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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 0093: Context in Modern Media
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: In these modern times, everyone is a reporter, though very few are journalists, and those who are may or may not be putting…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0092: Pizza
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Pizza is one of those things that is regional, somewhat tribal, and is always a topic of conversation. The same is true of a…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0091: Blockchain Web3 Metaverse AI Oh My
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The hype cycle is real, and we seem to be experiencing them in overlapping fashion, faster and faster, like Tarzan passing…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0090: Ideological Platforms
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Who at this point is not on one or both of Twitter and Bluesky, or X and BS if you like, and who finds that a good thing?…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0089: Explainers
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Explainers are a real thing, on YouTube especially but on any video media, well-produced explanations about how things work…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0088: Solipsism
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The philosophical notion of solipsism is a bit extreme, while the more practical definition or common use leans more toward…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0087: Civics
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: From sports to driving to preparing food and more, there are so many things we need, or want, to do each day which we choose…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0086: Knowing vs Not Knowing
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: If someone is supposed to know something, and others rely on them to know that something, but they do not know that…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0085: Graph Memory
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A graph is a collection of nodes connected in one or both directions by edges, which is a fancy way of saying we can…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0084: Reviewing Things
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Reviews are everywhere, whether stars or hearts or likes with categories or rankings and of course the long form anecdote…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0083: Modern User Experience
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We all use technology nowadays, why is it so difficult to know when it is working and when it is not? Should this problem…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0082: Mysterious Violations
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The world revolves around corporate internet, whether they are hosting your products to sell, reviews of products or…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0081: Collective Action
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Protests are in the news, and Collective Action in general can be a great way to amplify the voice of the masses, but…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0080: AI Tech Slop
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We can spot generated content, we know when it is probably fake, maybe, right? What happens when AI is doing things you…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0079: Media Diet
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: In a world where a great many of us can consume almost anything from a vast menu of written word, imagery, audio, and video…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0078: Initiative
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: You know this person, the one who always seems to be involved, to step up, to be the bridge between plan and action, the…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0077: Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: How many times has this happened to you, where you receive a notification of some kind to update your software, your…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0076: Customer Experience
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We live in a consumption world, obviously, and as consumers we will encounter issues when placing an order, completing a…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0075: Fragility
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I think we all get comfortable with stuff that seems to be working, if it isn´t broken we should not try fixing it, or maybe…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0074: Sensemaking
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We live in a twilight world, and there are no friends at dusk. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0073: Someone Else Should
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A 2024 survey of people in the US suggests that we are all for more domestic manufacturing jobs, so long as someone else…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0072: Recoding Abundance
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Two books about similar things, what does the future hold for the US and, more importantly perhaps, those of us who are…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0071: Border Privacy
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We are living in interesting times, with one sign of the times making the news now and then, maybe not making the news, that…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0070: Sharing Information
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A lot of talk in the news this week (as recorded) about government officials using a non-government, consumer-aimed…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0069: The Press vs Journalists
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The earliest of cave paintings, the running messenger, the town crier, printed media, radio, television, the Internets……
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0068: Literally and Figuratively
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: One fun feature of the one single language spoken in the United States, if you believe some executive orders, is that it is…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0067: Debugging
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Debugging is not something everyone does consciously, but we all do it in one way or another. It is about understanding the…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0066: Knowing How Stuff Works
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Way back in Episode 15 we went into the notion that there are connections that we know about and that we do not know about…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0065: Crowd Wisdom pt 2
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A few connected episodes about different parts of the crowd and extracting wisdom from it, based on one view anyway, so what…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0064: Response
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: One last supplementary episode in the Crowd Wisdom series, a brief dive into the response to reaction, when there is tumult…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0063: Reaction
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Thinking out loud about Crowd Wisdom, what happens when the crowd encounters some new information, or impression, or…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0062: Teams and Factions
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Sports enthusiasm is not a new thing and not unique to the US, but it is certainly a driver for much more than sports in…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0061: Own Your Own
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We talked about social media, chaos in that space with and between the big players, and taking back our online presence…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0060: Social Media Chaos
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Legacy social media platforms in the US, well-known around the world at this point, are getting a lot of attention, and not…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0059: Crowd Wisdom pt 1
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We hear a lot every day, more often than that even, about surveys and polls and what people think about the things you may…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0058: Big Learning Thought Experiments
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Last week it was Big Learning Energy, now we can talk a little bit about where that energy is going, and should we feel good…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0057: Big Learning Energy
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: As 2024 winds down to a close, this being the final episode of that calendar year, let us consider briefly the energy…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0056: Thought Experiments
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Have you ever been involved in a conversation or perhaps a presentation where you pose a hypothetical to make a point or to…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0055: Sources
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There has been some talk, some concern, about what happens when the big companies run out of new, human-authored content to…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0054: Crypto Chaos
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Cryptocurrency is all the rage, with hope in the marketplace that regulations will go their way and we can all benefit from…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0053: Rivers and Walls and Feeds
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Our online world is mostly about infinite scroll, a reverse-chronological ordering of events, photos, brief messages, our…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0052: Logic and Reasonng
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The end of Season 0, and with all of the tumult in the news and social media today, why not end Season 0 with some thinking…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0051: Pick a Path
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Tangentially related to the recent election outcome, but more generally this is about selecting a goal or collection of…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0050: Post Election Ideation
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Now that Election Day 2024 has come and gone, some reflections on what works, what does not, and what we might do about it…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0049: Ballots and Polls
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: You may already have mailed yours in, maybe you are thinking about dropping it off, perhaps you will walk in and fill it out…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0048: Assume The Position
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We all have opinions, the question is whether we form them ourselves based on what we learn, what we can verify, what we…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0047: Signals and Systems
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: If we label surveys, polls, statistics and data in general as Signals, then we can look at how these various Signals drive…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0046: Informed Public
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Not a new topic, but information awareness appears to be on the decline at a faster pace than even the most pessimistic…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0045: Debate v2
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Political Debates, you gotta love ´em. Or do you? Are political debates, and we know which ones in particular, worth the…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0044: Adopting Modernity
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We are surrounded by the most cutting edge technology ever conceived or even imagined by humans, with among other benefits…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0043: Intellectual Curiosity
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Have you noticed that people seem to prefer to accept information presented to them at face value, assuming it is factual…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0042: Fact vs Fiction
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: It is indeed the season of fiction over fact, for at least the next two months or so, but in general this is a time when…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0041: History and Evolution Context
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Context matters, so does writing things down, reading over these things from time to time, and understanding that what…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0040: Electile Dysfunction
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Politics is no fun but the mechanisms of the US election system and general determinations regarding districting ballot…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0039: Infrastructure Debt
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: This being an election year, the topic of Infrastructure comes up once again, more from the Dems than the GOP this time…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0038: Conspiracy Theories
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: When there is a lack of transparency, a lack if information and clarity can lead very easily to exciting Conspiracy…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0037: Intersections
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Intersections are tricky, with multiple interactions, multiple parties, multiple states and perspectives. Sometimes they are…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0036: Misplaced Trust
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Evolve in Tennessee, yet another bank compromised by evil so-called hackers, the penetration vector a phishing email opened…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0035: News and Knowledge
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: These are interesting times, and keeping track of how interesting they are can be a challenge when there are so many people…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0034: If You Can Keep It
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: “A lady asked Dr. Franklin ‘Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy’ – ‘A republic,’ replied the Doctor, ‘if…