Terry grudgingly accepts an episode about how he lives his life, which is different from how Russ lives his life. Russ plays interviewer and provocateur.

1m 30s Coming strong out of the gate, Russ presses Terry on nature vs. nurture and Terry deflects the question. Unsuccessfully.

4m 44s Any time age based feuds arise, please remember that “My Generation” by The Who was released much, much closer to the end of WWII than to today. WWII(1945) -> “My Generation” (1965) -> today (2023)

8m 0s Terry again unsuccessfully changes the subject; Russ gets distracted and allows him to get cagey about his lifestyle.

9m 0s Terry Miller on Transcendental Meditation aka TM on ™

19m 40s A morning in the life of Terry Miller. There’s a lot of discipline and not a lot of alarm clocks.

22m 23s The strange case of corporate jobs without any nine to five schedule.

28m 0s Living a disciplined life while having kids.

38m 37s How Terry stays swole. Or at least very lean and fast at running. Russ wonders silently if he can be like Terry. If he *should* even be like Terry. If anyone can be like Terry, or if just being yourself is enough. Russ should try meditating more.

40m 16s Sacrifices of the disciplined Terry Miller life.

Failures of discipline and the consequences/non-consequences. Advice from Terry on how to tighten up a person’s life to find and enjoy the good stuff.

2m 45s Framing and ground rules for discussion.

7m 15s Discipline and food from a regular, non-dieting person.

14m 0s Running past and present. Failures in consistency over years and years.

19m 30s Terry probes Russ’s mind(set).

24m 9s Chasing wooly mammoths meets pseudoscience and bad fitness advice.

31m 0s Moving on from diet and fitness, Russ makes a soft pitch on habit and convenience and guitar practice.

39m 10s Aimless regular practice versus good regular practice. It’s less about practice than you might think.

40m 0s Discpline, repetitiveness, and language learning.

After breaking down the many non-disciplined parts of Russ’s life, Terry’s life is next. How does he do it? What’s he giving up? Can his level of discipline be applied to another random hack in a basement?

At long last the willpower vs discipline debate kicks off. Terry leads a disciplined life according to Terry. Russ probes this assertion. The stage is set for a future Discipline Challenge.

1m 48s Discipline, dedication, and Juggalos.

9m 41s Russ has a bone to pick with “discipline” as we know it.

16m 51s The crux of the debate: Is humanity more or less disciplined than 150 years ago?

17m 38s Discipline and performance creep in baseball as a tortured metaphor for the rest of all humanity.

26m 41s Terry plants a flag in the ground and a line in the sand for one of his first principles of life: The onus is on you to be great. Russ quibbles and makes his own flag line: The onus is on you to find fulfilment.

34m 30s ~Transcendental meditation has entered the chat~

44m 28s It’s hard to do big hard stuff but a lot easier to do little easier stuff a lot of times.

Welcome back to another round of Movers and Shakers, where arbitrary kudos are granted by a pair of non-authorities on much of anything.

0m 18s The worst startup idea that keeps coming up.

7m 59s Elicit lets you auto-analyze research papers. Get learnin’!

17m 3s Formant is the data platform for robot companies: management, telemetry and monitoring; teleoperation. Get robotin’!

17m 44s Asteroid Mining Corporation. Space mining. For real.

24m 34s Pliant Energy makes the Velox wave-motion amphibious robot.

26m 16s Tempest Therapeutics impresses Terry with both product and approach.

32m 11s What does Peter Attia eat in a day? Who is Peter Attia? How many Peter Attias should you eat in a day?

43m 36s Russ gives the Autodesk research arm special recognition for existing.

45m 4s Terry's next pick: The future of large language models is...Toronto, home of Cohere

53m 36s The Garage is a video production company with a LOT of robot chops.

59m 26s Squeezing right in under the hour mark is All Turtles, a product development company squeezing out all kinds of things mostly on contract.

Today marks the inaugural TEN RANDOM QUESTIONS. A savage beat down of rapid fire inquiry into things imagined and real. Terry survives, barely. Russ may not be so lucky in the end.

0m 36s Ground rules.

