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Winning Slowly

Chris Krycho and Stephen Carradini

There are plenty of podcasts that will tell you how the latest tech gadget or “innovation” will affect the tech landscape tomorrow, but there aren’t that many concerned with the potential impact of that tech in a decade—much less a century. In a culture obsessed with now, how can we make choices with a view for tomorrow, next year, and beyond? 25–35-minute episodes released the first and third Wednesdays of the month.

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40:03

[Bonus] Fall 2016 Lecture (A)

Winning Slowly ·

2016/12/28

Stephen gave his students a change of pace by having Chris deliver a guest lecture on podcasting. This lecture was recorded immediately before delivering 5.05: "Faint Not" (Live at N.C. State).

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30:00

5.09: Regulate All The Things!

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2016/11/29

Negative / Visible / Legal: regulations and the open internet Show Notes We look at internet policy and regulations as a view into the broader question of the relationship between government regulations and markets. Are all regulations harmful to the free market? Is a free market always the best? How do ideas like net neutrality and local loop unbundling play into it? Correction Chris said, wrongly, that the North Carolina state government prevented Charlotte from building its own municipal fiber

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3:25

[Follow-up] 5.08b: On Andrew Jackson

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2016/11/28

At the end of 5.08 we made an offhand joke about Andrew Jackson. On further consideration, that joke wasn't funny: it missed some incredibly important realities. We got this wrong.

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30:49

5.08: Empathy is Hard Work

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2016/11/16

Reflections on the necessity, and the limitations, of empathy in light of the 2016 American election cycle Show Notes In the wake of the surprising outcome of the 2016 American presidential election, we talk about how we do politics going forward. In particular, we look at how empathy and treating each other (no matter how sharp our differences) as people made in the image of God must inform our politics, even as we acknowledge that no amount of empathy will overcome all disagreements. Links “What

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25:59

5.07: Books, The Internet, and Homeless People

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2016/11/01

Positive / Invisible / Legal (Organized):public libraries and the common good Show Notes We talk libraries. Why? Because public libraries are awesome. They’re on of the few unalloyed successes in social experiments. They do good in a wide array of areas, and they’re free to use (because we support them as taxpayers). If you want to hear Chris giddy, this is the episode. The second of two episodes recorded live at NC State University on September 22, 2016. (Yep, our schedule is way different this

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48:12

5.06: Ghost of a King

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2016/10/18

Art, faith, how culture shapes and is shaped by us, and more in The Gray Havens’ latest album Show Notes Chris and Stephen have a wide-ranging conversation with Dave Radford of husband-and-wife folk-pop duo The Gray Havens about the value and purpose of art, the business side of the music industry, and the process of putting together their latest album, Ghost of a King. Musical influences: Simon and Garfunkel James Taylor Cat Stevens Frank Sinatra Dean Martin Queen Coldplay Mumford and

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25:42

5.05: “Faint Not”

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2016/10/04

Negative / Invisible / Legal (Organized): civil forfeiture and entrenched legal evil Show NotesWe take on civil forfeiture. The short version: we hate it. It’s a wicked injustice and we think it ought to be fought, and fought hard. (If you want to hear Chris and Stephen get actually angry about something, this is the episode.) Links “Civil forfeiture in the United States” – Wikipedia “NYPD admits accounting for its civil-forfeiture seizures is hopeless” – RT “Asset Forfeiture Abuse” – ACLU “Civil

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29:24

5.04: Stuffy, Boring, Old, Lame

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2016/09/20

Positive / Visible / Social (Organized): orchestras and the question of “public goods” Show NotesWe talk about orchestras, ask whether financial viability is a guide to the health or importance of particular institutions (hint: Betteridge’s Law), and look at how orchestras and other such institutions can be real markers of cultural health even for the people they don’t directly affect. Links An article in The New York Times, in 1903, referenced in The Perilous Life of Symphony Orchestras, by

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28:26

5.03: It's Not Like Uber

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2016/09/13

Show Notes In which we look at Facebook... but not like we ever have before. Why are people starting to turn off Facebook, and what social pressures are arising from that? How do social pressures of this sort work, and what kinds of changes do they affect? Links Virtue signaling “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is doing to our brains”, Nicolas Carr, The Atlantic, July/August 2008 “The road out of Denton” – Jim Bradbury for TribTalk/The Texas Tribune, July 8, 2015, on Texas and

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29:42

5.02: Playing Monopoly: Never Okay

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2016/08/23

Negative → Positive / Visible / Legal → Social: marijuana legalization and how systems change. Show Notes Marijuana legalization is happening in various states in the United States. How does that kind of change fit into the system we’ve devised for talking about structure and agency/systems and individuals? Because norms do change: all the time. How? Links Reefer Madness “What’s More Dangerous: Marijuana or Alcohol? A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast” “Four of the Major Fear Campaigns That Helped

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1:49

[Bonus] Apologia

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2016/08/18

In which we laugh at ourselves and explain why you didn't get a new episode this week, but will get one next week, but not the week after that. Systems are hard, people. P.S. We might just have more bonus episodes at some point. Like this one, they'll be in the feed, and in the Bonus category on the site, but not highlighted in the "Current Season" on the front page. Because they're, well... bonus episodes. Explanation: New Rustacean is Chris' podcast about the Rust programming language.

