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Metamuse
By Adam Wiggins, Mark McGranaghanTechnology
Metamuse episodes
- 19 // 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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Show notes- 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
58 min - 18 // 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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Show notes- 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
57 min - 17 // 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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Show notes- 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
1 hr 5 min - 16 // 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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Show notes- 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
56 min - 15 // 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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Show notes- 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
46 min - 14 // 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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Show notes- 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
49 min - 13 // 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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Show notes- 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
1 hr 9 min - 12 // 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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Show notes- 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?
1 hr 14 min - 11 // 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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Show notes- 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
43 min - 10 // 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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Show notes- 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
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