Episodes
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Leaving Bezos in Space Makes the World a Better Place
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Natasha Nel, Amy Tom, and Ellen Stevens are talking about BIG MONEY. š¤ Yeah - we're talking layoffs and payoffs at Booking.com and American Airlines, the massive petition to stop Jeff Bezos from returning to Earth, and the fallout from China's ban on crypto mining.
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- Ellen weighs in on the latest American Airlines debacle and the "not so good optics" of the situation āļø (01:45)
- Booking.com's hot mess - more rich stealing from the poor despite #globalpandemicvibes šø (04:23)
- Should Bezos should be left in space? š©āš (06:53)
- Amy talks about the disparity of power and money āļø (11:10)
- What's the latest with Bitcoin and China's crypto-mining crackdown? ā (14:39)
- The podcast's resident "Tinder superuser" talks about the pandemic-altered online dating landscape š©āā¤ļøāšØ (18:12)
- Natasha kicks off HackerNoon Reviews with Polar Vantage M2 Sports Watch (22:18) and Ellen's article: Biohack a Super You āļø (24:59)
- Amy, of course, is on a cleaning hype with an in-wall vacuum (26:21), her TikTok tip of the week (27:12), and a passwordless future š§¹ (28:10)
- Ellen reminds everyone that it's okay to cover your webcam š¹ (32:55)
SHOWNOTES šļø
- American Airlines CEO casually took home $10 mil USD in compensation last year - https://www.npr.org/2021/06/22/1008968725/american-airlines-passengers-could-be-in-for-a-summer-of-delays-and-cancellation
- Italy announced they're investigating Booking.com over suspicion of $180 million dollar tax evasion - https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report/booking-com-dodged-180-million-of-taxes-italian-police-say
- Dutch politicians noticed Booking.com's CEO Glenn Fogel and CFO David Goulden had super casuallycompensated themselves over $32 million - https://www.reuters.com/technology/bookingcom-repay-dutch-covid-19-aid-anp-2021-06-04/
- Bye-bye Bezos. There is a petition with more than 100,000 signatures to leave Jeff Bezos in space - https://www.geekwire.com/2021/leave-jeff-bezos-space-way-petitions-attract-100000-signatures/
- Bitcoin drops following China's ban on crypto mining - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/21/bitcoin-btc-price-drops-on-china-crypto-mining-crackdown.html
- "Tinder wants you to actually talk to people before you match" from the Verge - https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/22/22538970/tinder-video-explore-tab-hot-takes-launch
- The Elimination of Cybersecurity's Status Quo ā Passwords by Misan Etchie on HackerNoon - https://hackernoon.com/the-elimination-of-cybersecuritys-status-quo---passwords-2l1f379d
- Check out Ellen's article about Biohacking - https://hackernoon.com/biohack-a-super-you-part-1-je1l34uw
- Get up to speed on the HackerNoon contests & get some free HN gear - https://hackernoon.com/u/hackernooncontests
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Friday Oct 02, 2020
The Future of Tech Belongs to Those Who Build It
Friday Oct 02, 2020
Friday Oct 02, 2020
What are the best product development principles and processes for building a better internet? Those who design, decide. I may have trained an AI to host this podcast ā but the tech industry insights inside are all 100% human. Tune in for a far-reaching conversation with me, Natasha Nel's AI alter-ego, and seven of hackernoon.com's top contributors.Ā
With thanks to our 2020 Noonies award sponsors: Sustany Capital,Ā .TECH Domains,Ā Grant for the Web,Ā Skillsoft,Ā Flipside Crypto,Ā Udacity, andĀ Beyondskills.
šļø IN THIS EPISODE:
Ā· Ryan Dawson on trolls, misinformation, and online hate (02:45); why Wikipedia is a strong example of good product design principles (03:10); why other platforms struggle to police the quality of content posted on their sites (03:52); and which story he'd put on a billboard to demonstrate the negative potential of making decisions from a place of fear or narrow-mindedness (04:27).
Ā· Melinda L.B Lewis on what she'd put on a billboard (05:35) and why, paradoxically, disconnecting from technology is likely to make you better at engaging with it (06:05).
