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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Monday Jun 21, 2021
Every Game is a Party: CEO, Steve Hall, on Digital Strategy
Monday Jun 21, 2021
Monday Jun 21, 2021
Every AUDL game is a party according to Steve Hall, the CEO of the American Ultimate Disc League. š From releasing their first NFT to taking live games to live streams, AUDL is a very digital organization. Despite being in the sports & entertainment industry, Steve tells Amy about his strategic focus on building digital engagement with fans.
In this episode of the Hacker Noon Podcast:
- How do you get into the CEO mindset? š§ (03:29)
- COVID-19 pushed AUDL to create the Athletic Care Network - a virtual healthcare system for the players (5:05)
- Pivoting to live stream events after the loss of in-person events and building electronic engagement šŗ (06:58)
- AUDL launched AUDL MoMintz, their player video-highlight NFTs. Steve talks about how they were inspired by NBA Top Shot (12:34)
- Steve says, "Entertainment is digital now". AUDL takes its digital strategy beyond social media marketing š² (17:28)
- To keep your customers, you need to digitally innovate or you will get left behind. Steve talks about AUDL upcoming digital plans (21:00)
- Setting a corporate vision, motivating employees, and establishing trust are important aspects of the CEO role š (25:49)
- Diversity in hiring is important - 35% of AUDL are women, including women who hold leadership positions (28:32)
Connect with AUDL:
- You can connect with AUDL on Twitter @theAUDL
Shownotes:
- Learn more about AUDL MoMintz: https://theaudl.com/league/news/audl-announcesĀ -first-collection-Ā non-fungible-tokens
- Connect with AUDL: https://theaudl.com/league/contact
- Become a Hacker Noon contributor https://app.hackernoon.com/new
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Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
Big Dictator Energy
Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
What happens when big corp shuts down conversation? What is Russia's deal with Sputnik exports? Crypto in Africa ā equalizing force, or daydream? Join Linh, Natasha, Amy, Limarc and Damian for This Week on Planet Internet:
- Is there such a thing as a no politics culture? (1:40)
- Amy Tom goes real deep, real early #sorrynotsorry (3:22)
- "Pleasant" for whom, Basecamp? PLEASANT š FOR š WHOM š (07:54)
- Naturally Limarc Ambalina's gon' be playing devil's advocate (09:40)
- Key Takeaway: if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, get a mediator (12:24)
- Why is Russia exporting so much Sputnik? (14:55)
- Limarc kind of maybe sympathizes with a Russian Dictator's decision to let his people die (16:40)
- Africa: the continent of milk and honey for startups and cryptos? (21:10)
- Necessity is the mother of all invention... (29:32)
- No gods no masters ā down with regulation! (32:56)
Read the stories mentioned in this podcast:
- Is there such a thing as a āno politicsā culture? Letters fromĀ Basecamp FounderĀ andĀ Coinbase Founder (medium link ugh): https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5 and https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-company-af882df8804?gi=d00265f16919
- Russia, vaccine, science, space war, and more:Ā from The dailyĀ aka Linh's main source of podcast lol: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/podcasts/the-daily/russia-vaccine-coronavirus-vladimir-putin.html
- Africa startups news on Hacker Noon! Question: out of the 69 billion raised for startups reported by Pitchbook in Q1 of 2021, how many are based or partially based in Africa? Prob not much.
- Crypto in Africa News on Hacker Noon. Equalizing force or a daydream? https://hackernoon.com/more-africans-walk-towards-financial-freedom-due-to-cryptocurrencies-552z33xu
This podcast was hosted by Linh Dao Smooke and panelledĀ by Natasha Nel, Amy Tom, and Limarc Ambalina. This week we're also joined by our brand new podcast editor, Damian McIlhenny!
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Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
How Many Devs Does It Take to Fly on Mars?
