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[will-johnston]

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Original Audio from Cortex Episode 108 with CGP Grey and Myke Hurley

[doorbloggr]

Tuesday 4/5/21 - Background Noise for a Wallflower (Podcasts)

The distinction between introvert and extrovert is not as cut and dry as people will have you believe. Like many things in the human experience, it is a spectrum; though I have long described myself as definitively an introvert, the Pandemic Arc showed me that all humans crave human contact to some degree.

Source: K-On (Anime)

When I hang out with friends, I enjoy listening to conversations around me, but my stunted social growth means that I struggle to start and maintain conversations myself. But I am content being the person sitting in the background, chiming in everyone now and then. It is somewhat calming just to chill as 3rd, 5th or even 8th wheel in a hangout session. I recently found that this type of person is referred to as a Wallflower.

Mio (K-On) also enjoys company, but enjoys being in the background

Being able to engage socially all the time is never a given though, and for most days of the week, on the road, in the afternoon after work, late night in bed, I am stuck without the background noise of friends. But luckily for me, there are podcasts.

Podcasts are an interesting long form media that have been perfectly crafted for being played in the background during other tasks. And though I have tried to keep up with various types of podcast, the ones I've actually kept following are podcasts of just... conversation.

A Podcast About Nothing

SuperMega is a small-ish YouTube comedy/gaming channel run by two friends Matt Watson and Ryan Magee, with help from other friends. Their podcast SuperMegaCast is a roughly weekly show where the two just talk about their weeks, tell stories about their lives, childhoods, and just the world at large.

SuperMegaCast's conversations just like talk you'd expect from a couple mates catching up on a Friday afternoon. The two both come from different parts of South Carolina, so they talk about family and friends growing up, and often joke about being raised in the bible belt. They'll talk about the latest movies, issues in politics, what videogames they've been playing, on and off their channel, and just what happened to them in their lives that week.

However, the two rarely miss an opportunity to devolve any topic into silly jokes and toilet humour. Even though their opinions are interesting and occasionally thought provoking, nothing is safe from being followed up by a "Yo Mama" or "Deez Nuts". When I need background noise while sitting down to play a game or draw a picture, they are my first go to.

Although they have amassed more than 200 episodes, I'd recommend to just jump in wherever. Since it's just chatting about whatever the week has given them, you won't be missing out on much context if you've missed episodes.

A Podcast About Something

Nearly on the opposite end of the spectrum is Cortex Podcast. The union of professional podcaster Myke Hurley and Educational YouTuber CGP Grey, Cortex is a higher brow, but still fun podcast about making it work in the digital world. This pair do not work together directly much outside of the podcast, so their conversations revolve around their own technical, mental, and financial issues of a career in online media (and adulting in general).

Myke and Grey have a very fun dynamic, and very importantly for audio media, both have very soothing voices (in my opinion). A lot of the show involves Myke explaining the challenge of driving the industry forward while Grey rants about being being driven forward by a lot of things he doesn't understand. The contrast of someone who is very willing to ride the wave and someone who is experienced, but educationally sceptical, is fun. Grey is also a very philosophical person, and has very interesting takes on balancing life in general, his video on his own channel about sectioning up your life during the pandemic is a must watch.

They are two very different people, but they are both very intelligent. For someone who doesn't work in digital media, some of their conversations go over my head. But when I put on a podcast, I rarely intend to put 100% of my attention in. Listening to a pair of nerds nerd out about nerdy stuff is just what I need when trying to emulate the feeling of being a Wallflower among friends.

Cortex is not a very frequent podcast, but when they do drop an episode, they are a very welcome addition to my background noise quota.

My recommendations:

If you want a relaxed, hang-out sesh type podcast where the hosts are immature, and the topic is never set in stone, watch SuperMegaCast.

If you want a chill, but intellectual sort of podcast, where two internet nerds geek out about the intricacies of navigating work in digital media, watch Cortex Podcast.

