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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 0033: Reaction Videos
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: On the one hand, a good reaction video, to a movie perhaps, a movie already seen, can be interesting and entertaining…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0032: Kicking The Can
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Systemic procrastination is a problem, let us begin to discuss it now, rather than later. Links Buy Dan A Coffee…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0031: Re-Engineering The Great Re-Wiring
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Phone free schools and surgeon general warning labels are all the rage, on both sides of each and still other routes to…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0030: Attendance vs Participation
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Woody Allen of all people famously suggested that 80% of Life is Showing Up. Words to that effect, anyway, you really had to…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0029: Perception vs Reality
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The availability heuristic, motivated reasoning, groupthink, and more can combine to shape the way we see the world around…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0028: Online Debates Debatable
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Online debates are all the rage, but are they even debates anymore? Should a debate have an after action smack-down session…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0027: Monoliths and Oligoliths
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: What do we do when there is only one substantive choice, when the masses accept that choice, and then the one choice fails…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0026: News to Me
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Some observations about modern news coverage, the non-stop news coverage situation, and cameras in the court room. The best…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0025: Bring Back the Beta
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Once upon a time, products were available to customers when they were Done. Now we are asked to spend real money on all…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0024: College or Other and Continuous Learning
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The news today is awash with strife at our college campuses, surely a sign of the end times, so long as we believe that a…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0023: Forget Good If Good Enough Will Do
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Many engineers, maybe more the ones from the old days but I hope not, will try to find a root cause for some problem and see…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0022: Reviewing Reviews and Reviwers
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Reviews have always been a thing, often contentious for any of a number of reasons, from fake to paid-for to fraught with…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0021: Precision and Accuracy and You
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Precision and Accuracy, orthogonal but definitely appealing when encountered together, but so often lacking individually. In…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0020: Intellectual Laziness
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We already know that what you find on the internet is not always correct, but how can we tell, if we can tell at all? Maybe…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0019: Own Your Brand
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: If you have the wherewithal to start a company of some kind, operate a business, or simply maintain a personal or…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0018: Profit First, Fix Later
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There was a time, maybe too long ago to remember, when excellence, innovation, and individual pride in a job well done. A…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0017: Scams, Shams, and Flim-Flams
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We live in modern times, with access to so many ways for people to take advantage of us. There are ways to defend ourselves…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0016: A US Postal Service Reboot
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The US Postal Service is actually sort of amazing if you really think about it, and today we are looking at something of a…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0015: Connections Known and Unknown
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Community is a thing, but it is not always what you think it is, and that gap can be described sometimes by way of some…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0014: The Business of Getting Paid
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: With rare exceptions, we exchange time and/or effort for money. If we do it right we exchange more effort than time, and if…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0013: Everyone in Silos?
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There is a time and a place for a social silo, where two or more individuals need to conduct business away from others…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0012: Dating Apps Have Had Their Turn
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Many people Meet Online, whatever that may mean specifically, but is meeting people getting easier? Are the people you meet…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0011: Hype Spelled AI
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: AI is everywhere lately, and it is only getting worse. Yes, worse. Links Buy Dan A Coffee…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0010: News and Journalism and Media Platforms
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: These are interesting times, particularly right now, with so many layoffs not only in the tech sector, but at major news…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0009: Ceding Everything to Technology
