Brett chats with Art Director Glenn Chipman about brainstorming, cartooning, trials, tribulations, and high school bands.

Brought to you by

Smile and PDFpen 7: everything you need to annotate, edit, OCR, and more. Check it out at smilesoftware.com/systematic.

Show Notes

Glenn Chipman

@glennchipman

Glenn on Facebook

Top 3 picks

Glenn:

iPad Pro

Jot stylus

Paper by FiftyThree,

Pencil by FiftyThree

Astropad

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Brett:

Skinny Legs and All — Tom Robbins

Still Life With Woodpecker

Douglas Adams

Linkpack

Interact

Ben Elijah, author of The Productivity Habits, joins Brett to talk about productivity, creativity, and solving the long-time question of “contexts” in the “Getting Things Done” philosophy.

Sean Schbley joins Brett for an enlightening discussion about the history of religion and politics in the Middle East.

Jeff Highsmith joins Brett to talk about his experiences building installations for a children’s museum, and how an outdoorsman had robotic tinkering become both a hobby and a job.

TV and film Actor/Director Jillian Armenante (Judging Amy, North Country, Fresh Off The Boat) joins Brett to talk about life as an actor, projects that range from her start in the industry to the present (Kittens in a Cage), Rock and Roll, and the finer points of low-tech Holiday decorations.

Steve Lambert talks with Brett about self control (the act and the app), things that work on paper (but not in the real world), and the importance of activism.

Georgia Dow takes on many roles in many fields: psychotherapist, Brazilian Jiujitsu badass, technology writer, and multi-podcaster. She and Brett discuss martial arts, accepting the importance of negative emotions, and they unpack the complexity of Georgia’s reaction to Pixar’s Inside Out.

Gerry Hayes repairs and designs guitars, and has recently published Sketchy Setups, a book about setting up specific instruments. He and Brett talk about guitars, writing, and personal touch.

Writer/actor/director/producer/return guest David Wain is back for his third appearance on Systematic. He reveals secrets (or not) about Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, updates us on his standard workflow tools, and endorses the use of phanton children as a GTD device.

Glenn Fleishman is a writer, former Jeopardy! champion, and autodidact. Since an early age, he’s been very aware that he has “story bones”. He and Brett (unintentionally) discuss the power of deadlines and different types of currency: monetary systems built by children, cryptocurrency, and the not-so-common currency shared by their respective minds.