Jira: the bloated tick gorging itself on the software industry. Join me and CJ Horton to learn about:

• Henry Gantt, the absolute chart simp who gave your boss the idea to ask you about your progress every half hour
• Infinite backlogs: where hope goes to quietly die
• The heartbreaking story of a billionaire's impostor syndrome

References:

• https://www.seangoedecke.com/seeing-like-a-software-company/
• https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/atlassian-mike-cannon-brookes-and-scott-farquhar/id1150510297?i=1000508150130
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNBmHXS3A6I
• https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/inside-the-atlassian-fallout-between-mike-cannonbrookes-and-scott-farquhar/news-story/ed90506fec79ee023d6f856592893c21
• https://www.realestate.com.au/news/37yearold-scott-farquhar-pays-more-than-70-million-for-derelict-fairfax-mansion-elaine/
• https://thedigitalprojectmanager.com/project-management/history-of-project-management-software/
• https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21573727.2011.609558
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira064/jira-3-0-release-notes-720413090.html
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira064/jira-4-0-release-notes-720413371.html
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira064/jira-5-0-release-notes-720413987.html
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira064/jira-6-0-release-notes-720413895.html
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftware/jira-software-8-0-x-release-notes-957981626.html
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftware/jira-software-9-0-x-release-notes-1142227613.html
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftware/jira-software-10-0-x-release-notes-1416825224.html
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftware/jira-software-11-0-x-release-notes-1587939582.html

Jira: the bloated tick gorging itself on the software industry. Join me and CJ Horton to learn about:

• Henry Gantt, the absolute chart simp who gave your boss the idea to ask you about your progress every half hour
• Infinite backlogs: where hope goes to quietly die
• The heartbreaking story of a billionaire's impostor syndrome

References:

• https://www.seangoedecke.com/seeing-like-a-software-company/
• https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/atlassian-mike-cannon-brookes-and-scott-farquhar/id1150510297?i=1000508150130
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNBmHXS3A6I
• https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/inside-the-atlassian-fallout-between-mike-cannonbrookes-and-scott-farquhar/news-story/ed90506fec79ee023d6f856592893c21
• https://www.realestate.com.au/news/37yearold-scott-farquhar-pays-more-than-70-million-for-derelict-fairfax-mansion-elaine/
• https://thedigitalprojectmanager.com/project-management/history-of-project-management-software/
• https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21573727.2011.609558
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira064/jira-3-0-release-notes-720413090.html
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira064/jira-4-0-release-notes-720413371.html
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira064/jira-5-0-release-notes-720413987.html
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira064/jira-6-0-release-notes-720413895.html
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftware/jira-software-8-0-x-release-notes-957981626.html
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftware/jira-software-9-0-x-release-notes-1142227613.html
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftware/jira-software-10-0-x-release-notes-1416825224.html
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftware/jira-software-11-0-x-release-notes-1587939582.html

Is the world ready for a mattress that snaps shut like a Venus fly trap whenever Amazon AWS is down? Jeff Bonhag and I decide!

- The Bourbons: France's sleepiest monarchs
- What kind of animal Peter Thiel sleeps inside
- The $5000 AI-powered bed that saved DOGE, and also sometimes pisses itself

References:

• https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/04/140416-chimpanzees-trees-sleep-beds-animals-science/
• https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abc7239
• https://www.reddit.com/r/EightSleep/s/x1GIkFiHgl
• https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/
• https://www.404media.co/the-aws-outage-bricked-peoples-2-700-smartbeds/
• https://nymag.com/strategist/article/eight-sleep-pod-4-review.html
• https://www.eightsleep.com/science/
• https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/aws-crash-causes-2000-smart-beds-to-overheat-and-get-stuck-upright-3272251/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/EightSleep/s/0HKiHcCUDj
• https://www.uniladtech.com/news/tech-news/elon-musks-doge-sleep-pods-513132-20250205
• https://www.reddit.com/r/EightSleep/s/3gM13Pw8Wo
• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legends-n-leaders/id1696212935?i=1000708827712

