Winning Slowly

Stephen gave his students a change of pace by having Chris deliver a guest lecture on podcasting. This lecture was recorded immediately before delivering 5.05: "Faint Not" (Live at N.C. State).

Negative / Visible / Legal: regulations and the open internet Show Notes We look at internet policy and regulations as a view into the broader question of the relationship between government regulations and markets. Are all regulations harmful to the free market? Is a free market always the best? How do ideas like net neutrality and local loop unbundling play into it? Correction Chris said, wrongly, that the North Carolina state government prevented Charlotte from building its own municipal fiber. What actually happened was the state passed a law preventing cities (like Wilson, North Carolina, which with the FCC sued the state but ultimately lost in a federal appeals court) from building out infrastructure to other communities (including rural areas outside the incorporated area of the city). The laws claimed to be in defense of competition; but there is notably no rush to build higher-speed internet to those rural areas. The Winning Slowly Internet Platform What do we think is necessary for a well-functioning internet? * Consistency and Reliability: or, you should be able to get sufficient speeds to learn or do your job on a normal basis. * A Free/Functioning Market for Content: or, a level playing field for all the bits. * A Competitive Market for Internet Service: or, enabling (1) and (2) by making internet service providers earn customers. Previously on the show: * 4.12: Five Years of Facepalming – The EU and internet law—monopolies, copyright, taxing, freedom of speech, and learning from each other. * 5.07: Books, The Internet, and Homeless People – Positive / Invisible / Legal (Organized): public libraries and the common good Music * “Jep Shuffle” by Holy ’57. Used by permission. * “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho. Sponsors Many thanks to the people who help us make this show possible by their financial support! This month’s sponsors: * Andrew Fallows * Kurt Klassen * Jeremy Cherfas * Jeremy W. Sherman If you’d like to support the show, you can make a pledge at Patreon or give directly via Square Cash. Respond We love to hear your thoughts. Hit us up via Twitter @winningslowly, on Facebook, or email us at [email protected]!

At the end of 5.08 we made an offhand joke about Andrew Jackson. On further consideration, that joke wasn't funny: it missed some *incredibly* important realities. We got this wrong.

Reflections on the necessity, and the limitations, of empathy in light of the 2016 American election cycle Show Notes In the wake of the surprising outcome of the 2016 American presidential election, we talk about how we do politics going forward. In particular, we look at how empathy and treating each other (no matter how sharp our differences) as people made in the image of God must inform our politics, even as we acknowledge that no amount of empathy will overcome all disagreements. Relevant previous episodes: * 4.11: How People Read C. S. Lewis * 4.10: The Ancient Wisdom of Usenet * 4.09: We’re Idealist Realists * 4.05: The Price of Democracy * 1.12: Political Appinations * 1.06: Rebuke Me Some People Music * “Kid” by Arwen and the Mega Reset. Used by permission. * “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho. Who, as it turns out, has been close friends with one of the Sponsors Many thanks to the people who help us make this show possible by their financial support! This month’s sponsors: * Andrew Fallows * Kurt Klassen * Jeremy Cherfas * Jeremy W. Sherman If you’d like to support the show, you can make a pledge at Patreon or give directly via Square Cash. Respond We love to hear your thoughts. Hit us up via Twitter, Facebook, or email!

Positive / Invisible / Legal (Organized): public libraries and the common good Show Notes We talk *libraries*. Why? Because public libraries are *awesome*. They're on of the few unalloyed successes in social experiments. They do good in a wide array of areas, and they're free to use (because we support them as taxpayers). If you want to hear Chris giddy, this is the episode. The second of two episodes recorded live at NC State University on September 22, 2016. (Yep, our schedule is *way* different this year. You can thank Stephen's Ph.D. thesis and the combination of Chris' M. Div., work, and travel for that!) Music * “Widows and Revolutionaries” by Darling Valley. Used by permission. * “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho. After this episode, he should write something about libraries. Sponsors Many thanks to the people who help us make this show possible by their financial support! This month’s sponsors: * Andrew Fallows * Kurt Klassen * Jeremy Cherfas * Jeremy W. Sherman If you’d like to support the show, you can make a pledge at Patreon or give directly via Square Cash. Respond We love to hear your thoughts. Hit us up via Twitter, Facebook, or email!