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Since the discovery of fire and the invention of tools from stone and/or the bones of (other) animals, we have been on a…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0008: Online Angst
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: These first weeks have seen some high profile YouTubers exclaiming their need to take a break, step back, retire, and so on…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0007: RSVP
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have Like and Share and Friend and Follow and all manner of words corrupted by social media. None moreso, perhaps, than…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0006: Drive to Excellence
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Drive to Excellence is one of those things we hear about, how they don´t make things the way they used to and all that…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0005: Our Mobile Devices
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A lot of us have mobile phones, maybe a tablet, possibly a laptop. Evolutionary changes are becoming more and more specific…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0004: Discovery
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: In our ever-more-connected world, is it becoming easier, or more difficult to find people, places, and things? Links Buy Dan…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0003: Calendars Good and Evil
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We live in modern times, and more people than ever have a pocket computer always connected to the Internets. We so rarely…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0002: Moderation
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The sort-of-open internet but existing and communicating within corporate silos is a real challenge, is there a way to…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0001: Anti Social Media
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Social Media is getting tired, and causing problems. Is there anything better? Of course there is, we already had it, let´s…
FFS Talk podcastEpisode 0000: Rebooting the Channel
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The return of the FFS audio program, still talking about what works, what does not work, and what we might do about it…
FFS Talk podcastWork Part 3
Rounding out the introduction of this topic arc, surely only the beginning of the beginning. Work in an office, in a restaurant, in a retail store, on a beach…
FFS Talk podcastWork Part 2
Essential work for less-than-essential pay, and these are the workers who will be replaced early in our automated present and future. The entire Work topic…
FFS Talk podcastWork Part 1
Have you been working from home? Does your workplace follow old school organization structures, or maybe they're trying out a New Way to engage their…
FFS Talk podcastNanos Gigantium Humeris Insidentes
Perhaps Sir Isaac Newton said it better. He certainly said it in English, and so it was a little bit meta on top of its other implications... Show notes in the…
FFS Talk podcastGratuitous Gratuities
The true origins and history of tipping and gratuities is up for debate, but not today. Let's talk about moving people into a modern approach to participation…
FFS Talk podcastSharing Good Data
There is only more to know, and the consequences continue to be significant when we do not. How can individuals build a picture of comprehension from the…
FFS Talk podcastMeta July 2021
This is a Meta Episode, which is an episode about the FFS Talk podcast. Show notes in the Show Notes Newsletter, see below. Support the Show! As the FFS Talk…
FFS Talk podcastComputer as Copilot
Should consumers of data generated, curated, and presented by our computer overlords be made aware of the nature of those overlords, or are we destined to…
FFS Talk podcastTheories of The Good Life
Why are you here? Why am I here? We may not soon be able to answer that question, but we can try to answer some other questions about what we do while we are…
FFS Talk podcastMyTubes
The internets present us all with fabulous opportunities to express ourselves, communicate with friends and family around the world in real time or over years…
FFS Talk podcastInnovation and Co-creation
Have you ever made a product or service, launched it into the market, and discovered it was not what people wanted? Have you ever watched a product or service…
FFS Talk podcastOne Small Step For News Reporting
News is reported as stories for humans most of the time. Not so true when it comes to weather, sports, finance, and anything where there are tangible facts…
FFS Talk podcastModern Collaboration
Catching the tail end of the 2021 Memorial Day Weekend, wherein we all gave pause to consider the sacrifices made by some of the best-trained and most capable…
FFS Talk podcastDelivering Big Delta II
When at first you don't get your point across in a completely coherent manner, try (try) again? Well, the real goal was to establish the underlying and…
FFS Talk podcastDelivering Big Delta
At long last, a return to production, with an episode that is essentially The Show... when we talk about "What Works, What doesn't, and what we can do about…
FFS Talk podcast(Keep Feeling) Vaccination
Has it been a year already? The theme of this show is generally failure analysis, or as I say from time to time, a discussion about what works, what doesn't…
FFS Talk podcastMeta: Welcome Back
First meta episode, about the show itself! It has been a while... A quick touch on a few things that have gone on since the most recent previous episode…
FFS Talk podcastEconomeering
You cannot talk about economy without being an economist, can you? Actually, you can, and if you've ever added "engineer" to the end of whatever it is you do…
FFS Talk podcastLast Mile and Downtown Project
The first planting of topic arc seeds, to expound on topics, what works, and what does not, and what we can do about it. Connecting the Last Mile, typically…
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Show Zero
Show Zero is the first episode of the first show in the Return to Digital Media. A former podcaster, I (Dan Hugo) am an engineer, technology nerd, and eager…