Ep 27. Making your own luck, trust
10/21/14 • 68 min
This week: How James created a successful open source project, and the parallels between trust in business and romantic relationships.
links:
- Pydub
- City Mapper
- Plated
- Blue Apron
- Sweet Roots
- Plague Inc (game)
- f.lux
- Twilight for Android
- Nobel prize in Physics: Blue LEDs
- Google “Why am I...” in NYC will suggest “...so tired”
Book recommendation:
(music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)
This week: How James created a successful open source project, and the parallels between trust in business and romantic relationships.
links:
- Pydub
- City Mapper
- Plated
- Blue Apron
- Sweet Roots
- Plague Inc (game)
- f.lux
- Twilight for Android
- Nobel prize in Physics: Blue LEDs
- Google “Why am I...” in NYC will suggest “...so tired”
Book recommendation:
(music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)
Previous Episode
Ep 26. Focus
This week: We talk about Focus. James’ Soylent arrived, and a little about Typography.
links:
- Soylent
- Garden of life
- Exo bars made with cricket flour
- Moshe Safdie’s TED talk, How to reinvent the apartment building
- Paul Graham: Before the Startup
- Simon Sinek: Start with Why
- Elon Musk article on Aeon Magazine
Book recommendations:
- M. Scott Peck: The Road Less Traveled
- Ellen Lupton: Thinking With Type
- Ellen Lupton: Type on Screen
(music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)
Next Episode
Ep 28. Technology, no wait, food. again.
This week: How new technologies earn our trust, and why it’s so hard.
Mik said it was Ep 27 in the intro. But you and me? We know it’s not.
Thanks for reading the show notes!
links:
- Steelcase on Environment in the workplace
- Gensler on Environment in the workplace
- HBR (October, 2014)
- Email Mik: [email protected]
- New York Times on Soylent
- Sprouts.io
- Most corn is fed to cattle
- Deng Xiaoping: “It doesn’t matter whether a cat is black or white, if it catches mice it is a good cat”
- Bertrand Russell: “In Praise of Idleness” (full text, or buy on amazon)
Books:
(music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)
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