Art, faith, how culture shapes and is shaped by us, and more in The Gray Havens’ latest album Show Notes Chris and Stephen have a wide-ranging conversation with Dave Radford of husband-and-wife folk-pop duo The Gray Havens about the value and purpose of art, the business side of the music industry, and the process of putting together their latest album, Ghost of a King. * Musical influences: * Simon and Garfunkel * James Taylor * Cat Stevens * Frank Sinatra * Dean Martin * Queen * Coldplay * Mumford and Sons * Florence and the Machine * Fleet Foxes * Bon Iver * Lyrical influences: * The Lord of the Rings * the Gray Havens in _The Lord of the Rings * The Chronicles of Narnia * The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear, by Patrick Rothfuss * Other people mentioned on the show * Jon Foreman * Ben Shive * Stephen’s rant on iPods: 1.10: Because Capitalism Yay * Temple board * John Piper * 0.01: We Need Some Context—in which, in our very first episode, we discussed John Piper and Pope Francis as representing very different styles of using social media. (Also: whoa, that episode is rough…) Music * “Shadows of the Dawn,” “Band of Gold,” “Diamonds and Gold,” and “This My Soul” from Ghost of a King by The Gray Havens – used by permission. Go buy this album! * “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho. Who is also deeply inspired by Tolkien, for the record. Sponsors Many thanks to the people who help us make this show possible by their financial support! This month’s sponsors: * Andrew Fallows * Kurt Klassen * Jeremy Cherfas * Jeremy W. Sherman If you’d like to support the show, you can make a pledge at Patreon or give directly via Square Cash. Respond We love to hear your thoughts. Hit us up via Twitter, Facebook, or email!

Negative / Invisible / Legal (Organized): civil forfeiture and entrenched legal evil Show Notes We take on civil forfeiture. The short version: we _hate_ it. It’s a wicked injustice and we think it ought to be fought, and fought hard. (If you want to hear Chris and Stephen get actually angry about something, this is the episode.) Music - “Faint Not” by Jenny & Tyler – used by permission, and with the deepest gratitude. - “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho. Not quite as awesome as Jenny & Tyler, but that’s okay. Sponsors Many thanks to the people who help us make this show possible by their financial support! This month’s sponsors: - Andrew Fallows - Kurt Klassen - Jeremy Cherfas - Jeremy W. Sherman If you’d like to support the show, you can make a pledge at Patreon or give directly via Square Cash. Respond We love to hear your thoughts. Hit us up via Twitter, Facebook, or email!

Positive / Visible / Social (Organized): orchestras and the question of “public goods” Show notes We talk about orchestras, ask whether financial viability is a guide to the health or importance of particular institutions (hint: Betteridge’s Law), and look at how orchestras and other such institutions can be real markers of cultural health even for the people they don’t directly affect. - An article in _The New York Times_, in 1903, referenced in _The Perilous Life of Symphony Orchestras_, by Robert J. Flanagan: > The permanent orchestra season has, as usual, been financially a bad one all over the country. With the end of April… come the bills for those who pay the piper…. There is always a deficit, which public-spirited guarantors are called upon to pay year after year. A permanent orchestra, it seems pretty welle stablished by American experience, is not at present a paying institution, and is not likely immediately to become so…. [Neverthless,] the prevailing note of the guarantors of the America Orchestras is one of hopefulness. Things are coming on; the public is being educated; it will support the orchestras in larger and larger numbers till they are finally… self-supporting. - Stephen’s top three Dutch minimalist recommendations: - “Canto Ostinato” by Simeon Ten Holt - Joep Franssens, whose best known work is “Music of the Spheres” - Jeroen van Veen - Prog rock Chris likes: - Explosions in the Sky - Faunts (and especially their album M4) - Other music mentioned on the show: - Bach’s Mass in B Minor - Lecrae - Mahler Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” - Blue Man Group - Spoken word - A few of Chris’ composed works: soundcloud.com/chriskrycho Music - “Generation Love” by Jon Reynolds – used by permission. - “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho. Composed along with hours of other music over the course of his teenage years and adult life. Maybe he’ll make a second career out of that. Sponsors Many thanks to the people who help us make this show possible by their financial support! This month’s sponsors: - Andrew Fallows - Kurt Klassen - Jeremy Cherfas - Jeremy W. Sherman If you’d like to support the show, you can make a pledge at Patreon or give directly via Square Cash. Respond We love to hear your thoughts. Hit us up via Twitter, Facebook, or email!

