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Manufacturing Happy Hour268: Reindustrialization in the Heartland, Live from +Venture North 2025Reindustrialization isn’t going to be driven by a single mega factory or a headline-grabbing announcement on the coasts. It’s going to be built region by region, by places that already know how to make things and are willing to evolve how they do it.This episode was recorded live at +Venture North in Milwaukee, bringing together investors, founders, and operators to talk candidly about what it really takes to scale manufacturing in the heartland. The conversations cut through the buzzwords and focus on fundamentals: affordable power, experienced talent, corporate customers, and ecosystems that actually support manu...
2025-12-301h 14Manufacturing Happy Hour266: A Century of Cookware Manufacturing and the Impact of Automation and Reshoring with David Duecker, President of SynergyOpsA century ago, two cookware companies were born 12 miles apart in Wisconsin. One was bought right after World War II by a door-to-door salesman who converted it back to cookware after it had been repurposed for munitions. Today, those two companies have merged into SynergyOps, a 115-year-old legacy manufacturer with first through fourth generation employees still walking the factory floor.David Duecker, President of SynergyOps, joins the show from the factory floor in West Bend to discuss the company's evolution, their approach to automation, and what reshoring can look like for manufacturers. He explains how West Bend...
2025-12-1634 minManufacturing Happy Hour223: The State of Automation Halfway Through the Decade, Live from the 2025 A3 Business ForumTake your mind back to five years ago. Many of us were celebrating the start of what we thought would be an exciting decade for automation. And well… it’s certainly been different and not quite how most of us expected.Now, we sit squarely in the middle of a decade that has pushed automation and AI front and center of so many industries now. So how close were our pre-pandemic predictions on automation? And more importantly, where is automation headed next?This episode was recorded live at the 2025 A3 Business Forum, co-hosted by Jake Hall...
2025-02-111h 12
Think and Act LocallyHow to Become a Better NegotiatorThis is a second edition of a guide to effective negotiation, authored by Luecke and Patterson. The book explores two negotiation styles—win-lose and win-win—detailing the characteristics and strategies for each. It emphasizes the importance of preparation, including identifying interests, establishing alternatives, and determining a reserve price. Furthermore, the text examines communication styles, conflict management techniques, and the crucial role of assertiveness in achieving favorable outcomes. Finally, it addresses common negotiating pitfalls and offers advice for navigating international business deals.
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2025-01-0616 minThink and Act LocallyHow to Become a Better NegotiatorThis is a second edition of a guide to effective negotiation, authored by Luecke and Patterson. The book explores two negotiation styles—win-lose and win-win—detailing the characteristics and strategies for each. It emphasizes the importance of preparation, including identifying interests, establishing alternatives, and determining a reserve price. Furthermore, the text examines communication styles, conflict management techniques, and the crucial role of assertiveness in achieving favorable outcomes. Finally, it addresses common negotiating pitfalls and offers advice for navigating international business deals.
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Youtube - @ThinkandActLocally
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2025-01-0616 minManufacturing Happy Hour167: How HEINEKEN and SwipeGuide Are Putting Frontline Workers at the Center of the Connected Brewery, Featuring Joris Stolk and Willemijn SchneyderFor manufacturing to succeed in 2024 and beyond, it’s crucial we empower our frontline workers. But how can technology and data enhance their work experiences, capitalize on their strengths and build a positive culture? We’re delighted to be joined by not one, but two guests in this episode. Joris Stolk, Plant Manager at Lagunitas Brewing Company, and Willemijn Schneyder, CEO and founder of SwipeGuide, join Manufacturing Happy Hour to explore the importance of the frontline worker and how technology can play an integral role in ensuring they are front and center to manufacturing’s future. They e...