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25:29

5.01: A Ph.D.-Level Math Problem

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2016/08/09

Structures and systems, agency and individuals: three axes (and a sub-axis) for thinking about the world we live in. Show Notes We introduce our system for thinking about the "structure/agency" or "systems and individuals" problem: how do the systems and structures of our lives shape us? How do we shape them? How free are we, and where are the places where more freedom is good, and the places where it might actually be bad? How do we confront the structural issues we face, or strengthen and

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32:40

4.14: This Money Might Be Illegal

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2016/04/20

Show Notes We use the Panama Papers as a jumping-off point to sum up the season and talk about: the alleged flatness of the world the possibilities of both globalization and localization the twin dangers of imperialism and parochialism the ways that growing income inequality intersect with globalization the things different cultures can learn from each other the distinction between “reasonable” and “justifiable” responses the importance of humility, whether in art or in charitable action the value

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29:21

4.13: We Live in a Different Culture Than the Bible

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2016/04/14

The global nature of Christianity and the beauty of many cultures practicing the same faith Show Notes We look at how Christianity is changing as it shifts from being heavily Western to being far more global (as it was in its birth). What new things might we see and learn as other eyes come to the same text? What do the various cultures of the world have to offer each other as we practice the same, ancient faith? Links Reading we’ve found helpful on today’s topic: Misreading the Bible Through

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35:18

4.12: Five Years of Facepalming (Live at NC State)

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2016/04/05

The EU and internet law—monopolies, copyright, taxing, freedom of speech, and learning from each other. Show Notes In this second of two episodes recorded live at NC State (with a different class of students), we tackle the European Union’s approach to internet legislation—including everything from copyright law to dealing with monopolies—as a way to look at how differently things work around the world. What might we learn from other countries here in the U.S.? What might they learn from

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37:26

4.11: How People Read C.S. Lewis (Live at NC State)

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2016/03/29

Show Notes In the first of two episodes recorded live at NC State, we tackle the challenges posed by protest art. When does art cross a line and become morally reprehensible? When is it a viable alternative to other, far worse ways of dealing with the esame problems? Links “Stab Stab” (Palestinian Anger in Jerusalem and West Bank Gets a Violent Soundtrack" (New York Times) “NYT Front Page Indulges ‘Blunt’ Palestinian ‘Protest Songs’ Encouraging the Stabbing Murder of Jews” (NewsBusters) C.

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28:44

4.10: The Ancient Wisdom of Usenet

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2016/03/22

Populism, social media, and wisdom in when, how, and where to (dis)engage with people you disagree with. Show Notes There’s a wave of populism sweeping the world. Twitter and Facebook are some of the epicenters of the new populism. How should we think about interacting with radical populists in general? And what about specifically on social media? Links “Is Google Making Us Stupid (Nick Carr at The Atlantic)” Bernie Sanders runs to man who fainted during speech (CNN) Previously on the Show 4.05:

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29:05

4.09: We're Idealist Realists

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2016/03/15

Show Notes We discuss the problems that face major nation-states trying to respond to the massive refugee crisis in Europe. We also look at the complex relationship between nations on topics like this in a “global world” (nice, Chris) and suggest that Americans both invest actively in making things better and chill out a bit insofar as we don’t live in Europe. Links “One in, one out”: Turkey and EU agree outline of ‘one in, one out’ deal over Syria refugee crisis (The Guardian) “Central American

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36:15

4.08: A Ghost in Singapore

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2016/03/08

John O'Nolan on Ghost, Singapore, international commerce, and giving the benefit of the doubt Show Notes We invite Ghost cofounder John O’Nolan on the show to talk about Ghost’s reincorporation in Singapore, what that means for them as a non-profit, and how we should think about these kinds of moves. We talk about everything from the specific details of Ghost’s move to the ethics of business tourism, and John basically hammers on themes we’ve been talking about all season. It’s

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29:36

4.07: A Muscle-Flexing Flyby

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2016/03/01

Show Notes We talk about nation-states, war, hopes of permanent peace and how “the end of history” and the notion of fewer major wars is likely a pipe dream. But also, how to think about foreign policy issues as citizens of nations we love, and the value of nation-states even in a “global village.” Links Fall of the Berlin Wall Russo-Japanese War World War I “War to end all wars” World War II Proxy wars Cold War Korean War Vietnam War Arab-Israel conflict Exclave Kaliningrad Oblast (Russian

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