97. "Hacking" the Legal System: Dr. Bruce Schneier (World-renowned Security Expert and Blogger)

09/11/22 • 27 min

Ethical hacking is essential in the tech world as it exposes the holes and bugs in systems before bad people can use them. This same mindset can be applied to the legal system in order to “hack” it before "black hat" hackers exploit the problems. In this episode, Dr. Bruce Schneier (full bio below) explains this philosophy and the steps to apply it.
Topics:

What are public-interest technologists?
Hacking the legal system
Practical hacking
The Big Tech monopoly
Surveillance Capitalism
What can the next generation do?
What books have had an impact on Dr. Schneier
What advice Dr. Schneier has for teenagers

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by the Economist. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books -- including Click Here to Kill Everybody -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter, Crypto-Gram, and blog, Schneier on Security, are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow, and an advisory board member of EPIC and
VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.
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What are public-interest technologists?
Hacking the legal system
Practical hacking
The Big Tech monopoly
Surveillance Capitalism
What can the next generation do?
What books have had an impact on Dr. Schneier
What advice Dr. Schneier has for teenagers

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96. The Religion of Work: Dr. Carolyn Chen (Author of "Work Pray Code" and Associate Professor of Ethics at University of California, Berkeley)

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In this episode, I talk with Dr. Carolyn Chen, author of Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley and associate professor of ethics at the University of California, Berkeley, (scroll down for full bio), about the “religion of work” in “techtopias.”
Topics:

Work as religion
Tech workers as believers
The cult of productivity
Should we let this happen?
The sacraments and saints of Work
The monkish lifestyle of workers
What books have had an impact on Dr. Chen
What advice Dr. Chen has for teenagers

Books Mentioned: (I get a cut)

Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley - https://amzn.to/3pLH5Lx
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion - https://amzn.to/3ccvC4H
The Hidden Lives of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate--Discovers from a Secret World - https://amzn.to/3Cno8qk
Justice: What's the Right Things to Do? - https://amzn.to/3AdgCeG

Dr. Carolyn Chen, a sociologist, is an associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Getting Saved in America (Princeton) and the co-editor of Sustaining Faith Traditions. She lives in Kensington, California.

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98. The Disciplined Life: Ryan Holiday (NYT bestselling author of "Stillness is the Key", "The Daily Stoic," and many others)

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In this episode, I talk to NYT bestselling author, Ryan Holiday (full bio below), about the disciplined life. His latest book, Discipline is Destiny, comes out September 27 (2022).
Topics:

The Three Types of Discipline
The Purpose of Discipline
Why should we have self-control?
Why to define a Primary Focus
How to structure skill-building around assignments
Practical habits for a disciplined day
What books have had an impact on Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday's advice for teenagers

When Ryan Holiday was 19 years old, he dropped out of college to apprentice under Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power. Mr. Holiday had a successful marketing career at American Apparel and went on to found a creative agency called Brass Check, which has advised clients like Google, TASER, and Complex, as well as many prominent bestselling authors, including Neil Strauss, Tony Robbins and Tim Ferriss. He is the author of ten books, including The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy, The Daily Stoic, Conspiracy and Stillness is the Key which have sold more than 2 million copies in thirty languages and has a following among NFL coaches, world-class athletes, TV personalities, political leaders, and others around the world. Mr. Holiday spends much of his time on a ranch outside Austin, Texas where he does his writing and work in between raising cattle, donkeys, and goats.

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