Ā· Sandra Shpilberg on the definition and importance of Single Deep Focus in the process of creating and developing (06:35) and the four simple steps you can take to achieve a Single Deep Focus state (07:44).
Ā· Alexey Grigorev on ideation, talking to people, coming up with solutions (10:28); how to know when you've got a good blog post idea on your hands, and how to begin the writing process (11:18).
Ā· Benjamin Mmari on staying connected in COVID-19 times and the risk of working in a silo (12:35); Ā when Zoom just isn't quite the same an in-person conferences (14:01); and how to overcome pandemic-induced obstacles to your productivity (15:09).
Ā· Rishabh Anand on creating and writing things that add value; following a research-intensive ideation process (15:57); the tools and tactics of a visual learner, and defeating writer's block (17:09).
Ā· Yonatan Kagansky on the influence the internet has on our brains; the risk of becoming puppets; going #BackToTheInternet (18:22); the most common mistake product developers are making today, and how to use the Story Test to determine product viability (19:31).
With special thanks to Vladimiros Peilivanidis for the introduction to this episode, and The 2020 Noonies sponsors who made this all possible: Sustany Capital,Ā .TECH Domains,Ā Grant for the Web,Ā Skillsoft,Ā Flipside Crypto,Ā Udacity, andĀ Beyondskills.
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Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Black Mirror Tech IRL: Hacker Noon Writers on Whatās Worrying in 2021
Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Natasha Nel from Hacker Noon asks 7 Top Hacker Noon Contributors to weigh in with their scariest tech predictions for 2021 ā expect a 10-minute American Horror Story anthology on everything from AI and Privacy to Content Overproduction and the internetās impact on the planet.
With thanks to our 2020 Noonies award sponsors: Sustany Capital,Ā .TECH Domains,Ā Grant for the Web,Ā Skillsoft,Ā Flipside Crypto,Ā Udacity, andĀ Beyondskills.
IN THIS PODCAST
- (01:00) Ryan Dawson on how much data weāre giving away without realizing it;
- (01:45) Matt Klein on ubiquitous tech and resulting and related content overproduction;Ā
- (03:30) Aditi Bhatnagar on what our collective data is being used for;Ā
- (04:40) Vladimiros Peilivanidis on the next wave of intelligence being designed by us lowly humans;Ā
- (05:10) Gajesh Naik on AI and automation stealing iterative jobs;Ā
- (05:50) Sharmistha Chatterjee on whether or not your industryās advancing faster than you are;Ā
- And at (07:40) Melinda LB Lewis on the internetās impact on our planet
The good news? The solutions to these problems and more are on hackernoon.com right now. (Probably.)
Thursday May 28, 2020
Trump vs. The Internet
Thursday May 28, 2020
Thursday May 28, 2020
What just happened to the internet!? Did our President just sign an executive order that forces social media platforms to be his personal mega phone? Hacker Noon CPO Dane Lyons and CEO David Smooke discuss the possible implications on 45's attempt to change internet law. Some sources discussed in this episode:
- Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
- Trump's Tweet About Mail in Ballot Fraud
- Twitter's Fact Checking Page
- FCC's Official Statement on Feasibility of Executive Order
- ACLU with the BurnĀ
Read more about Net Neutrality, Twitter, Censorship, Fact Checking, and the Internet on HackerNoon.com.
Tuesday Jan 08, 2019
E17 - Hacking The Self with Nick Jankel
Tuesday Jan 08, 2019
Tuesday Jan 08, 2019
Episode 17 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with serial entrepreneur and author Nick SenecaĀ Jankel.
In this episode Trent Lapinskiand Nick Seneca Jankel discuss consciousness hacking, his new book Spiritual Atheist, and how to be a spiritual person without giving into religion or ideology.
āI am hacking capitalism to make a more connected World.ā
āWeāve got to use this technological power, this power of business, creative power, and weāve got to take on some big problems.ā
āWhat is purpose? Well, purpose is like love in action. It is that love and kindness that comes out into Iām going to take on this community issue, Iām going to take on a bigger social problem then I was before. Until we can access purpose within, and keep it stable within us, that control and protect mode of a monkey will keep going āforget the purpose, lets make another million, that would be really cool, then weāll be lovedā.ā āNick SenecaĀ Jankel