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Tim Dawson, surgeon, returns to give a cursury education on robot assisted surgery with Intuitive Surgical’s Davinci robot surgery system. Honestly, this one is pretty self-explanatory. If you want to hear a robot surgeon describe robot surgery, then this episode is for you. Robot.

0m 30s Tim came back and brought ART.

1m 45s Diving right in to how much and who pays for surgical robots.

6m 15s Night shift assistant to the surgical robot is a job requiring as little skill as it sounds like it does.

12m 15s Surgical robot providers are very hands-on. Unlike the surgeries their robots provide.

15m 32s Which senses are used for traditional vs. robotic surgery, a multiple-choice quiz.

18m 10s “I’ve never found jewelry in a gall bladder.”

23m 49s Oddsmaking on healthcare jobs replacing.

28m 40s It turns out to be quite difficult to separate health care tech from health care billing and insurance business models.

38m 15s Frontloading technology learning during residency gave a leg up post-residency. Because if there’s one thing a working surgeon hates, it’s learning new things.

44m 29s When doing robotic surgery is the best part of your job.

Russ talks how he was raised and how he’s doing the raising these days. Terry worries about prying but misunderstands the extent to which his cohost will happily dodge, deflect, and fabricate. Stay tuned for next time when roles are flipped and we hear about Terry’s “weird” family.

1m 3s “When I became a man I put away childish things.” Or did I?

8m 32s Contentedness and happiness as a kid.

14m 17s Participatory parenting from the early 90s.

26m 30s Feeling pressure and proto-Millenial parenting style.

35m 45s Passing the baton and worrying about getting your own kids through to a healthy adulthood.

42m 5s Mr. Rogers, Raffi, and the great thinkers of childrearing.

46m 58s Terry on familial affirmations at the end of the day.

Hobbies are hard if you pick ones like photography that need skill and you’re uptight about the quality of your results. Doing stuff you’re pretty okay at can be harder than doing stuff you’re bad at, emotionally speaking. Letting kids use your stuff versus keeping your kids from destroying your stuff. Expensive stuff versus the stuff you have close at hand.

0m 44s Kids making and breaking music stuff.

2m 58s **Photography has entered the chat**

7m 1s Regular people enlisting pro photographers.

9m 54s Dating sites might be enough to make Terry swipe right on shelling out many dollars for professional portraits.

19m 35s “Terry, do you go to brunch?”

22m 51s GW Bush was faking being a good old boy.

26m 38s Differing views on whether a ground war is coming to America in our lifetime.

Man of many talents John Klaess joins to talk musical higher learning, primary research, career ending injuries, staying on the musical horse, and career switching while remembering where you came from. John’s book is Breaks in the Air: The Birth of Rap Radio in New York City. You can find some of the archival shows he used for the book on YouTube.

0m 51s Mixing up rapper eras. It’s an honest mistake that could happen to anyone.

1m 57s Pop music conferences are a thing that people go to. While there, they meticulously analyze pop music.

4m 13s Paths to doing music for life.

9m 4s Always reference Waylon Jennings if you want to make fast friends around these here parts.

9m 50s Encyclopedic knowledge and oneupmanship in musical academia.

17m 5s Changing relationships with music when you study it.

21m 24s Hyperbolic classic country skill worship.

25m 0s Genre hopping as you get better at your own genre.

29m 15s “Did rap influence radio or did radio influence rap?”

38m 30s Finding new music in modern times.

Tim Dawson, surgeon, joins for a long and detailed adventure. Origin stories (Lite). Aggressive training and doctoral hazing. Path dependency and living free from regret. Dissociation from chopping open people’s bodies. The money side of medicine. Ignorance of kangaroo anatomy; enormous kangaroo muscles. Performing remote controlled surgery from the same room. Look forward to a return visit from Tim exclusively on the subject of robotic surgery.

12m 30s Surgical pecking orders mean that operating room time is like ice time and lap lane time, for those of you who skate or swim.

13m 40s Mesh sales reps are banging down Tim’s door. Staple reps are also up there. Laparoscopic companies send their salespeople with new tech to showcase. Medicine sellers not so much.

28m 30s Thinking about surgery, or not thinking about it.

30m 32s Respect for the dead, neutrality for the living.

34m 8s Looking back on whether making it to being a doctor was worth it.

38m 40s On surgeons who lack skill: “There are a lot of people who aren’t good at this.”

42m 35s Public health. It’s a problem.