In which we look at Facebook... but not like we ever have before. Why are people starting to turn *off* Facebook, and what social pressures are arising from that? How do social pressures of this sort work, and what kinds of changes do they affect? * Previous discussions of social media or episodes referenced directly on the show: * 0.13: Ten Thousandth Lightbulb – What Happened to ADN, Paying to Socialize, Free or Not Free * 1.01: Massive Emotional Contagion – Facebook’s Social (Network) Science, User Responsibility, and Corporate Ethics * 1.13: Hello Ello? – Definitely Still a Beta, That’s Not a Gift, How People React to News, A Working Business Model * 3.01: The Ad-Driven Web, Part I – Denny’s, Newspapers, Native Advertising, and Vicious Cycles * 3.02: The Ad-Driven Web, Part II – The responsibilities of producers, consumers, and advertisers on the modern web * 3.04: Mom Memes – Generational shifts in social media and the diversifying web * 3.05: You Have Agency. Use It. – ‘The Web We Have to Save’—hyperlinks, the stream, algorithms, and human responsibility. * 3.11: Augustine’s Podcast – Social circles on- and offline and differences between our embodied and virtual selves. * 3.13: Inevitable? (Live at NC State) – Self-driving cars, the limits of technology, and the tension between the personal and the communal. * 4.10: The Ancient Wisdom of Usenet – Populism, social media, and wisdom in when, how, and where to (dis)engage with people you disagree with. Music * “The Best Part” by Young Mister. Used by permission. * “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho. He’s composing other music right now, and this inspired him a bit along the way. Get inspired yourself and remix it! We’ll feature it if you do. Sponsors Many thanks to the people who help us make this show possible by their financial support! This month’s sponsors: * Andrew Fallows * Kurt Klassen * Jeremy Cherfas * Jeremy W. Sherman If you’d like to support the show, you can make a pledge at Patreon or give directly via Square Cash. Respond We love to hear your thoughts. Hit us up at Twitter.com/winningslowly, Facebook.com/winningslowlypodcast, or email us at [email protected]!

Negative → Positive / Visible / Legal → Social: marijuana legalization and how systems change. Show Notes Marijuana legalization is happening in various states in the United States. How does that kind of change fit into the system we’ve devised for talking about structure and agency/systems and individuals? Because norms do change: all the time. How? * Previous episodes mentioned on the show: * 4.12: Five Years of Facepalming (Live at NC State) – learning from other countries about our own legal approaches * 5.01: A Ph.D.-Level Math Problem – introducing our axes for analyzing systems and their effects on individuals Music * “DaVinci” by Jaw Gems. Used by permission. * “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho. He’s composing other music right now, and this inspired him a bit along the way. Get inspired yourself and remix it! We’ll feature it if you do. Sponsors Many thanks to the people who help us make this show possible by their financial support! This month’s sponsors: * Andrew Fallows * Jeremy W. Sherman * Jeremy Cherfas If you’d like to support the show, you can make a pledge at Patreon.com/winningslowy or give directly via cash.me/$winningslowly. Respond We love to hear your thoughts. Hit us up via Twitter, Facebook, or email!