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Justin and Jason discuss the impending delivery of Justin’s walking desk and his health and fitness dilettantism, why Instapaper has become just another “to-do list” for Jason, their respective Hacker News reading strategies, the latest on MV Code Club, how the money raising process differs between celebrity and non-celebrity founders, why Jason pulled out of […]

Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s short-lived madness about algorithmic trading, the book Building Algorithmic Trading Systems, using neural networks to predict the future price of Bitcoin, why Jason said no to doing the MIT Circuits & Electronics MOOC with his friend Phil, the unexpected benefits of working on toy problems, why teaching the accelerated math class is Jason’s favorite […]

Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s rebound project and the myriad questions Justin has about HFT (high-frequency trading), learning to code with CodeAvengers and CodeCombat, the latest on Operation Superhero and MV Code Club, scaling with Node.js at Uber, posting error messages to Slack and HipChat, scaling and managing servers at Digedu, Jason’s interview on Get Up and […]

Justin and Jason discuss why Disco hasn’t worked out and what Justin has learned from the experience, balancing product development with sales and marketing, how to select and validate a business idea, the basics of algorithmic trading, how Jason increased his vertical jump by 8 inches, high and low adaptors, Justin’s desire for a walking […]

Jason talks with Mike Walmsley, the founder and primary developer of the programming education site Code Avengers.

Justin and Jason discuss the summit and the prospect of hosting another one, whether growing the show would be possible or even make a difference, whether World War III could stop a rising population, how HP’s Thermal Inkjet printing is going 3D and how Google is developing cancer and a heart attack detector, Amazon Echo, the prospects for […]

Justin and Jason discuss the TZ summit, the prospect of establishing a colony on Mars and what that process might look like, the prospect of an Ebola pandemic, betting on black swans and counterparty risk, why the TV show Lost was unable to close so many of it’s story lines, the idea for a productivity […]

Justin and Jason discuss the upcoming summit, the latest on Disco, Justin’s life with a newborn,  the summit’s super sponsors, MV Code Club’s new location and possible sources of growth capital, how the brain can classify words during sleep and how people think more creatively when they walk, the book A Whack on Side of the Head, hitting […]

Justin and Jason speak with Dr. Doug McGuff about his book, Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week. A special shoutout goes to Andy Chamberlain who emailed Justin with a heads up about Doug and the Body by Science protocol.

Justin and Jason talk with Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo, about his new book Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers. Gabriel also appears in the following TechZing shows: 68 TZ Interview – Gabriel Weinberg & DuckDuckGo 91: TZ Panel – Phil Aman & Gabriel Weinberg 99: TZ Panel – Gabriel Weinberg & Peter Cooper 179: TZ […]