Remember those little strips that used to be on batteries, where you'd pinch it with your fingers and it'd say how much power it had left? This episode is about those! Join me and my buddy Manuel Wudka-Robles as we talk about:

• Why rivals Duracell and Energizer both announced versions of this feature on the same exact day
• How it worked
• Why they're not around anymore

References:

• https://tedium.co/2021/01/20/on-battery-power-meter-history/
  • https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-herald-duracell-competing-pate/68078245/
  • https://patents.google.com/patent/US5015544A/en
  • https://patents.google.com/patent/US5059895A/en
  • https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB884214290310763000
  • https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB933034516816675358
  • https://www.newspapers.com/article/democrat-and-chronicle-duracell-battery/68078674/
  • https://www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-operations/testing-the-charge
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsA3X40nz9w

I sit down with my good friend Stephen Lauck to talk about wireless headphones – or, as we like to think of them, headphones with invisible wires.

We cover:

• Mark Zuckerberg's stupid glasses
• Nathan Baldwin, the theoretical polygamist who invented headphones
• The first stereo headphones, made by Koss
• The 1/8" audio jack
• The Walkman
• The regulation of the radio spectrum (chart)
• Ether landlords
• Bluetooth
• The iPhone 7 (the first iPhone without an 1/8" audio jack)

References:

• https://hifisoundgear.com/blogs/basics-and-beyond/when-was-the-headphone-jack-invented
• https://www.headphonesty.com/2021/05/when-were-headphones-invented/
• https://patents.google.com/patent/US454138A/en
• https://web.archive.org/web/20090911070726/http://www.historytogo.utah.gov/salt_lake_tribune/history_matters/070801.html
• https://www.millcreekut.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Item/695?fileID=27840 
• https://www.phonographia.com/FOTP%20MM/Koss.htm
• https://koss.com/pages/watch-the-history-of-koss
• https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g00726/walkman-story-the-early-years-of-the-iconic-personal-cassette-player.html
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/853362
• https://flypaper.soundfly.com/discovery/short-history-18-inch-headphone-jack/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080624025103/http://www.iep.gmu.edu:80/UnlicensedWireless.php
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS0txu_Kzl8
• https://www.headphonesty.com/2025/03/real-reason-apple-killed-headphone-jack/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/1dbj7ee/the_thickness_of_every_iphone_and_screen_size

Credits:

• Our theme music is by Magic AL

I sit down with my good friend Stephen Lauck to talk about wireless headphones – or, as we like to think of them, headphones with invisible wires.

We cover:

• Mark Zuckerberg's stupid glasses
• Nathan Baldwin, the theoretical polygamist who invented headphones
• The first stereo headphones, made by Koss
• The 1/8" audio jack
• The Walkman
• The regulation of the radio spectrum (chart)
• Ether landlords
• Bluetooth
• The iPhone 7 (the first iPhone without an 1/8" audio jack)

References:

• https://hifisoundgear.com/blogs/basics-and-beyond/when-was-the-headphone-jack-invented
• https://www.headphonesty.com/2021/05/when-were-headphones-invented/
• https://patents.google.com/patent/US454138A/en
• https://web.archive.org/web/20090911070726/http://www.historytogo.utah.gov/salt_lake_tribune/history_matters/070801.html
• https://www.millcreekut.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Item/695?fileID=27840 
• https://www.phonographia.com/FOTP%20MM/Koss.htm
• https://koss.com/pages/watch-the-history-of-koss
• https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g00726/walkman-story-the-early-years-of-the-iconic-personal-cassette-player.html
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/853362
• https://flypaper.soundfly.com/discovery/short-history-18-inch-headphone-jack/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080624025103/http://www.iep.gmu.edu:80/UnlicensedWireless.php
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS0txu_Kzl8
• https://www.headphonesty.com/2025/03/real-reason-apple-killed-headphone-jack/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/1dbj7ee/the_thickness_of_every_iphone_and_screen_size

Credits:

• Our theme music is by Magic AL