
November 26, 202018 // Privacy
Thinking and creativity require privacy. In this data-intensive age, what does “privacy” mean for a tool for thought? Mark and Adam discuss product decisions in the context of digital privacy for the tech industry and society overall.
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US Supreme Court oral arguments live
The Right to Privacy (1890)
LiveJournal
GDPR
Brave, Duck Duck Go, ProtonMail, Fathom
Signal, Telegram
TLS
Clipper Chip
Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine
Local-first software
Open Whisper Systems
web of trust
Signal contact verification
Zoom end-to-end encryption whitepaper
PGP
telemetry
PII
cookie warnings
browser fingerprinting
Tor
TikTok iOS 14 clipboard notifications
Designing for Pragmatists and Fundamentalists
Edward Snowden, Citizenfour
Tails
The Stasi
The Lives of Others
...more
57min
November 12, 202017 // Rethink the OS with Jason Yuan
Jason Yuan believes that we all should feel empowered to think about ways to improve our computer's operating system. He joins Mark and Adam to talk about stage design, dreaming big versus delivering practical products, and why software should be fun.
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Jason Yuan / @jasonyuandesign
Mercury OS
MakeSpace
Screenotate
Omar Rizwan
Tyler Angert
Repl.it
Weiwei Hsu
Desktop Neo
Artifacts
iOS 14 widgets
Sketch
Orgami
Quartz Composer
Android launchers
Gall’s law
the iPod click wheel
virtual workspaces
Dynamicland
Bret Victor
spring damping
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
Xanadu
philosopher’s stone
The Mother of All Demos
...more
1h 5min
October 29, 202016 // No more boring apps with Andy.Works
Andy.Works believes in design-forward products, as seen in his work on Paper for iPad to a handmade analog clock for his young kids. Mark, Adam, and Andy discuss products as vector for culture; maverick game designers; innovation budgets; and pushing back against the idea of scale in software.
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Andy of Andy.Works
Andy’s clock project
Microsoft Courier
Surface Duo
FiftyThree
Paper
Paste
No More Boring Apps
KPI
John Baldessari
Muse podcast with Josh Miller
user-centered design
Frank Lloyd Wright
The Guggenheim
local maxima
Making Movies
Playdead / Limbo, Inside
Oskar Stålberg / Townscraper
Jonathan Blow / Braid
Notch / Minecraft
Jordan Mechner / Prince of Persia
not the user’s fault
Choose Boring Technology
...more
56min
October 16, 202015 // Leaving San Francisco
It's a new world: many creative professionals can now choose where they live, independent of where their employer is headquartered. Mark and Adam discuss the implications of this. Plus: the magic of Silicon Valley, cities that feed your creative soul, and strategies for making big life decisions.
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Emigration and other hedges
Stripe relocation incentive and Zapier relocation incentive
Y Combinator
Amazon HQ2
Stripe Atlas and Firstbase
Apple and Ireland tax case
Amazon and sales tax collection
...more
46min
October 01, 202014 // Onboarding with Jane Portman
Jane Portman of Userlist joins Julia and Adam to share her expertise with onboarding. Why guided tours don't work, the legacy of Clippy, and drip campaigns that are more personal and considerate.
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Jane Portman @uibreakfast
User Onboarding: The Ultimate Guide for SaaS Founders
Userlist
Benedikt Deicke
Intercom
lifecycle messaging
Claire Suellentrop, Forget The Funnel
UI Breakfast podcast
tooltips
Inspire, Not Instruct
aha moment
Clue
out-of-box-experience (OOBE)
Samuel Hulick, UserOnboard, podcast interview
Clippy
call to action
Val Geisler
drip campaign
tech touch
A/B test or split test
Max Seelemann
...more
49min
September 17, 202013 // Interface innovation with Josh Miller
Josh Miller from The Browser Company joins Mark and Adam to discuss how to make a better web browser in 2020. The conversation ranges from user agency in software to architecture to social capital to end-user programming.
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Josh Miller @joshm
The Browser Company
Branch
Nate Parrott
Einstein quote
beginner’s mind
Evan Williams
Brownian motion
The Roots of Progress
Jobs to be Done
David Adjaye
Museum of African American History and Culture
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
HVAC
Bjarke Ingels
Abstract
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Snap S1
Snapcodes
Evan Spiegel
Norton Commander
Electron
sociology
web browser as Figma canvas
CERN and the birth of the web
Taxi Magic
timing matters / Adam’s Heroku values
Robert D. Putnam
Bowling Alone
Scott Heiferman
Greasemonkey
Rust
...more
1h 9min
September 03, 202012 // Growing ideas with Andy Matuschak
Andy Matuschak joins Mark and Adam to talk about rituals for deep thought, how to develop an inkling over time, and the public goods problem of research.
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Andy Matuschak: homepage Twitter Patreon
How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
Michael Nielsen
Bret Victor on representation of thought
Quantum Country
spaced repetition
Anki
IDEO
iBooks
deliberate practice
Solitude and Leadership
LiquidText
evergreen notes
exponential backoff
Heroku haiku names
positivism and existentialism
deontological ethics
intelligent tutoring systems
ALEKS
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
Ivan Sutherland / Sketchpad
Palladium Magazine
mechanical keyboards on Reddit
Pricing niche products: Why sell a mechanical keyboard kit for $1,668?
tech transfer
Genentech and recombinant DNA
Dolby
Pixar
Why does DARPA work?
...more
1h 14min
August 20, 202011 // Authentic marketing with Lisa Enckell
Lisa Enckell joins Mark and Adam to talk about picking a category, aspirational creativity, and the purpose of product launches.
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Lisa Enckell
Antler
episode with Max Schoening
Patrick McKenzie on North Star podcast
Platform-as-a-Service
containerization
dynos
serverless
Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
Points of Parity, Points of Difference
purple cow
N26
Circles.Life
silhouette iPod ads
Signaling as a Service
hey.com
library of Trinity College Dublin
The Substance of Style
Marie Kondo
Marc Benioff
“It’s not when people notice you’re there that they pay attention; it’s when they notice you’re still there."
DreamForce, Google I/O
Ubuntu release cycle
Wrapp
23andMe
DNA Day
...more
43min
August 07, 202010 // Tools for thought
The rich history of tools for thought stretches back to the 1960s. Adam and Mark talk about how today’s computing, from iPads to Twitch to AI, might help us gain knoweldge and develop novel ideas.
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Tools For Thought
How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
bicycle for the mind
Doug Engelbart
Alan Kay
Vannevar Bush
As We May Think
the two-step process for developing ideas
Roam Research
Thinking, Fast and Slow
industrial-strength noise-canceling headphones
white-noise generators in a Muse email update
GPT-3
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
generative design
Twitch
Discord
...more
42min

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