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:

July 23, 20209 // The Information Age
This modern Information Age can make it challenging for a creative professional to keep their focus. At the same time, there are many benefits to being plugged in. Mark and Adam discuss.
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A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
the Information Age
The end of mobile
The Information Pathology
The Slot Machine in Your Pocket
digital detox
the Industrial Revolution
The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Thinking About Attention
RescueTime
Screen Time
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Center for Humane Technology
Gell-Mann Amnesia
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority
...more
56min
July 11, 20208 // Principled products with Max Schoening
Max Schoening of GitHub joins Mark and Adam to talk about principled design, authentic marketing, tools for thought, and more.
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Max Schoening
@mschoening
end-user programming
tools for thought
SQLite
US Library of Congress recommended storage formats
Read the Fabulous Manual
composability
The Twelve-Factor App
GitHub Actions
ivory tower
Trello / card aging
Zen of Palm
Google Chrome launch comic
Things
OmniFocus
Exponent / Principle Stacks
unix / everything is a text stream
Overcast
Marco Arment
free and open podcasts
Brave
Signal
Telegram
Fathom Analytics
the year of Linux on the desktop
flame war
khaki pants
Daring Fireball
Muse email updates
no spinners
Situated Software
...more
56min
July 10, 2020 8 // Principled products with Max Schoening
Max Schoening of GitHub joins Mark and Adam to talk about principled design, authentic marketing, tools for thought, and more.

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Max Schoening

@mschoening

end-user programming

tools for thought

SQLite

US Library of Congress recommended storage formats

Read the Fabulous Manual

composability

The Twelve-Factor App

GitHub Actions

ivory tower

Trello / card aging

Zen of Palm

Google Chrome launch comic

Things

OmniFocus

Exponent / Principle Stacks

unix / everything is a text stream

Overcast

Marco Arment

free and open podcasts

Brave

Signal

Telegram

Fathom Analytics

the year of Linux on the desktop

flame war

khaki pants

Daring Fireball

Muse email updates

no spinners

Situated Software
...more
56min
June 24, 20207 // From prototype to product with Lachlan Campbell
Lachlan Campbell of Hack Club joins Mark and Adam to talk about path from research prototype to released product.
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Lachlan Campbell
Hack Club
interactive media arts at NYU
Real web development on iPad
Fonts on iPad
GoodNotes
iA Writer
Shortcuts
usability tests
Minimum Viable Product
Notion
software release life cycle
Gmail beta lasted five years
excerpting and wormholes
shelf
TestFlight
The Long Now
Steam Early Access
Kickstarter
Patreon
Future Fonts
Heroku Labs
Gmail Labs
iA Writer / Settings
...more
39min
June 12, 20206 // Human-Computer Interaction
HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) studies how people relate to their digital tools. Mark and Adam discuss their journey into HCI, how others can get into the field, and its influence on Muse.
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You and Your Research
The Art and Science of Doing Engineering
Stripe Press
Human-Computer Interaction
Ink & Switch
Xerox PARC
Microsoft Research
MeetAlive: Room-Scale Omni-Directional Display System
CHI 2019 proceedings
Peripheral Notifications in Large Displays
Sensing Posture-Aware Pen+Touch Interactions on Tablets
A Small Matter of Programming
Strategies in Creative Professionals’ Use of Digital Tools
The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff
Associative memory
Ben Reinhardt and innovation orgs
Brett Victor and Dynamicland
Andy Matuschak and a new mnemonic medium
Johnathon blow and Braid, Jai programming language
Rich Hickey’s Hammock Driven Development
Dan Luu and Computer latency
Martin Kleppmann and Local-First Software
...more
51min
May 26, 20205 // Gesture programming for the iPad
Developing an iPad app with a rich gesture space and unique spatial-zooming visual model is technically challenging. Julia joins Mark and Adam to break down the software engineering behind Muse.
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Xcode
iOS Simulator
Swift
Core Data
Firebase
Zoom privacy issue with Facebook SDK
Ruby
Postgres
Heroku
Choose Boring Technology
Dataclips
Gestures as defined by Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines
Shannon Hughes / Detangling Gesture Recognizers
The Omni Group
GestureVisualization
UIGestureRecognizer
two-finger scrolling in Muse
Muse design goals
card-carry maneuver
the inbox
view hierarchy
loading screens
open-world games
stylus swipe from screen edge to switch tools
UIScreenEdgePanGestureRecognizer
unix terminal
ctrl-C to interrupt a program in unix
state machine
...more
39min
May 11, 20204 // Partnership, freedom, and responsibility
The company behind Muse is structured as a small partnership. Mark and Adam talk about why the team wanted this unusual approach and how it's working so far.
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Muse is Hiring an Engineering Partner
startup employee stock options
Netflix Freedom & Responsibility Culture
startup founder
Starbucks / Howard Shultz
Google OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)
Salesforce V2MOM (Vison, Values, Methods, Obstacles, Measures)
alignment
Management by Peter Drucker
expensing
exercise window
vesting and cliffs
dilution
vest in peace
cap table
re-up
agency
Mad Men
professonal services
cult of personality
Disney company transition after Walt’s death
trial project / pilot project
indie
...more
38min
April 29, 20203 // Read the fabulous manual
Professional tools need a manual to explain how they work, but not all manuals are created equal. Mark and Adam discuss their mutual love of manuals, what makes a manual great, and why we chose video as the primary medium for the Muse Interface Handbook.
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Muse Interface Handbook
How to use your Rocket Espresso machine and make beautiful coffee
Go by Example
Heroku Dev Center
Ulysses tutorials
Working Copy Users‘ guide
GoodNotes how-to guides
Procreate Handbook
Stripe API Reference
unix man pages
The YouTube Revolution in Knowledge Transfer
tacit knowledge
The Matrix / I know Kung Fu
Building Heroku Add-ons
glossary
mental model
Muse design article
Capstone manuscript
green screen
Looom User Guide
RTFM
out-of-box experience (OOBE)
Bear
Notion templates
vi
...more
38min
April 16, 20202 // Having good ideas
Ideas are foundational for creative and knowledge work. Mark and Adam talk about fodder, making time to ideate, and the value of fresh surroundings.
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ideation
House M.D.
Where Good Ideas Come from
video essays
active reading
Moleskine
Field Notes
post-it notes
commonplace book
OmniGraffle
MindNode
Google Keep
Bear
Drafts
Shape Up
Pocket
Dropbox
Goodreads
Cowen‘s Second Law
Slow Software
Wiggins‘ Law
breadth-first
vertical slice
state of flow
Deep Work
academic sabbatical
Getting Things Done
mindfulness
...more
41min
March 24, 20201 // Tool switching
Muse has a modeless interface with no onscreen toolbars. Mark and Adam talk about the long research journey that led us here.
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modelessness
The Humane Interface
administrative debris
quasimode
tablet platforms
command glyphs
Muse design article
Procreate
Paper by FiftyThree
Apple Human Interface Guidelines
Ink & Switch
Surface Studio
Surface Dial
Google Jamboard
Catalyst
Xerox PARC
Bell Labs
Concepts
technical pens
Looom
Teenage Engineering ortho remote
Wacom tablets
...more
43min

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How many episodes does Metamuse have?

The podcast currently has 170 episodes available.

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