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PODCAST

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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28:26

4.06: Kickstarting a Hyperlocal Super-Farm

Winning Slowly ·

2016/02/16

Show Notes Links The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman New Rustacean, Chris’ other podcast “Kickstarter Lesson #65: How to Get US Backers if You’re Running a Non-US-Based Kickstarter Campaign” “Hong Kong has probably lost HSBC’s headquarters for good—and Beijing is to blame” “The Facebook-loving Farmers of Myanmar” Previously on the Show 4.03: The Podcast Awakens—in which we talked about global fandoms specifically in the context of Star Wars 3.12: Hungarian Folk Music—in which we talked about

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32:27

4.05: The Price of Democracy

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2016/02/09

Show Notes We dive back into the deep end with a discussion of the necessity and challenge of compromise in the political realm. How do we work steadily but slowly toward the things we value? How do decide what we can compromise on and what we can’t? Can we “trade favors” in a good way? What about people working at totally cross purposes on a given issue? Corrigenda The Myanmar military party no longer has a majority, but retains a substantial fraction of the parliamentary seats. Links “Myanmar

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29:52

4.04: But Was It a Good Movie?

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2016/02/02

Following up on our previous conversation about The Force Awakens, this week we look at what makes art good, especially in the context of film. Was the latest Star Wars actually a good movie? Links Theodore Adorno XKCD 915: Connoiseur “I Want to be Well” from The Age of Adz by Sufjan Stevens, on Genius The Force Awakens soundtrack on iTunes Music “Rey’s Theme” from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, by John Williams. Fair use. Utterly lovely. “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho, who still thinks

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29:06

4.03: The Podcast Awakens

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2016/01/29

We say a few serious things about the nature of global fandom, the relationship between art and brand awareness in large media properties, and the future of as large a property as Star Wars. But let’s be honest: mostly, we geek out. Links TheForce.net Literature Forum, where Chris was Master_Keralys “How Disney Plans To Sell ‘Star Wars’ In China, A Box Office Far, Far Away” “‘Star Wars’ China Box Office: Lukewarm Presales Could Signal Trouble For Disney Juggernaut” The Force Awakens soundtrack on

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25:48

4.02: Helpiness

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2016/01/18

We pick up from our discussion of Facebook and Internet.org last week to look at the broader questions we raised then: how do you help people well? It’s not enough to have good intentions—so how do you pick good charities to give to? How do you choose where to dedicate your own time and money? How should we think about foreign aid, and foreign intervention, and foreign policy in general? Links When Helping Hurts Microcredit Toms Corporate Responsibility “Some Bad News about TOMS

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29:11

4.01: Unambiguously Meh

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2016/01/12

We open our fourth season with a discussion of Facebook’s Internet.org platform, open access vs. power plays by large companies, and the ethical questions at the intersection of business and philanthropy. Chris and Stephen disagree about how to read Facebook’s move, and set the stage for a season-long discussion of globalization and its ramifications for technology, religion, ethics, and art. Just some light discussion to start things off, in other words. Links Quartz: “Mark Zuckerberg can’t

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30:09

3.15: Smorgasbord, Part II

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2015/11/03

We wrap up our third full season with another “lightning round”, talking about the structure/agency and tech accessibility, globalization, and owning your own content online. Links Structure/agency problem (Wikipedia) Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Web accessibility Globalization Code for the Kingdom The World is Flat “Albuquerque” Owning your own content: Indie web WordPress backups Medium Craig Mod essays Previously on the show: 3.12: Hungarian Folk Music Music “Broken” by

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30:32

3.14: Smorgasbord, Part I

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2015/10/27

We start wrapping up Season 3, tackling five topics that one or the other of us wanted to talk about but couldn’t get the other one all that excited about, or which we didn’t feel like we had enough to say yet: venture capitalism (both of us) online classes (Stephen) the ethics of algorithms (Chris) tracking people at work (Stephen) transparency in business (Chris) Links Venture capitalism article on Wikipedia Insightful piece by Ben Thompson at Stratechery: “Venture Capital and the Internet’s

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26:27

3.13: Inevitable? (Live at NC State)

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2015/10/20

Talking about self-driving cars and the tensions between public safety and personal responsibility, and between technological possibility and cultural norms. Corrigenda Stephen meant “Black Beauty” rather than “Black Betsy”. Mat Honan’s piece we referred to was on BuzzFeed, not Wired. Links Google’s Cute Cars And The Ugly End Of Driving: The main thing you should know about autonomous vehicles is that they are utterly inevitable. Chrysler hack Before You Go JetBrains gets subscription pricing

