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FFS Talk podcast
This is a conversational show about problems and solutions, discussing what is working and what isn't and what "we" might do about it. Think of it as darkness+flashlight...
Episodes
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0153: BaristaBots
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have all encountered some form of automation kiosk at a retail establishment, maybe a McDonald’s or a movie theater or…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0152: Daily Politics
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Politics is messy business, one reason it is often off limits a discussion topic at your local, as it should be elsewhere…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0151: Learn to Code
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Obama announcement in December 2014 about policy leaning in to coding literacy and direction came as there was a general…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0150: Emotional Reporting
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Last week we did Reasoned Reporting, this week how about the Emotional version? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0149: Reasoned Reporting
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The human response is calibrated at two different levels, one emotional and the other, the second to respond, logical or…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0148: Automate Everything
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: In these exciting times, the notion that we can have some computer somewhere running some AI model do everything for us is…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0147: Free
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Who doesn’t love free, whatever it might be? Well there are some caveats, perhaps… Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0146: Product Data Reporting
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: More and more of the products we use are phoning home to tell the mother ship about what the product is doing and how and…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0145: AI Trust
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Odds are you use AI tools for something, sometimes or all the time, and thanks to momentum you probably take the response as…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0144: Dating Advice Tube
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Anyone can find, or give, advice about anything on YouTube and other media outlets, no matter your education or expertise…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0143: Tech Shaming
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Are you on the leading or cutting edge and you believe that makes you better in some way than those who are not? Think…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0142: So Many Platforms
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: As a follow-on to the Handle Grab episode, is it a good thing to have so many social media platforms and to keep track of…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0141: Blame
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: It is human nature to want to place blame somewhere, usually somewhere else, and this is easily seen in the ongoing pursuit…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0140: Bigger is Better
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Keep in clean if you will, bigger may be better sometimes, more may be also, but not always. Links FFS Talk Home…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0139: Handle Grab
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Not so often lately, but through the history of the internets there were new social networking and social media platforms…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0138: LinkedIn
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A lot of people use LinkedIn, allegedly around 1.3 Billion registered users worldwide. That is a lot of people, but how many…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0137: Norms
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Norms, Social Norms, Structural Norms, all of these are the things we all sort of expect if we know about them, and we can…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0136: Screenshots
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We all use them, they are easy to create, and they can be convenient in many situations. Yet they can also be misused, and…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0135: Warm Introductions
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: If you have ever set out to meet a group of people by way of introductions, you may have experienced this trap, where you…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0134: AI Means All In
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: AI is showing up in all sorts of places, for a few different reasons, the question is whether this is good or maybe not so…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0133: Flipped Classroom
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I am not an actual educator, no credentials or classroom experience to speak of at all really, but based on my own life…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0132: Participation as Support
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have all been there on either or both sides of this. You want to support your colleague, so you buy a ticket, you like…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0131: Do The Maths
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Maths are hard for some, and generally off-putting for more, even though having some idea what the numbers are is usually a…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0130: Ignorance
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We talked about Apathy in Episode 0113 and Optimism in Episode 0126, today we ponder the wonder of not knowing. Links FFS…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0129: Monolith
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: No, not the mysterious object in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but the notion that an organized whole that acts as a single unified…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0128: AI Cofounders
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The hype is growing faster than the power bills for AI, with the new coolness found in the ability to run your…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0127: Whataboutism
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Is so-called whataboutism a valid argument, rationalizing, or simply insidious? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0126: Optimism
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: These are interesting times, it is perhaps a good thing to be able to see opportunity in the chaos Links FFS Talk Home…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0125: Our Two Party System
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Reexamining The Federalist Papers and some history and basically the state of affairs that we started with nearly 250 years…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0124: Economic Curses
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The so-called Resource Curse is a well-known concept, it has been around for a long time, and the place I call home, Las…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0123: Minimally Viable Participation
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There is a quote often attributed to Woody Allen, that Showing Up is 80% of Life. There may be more nuance than that. Links…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0122: Lane Assignments
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have all heard the expression, “Stay in your lane,” or something similar, and there is a different side to that coin…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0121: Tech Tech Tech
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Everything is tech, and if it is not yet tech, there are plans to make it tech, most likely by bolting on some AI and hoping…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0120: Age Verification
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Age verification online has become the new hot topic, in a time of so many hot topics, and this is going to be another…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0119: Voting
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Voting is something that happens during elections, but it can also happen at other times and in other ways. The general…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0118: Revisiting Feeds
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We talked about rivers and walls and feeds back in episode 53, now is as good a time as ever to look at this one-dimensional…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0117: AI Hype pt 1
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Artificial Intelligence is going to take all jobs in 18 months leaving you more time to relax and enjoy life for as long as…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0116: Ubiquitous Cameras
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Look around in your travels and note how many people have cameras (in their phones, in their pockets, on their bodies) and…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0115: Passive Participation
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Passive participation sounds like something you find on your tax forms (I think it is, actually), but here we are going to…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0114: Rollback
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We are not talking about databases, but there is a concept in databases where a change set can either be committed for all…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0113: Apathy
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There are probably a few of these sorts of things to which this suggestion applies, that Apathy can be a good thing in…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0112: Movie Reactions
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There is an entire genre of media production built around reacting to the content of others, whether movies, series, or the…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0111: Cars vs Pedestrians
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I may have spoken of this before, but lately I am really feeling the difference between being inside a car and in front of…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0110: Engaging The World
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A tremendous amount of our individual engagement with the rest of the world, near and far, is digital, thanks to social…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0109: Retrospective 2025
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: This year is coming to an end, is there anything that simply works so we do not need to do anything about it? Maybe, but I…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0108: Smart City
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The “Smart City” concept has been around for decades, and if you ask anyone anywhere they will tell you what they think…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0107: We vs They
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Certainly the expression “Us versus Them” is familiar, and is usually indicative of an adversarial relationship. Here let us…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0106: Certainty
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: This happens all the time online, more and more daily, but it can happen anywhere and at anytime, and it has, and it does…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0105: Holidays
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Today we record and publish on what we all hope is a Happy Thanksgiving, but what about these holidays, what are they all…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0104: Modern Speculation
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Predicting the weather was always something of a challenge, getting it wrong could be costly in many ways. In the modern…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0103: Complexity
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Is simplicity more and more difficult to find? Look around, we depend more and more on things that are less and less…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0102: Two
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The paradox of choice, an embarrassment of riches, how to decide, do we even want to? Too many and we might not, none and we…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0101: The Comments
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Surely someone has suggested this, that the internet has made speech and conversation ubiquitous, or nearly so, for better…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0100: Public Safety
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: One political hot potato that has come up many, many times in recent years, Defund The Police, is classic misdirection, but…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0099: Armchair Experts
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Internet is sometimes lauded as one of the greatest human inventions of all time, connecting every part of the world to…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0098: The Algorithm
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have talked about a variety of issues that are certainly adjacent to this one, but let us take a look at the so-called…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0097: Turmoil
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We talked about Fragility in Episode 0075 of this audio program, now is a good time to ponder Turmoil in that context. Links…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0096: Open Analysis in Action
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: As this episode is recorded one of the news items of the day concerns a crime committed in public, with multiple video…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0095: Personal Supply Chains
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Anyone who had never before heard of a supply chain probably did during the infamous Pandemic Lockdowns, when global supply…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0094: Context Tools and Methods
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Recorded on a day with one so-called Political Assassination and yet another school shooting here in the US, the way we…