2024-01-0950 minManufacturing Happy HourHow Student-Run Ventures are Changing Higher Education: The Story of Marquette University's Blue & Gold BrewingBuilding an iconic brewing company for your university community, plus getting real-world business experience? Sounds like a dream come true. On this episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour, we are joined by Jackson Cosgriff, Student, and John Knapp, Director of Innovation Alley at Marquette University. We hear the backstory and behind-the-scenes processes of Innovation Alley and its student-led project, Blue & Gold Brewing. John and Jackson share concerns they had heading into the project and the future of student-run business, plus they tell us whether they believe applied learning is the future of higher education. ...
2023-04-041h 02
OnWriting: A Podcast of the WGA EastRJ Fried, "Tooning Out the News"Host Katie Rich talks to TOONING OUT THE NEWS co-creator and showrunner RJ Fried about how animation can help us address uncomfortable subjects, the challenges of covering topical issues on a streaming platform, and his transition from professional hockey player to professional writer. RJ Fried is a writer and performer. He co-created OUR CARTOON PRESIDENT, was the head writer on PROBLEMATIC WITH MOSHE KASHER, a writer on THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN, and wrote on the Writers Guild Award-winning series TRIUMPH'S ELECTION WATCH 2016. He's currently showrunner for the animated satirical news program TOONING OUT...
2022-12-1640 min
The Forrager Podcast for Cottage Food BusinessesThe One-Woman Show with Amanda Luecke
Amanda Luecke lives in Maple Grove, MN and sells custom decorated cookies with her cottage food business, Minnie’s Cookies.
Janna Paterno shared her cookie business journey back in Episode 61, and like Janna, Amanda creates some of the best decorated cookies you’ve ever seen.
But unlike Janna, Amanda has no plans to shutdown her business anytime soon. Quite the opposite, in fact. Her cookie business is absolutely thriving!
She has over 26k followers on Instagram, is always fully booked months in advance (despite her high pricing), and now runs an increasing number of c...
2022-07-2659 minManufacturing Happy HourThe Economics of Creativity with David Nichols, CEO and Co-Founder of LoupeIf you’re in the manufacturing industry or just an avid social media user, then you’ve probably come across Loupe and some of the amazing feats they’ve been pulling off. Loupe is a Portland, Oregon-based jack-of-all-trades automation outfit that’s responsible for some amazing unboxing videos and viral videos of their robotic dog Spot from Boston Dynamics. They are definitely a group that’s dialed into the art of social media for manufacturing.With a mission as unique as revolutionizing the automation industry, and a desire to bring out-of-the-box thinking into the field, David Nichols, CEO and Co...
2022-07-1241 min
Money Life with Chuck JaffeWhitney Tilson: Despite correction, bull market has innings of play leftWhitney Tilson, founder/chief executive officer at Empire Financial Research, says that while the Nasdaq entered correction territory on Thursday and the market has had some bumps and bruises along the way, the long-running bull market is still in place and looks like it is "in the seventh inning." Amid a wide-ranging market conversation, Tilson also discusses short-selling, cryptocurrency investing, Tesla, meme stocks and how his views have -- and haven't -- changed over time. Also on the show, David Giroux of T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation is back, following up on Thursday's market discussion by talking about his r...
2022-01-2158 min
RECOLLECTRemember: SAILING TO FREEDOM | Timothy WalkerTimothy Walker is professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and the editor of Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad. Published by University of Massachusetts Press, Sailing to Freedom makes the case that a high percentage of successful slave escapes were achieved by using coastal seaways - not by fleeing on land! In this conversation, Walker pushes for a more accurate telling of our Underground Railroad story, shares how K-12 educators are responding to the scholarship, and reminds us that the two most famous self-emancipators, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, both used waterways in...
2021-08-311h 06
The Runtime006 - David Luecke (daffl) on FeathersJSRafael is joined by David Luecke, the Author of FeathersJS, a nodeJS backend framework that focuses on quickly developing real-time web apps. They discuss some of the way feathers has evolved over time, some of the ways abstracting away boiler-plate can actually result in concretely more flexible and performant products, and how David thinks about the division between core and peripheral modules. David also speaks very excitedly about deno, and some upcoming projects dealing with peer to peer applications.