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30:01

3.12: Hungarian Folk Music

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2015/10/15

If you listen to Hungarian folk music, or classical music, or recordings of live shows, or obscure bands, then the (otherwise pretty decent) GraceNotes CD database and the many apps that rely on it might not really work for you. We talk about why that might be and how we might think about fixing it. Links “The Enhanced Experience So Far: It’s the Indies Who Support the Fledgling [Enhanced CD] Format” “The Invention of Compact Discs” Hungarian Folk Music Ryan Adams, 1989 Dart Music Creative

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31:58

3.11: Augustine's Podcast

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2015/10/07

We talk about how we present ourselves on social media: what happens as we present different aspects of ourselves over time? How do we manage those changes? How does the flattening out effect of social media and searchability intersect (or conflict) with the way we think about our social circles in “real” (that is, embodied, non-virtual) life? Links Geocities Tripod Friendster Xanga Augustine’s Retractions First Friday in Raleigh “Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg thinks telepathy tech is on its way”

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30:47

3.10: Saying “Enough”

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2015/09/23

We start talking about phones again, and this time manage not to veer off into talking about robots. On the other hand, we do end up talking about a broad Christian ethic of technology, life in communities, and the pull toward social constructivism or technological substantivism. Links Sap.py – Chris’ podcast with his wife about her experience learning Python Experience economy Post-scarcity economy Social constructivism Substantivism Previously on the show: 3.08: Juice Up the Weird Edges of the

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42:11

3.09: Many Beautiful Things

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2015/09/15

In which we spend some time talking with Ryan O’Neal of Sleeping at Last about his soundtrack for the film Many Beautiful Things, and then branch out to discuss business and distribution models for artists in the 21st century. Links Many Beautiful Things: The score Stream it The documentary about Lilias Trotter trailer Sleeping at Last on television Kid President Notes on making “Mercury” Yearbook Box set iTunes Atlas: Year One Atlas: Year Two subscription Hans Zimmer The

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29:40

3.08: Juice up the Weird Edges of the Ecosystem

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2015/09/08

In which we start by looking at how to think about buying new phones… And then pivot into a discussion of major economic transitions. Like robots. Links Carriers dropping subsidies: “T-Mobile faces war of words after killing subsidies, contracts” (CNET) “Verizon Wireless moving away from contracts and phone subsidies” (Ars Technica) “Sprint to end two-year contracts - now here come the deals” (CNN) Motorola Razr “Pre to postmortem: the inside story of the death of Palm and webOS” (The

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30:16

3.07: One Size Does Not Fit All

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2015/09/01

In which we quite aggressively tackle Amazon’s corporate treatment of its workers, and launch into a discussion of corporate ethics and responsibility. We also note that though we critique Amazon’s practices, we recognize that it has good effects in the world, some of them significant. The question is: at what point to the externalities associated with those benefits make dealing with any given company morally unjustifiable? Links The original piece which sparked this discussion: “Inside Amazon:

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27:45

3.06: SPACE!

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2015/08/25

We geek, we gush, and we even manage to say a few serious things about the future of humanity while talking about New Horizons, Rosetta, science fiction, nation-state rivalries, and how we would love to go visit other places in the solar system (or galaxy). Errata: Chris said New Frontiers was an ESA probe; it was in fact a NASA probe. He was thinking of Rosetta, an ESA project to land on a comet—which they did, after the greatest gravity boost sequence in history: Slingshot this!Note: yep,

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4:16

[Bloopers] 3.05: You Have Agency. Use It.

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2015/08/18

Things were… messy this episode.

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28:25

3.05: You Have Agency. Use It.

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2015/08/18

Blogging is not what it was in 2008. It has changed in some ways for the better, in some ways for the worse, and in a few ways that it’s hard to tell. Picking up from an Iranian blogger, Hossein Derakhshan, who was jailed for his political views in 2008, we take a look at hyperlinking, the stream, and personal agency. How can we keep the good of the blog world of 2008 and the good of the stream? Links “The Web We Have to Save” (Hossein Derakhshan) His follow-up on the response “The End of

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29:36

3.04: Mom Memes

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2015/08/11

In which we look at how moms took over the internet, and how the shift from 18–34-year-old white males to not only middle-aged moms but also many other demographics is good for the web—even when it might seem a little strange to those who came of age on the internet in the years before Facebook was taken over by mommy bloggers. Spoilers: we only made one “your mom” joke the whole episode! Links “God-Tier: Facebook Moms Run the Meme Game” Mommy bloggers: “The Rise of the Mommy Bloggers”

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29:10

3.03: Look In Your Soul

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2015/08/04

Ashley Madison got hacked and blackmailed by people who hate Ashley Madison’s adultery-as-a-business-model, erm, business model. We also hate adultery, but we’re not so sure that hacking and blackmail is the right solution to this particular problem. Links Ashley Madison hacked The DMCA Lives being ruined: “Married Man Whose Name Was Leaked In Ashley Madison Hack By The Impact Team Speaks: 20-Year Marriage, $19 Paid Delete” Very human

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