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Episode One Hundred and Six: Meat Puppets; The Circuit
June 19, 2014
0.0 Station Ident It was eighty-ish and sunny today in Portland, which, as I explained to a friend, makes sense because I use fahrenheit when it's hot and...
Episode One Hundred and Five: This Incredible Journey; What Comes First; Who Owns The Robots
June 18, 2014
1.0 This Incredible Journey A good (I hope!) friend of mine runs the Tumblr Our Incredible Journey[1] and has recently found that they've needed to...
Episode One Hundred and Four: The New Jobs; Disrupting Bitcoin; Protect Us; The Full Stack Is Better?; Dumb Screens
June 17, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I'm writing this at the weekly 30,000 feet, perilously typing into a textarea that's on the end of a flaky Gogo Wifi connection to the...
Episode One Hundred and Three: Recurring; Better, But Not Best
June 16, 2014
0.0 Station Ident It rained today in Portland. Really, really hard. I'm the kind of person (don't judge) who dresses for the previous day's weather, which...
Episode One Hundred and Two: Structure; The Thing About People
June 13, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I have to admit, I started this one not knowing what I was going to write about. But I'm pretty happy with it. 1.0 Structure NOSTROMO BLACK...
Episode One Hundred and One: Dangerous; Not Trying Is A Signal (2); What's Mine; Laundry
June 12, 2014
0.0 Station Ident It's 6:30pm on Thursday night and my nose is streaming and my eyes are itching because I don't know, allergies. YouTube didn't stream In...
Episode One Hundred: Taking Stock; And The New
June 10, 2014
0.0 Station Ident It's a nice sunny day back in Portland, Oregon and I'm sat in Kenny and Zuke's about to devour an meatball sub. I took my son out to the...
(Re-send w/formatting fix) Episode Ninety Eight: Engineering Serendipity; Genuinely Useful People Personalities; Hubris
June 9, 2014
{This is a re-send of episode 98 with a formatting fix. A long non-wrapping URL was breaking display for a bunch of people, I've fixed it with different...
Episode Ninety Nine: Building Together; Beautiful Shooty Things; Software For Eating; The New Toys On The Web; Take It Seriously; And Finally
June 9, 2014
0.0 Station Ident There's been a bunch of things that I've bookmarked over the past few days that I've been wanting to share, so I'm going to use this...
Episode Ninety Eight: Engineering Serendipity; Genuinely Useful People Personalities; Hubris
June 9, 2014
0.0 Station Ident First: hello new subscribers. There's around thirty of you today, so if you manage to make it to the end of today's episode, then you...
Episode Ninety Seven: That Most Killer Of Deals; Need To Know
June 6, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I got a bunch of notes back about what I wrote the other day about my depression. I don't really mind writing about it, and I think it's a...
Episode Ninety Six: And Then It Came Back; Meek, Meeker, Meekest
June 5, 2014
0.0 Station Ident A difficult day, as you'll see below. And the baby monitor app isn't working, so I'm upstairs, typing quietly and quickly whilst watching...
Episode Ninety Five: Health; Smart Cars; Odds
June 4, 2014
0.0 Station Ident It's 11:45pm here on the west coast, so I'm cutting it fine. This is probably the latest and closest to midnight I've written one of these...
Episode Ninety Four: Eating The World; And A Question
June 3, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I'm settling into a sort of post-employment routine now where the family gets up at around 7am and I dress and feed our son then play with...
Episode Ninety Three: Email Is Still A Killer App; Dubya Dubya Dee Cee
June 2, 2014
0.0 Station Ident It's 10pm on a Monday night, and I've been typing for coins. And I thought it would be *easy* to type for coins today but I completely...
Episode Ninety Two: Continued Disruption; Snow Crashing (7); Edge of Tomorrow
May 30, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I spent a pretty good morning with the internet's Evan Cordes working on a secret project that I think I used to have a code-name for, but...
Episode Ninety One: Disruption; Supply Chains; The Good Bit
May 29, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I'm readjusting to life with family. And on top of that I'm finally getting back into videogames. But anyway, on with the show. 1.0...
Episode Ninety: Supply Chain Management For Seven Billion; Too Early; WATCH_DOGS
May 27, 2014
0.0 Station Ident Wife and son get home tonight, plus I have a man date to go see an early screening of All You Need Is Kill, er, I mean, TOM CRUISE'S EDGE...
Episode Eighty Nine: Yet More Smarts; The Continued Tyranny; A Different Kind Of Overload
May 27, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I've been back in Portland for about 24 hours and the panic has only just set in a little bit. First is that there are a whole bunch of...
Episode Eighty Eight: Smarts; The Real Internet
May 26, 2014
0.0 Station Ident I'm writing this again at about 20k feet on the way back home to Portland from San Francisco. It's been a long, crazy week, one capped off...
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