[mitchipedia]

A theme for 2019

On the Cortex podcast, CGP Grey and Myke Hurley like having “themes” rather than resolutions. www.relay.fm/cortex/79

I like that so much I adopted the idea for myself.

My theme for 2019 is value my time. And just within the last 48 hours I walked away from two political arguments on social media. Progress!

[hillblah]

Podcast Recommendations:

I just spent nearly 2 hours writing these for a work Teams thread #justpandemicthings. So uh, here you go. If you’re following this blog (why tho?) you might like my vibe, so you might like some of these! Finding categories is hard, so I've mostly lumped podcasts together in small groups by loose connections, or vibes. This is also how I sort my bookshelf after admitting defeat on having a perfectly coherent system. Past me would have been horrified, but I think that's what growth looks like. Some descriptions are all mine, some are copied from the creators. Feel free to read into which ones I copied and which I wrote myself as much as you want.

Fiction:

36 Questions A 3 part musical podcast about a couple on the brink of divorce. The title references the "36 Questions to Fall in Love" (/build intimacy) that can be found here: https://bigthink.com/ideafeed/how-to-fall-in-love-36-questions-and-deep-eye-contact

Alice Isn't Dead Audio diaries of a long road trucker searching for her wife who she thought had died, but Alice Isn't Dead. Really cool sound design and writing from the team behind Welcome to Nightvale. Slight absurdist/ more than slight horror vibes. There's 3 seasons in total that tell a meandering overall story roadtrip. Best listened to while parked in an empty carpark on the edge of town with rain running down the windshield and creating flickering shadows from the streetlights. It took me a few attempts to listen right through the first episode, but I eventually fell in love with the sound/feel/vibe of the podcast. Teaser is here: http://www.nightvalepresents.com/aliceisntdead

The Magnus Archives A horror fiction podcast examining what lurks in the archives of the Magnus Institute, an organisation dedicated to researching the esoteric and the weird. Each episode is presented in the form of a witness statement being read by the newly appointed Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute - London. Over time the stand-alone statements start to form connections, and then an overarching plot. I don't normally enjoy horror, The Magnus Archives is absolutely the exception. Really well told stories with incredible soundscaping. Maybe don't listen right before bed...

Kiwi Podcasts about Sexuality and Gender:

Micro Wave Feminism Micro Wave Feminism is a place for open, inclusive, loving and vulnerable feminist chats. It's all about talking to real people about real sh*t and experiences of femininity and masculinity in this crazy (beautiful) world we live in. Really interesting discussions on feminism through the personal experiences of kiwis. Sporadic episodes as a non-professional labour of love, but boy does it have cozy vibes.

BANG! RNZ's BANG! explores sex, sexuality and relationships over a lifetime, from parents attempting "the talk" with their children, through the fraught teen years, modern dating, long-term relationships, contraception and conception, right up to intimacy in retirement homes. So many people talking about their experiences with all aspects of sex, sexuality, relationships and gender. My personal favourite is the Takātapuia episode from season 2: https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/bang/story/2018651794/bang-season-2-episode-6-takatapui

Let's Get Sexual Let’s Get Sexual is a podcast dedicated to exploring sexuality. It is part of the growing global movement to normalize conversations around sexuality, to embrace its complexity, and highlight how we all have our own sexual journeys. Similar vibes to BANG! But with a more personal approach and more time with each guest. Really interesting conversations with people from all walks of life.

Kiwi Current and Not So Current Events:

Gone by Lunchtime The Spinoff's politics podcast. A good balance of views from the 3 hosts, and the only politics podcast that has made me laugh out loud multiple times.

The Citizen's Handbook Robbie Niccol (White Man Behind a Desk/that guy that I went to school with) partners with RNZ for a video series all about the history of Aotearoa, and the things all citizens need to know about where we are now. There's also a podcast that goes with it, that's a game show? Really the video series is the more important part... But the podcast is a great listen.

