The Ultraworking Podcast

This one is difficult to summarize.

Two points that seem to fight against each other: noticing and giving incrementally more effort to physical and mental tasks, while keeping it all very sustainable.

From perhaps the greatest nonfiction adventure story of all time — Xenophon's Anabasis — an incredible moment of standing up when one is not-quite-ready.

When someone tells you, "Tom is really good at tennis" — does that mean he's the best player in your social circle or that he could hold his own against Federer and Nadal? There's two very different scales for "very good" — making the distinction is very helpful.

For best results, you can't endure action. You've got to embrace it.

Not necessarily a fun episode, but potentially very important if you're flying close to the sun.

Show notes here but there ain't much of 'em:

https://www.ultraworking.com/podcast/icarus

What do most people do when something unhappy and unpleasant comes up? They tend to plaster it with feel-good feelings and encouragement. 

Here at Ultraworking, we have a reality cop, aka Sebastian Marshall, to stop us from avoiding reality. When something's scary or unfamiliar, we embrace the abyss and work through it.

Full show notes: www.ultraworking.com/podcast/reality-cop

How do you start to build the programming thinking model for someone who's lightly technical or non technical?

Let’s talk programming with the cofounders of Ultraworking, Sebastian Marshall and Kai Zau. Potentially useful for someone’s who’s lightly technical or non-technical — lots of metaphors to describe the programming thinking model in this episode. 

Full show notes with links: www.ultraworking.com/podcast/is-your-programming-project-like-ikea-home-depot-or-an-iron-mine

Have you ever thought about how to take care of your mind and body given all the time you spend at a computer?

You're doing a lot of work at your computer, you spend a lot of time in front of it. But we're not thinking about the machine that carries our mind often enough.

So, let's become a computer athlete, eh? We can become fundamentally sound at being at the computer.

Full show notes with links: www.ultraworking.com/podcast/computer-athlete

We're going to go through a bunch of military terms and see if you can figure out why the military names stuff so awkwardly. 

Hint: People will bring their own associations to any word that they've heard before and that they think they understand.

Full show notes with links: www.ultraworking.com/podcast/airland-battle-and-you