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
What's David's hot take on Facebook's pivot to audio? Hands up if you think the Mars Helicopter video is a deep fake! ALSO: are kids growing up during a global panini more likely to get face tattoos? š± Shoot the shit with Hacker Noon's Editors ā
This Week on Planet Internet:
- Props to the 12k open source devs Github says contributed to Ingenuity's maiden voyage! (0:33)
- Hands up if you think the Mars Helicopter video is a deep fake (3:52)
- Catch David's Hot Take on Facebook's pivot to audio (06:18)
- Hey WTF happened to Libra? (07:23)
- Are kids growing up during a global panini more likely to get face tattoos? (08:50)
- Is Substack's margin really Facebook's opportunity? (11:03)
- Find out how Facebook's moderators accidentally helped Hacker Noon sell more t-shirts (15:46)
- Is any system that claims to be blockchain voting "neither blockchain, nor voting?" (17:13)
- Do you stan #decentralization? (22:42)
- What worldwide crypto adoption soundsĀ like (25:23)
- Oh hey, happy 4/20, everybody! (30:12)
Read the tech stories talked about this podcast:Ā
1. Open source goes to Mars by Nat Friedman for The GitHub Blog: https://github.blog/2021-04-19-open-source-goes-to-mars/Ā
2. Five takeaways about Facebook's pivot to audio by Casey Newton from Platformer: https://www.platformer.news/p/5-takeaways-about-facebooks-pivotĀ
3. 3 Reasons Why Blockchain Won't #ReleaseTheKraken: An Interview with John Sebes of TrustTheVote.org by Benjamin Bateman for Hacker Noon: https://hackernoon.com/3-reasons-why-blockchain-wont-releasethekraken-an-interview-with-john-sebes-of-trustthevoteorg-713i339y
4. Cannabis banking act passes U.S. House with bipartisan support by Matt Burns (lol) for Tech Crunch: https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/20/cannabis-banking-act-passes-u-s-house-with-bipartisan-support/Ā Ā
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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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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.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.
IN THIS PODCAST:Ā
(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 ā technologists do it differently.ā¢ 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,Ā .TECH Domains,Ā Grant for the Web,Ā Skillsoft,Ā Flipside Crypto,Ā Udacity, andĀ Beyondskills.
IN THIS PODCAST:
š¬ (02:55) Rishabh Anand on why a whiteboard helps with problem solving, and finding your own path forward
š (05:38) Ryan Dawson on figuring out the business objectives behind problems, the agile method, and seeking out meaningful feedback
š (06:46) Paul Bailey with two frameworks for debugging ā as a programmer āas well as an AI named Jane
š (10:55) Aditi Bhatnagar on doing the research and connecting the dots
š (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 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.)
Friday Sep 04, 2020
Natasha from Hacker Noon Reads You a Tech Story or Two Ā· EP01
Friday Sep 04, 2020
Friday Sep 04, 2020
This weekās 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:
- š¤ Insights Into the Global Robotics Market
- š« Today's Thriving Startups Will Be Camels, Not Unicorns
- āšæ 3 Actionable Steps for More-Inclusive Tech Teams
- š¤ How to Negotiate Everything in Life
- š¤Æ How to Not Attribute to Malice Things Adequately Explained by Stupidity
- š§ How I Started My Own Business at 19
Read the full stories: hackernoon.com
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
Building for Return on Environment with Product Strategist Dani Laity
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
- How solve problems so relevant that your products build themselves
- The global shift from return on investment to return on environment
- Why betting on millennial interests is good business
- The fringe benefits of a distributed team, made up entirely of part-time freelancers and side-hustlers
- Why itās important to over-emote when your team is remote
- Product strategyās most transferable skills, from banking and fintech to sustainability
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- https://hackernoon.com/tagged/sustainability/
- https://hackernoon.com/tagged/product-management/
- https://hackernoon.com/tagged/product-strategy/
- https://hackernoon.com/tagged/climate-change/
- https://noonies.tech/award/best-use-of-tech-for-good
- https://noonies.tech/award/best-green-tech
- https://noonies.tech/award/hacker-noon-contributor-of-the-year-women-in-tech
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Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Utsav Jaiswal hosts Diwaker Gupta, Head of Engineering at Blockstack, Aaron Blankstein, Engineer at Blockstack, Maurice Herlihy, Engineer and Advisor at Algorand and Alberto Cuesta Canada, Lead Blockchain Instructor at BeyondSkills and a Hacker Noon contributor to talk everything about Clarity, a new smart contracting language. Hacker Noonās best contributing writers discuss the need of new programming language by Blockstack and Algorand, how feasible it will be, what improvements and adjustments of Clarity to the existing ecosystem and more.Ā
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Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Linh Dao Smooke discusses Entrepreneurship, running Hacker Noon, and the importance of education with Henry Le of Vietnam Tech Society.