Isolation:

The Habitat The true story of six volunteers picked to live on a fake planet. You know those stories that occasionally pop up about people living in isolation with each other to see what happens so we know about the problems and can prepare for space travel? Well this 7 episode podcast follows a group of 6 imitation NASA astronauts stuck with only each other for a year. Something I'm sure the rest of us will never have to experience right?

Our Plague Year Essays and listener messages about Our Plague 'Year'. Some really talented writers pouring emotions out. This was one of my favourite podcasts last year, though some of the episodes hit a little hard. My personal favourite episode (so far) is Trust Ends at the Windshield, featuring Hank Green, Meg Bashwiner, and Erin McKeown. Which talks about the the-show-must-go-on mentality, includes this gem: "We are killing people because we are bored. We are killing people because we are entrenched in a toxic, capitalist society that values money over life.", and was one of the triggers for me writing a 12 minute, spoken word, poetry adjacent, thing, last year.

Doing Stuff:

Cortex CGP Grey (educational youtuber) and Myke Hurley (host of about 50 podcasts) talk about productivity, and how they run their businesses, and education, and the Apple ecosystem, and a whole bunch of other things. Long episodes, and occasionally dated by reference to current events. Definitely not a super condensed productivity podcast, more of a personality / sitting in on a conversation vibe.

Start With This Art is hard, starting is hard, if you want to start somewhere you should start with this. The co-creators of Welcome to Nightvale talk about making things/the artistic process. Every episode ends with 2 assignments, one thing to consume, and one to create.

Building Positive Culture:

Dare To Lead Brené Brown talking with other people about Leadership. Really interesting and inspiring conversations. Top recommendation is the episode with Simon Sinek.

A Bit of Optimism Simon Sinek talking with other people about working together to make a better world. Really interesting and inspiring conversations. Top recommendation is the episode with Brené Brown.

TED Worklife Organizational psychologist Adam Grant takes you inside the minds of some of the world’s most unusual professionals to explore the science of making work not suck. From learning how to love criticism to harnessing the power of frustration, one thing’s for sure: You’ll never see your job the same way again. Pretty new on my feed, but every episode I've listened to so far has been an absolute hit!

Interesting Stories/People:

TED Radio Hour TED talks, collated into similar subjects with extra stuff pulled out interview style. Good to search through the archives to find areas you're interested in, or just pick a random episode and dive in!

99% Invisible - 10,000 Years [person from work who I’m too lazy to edit out a reference to] has already recommended the podcast, but I want to throw in my favourite episode. It's about the challenge of trying to mark nuclear waste sites in a way that will last 10,000 years (for reference 10,000 years ago stone tools were a pretty neat invention) and is absolutely fascinating. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/

[zulubunsen]

My favorite podcasts

I thought I’d make a post about some of the podcasts I listen to, in case anyone’s interested!

Hello Internet

It’s a podcast by YouTubers C.G.P. Grey and Dr. Brady Haran, where they talk about their lives, things that annoy them, and sometimes plane crashes and flags. There’s a lot of “lore” to the show.

The WAN Show

Usually hosted by Linus Sebastian and Luke Lafreniere of LinusTechTips, they discuss the past week’s news in the technology world, along with a copious amount of just screwing around. The sponsor spots are funny enough that they’re just memes at this point.

The Unmade Podcast

Hosted by Dr. Brady Haran and Rev. Dr. Tim Hein, these two childhood friends discuss ideas for podcasts that may never even be made.

Connected

A Relay FM show hosted by Stephen Hackett, Myke Hurley, and Federico Viticci, where they discuss the latest happenings in technology, mainly Apple.

Upgrade

Another Relay FM show hosted by Myke Hurley and Jason Snell, where they discuss the impact of technology on our lives and the world, as well as some tech news.

Cortex

This Relay FM show is hosted by C.G.P. Grey and Myke Hurley, and is all about productivity, and how technology plays a role in it.

