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Screw It, I'm Just Gonna Talk About Music Or WhateverHey, This Sounds Like ThatHere are pairs of songs that share some feature (melody, chord progression, instrumentation, etc) and therefore remind me of each other. I hope that when you hear them you also go "hey!" or maybe just "oh yeah, okay", that works too. Songs discussed in this episode: The Tonettes - I Gotta Know (1965) Yumi Arai - Ruju no Dengon (ルージュの伝言) (1975) Elliott Smith - Sweet Adeline (1998) Ty Segall - My Room (2024) Tears for Fears - Mad World (1982) R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People (1991) The Kinks - Wic...
2025-01-2157 min
POD OF JAKE#145 - NIR EYALNir is a behavioral product designer and the author of two bestselling books, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life and Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. He previously co-founded and sold two tech companies and taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. Follow Nir on X @nireyal.
[0:16] - How Nir’s interest in habit formation led him to work in behavioral design
[5:15] - Behavioral factors at the route of America's obesity epidemic
[12:56] - Distractions, the negative externalities of abundance
[18:09] - Combin...
2023-09-2056 minScrew It, I'm Just Gonna Talk About Music Or WhateverSongs For The NighttimeThis episode is about songs for the nighttime. You can listen to this at work or whatever but heads up you might get nice and sleepy!! Songs discussed in this episode: Sibylle Baier - Tonight (1970-73) Anna Domino - Land Of My Dreams (1984) Julie London - No Moon At All (1955) Emillia Contessa - Renggong Manis (1982) Ronnie Lane & Slim Chance - Roll On Babe (1974) Tom Waits - All The World Is Green (2002) Lucinda Williams - Place In My Heart (2016) Brian En...
2023-09-1343 min
Nature Talks to Itself25. Persimmon Tree - Zac OyamaThe podcast is OURS now! And we’re gonna do whatever we want, like talk about The Wizard of Oz and how Tony and Atiny hurt us with another part of nature they WRONGED… Percy the Persimmon Tree (Zac Oyama)!And yeah, WE’LL be giving better advice via snail mail to Jesus the Pigeon (Yesel Manrique), gravity (Katie Plattner), and a fucking tire (Matt Reid)!!!Created and hosted by Ynot (Justin Michael) and Ynita (Jace Armstrong).Follow @NatureTalksPod, @heyjustin and @JaceCityUSA for updates on twitter and instagram.Theme song and music by Ca...
2023-02-091h 04
DTC POD: How The Best Brands Are BuiltBreaking down the highly-successful DTC brand NUGGS: positioning, go to market strategy, website, and moreThis isn’t your ordinary chicken nuggetWe’re covering one of the hottest brands in DTC - NUGGS, a plant-based chicken brand. NUGGS was founded by Ben Pasternak, who started as a young, but successful iPhone app creator before starting NUGGS. NUGGS is targeting millennials and Gen Z people, using irreverent, witty, unapologetically tech-forward branding. NUGGS are continuously being updated, like software, by food scientists and engineers. NUGGS uniquely describe themselves as the “Tesla of Chicken,” creating a brand identity that has never been seen before. Their website...
2021-02-0915 min
Ipse DixitDavid Johnson on Negotiation by DesignIn this episode, David W. Johnson, Lecturer-in-Law at Stanford Law School and Lecturer in the Hasso Plattner School of Design, discusses his article "Designing Online Mediation: Does 'Just Add Tech' Undermine Mediation's Ownmost Aim?," which will be published in the Direito GV Law Review. Johnson begins by explaining what mediation or "mediated negotiation" is and how it relates to other forms of dispute resolution. He describes the introduction of online mediation and the different ways in which it works. He defines "design thinking," and explains how it can help us think more productively about institutional design. And he reflects...
2019-11-2740 min
Just Get StartedNir Eyal (Ep.70) - Best-Selling Author | Blogger | FounderEpisode 70 is here and features Best-Selling Author, Blogger, and Founder, Nir Eyal. Nir shares stories about his journey into entrepreneurship, how he got into writing, as well as, we talk about his new book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. Some topics we cover:Wanting to be a fighter pilotBeing obese as a kidBeing in an improve comedy groupWorking in the Consulting businessStarting a Solar businessGoing to Stanford Business SchoolAuthoring BooksIntimacyAnd much more…Find Nir Online:Website: https://www.nirandfar.com ...
2019-09-0943 min
FrancoinformadorBatman sin Affleck. Circo Messi.Super Bowl LIII. Nuevo ataque hacker y más.Descarga este episodio Descarga este episodio BEN AFFLECK YA NO SERÁ BATMAN. Es oficial según adelantan Deadline y THR, respectivamente: Warner Bros. estrenará tanto 'The Batman' como 'The Suicide Squad' en verano de 2021. La primera lo hará el 25 de junio mientras que la segunda lo hará el 6 de agosto (al menos en lo que respecta a Estados Unidos). Primero Deadline confirma que, tal y como se venía especulando desde hacía ya tiempo, Ben Affleck no volverá a dar vida al mítico personaje creado por Bob Kane y Bill Finger. Y es que est...
2019-02-0100 min