Noise Cancelling Pod

On this week's episode, Frank and Axel are back from a break to discuss the plan to close out the Noise Cancelling Pod project. Don't worry some recent feedback led them to scrap plans for a "Grand Finale" podcast. Instead they reflected back on favorite episodes and other thoughts on 33 episodes, 1,835 minutes (30.58 hours) of content and roughly 4,000 listens in 84 countries.

The Limo Story

https://soundcloud.com/noisecancellingpod/episode-19-trevor-the-limo-and-a-walk-about#t=21:54

Spiders Will Eat Your Face

https://www.amazon.com/Spiders-Will-Eat-Your-Face/dp/B071X5J5N2

Frank and Axel jump back into the podcast after another brief hiatus, they discuss how to find balance and satisfaction in your life!

This week Frank and Axel talk to Matt Zeller (https://twitter.com/mattczeller), a co-founder of No One Left Behind (http://nooneleft.org/ and https://twitter.com/n1leftbehind). While on a mission in Afghanistan, his interpreter, Janis Shinwari, picked up a gun and killed two Taliban who were ambushing Matt’s position from behind, saving his life. Matt helped get Janis to the U.S. through the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program and together they founded No One Left Behind. Its mission is to is to help America’s Wartime Allies with SIVs resettle safely in the United States.

This week Axel and Frank jump into the topic of Curiosity! Check out Frank's favorite curiousity: https://geoguessr.com/ and his recommendation for distraction tracking: http://www.breakfree-app.com/

On the first episode of 2017, Frank and Axel look back at 2016 to reflect on a few questions:

What did we do well?

What could we do better?

What have we learned?

What puzzled us?

If you haven't seen it yet, here is Axel's blog post on learning programming during 2016:

https://axelclark.com/notes-from-a-year-learning-programming/

Frank and Axel return to the podcast with some weak excuses for the extended break from the last podcast. They give a quick update on some of their projects and then talk about styles and approaches to education.

This week Frank and Axel drop some big news, not about the podcast but about life! We also get into what makes memorable moments stick in your memory and how to be more present during an important experience.

This week Frank and Axel talk about tools and techniques to get the most out of collaboration using some lessons learned from their recent Fantasy Sports draft.

This week Mariam (twitter.com/MKhan47) is back to talk about traveling around the country to cover the summer's top stories, mentorship in the news media, and the importance of compassion & empathy in reporting.

This week Frank and Axel discuss Axel's new workout, way's to generate fresh ideas at work, and Frank's new project Mourning Story.