The Pen Addict

Lastly, this Relay FM show is hosted by Brad Dowdy and Myke Hurley, and is all about pens, pencils, and stationery of any kind.

If y’all are interested, the titles for each are links to the podcasts!

[theburnedoutnerd]

2020 - The Year of Moderation

Happy New Year, everyone! Welcome to the new decade, and the wealth of new opportunities that come with it. 2020 is a time for change, and like everyone else on the planet, it's also time for me to make promises for the better. However, I'm forgoing New Year's resolutions for something much more flexible - a yearly theme.

I was first introduced to the concept of yearly themes by my good friend @dabiyyah, who learned about them via the Cortex podcast, starring CGP Grey and Myke Hurley. For the past few years, they've been focusing on yearly themes and shaping their day to day lives around their themes. For me, yearly themes are more preferable to work with instead of resolutions. Resolutions tend to be pass or fail statements, such as "I'm going to go to the gym three times a week" or "I'm going to give up drinking completely." These types of goals tend to be more prone to failure, and when one fails, they tend to just give up. Yearly themes, on the other hand, are more like single word concepts or ideas that you can shape your thinking and life around. They are more flexible to work with, and since they're not goal based, you can't actually fail, even if you don't completely adhere to the theme for the year. If you want to learn more about Yearly Themes, check out the site for their Theme System journal.

For 2019, my yearly theme was Betterment. The goal for the year was to focus more on myself and what my body needs, rather than things that I want. I can safely say that I did not adhere to this theme most of last year due to a multitude of extenuating circumstances. In fact, towards the middle of the year, I simply gave up on the theme, which tends to happen. A theme should be something that you're able to stick with, and you're comfortable with. While Betterment was a good idea at the time, it turned out to be too vague for me to keep up with.

After some serious consideration and contemplation, I have decided that for 2020 my theme will be Moderation. I find myself bingeing on things heavily, whether it be physical consumption or mental. Sometimes, it's not even a conscious action. As a web developer and IT management analyst, I spend hours sitting in front of computers. When I'm not staring at my work computer, I'm at home either watching YouTube videos or playing video games. When I'm not doing either of those, I'm scrolling through Twitter, Reddit, or Instagram on my cell phone. During the Year of Moderation, I want to limit my screen time, or rather, moderate what I'm consuming during the times I'm staring at a screen.

On that same note, I also want to moderate how much time I spend sitting about. I live a sedentary lifestyle. I want to introduce more activity to my life. Whether that is through physical exercise or joining a gym has yet to be decided. I also want to moderate my spending. I live paycheck to paycheck without actually paying any bills since I still live at home with my family. No, I do not work a minimum wage job, so clearly something is wrong here. I want to slow down on my spending and pay attention to what I'm spending my money on and why. Finally, I want to moderate my diet. Why I tend to eat healthily when given the opportunity, I also tend to overeat. I want to pay more attention to my diet and moderate how much and what I am consuming.

Simply put, I want to better moderate myself. To do that, I will need to build new habits, pay attention to what I'm doing, and document everything. I already own a Fitbit, but now it's time to actually use all of its features. I love journaling, now let me incorporate budgeting and food tracking, and self-reflection. My phone was just updated to Android 10, so let me put Google's Digital Wellbeing to good use. I have more than enough tools around me to help me during this year. Let me use what I have to moderate myself.

I suppose you could say that the Year of Betterment has simply been renamed the Year of Moderation because, at the end of the day, I want to better myself by moderating myself. This time, however, I have a much clearer picture in mind, and clearer goals. I truly can't wait to see how I do this year because I want better for myself, and as such, I need to do better for myself.

[frobenius-fairy]

2019: The Year of Less

I’ve always been a person of excess. I overeat, I overspend, I’m always over-prepared. This year though, I want to make it my goal to make things different. I will be keeping up to date some thoughts along the way about my progress and how I find the transition. This yearly theme is inspired by the Cortex podcast on Relay FM and the annual themes that Myke Hurley and CGP Grey often talk about on their podcast. I'll be tracking posts concerning this theme with the hashtag #yearofless. 