Linh shares how her opportunity to study abroad in India at age 17 has shaped the course of her life forever. Grateful for her scholarships to schools in India and the US, Linh has been creating opportunities for students and young professionals through her various initiatives in education, such as the creation of the Creative Kid Project.Ā
Linh discusses Hacker Noon's business model, how the company interacts with its community of writers and readers, operations processes and the next big steps Hacker Noon is taking to build a better Internet. Linh also shares insights of Hacker Noon break up with Medium and highlights the values of no paywall and free Internet on which Hacker Noon philosophy is built.Ā
Continue reading about education, leadership, tech stories, and business lessons on Hacker Noon.
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Saturday Jun 20, 2020
Saturday Jun 20, 2020
Juan Benet, CEO at Protocol Labs, founder of IPFS and Filecoin, joins Utsav Jaiswal and Vaibhav Saini, a Hacker Noon contributing writer, on the Hacker Noon podcast to discuss everything Web 3.0. They talk about the lifespan of new applications and protocols, factors influencing the growth rate of application technologies, the history of cloud development,Ā the philosophy, and as well technology behind IPFS and benchmark of success for Filecoin. Juan also presents his opinion on why human rights ought to be digital and discusses the power dynamics of technology in the era of global connectivity.Ā
Check related reads on Web 3.0 and IPFS from Hacker Noon contributing writer Vaibhav Saini.
Understanding IPFS in Depth Series: A Beginner to Advanced Guide
10+ Resources Every IPFS Developer Should Know About
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Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Jennifer Hooper, the Producer at Code[ish] and Senior Director, Technical Product Marketing, Content, and Brand at Heroku, joins Utsav Jaiswal to share her insights to building a tech podcast. Code[ish] focuses on code, technology and the life of the developer.Ā
They talk about the place for growth-hacks in technology podcasts, how to add value to the listeners', and the importance of naming your podcast in an SEO-friendly manner. Jennifer, shares her process of sticking to schedules despite millions of moving pieces involved, the challenges of recording from remote locations, and the role of the community in podcasting.
Check related reads on podcasts, Heroku and the power of community on Hacker Noon.Ā
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Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Holochain Deep Dive with Arthur Brock and Eric-Harris-Braun
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Listen to the interview on iTunes or watch on YouTube.
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In this episode Utsav Jaiswal interviews Arthur Brock and Eric Harris-Braun, Co-Founders of Holochain - an Open Source framework for building fully distributed, peer-to-peer applications.Ā
They talk about Holochainās mission and values, how it differs from Blockchains, and how to manage distributed teams.Ā
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āWhat we've been interested in is really how do we collectively shape currents, flows for a better world, for greater collective intelligence, for coordinating and collaborating better.ā
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āHolochain is what we've come to after a very long time and a lot of intense efforts in understanding those (biological) patterns of how to create tools for distributed collective intelligence... And Holochain is our answer to being able to do that.ā
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āIt creates currencies that are not speculated. It creates currencies that are based on actual production. People, for a long time, have been wondering why we have all these currencies when the government can issue as much of it as they want, whenever they want.Ā
It's funny, in the blockchain world, they call their currencies non-fiat and government currencies - fiat, but blockchain currencies are also actually fiat.Ā
They are declared out of nowhere.Ā
Whereas, if you do this other pattern of creating mutual credit currencies based on productive capacity, then you are actually creating something that represents actual value in the world and our economics can become based on value rather than speculation.ā
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Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
E19 - Hacking Education For The Future with Erik P.M. Vermeulen
Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
Episode 19 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Professor, Executive, and innovator.
Todayās show would not be possible without Digital Ocean. Learn more at do.co/hackernoon.
In this episode Trent Lapinski and Erik P.M. Vermeulen discuss decentralization, automation, and the future of work for Millennials.
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āWhen I talk about creativity, and what I want my students to be, I want them to understand communities. I want them to be visible.āā
āThinking about how to become visible in a community based World, and how you can actually contribute and build something with the community is something they cannot do on their own. Most of them donāt even understand it, and when we talk about education, thatās what education is about, because it is going to happen, this decentralized thing.āāāāErik P.M. Vermeulen
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