Multiple-founder Bindu Reddy (Abacus.ai, ex-AWS, ex-Google) weighs in on applied research, science and math vs product management, explosive interest in artificial intelligence, risk and diversifying the customer base. Remember: artificial intelligence does not have consciousness or agency.

2m 27s Teach the machine if there's a hotdog in your image or not.

4m 45s Building the artificial intelligence that will build artificial intelligence with Abacus.ai.

5m 50s Taking “high level bets on where the world is going” is a pretty good strategy for life and business; looking for and sometimes finding inevitability as opposed to mere opportunity.

9m 3s Still feeling wonderment about math when your day is about running a business.

10m 20s  Being impatient with the time it takes for research to leave the lab; advantages to AI research where science and math are often months away from commercial use rather than years.

12m 0s Founders moving from 24/7 time with customers into product development; how to risk manage the bets you’ve taken.

17m 50s “AI does not have consciousness or agency.”

20m 16s Bad actors abusing AI is a real problem. AI becoming conscious is not a real problem. The two can get conflated.

Chef Ed Lee loves food and happy people. He joins the guys today to talk growing up in NYC, getting started young, parental doubts, the move to Louisville, and the benefits of learning by doing. Also, loan sharks and eel farms.

Visit 610 Magnolia or Nami Modern Korean Steakhouse in Louisville, KY, Succotash Prime in DC or Succotash in DC and National Harbor, MD.

The full rundown on his prolific output and press/social links are at https://chefedwardlee.com/.

2m 12s Thinking about food, not thinking about food, and not not thinking about food.

4m 11s Focus and obsession on a lifelong calling; thoughts become actions. The world before food television blew up and the internet happened featured many magazines.

6m 39s Laundromat copies of food mags as lust objects.

7m 54s Busboy, busboy, busboy, busboy, busboy, questionable loans, start a restaurant. The path to stress and happiness.

11m 50s Shocking signs people like what you’re doing.

16m 24s The art-and-business spectrum for chefs; the baffling broadness of “restaurant” as a classification.

20m 14s Corporate hot dog suits and financial desperation.

25m 47s My toilet paper comes from Cisco; my fresh, never-frozen, farm-raised eels come from Sara at American Unagi in Maine.

Terry grills Larry Grate and Russ on impossible to answer industrial equipment questions and they mostly deflect and dodge the questions. Especially Russ. It’s a no-holds barred contest initiated by ill-advised insults directly to Terry’s face and someone is going to end up looking the fool.

1m 30s Knowing about fish isn’t going to help you here.

2m 12s Industrial superlatives: Most Likely to PLC; Top PID; Best DNC

3m 17s “Do I have to answer this question?” -Russ Waddell

11m 13s A classic chicken and egg dilemma except the chicken is open source software and the egg is robust industrial middleware.

14m 15s Tortured metaphors: The evolution of man as the evolution of industrial controls. Are we all Neanderthals?

17m 13s Pneumatic loop controls are as nerdy and excellent as they sound.

19m 18s Q: Which protocol is best protocol? A: There is no answer.

26m 17s Tallying the score. Russ loses.

These days there’s a lot of transparency into what people are up to, in a way our forefathers didn’t imagine. Is that a continuum? What else is there to expose? Will there be an end? Has it always been thus. Find non-answers to these questions and more in today’s episode!

0m 58s A family of pilots.

4m 12s Transparency today vs yesteryear. Seeing behind the curtain. Perpetual peeping.

8m 31s Trusting the news man. Trusting the man in the van with the free candy. Scoffing at what we used to fall for.

14m 10s “There is nothing new and it’s freeing and exhausting at the same time.” -Terry Miller

21m 6s Grasping at all the things you could know, but won’t.

21m 50s Playing the nihilist card.

In “Trolling for Patents” #2, the mundane is made interesting and the ‘shrooms are made mundane. Existential dread creeps in but never takes over. Terry does his homework during class. This episode features both mounts AND anchors!

1m 3s Terry Miller’s non-patented idea for data encryption. Cryptologists, prove him wrong! Lack of hecklers hurts the patent process.

4m 55s There’s not enough time to learn it all. There’s never going to be. Might as well start trying to get square with that now so you don’t just die frustrated.

5m 54s Steerable endoluminal punch is patented. PUNCH!

9m 22s Voice trigger for a voice assistant is patented, so try to keep it down will you?

11m 30s Method for treating anxiety disorders headache disorders and eating disorders with psilocybin is patented. SHROOMS!

12m 10s Attachment clamp is patented. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

14m 39s TV mount is patented.

20m 46s “How would you explain science fiction to an elementary schooler?”

23m 27s Homework assignments are NOT patented.