Happy goal setting and happy new years! 

[allbestnet]

The top 120 Speculative Fiction , all appearing on 2 or more “Best Speculative Fiction ” lists.

Station Eleven by Mandel, Emily St. John (Appears on 7 Lists)

Bone Clocks, The by Mitchell, David (Appears on 1 Lists)

Martian, The by Weir, Andy (Appears on 8 Lists)

Annihilation (or omnibus Area X) by Vandermeer, Jeff (Appears on 4 Lists)

Magician's Land, The by Grossman, Lev (Appears on 8 Lists)

Boy, Snow, Bird by Oyeyemi, Helen (Appears on 2 Lists)

Peripheral, The by Gibson, William (Appears on 9 Lists)

Lock In by Scalzi, John (Appears on 8 Lists)

On Such a Full Sea by Lee, Chang-Rae (Appears on 7 Lists)

Book of Strange New Things, The by Faber, Michel (Appears on 6 Lists)

Broken Monsters by Beukes, Lauren (Appears on 5 Lists)

Goblin Emperor, The by Addison, Katherine (Appears on 5 Lists)

Red Rising by Brown, Pierce (Appears on 5 Lists)

City of Stairs by Bennett, Robert Jackson (Appears on 4 Lists)

Ancillary Sword by Leckie, Ann (Appears on 3 Lists)

Half a King by Abercrombie, Joe (Appears on 3 Lists)

Queen of the Tearling, The by Johansen, Erika (Appears on 2 Lists)

Bees, The by Paull, Laline (Appears on 1 Lists)

Fool's Assassin by Hobb, Robin (Appears on 1 Lists)

Girl with All the Gifts, The by Carey, M. R. (Appears on 1 Lists)

Words of Radiance by Sanderson, Brandon (Appears on 1 Lists)

First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, The by North, Claire (Appears on 9 Lists)

My Real Children by Walton, Jo (Appears on 9 Lists)

Revival by King, Stephen (Appears on 9 Lists)

California by Lepucki, Edan (Appears on 8 Lists)

Enchanted, The by Denfeld, Rene (Appears on 8 Lists)

J by Jacobson, Howard (Appears on 8 Lists)

Skin Game by Butcher, Jim (Appears on 8 Lists)

Three-Body Problem, The by Liu, Cixin (Appears on 8 Lists)

Bird Box by Malerman, Josh (Appears on 7 Lists)

Broken Eye, The by Weeks, Brent (Appears on 7 Lists)

Cibola Burn by Corey, James S. A. (Appears on 7 Lists)

Prince of Fools by Lawrence, Mark (Appears on 7 Lists)

Slow Regard of Silent Things, The by Rothfuss, Patrick (Appears on 7 Lists)

World of Trouble by Winters, Ben (Appears on 7 Lists)

Breach Zone by Cole, Myke (Appears on 6 Lists)

Defenders by McIntosh, Will (Appears on 6 Lists)

Full Fathom Five by Gladstone, Max (Appears on 6 Lists)

Mirror Empire, The by Hurley, Kameron (Appears on 6 Lists)

New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft, The by Lovecraft, H.P. & Klinger, Leslie S. (Appears on 6 Lists)

Traitor's Blade by De Castell, Sebastian (Appears on 6 Lists)

Darkling Sea, A by Cambias, James (Appears on 5 Lists)

Emperor's Blades, The by Staveley, Brian (Appears on 5 Lists)

Horrorstör by Hendrix, Grady (Appears on 5 Lists)

Steles of the Sky by Bear, Elizabeth (Appears on 5 Lists)

Three, The by Lotz, Sarah (Appears on 5 Lists)

Afterparty by Gregory, Daryl (Appears on 4 Lists)

Angel of Losses, The by Feldman, Stephanie (Appears on 4 Lists)

