Episodes

Wednesday Oct 05, 2022
Wednesday Oct 05, 2022
How will digital collectibles affect film production and fan engagement? Paul Wight (formerly known as The Big Show) and entrepreneur Neil Stevenson-Moore join HackerNoon founder David Smooke to discuss ComicCon, hotel pseudonyms, GenZeroes, Netflix trends, the high probability of alien life, and more on the HackerNoon podcast.
- The Big Show Used to Stay in Hotels as Richard Kimble From "The Fugitive"
- Tech Shortcuts in SciFi Storytelling: "Science Fiction Becomes Science Fact Pretty Quick"
- How Netflix Could Use NFTs and Why ComicCon Calls Them Digital Collectibles
- What Would The Big Show Would Tell Aliens About Humanity?
- The Big Show Wishes He Wrestled as Paul Wight, and More Character IP Ownership Insights
- FULL INTERVIEW WITH PAUL WIGHT, NEAL STEVENSON-MOORE AND DAVID SMOOKE
Learn more about his new project GenZeroes: https://www.genzeroes.com/
Learn more about HackerNoon! https://hackernoon.com
And about the host --- HackerNoon Founder & CEO David Smooke --- https://hackernoon.com/about/David

Monday Feb 15, 2021
The Definitive Bubbleball Book and The Future of the NBA's Revenue
Monday Feb 15, 2021
Monday Feb 15, 2021
The Washington Post's Ben Golliver joins Hacker Noon CEO David Smooke to discuss the process of writing his new book, "Bubbleball: Inside the NBA's Fight to Save a Season," and the pandemic's impact on the NBA's revenue. With no/few fans in the stands and the decline in the number of games from the pandemic, the National Basketball Association is expected to loss about $4 billion dollars in 2021. In addition to discussing his bubble writing and publishing process, we talk about the NBA's options to stimulate revenue, such as expansion fees for new franchises and how to make substantial investments into the NBA's digital experience.
Some related reads on Hacker Noon (where we usually publish more about things like software development, blockchains, startups, and everything tech):
- NBA’s Microsoft Partnership, Kawhi’s Logo Lawsuit, and the Modern Reporter’s Techstack
- Sports Teams Need To Embrace Digital Innovations to Regain Engagement and Revenue Lost to COVID-19
- The Gaming Ecosystem Explained
- Making Up the Best Team in NBA History
Buy the book - Bubbleball: Inside the NBA's Fight to Save a Season

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 — 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.
With thanks to our 2020 Noonies award sponsors: Sustany Capital, .TECH Domains, Grant for the Web, Skillsoft, Flipside Crypto, Udacity, and Beyondskills.
🎙️ IN THIS EPISODE:
· 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).
· 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).
· 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).
· 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).
· Benjamin Mmari on staying connected in COVID-19 times and the risk of working in a silo (12:35); 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).
· 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).
· 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, .TECH Domains, Grant for the Web, Skillsoft, Flipside Crypto, Udacity, and Beyondskills.
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Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
AI and Quantum Computing to the Rescue
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Ever wondered what a podcast would sound like if it was hosted by an AI? Look no further. In this episode of Hacker Noon's Noonies chatcast series, Natasha Nel's AI alter-ego asks three top Hacker Noon Contributors which technological innovation they think will save the world and why. Buckle up for surreal meta moment from the future of robot podcasting.
With thanks to our 2020 Noonies award sponsors: Sustany Capital, .TECH Domains, Grant for the Web, Skillsoft, Flipside Crypto, Udacity, and Beyondskills.
IN THIS PODCAST:
(01:24) Rishabh Anand on artificial intelligence
(05:19) Vladimiros Peilivanidis on quantum
(06:25) Aditi Bhatnagar on computing speed and human possibility
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Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
How To Solve Problems Like a Software Developer
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Problem solving — technologists do it differently.™ Natasha Nel asks 5 top Hacker Noon Contributors to share their secret problem-solving frameworks, so that we can all learn to think like devs, during a time in which troubleshooting skills couldn't be more coveted.
With thanks to our 2020 Noonies award sponsors: Sustany Capital, .TECH Domains, Grant for the Web, Skillsoft, Flipside Crypto, Udacity, and Beyondskills.
IN THIS PODCAST:
🎬 (02:55) Rishabh Anand on why a whiteboard helps with problem solving, and finding your own path forward
📝 (05:38) Ryan Dawson on figuring out the business objectives behind problems, the agile method, and seeking out meaningful feedback
🐛 (06:46) Paul Bailey with two frameworks for debugging — as a programmer —as well as an AI named Jane
💠 (10:55) Aditi Bhatnagar on doing the research and connecting the dots
🍔 (12:48) Alexey Grigorev on the MoSCoW method, the 80/20 rule, and much, much more
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Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Black Mirror Tech IRL: Hacker Noon Writers on What’s 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 — expect a 10-minute American Horror Story anthology on everything from AI and Privacy to Content Overproduction and the internet’s impact on the planet.
With thanks to our 2020 Noonies award sponsors: Sustany Capital, .TECH Domains, Grant for the Web, Skillsoft, Flipside Crypto, Udacity, and Beyondskills.
IN THIS PODCAST
- (01:00) Ryan Dawson on how much data we’re giving away without realizing it;
- (01:45) Matt Klein on ubiquitous tech and resulting and related content overproduction;
- (03:30) Aditi Bhatnagar on what our collective data is being used for;
- (04:40) Vladimiros Peilivanidis on the next wave of intelligence being designed by us lowly humans;
- (05:10) Gajesh Naik on AI and automation stealing iterative jobs;
- (05:50) Sharmistha Chatterjee on whether or not your industry’s advancing faster than you are;
- And at (07:40) Melinda LB Lewis on the internet’s impact on our planet
The good news? The solutions to these problems and more are on hackernoon.com right now. (Probably.)

Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Technology Trends for 2021: A Forecast from Hacker Noon’s Top Writers
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Natasha Nel asks 10 of Hacker Noon’s Top Contributors to weigh in with their strategic tech predictions for 2021 — expect a briefing on everything from recession startups and (self) edtech to AI applied to end Covid-19 and the commoditization of Machine Learning.
With thanks to our 2020 Noonies award sponsors: Sustany Capital, .TECH Domains, Grant for the Web, Skillsoft, Flipside Crypto, Udacity, and Beyondskills.
IN THIS PODCAST:
- Matt Klein on the state of mental health (tech) in America
- Melinda LB Lewis on leveling up community and humanity in startup culture
- Ryan Dawson with real-world examples of how ethics is affecting commerce
- Muhammed Bilal on the collapse of traditional education
- Brian Wallace on why we need Chiefs of Soft Skills
- Tian Zhao on Web 3.0 and technology solving the problems of technology
- Gajesh Naik on healthtech and the early detection of disease
- Sharmistha Chatterjee on AI and the implementation a Covid-19 vaccine
- Alexey Grigorev on the no-code movement, applied to Machine Learning
- Vladimiros Peilivanidis on 5G, technopolitics and surveillance

Friday Sep 04, 2020
Natasha from Hacker Noon Reads You a Tech Story or Two · EP01
Friday Sep 04, 2020
Friday Sep 04, 2020
This week’s top tech stories on hackernoon.com cover everything from robots to unicorns. Tune in for a 6-min summary from Natasha Nel, Managing Editor at Hacker Noon; read hackernoon.com for the full stories.
IN THIS PODCAST:
- 🤖 Insights Into the Global Robotics Market
- 🐫 Today's Thriving Startups Will Be Camels, Not Unicorns
- ✊🏿 3 Actionable Steps for More-Inclusive Tech Teams
- 🤝 How to Negotiate Everything in Life
- 🤯 How to Not Attribute to Malice Things Adequately Explained by Stupidity
- 👧 How I Started My Own Business at 19
Read the full stories: hackernoon.com

Wednesday Mar 27, 2019
E32 - Journalism Apocalypse and Tech Trends with Christina Warren of Microsoft
Wednesday Mar 27, 2019
Wednesday Mar 27, 2019
Episode 32 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Christina Warren, former journalist at Mashable and Gizmodo, who currently works for Microsoft
In this episode Trent Lapinski interviews Christina Warren from Microsoft, who is a former journalist from Mashable and Gizmodo. You get to learn about journalism, fake news, and what’s happening in the big tech companies.
“This is what the news media struggles with, is that people don’t trust them, even though very often the mainstream media, in my opinion, isn’t out to mislead people and push an agenda. I think most working reporters are out to report the truth.”
“Microsoft is evolving and understands that it is not the past anymore. We ultimately want to build tools that developers can use regardless of what platform you’re on.” — Christina Warren
Production and music by Derek Bernard - haberdasherband.com/production
Host: Trent Lapinski - https://trentlapinski.com