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- Feathers: https://feathersjs.com/
- Deno: https://deno.land/
- IPFS: https...
2021-07-3045 min
The Coaching Leader PodcastTCL 42 Mission Insights with Dr David Luecke Part 2Rev Dr David Luecke brings the rare educational background of not only a Masters of Divinity but also a Masters of Business Administration plus a PhD in Organizational Behavior. He has taught at Washington University, Valparaiso University and Fuller Seminary. In 1990, Dr. Luecke received a call to plant a new Lutheran church in a suburb of his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. He saw it as a great opportunity to practice what he had been teaching. He has been a member of the American Psychological Association for fifty years. In this, the second episode of the interview with...
2021-05-0141 min
The Coaching Leader PodcastTCL 41 Mission Insights with Dr David LueckeRev Dr David Luecke brings the rare educational background of not only a Masters of Divinity but also a Masters of Business Administration plus a PhD in Organizational Behavior. He has taught at Washington University, Valparaiso University and Fuller Seminary. In 1990, Dr. Luecke received a call to plant a new Lutheran church in a suburb of his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. He saw it as a great opportunity to practice what he had been teaching. He has been a member of the American Psychological Association for fifty years. In this, the first episode of the interview with...
2021-03-3142 min
PodRocketFeathers with David LueckeBen and Kate talk to David Luecke, creator of Feathers, a framework for real-time applications and REST APIs. They talk about where Feathers fits in the fullstack framework space, pros and cons of building a modular framework, and what it has been like to maintain a project that needs to keep up with React.
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2021-02-2331 min
My JavaScript StoryMJS 057: David LueckePanel: Charles Max Wood Guest: David Luecke This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with David Luecke. David currently works for Bullish Ventures, which is a company that builds APIs and mobile web applications for clients using their open source tools. He first got into programming when he got his first computer and started programming using Delphi with Pascal. They also touch on how he first got into JavaScript, Feathers JS, and what he is working on now. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: David introHow did you first get into programming?Tinkered a lot with electronics as...
2018-04-1835 min
Spacedojo ShowFeathers.js - Build realtime web apps easily with Node.jsJosh Owens and Ben Strahan talk to Eric Kryski and David Luecke of Feathers.
2016-04-061h 06
Vancouver Tech PodcastEpisode 6: David Luecke of BitoviDrew and James had a light week before this show. So we mainly speak about the upcoming week, things to expect, and some history of some of the companies who host them. We also speak to David Luecke from Bitovi in the second part of the episode.
On this episode, we talk to David Luecke. David grew up on a goat farm in Bavaria, Germany. David is a developer at Bitovi, and works on a lot of open source projects like donejs, canjs, Feathers, and his new personal project mysam: an open-source "Siri" which you can train...
2015-12-1452 min
JavaScript Jabber150 JSJ OIMs with Richard Kennard, Geraint Luff, and David LueckeCheck out RailsClips on Kickstarter!! 02:01 - Richard Kennard IntroductionTwitter GitHubKennard ConsultingMetawidget02:04 - Geraint Luff IntroductionTwitter02:07 - David Luecke IntroductionTwitterGitHub02:57 - Object-relational Mapping (ORM)NoSQLDuplication10:57 - Online Interface Mapper (OIM)CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) UI (User Interface)12:53 - How OIMs WorkForm GenerationDynamic GenerationStatic GenerationDuplication of DefinitionsRuntime Generation16:02 - Editing a UI That’s Automatically GeneratedShape Information => Make Obvious Choice23:01 - Why Do We Need These?25:24 - Protocol? Metawidget 27:56 - Plugging Into Frameworksbackbone-formsJSON Schema33:48 - Making Judgement CallsWebComponents, ReactJSON APIAngularJS49:27 - Example OIMsJSON SchemaMetawidgetJsonary 52:08 - TestingPicks The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D (AJ) 80/20 Sales and Marketing: The Definitive Guide to Work...
2015-03-111h 02