Book of Life, The by Harkness, Deborah (Appears on 4 Lists)

Boy Who Drew Monsters, The by Donohue, Keith (Appears on 4 Lists)

California Bones by van Eekhout, Greg (Appears on 4 Lists)

Great Glass Sea, The by Weil, Josh (Appears on 4 Lists)

Maplecroft: the Borden Dispatches by Priest, Cherie (Appears on 4 Lists)

Quick, The by Owen, Laura (Appears on 4 Lists)

Shadow Throne, The by Wexler, Django (Appears on 4 Lists)

Tower Lord by Ryan, Anthony (Appears on 4 Lists)

Troop, The by Cutter, Nick (Appears on 4 Lists)

Truth and Fear by Higgins, Peter (Appears on 4 Lists)

Winter People, The by McMahon, Jennifer (Appears on 4 Lists)

Academic Exercises by Parker, K. J. (Appears on 3 Lists)

All Those Vanished Engines by Park, Paul (Appears on 3 Lists)

Causal Angel, The by Rajaniemi, Hannu (Appears on 3 Lists)

Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Bohjalian, Chris (Appears on 3 Lists)

Crimson Campaign, The by McClellan, Brian (Appears on 3 Lists)

End of the Sentence, The by Headley, Maria Dahvana & Howard, Kat (Appears on 3 Lists)

Goodhouse by Marshall, Peyton (Appears on 3 Lists)

Heaven's Queen by Bach, Rachel (Appears on 3 Lists)

Last Projector, The by Keaton, David James (Appears on 3 Lists)

Last Town, The by Crouch, Blake (Appears on 3 Lists)

Magic Breaks by Andrews, Ilona (Appears on 3 Lists)

Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women, The by MacFarlane, Alex Dally (Appears on 3 Lists)

Night Broken by Briggs, Patricia (Appears on 3 Lists)

Prince Lestat by Rice, Anne (Appears on 3 Lists)

Sleep Donation by Russell, Karen (Appears on 3 Lists)

Supernatural Enhancements, The by Cantero, Edgar (Appears on 3 Lists)

Veil of the Deserters by Salyards, Jeff (Appears on 3 Lists)

We Are All Completely Fine by Gregory, Daryl (Appears on 3 Lists)

Widow's House, The by Abraham, Daniel (Appears on 3 Lists)

Word Exchange, The by Graedon, Alena (Appears on 3 Lists)

Yesterday's Kin by Kress, Nancy (Appears on 3 Lists)

Young Woman in a Garden by Sherman, Delia (Appears on 3 Lists)

Abyss beyond Dreams, The by Hamilton, Peter (Appears on 2 Lists)

Best Horror of the Year, Volume 6, The by Datlow, Ellen, ed. (Appears on 2 Lists)

Dark Defiles, The by Morgan, Richard K. (Appears on 2 Lists)

Dust and Light by Berg, Carol (Appears on 2 Lists)

Europe in Autumn by Hutchinson, Dave (Appears on 2 Lists)

Girl in the Road, The by Byrne, Monica (Appears on 2 Lists)

Gunpowder Alchemy by Lin, Jeannie (Appears on 2 Lists)

High Druid's Blade: the Defenders of Shannara, The by Brooks, Terry (Appears on 2 Lists)

Hollow World by Sullivan, Michael J. (Appears on 2 Lists)

How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales by Bernheimer, Kate (Appears on 2 Lists)

Hyde by Levine, Daniel (Appears on 2 Lists)

Incorruptibles, The by Jacobs, John Hornor (Appears on 2 Lists)

Influx by Suarez, Daniel (Appears on 2 Lists)

Kraken Project, The by Preston, Douglas (Appears on 2 Lists)

Lagoon by Okorafor, Nnedi (Appears on 2 Lists)

Last Plane to Heaven, The by Lake, Jay (Appears on 2 Lists)

Lines of Departure by Kloos, Marko (Appears on 2 Lists)

