The guys seek wisdom for all the brand noobies out there, including themselves. Seamless segues from drums to guitar to ornithology.

0m 8s Imagining the world before you knew what you know now.

2m 34s Breaking out of the anticipation phase.

8m 35s Uptight Beethoven quotes.

15m 46s Aging into playing in “collectives” instead of “bands.”

16m 50s The first stuff is not going to be good, so don’t quit because of that.

24m 10s Thinking about birds.

25m 44s Curiosity and missed callings.

When you have a day job that isn’t artistic or creative, that doesn’t mean you’re not artistic or creative. Sometimes you segment your worlds. Sometimes you just live like you’re an artist.

5m 36s Chamber music for high schoolers

7m 14s When professionalism isn’t enough

10m 32s Paying for art

19m 33s Terry’s vinyl record non-collection

27m 50s Creativity is some mysticism that's been harnessed and captured. Or as Terry says, it's just hard work and discipline.

40m 33s Being friends with artists

If you are compelled to make music, make music. The rest will come along with it. Ville Leppanen joins today and talks about missing meals, playing for pizzas, and weighs in on whether there will ever be “another Nirvana.”

Ville cofounded and runs The Animal Farm with his brother Mat. Find artists on the label and blogs from Ville at www.theanimalfarm.co.uk/

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This one surprising trick will let you beat feelings of inadequacy and worry less about how you’re being judged: Do stuff. Either people will respect you for the stuff you do and the problem is solved, or they don’t and you’ll stop caring because you are too occupied doing stuff. Honestly the rest is just details but for the sake of consistency have some more notes:

1m 47s Nobody cares

4m 54s Defeat and victory for corporate slide jockeys

16m 40s

“I don’t like talking about myself in public settings.”

“Well, then do you want me to stop asking you about yourself in a public setting?”

24m 59s It’s not the toplessness that they’re uncomfortable with, it’s just the context

31m 30s Climbing smokestacks (not a figure of speech)

39m 31s Lifetime story arcs

47m 16s Terry’s Tips ®

If you have any curiosity about invention at all, patent databases (and in particular patents.google.com) are a treasure trove of other people’s ideas expressed as succinctly as possible with no fluff whatsoever. Good ideas, bad ideas, crazy ideas, crazy-enough-to-work ideas. Find them all!

11m 43s Patented anti wrinkle cream is patented; may or may not prevent wrinkles.

20m 19s When you’re thinking about doing stocks and the money stuff now.

22m 40s Patented dispensing mechanism is patented; may or may not dispense.

23m 4s Automatic lens cleaner is patented.

27m 27s Some sensor thingy for a deadbolt lock on your house is patented.

31m 15s Mark Tobias is big in deadbolts.

37m 47s Urticating hairs are not patented.

Mechanical engineer turned quantitative analyst turned data scientist Dan Buttera joins today to weigh in on shifting from industry to industry while building up a useful skillset in tech and management. He brings some fresh perspective to the ongoing discussion of fitting in, finding where you can be effective, and the value of putting in reps to establish your knowledge base and credibility. Also, guitars and the unique oddness of greater Washington, DC.

3m 16s Establishing a baseline for “desire to solve interesting problems,” and the often forgotten/hidden world of maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO).

7m 20s The core problems of e-commerce and recommendations. How they are getting solved with novel tools. How the tools apply very broadly to a lot of other interesting problems.

13m 49s Teasing the heavy technical stuff.

16m 20s Heuristics (reasoning on basic rules) versus algorithms (logic built on large complex models)

18m 20s “The problems are really hard”

26m 0s Who asks for data science and how does it move up and down the chain of command?

33m 37s When it becomes apparent that your day-to-day work is an actual, real, direct input to global geopolitics.

40m 33s Practicing (data) scientists and R&D vs commercial projects.

44m 29s Practicing for Bozo the Clown.

7m 1s Breaking into academic publishing was just one example of credential-bucking. There are all kinds of areas where it can be hard to do the thing without being an insider, and getting inside is daunting. Then again, there are a lot of backdoors to this stuff hidden in plain sight.

13m 36s “James Cameron is also an undersea explorer.”

18m 7s A signature Terry Yardstick, applied to how the filthy rich spend their money. This one is surprisingly wholesome.

20m 40s Having the experience where you really respect someone and then get really disappointed by reality depends heavily on not being a jaded cynic in the first place.

25m 40s Famous businessmen living rent-free in Russ’s head for being dicks to everyone around them for no justifiable reason: Edison. Jobs. Others.

31m 18s The psychological brilliance of Wile E. Coyote & Roadrunner.

36m 0s Getting over the overblown credentialing merry-go-round.

Doing will always beat talking, which is why the guys always talk so much about doing. Russ perceives himself as a sometimes-researcher in technical field(s) with semi-technical publications. Terry puts the pressure on to walk the line between sufficient rigor and democratized access to the rarified air of R&D. Questions arise as to the actual quality of that air; many go unanswered for now.

2m 4s Regular humans trying to interact with academia

7m 6s Hostilities, battle lines, staking turf, taking sides. No matter how you want to phrase it, people “from industry” and people “from academia” are sometimes quite judgemental towards one another.

17m 59s Anybody could write a paper and get it in a journal. Not because the journals aren’t rigorous, but because the entire point is to get large volumes of acceptable quality research published. Don’t fall victim to self-gatekeeping.

20m 40s “Parks and Recreation” isn’t a mockumentary series, it’s a parable of good bureacrat vs evil bureacrat. Ron Swanson represents team evil.

20m 50s Terry continues to alienate the individual citizens of greater Louisville for their choices of dogs, facial hair, and general demeanor towards Terry.

27m 28s Retrospectives on accidentally getting over some imposter syndrome.

30m 9s “Get closer to the metal” and find constructive critics of your academic work on the internet. They might not be gentle or nice but that can still be constructive. Stick to it and your research will get better and less insular.

Shakers and Movers (the segment formerly known as Movers and Shakers) returns, where recognition can’t be bought and the rules can’t be explained.

1m 5s The first honoree is…the same company for both esteemed judges. What’s the company? Of all the companies how did they arrive at the same one? Is this whole thing rigged?

11m 35s Toolpath Labs does automated design for manufacturing for machined parts.

15m 40s Char.gy is helping build out electric car infrastructure by making portable charging stations.

20m 35s Solving range anxiety by towing a clapped out junker everywhere you go.

23m 0s Russ’s number three is a potential embarrassment to the spirit of Movers and Shakers and might break all the non-rules of this game.

30m 58s Omada health is quietly nailing it on telemedicine.

33m 50s Parts Express has you covered when you need electronics components to salvage a subwoofer or build your own speaker cabinet. Which you should totally do.

39m 40s T-Omega’s novel offshore wind turbine design is scaling up from model and rendering to commercial pilot.

42m 31s The closer is not classic television maker Zenith, but YouTube sensation and US-designed and assembled guitar pedal builder JHS. Which is just a guys initials. Genius!

Russ tries to keep Terry’s foot out of his mouth and pet lovers everywhere from being mildly to severely offended. The results are mixed.

5m 30s “A dog is not a personality.” Remember this point because it keeps coming up.

14m 15s Rules for friends and families with dogs. Maybe “it’s me or the dog” is a trope for a reason.

16m 0s It is not common for a human to feel compelled to pee on your leg. And that’s what separates us from the animals.

24m 39s Picking on Claire and her dog Fifi is okay because they are made up. But also kind of they are real, too?

28m 2s The story takes an unexpected twist and the made up dog’s name is now Pheobe instead of Fifi.

28m 22s From here on out it’s basically just stories of yorkies.