1m 16s The questioning begins: Bob Dylan and singular greatness. Snowflakes or ants. Useless talents. Drum fills (in music).

8m 40s Revisiting broken ground rules.

26m 34s The questioning continues: Optimism. Lima, Ohio, Peru. Aliens on Earth. Top earners and bad math.

41m 58s Turns out Terry can’t read (fiction).

42m 56s “Do you know who John Hay is?”

Bell Labs has a storied history that sometimes borders on legend among a certain type of nerd. The guys marinate on what the heck happened, if we should want a successor, where inventions get invented, and national competitiveness in the late-early twenty first century.

19m 59s Turns out Reddit already answered “What is the nearest modern equivalent to bell labs” on r/AskEngineers. Well, time to retire the podcast.

21m 21s Product life expectancy of computer parts.

31m 6s Terry gets a rough introduction to Fast Fashion.

34m 33s Russ steps on a landmine of Kentucky pride in storied turntable and jukebox maker turned Target catalog staple brand name Crosley. The company is from Louisville; the brand folded in 1956 and was resurrected in 1992.

47m 5s Even nerds that don’t know Bell Labs love r-project.org.

51m 13s Terry closes things out on a Merle Haggard note, making some hyperbolic claims of greatness about the 1978 hit “Always on a Mountain When I Fall.”

Today is the three way showdown of the century: Startups vs Corporations vs Viral Pinkeye.

0m 1s “Terry I’ve fallen ill.” Germ talk commences. There is comiseration and gratitude that it’s not worse.

9m 5s On to the definitions. Investopedia is a bit of a crutch for this one because it’s quick, easy, and not full of glaring errors.

31m 6s Terry makes the bold claim that Teams has formally, officially, and completely overtaken Slack. Slack super user Russ disagrees but holds it back for the sake of conversational flow. This time.

48m 11s “I’m not gonna name names, but shipping digital doesn’t happen in corporate orgs.” There you have it, end of discussion according to us.

53m 49s Terry and Russ share an affinity for the elusive billion dollar small business. Terry points to private regional big time electronics component vendor Samtec as a great example to look to.

After some quick musings on productivity, pronunciation, the meaning of life and work, and habits versus accomplishments, today marks the first of Movers and Shakers: companies of note based on arbitrary criteria set by us.

09m 22s Ground rules and Terry’s criteria for inclusion. The companies must be unique and solve an emerging problem.

10m 5s Regent - electric sea gliders

23m 49s Russ’s criteria for inclusion. Today’s keywords are “robots” and “developer tools”

24m 19s Sunflower Labs - autonomous security drone

26m 53s Ready Robotics - the Windows operating system of industrial robots

40m 6s Trumpf. Don’t forget the f. Metal forming and fabricating machine tool builder.

40m 57s Aquagga - breaking down forever chemicals

The guys catch up with Sorin Farc, freight pilot and ex-seminarian, Friend-of-Terry, and most interesting man in Kentucky.

2m 12s On visiting family back home across the Atlantic.

5m 8s Exploring the idea that “kids today” might actually be “kids today, here.”

9m 6s Flying vs. Romania. Is it a forced comparison? Yes.

12m 14s Decreasing staff on the flight deck over the years.

13m 1s Manual, mid-flight lubrication.

31m 17s On human curiosity, dedication, and distraction.

41m 13s “Tabula rasa” refers to a theoretically clear and blank mental state prior to having any ideas imprinted on it.

Terry makes an earnest attempt to educate Russ on some basic philosophy; today it’s Seneca and stoicism.

5m 5s It’s a tough time to be a news hound.

10m 30s Some differing opinions arise on how and whether to trust (but verify?) the media in 2023, and things land on the sane side of wild conspiracy theories.

15m 15s Informal stoic-ness self-assessment time.

17m 47s Unhappy workers, resilience, office culture, and taking cues from classical teachings.

22m 8s The disenchanted well-to-do embrace manual labor and pursuits of the body.

30m 0s Internal vs external validation.

31m 40s The story of Terry’s best ever boss.

50m 11s World Robotics 2022 Report from International Federation of Robotics shows China overtook the US in “robot density” as measured by robots per employee.