Lockstep by Schroder, Karl (Appears on 2 Lists)

Memory of Water by Itaranta, Emmi (Appears on 2 Lists)

Paper Magician, The by Holmberg, Charlie (Appears on 2 Lists)

Questionable Practices by Gunn, Eileen (Appears on 2 Lists)

Race, The by Allan, Nina (Appears on 2 Lists)

Resurrections by Kaveney, Roz (Appears on 2 Lists)

Rhesus Chart, The by Stross, Charles (Appears on 2 Lists)

Rogues by Martin, George R.R. and Dozois, Gardner, eds. (Appears on 2 Lists)

Rooms by Oliver, Lauren (Appears on 2 Lists)

Sand by Howey, Hugh (Appears on 2 Lists)

Shattered by Hearne, Kevin (Appears on 2 Lists)

Shotgun Arcana, The by Belcher, R. S. (Appears on 2 Lists)

Silent History, The by Horowitz, Eli et al. (Appears on 2 Lists)

Smiler's Fair by Levene, Rebecca (Appears on 2 Lists)

Spirits Abroad by Cho, Zen (Appears on 2 Lists)

Sworn in Steel by Hulick, Douglas (Appears on 2 Lists)

Three Souls by Chang, Janie (Appears on 2 Lists)

Tropic of Serpents: a Memoir by Lady Trent, The by Brennan, Marie (Appears on 2 Lists)

Valour and Vanity by Kowal, Mary Robinette (Appears on 2 Lists)

War Dogs by Bear, Greg (Appears on 2 Lists)

Weirdness, The by Bushnell, Jeremy (Appears on 2 Lists)

Witch with No Name, The by Harrison, Kim (Appears on 2 Lists)

You can view the rest on https://www.bookadvice.co/the-greatest-books-speculative-fiction.html

[macnews-org]

Apple executives discuss how the M1 Pro, M1 Max were developed

Apple executives discuss how the M1 Pro, M1 Max were developed

Apple’s goal with the M1 Pro and M1 Max Mac chips was to “blow the doors off” in terms of what was possible, a pair of Apple executives said in a recent interview. Credit: Apple Apple vice presidents Tim Millet and Tom Boger recently spoke with the hosts of the Upgrade podcast, Jason Snell and Myke Hurley. During the conversation, the pair discussed how M1 Pro and M1 Max came to be. Read more…

[musicgoon]

Podcast Recommendation: The Wolf Den

I heard about The Wolf Den after listening to an episode of Connected over on the RelayFM podcast network. They were talking about The Wolf Den Episode 149 which featured Marco Arment. He is the developer of the Overcast podcast app (the one that I use) and also hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast (a show that I listen to). I dove into The Wolf Den archives and found some other interesting episodes.

149: Marco Arment, Overcast

143: Jason Snell, Incomparable Podcast Network

122: Aaron Lammer, Co-Founder of Longform.org and host of Stoner

118: Julie Shapiro, Radiotopia Executive Producer

115: Max Linsky, Co-founder of Pineapple Street Media and Longform

113: Myke Hurley, Relay.fm Co-Founder

108: Matt Lieber, President of Gimlet Media

77: Alex Blumberg, Co-founder and CEO of Gimlet Media

New media has changed the game for businesses, entrepreneurs, and creatives. For me, it has helped shape my art, the way I do ministry, and how I connect with people. Even Jess and I host a podcast together. I find it fascinating to hear from those who are leading the way because they have a better view of where we’re going and what comes next. 

The Wolf Den focuses on starting and growing a new business and interviews others who are influencing the business of new media. Give them a listen, and check out the master list of my current podcasts.

[appleaware]

Apple Announces September 14 Event

Apple Announces September 14 Event

“As first reported by Myke Hurley of Relay FM, Apple has announced a media event for September 14, 2021 at 10:00 am Pacific. The event will be streamed online. Based on widespread speculation, Apple is expected to introduce its new lineup of iPhones.” View More

[geniodiabolico]

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for April 29 2021 - 99 Percent Contained

In this episode, I play a song by Tim Foljahn; three yard sales in four weeks is too many; I started listening to the Erasable and Cortex podcasts; I am now all in on Obsidian; I agree that GTD is good and yet I can never make it work for me; am I using the systems to avoid doing the work?; posting your beautiful bullet journal photos makes me less likely to use it; I am using PARA to organize my Obsidian files; Obsidian will replace Evernote in my life unless it fails me; the Cortex guys created the Theme System journal; my life is a mostly contained wildfire.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, April 29 2021.

Links mentioned in this episode:

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Tim Foljahn

Listen to “Fuckin’ Up” and the rest of the Rube Goldberg Variations at his website

Tim Foljahn on Performance Anxiety

Erasable Podcast

Pencil Revolution Zine 

Cortex Podcast 

Myke Hurley 

CPG Grey

Obsidian, the Markdown Editor

Death Wish Coffee

Markdown Guide

PARA organzing system

PARA starter kit for Obsidian

Obsidian Sync

Theme System

Buy a Theme System paper journal

Høvel, the ridiculously fancy pencil sharpener

My Keybase account

Subscribe to the shared RSS from my own TTRSS install

Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!

Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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[patrick-mason]

What is your yearly theme?

New year, new you. Lose weight. Play the guitar. Drink less. Get promoted.

Trying to contextualise what you should seek to achieve at work and how you should resolve to do it can be more difficult than it may seem. My organisation is not atypical, in that your performance is largely divided into two chunks - objectives, which should be clear and measurable, by reference to both what you are going to do and how you are going to do it (something I want to return to at a later date), and also your personal development.

Setting and measuring objectives should be a reasonably straightforward task, but setting and measuring personal development goals is a bit more abstract. It’s not helped by organisations taking (necessarily) rigid approaches, which often focus on a medium/long career goal, around which personal development orbits.

It’s taken me a long time to realise that this doesn’t work for me - by starting with a singular goal, a personal development plan risks being little more than objective setting by the back door.

Last year, for the first time I listened to an episode of the podcast Cortex, featuring Myke Hurley and CGP Grey, the fast taking American who you may know from his YouTube videos (including one on this very subject). In the episode, they talk about the concept of a “Yearly Theme”.

Their starting point is that New Year resolutions are, basically, a waste of time - resolutions are most commonly goals, with a success state and a fail state. Yearly Themes have no such states - they are merely the guiding principles under which you can make decisions about how to approach other things in your life. And those can have success states or fail states.

What does this have to do with your personal development? It’s actually quite simple - it’s a way of looking at the concept of your personal development from a different angle. Instead of stressing about promotions, or new jobs, a Yearly Theme focusses on personal growth and change might help you recontextualise what you really want to do.

An example might help - I am a lawyer, and I want to remain in the legal/rules based sphere, but my organisation has a necessarily flat structure. The opportunities to “create” a promotion might not particularly exist. So I hit some pretty severe dead ends with traditional development planning quite quickly - do I fundamentally change what I do so I can get a promotion (pivot), do I wait for someone to leave or move on in the hope that I can get their job (wait) or pack up my belongings and set sail for pastures new (move)?

A traditional development plan might force you to pick one of those options, but a theme does not. So what about a Year of Opportunity? By divorcing your development from the end goal, you can actually progress all three at once by focussing on a singular, broader goal - a good development plan should have a degree of pivot, if only to ensure that you’re not doing exactly what you were doing the year before (opportunity for the new), it should have a degree of wait, if only to ensure that you are ready and capable of doing a new job (opportunity of learning), and it should have a degree of move, to ensure that you are spotting new opportunities that might be better than the ones you have in your sights. As long as you have that all in your sights, I can’t see a fail state, which is what a yearly theme is about.

This isn’t my Yearly Theme, but I’ll keep that under my hat for now, to give it time to percolate.

Happy New Year!