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The Podcast211: WarsawSubscribe on Apple Podcasts, Add to Overcast, Get RSSThe Podcast is a semi-regular chat between Radek and yours truly (we both work at Nozbe) about productivity, business, books, and whatever else comes to mind… - if you liked this episode, make sure to check out past episodes.Show notes for this episode:The Podcast 91: Best cityThe Podcast 196: Hands Are DirtyThe Podcast 206: Radek’s Face Shield FactoryWarsaw HackerspaceCopy & share: ThePodcast.fm/211Share on Twitter2021-03-1127 minThe Podcast210: No Rules RulesDiscussing Netflix CEO’s thoughts on leadership:
- building a high talent density workplace
- leading by context
- removing unnecessary policies (vacation, spending, travel)2021-02-0437 minThe Podcast209: Lean HouseApplying Lean methodology from Japanese factories (specifically, the kanban pull system) to managing groceries and other house supplies. Never will you ever run out of toilet paper again!2020-12-2753 minThe Podcast208: Smart teams work from homeShould we focus Nozbe marketing on Work From Home? Michael has a frank discussion with Radek about this. Maybe it’s a great idea! Or maybe, it’s too niche and will ruin our marketing.2020-06-0843 minThe Podcast207: Competition Gossip CornerLet’s gossip about what our competitors are doing… Basecamp 4, HEY? What are they all about? Are they a threat?2020-05-2541 minThe Podcast206: Radek’s Face Shield FactoryRadek has started a job in manufacturing… pro bono manufacturing of face shields for hospitals in Poland.
No, really. Over the last few weeks, Radek has been applying what he’d learned about CAD, laser cutting, and lean manufacturing at the Warsaw Hackerspace to set up a face shield production line.
In three weeks, they produced over 30 000 face shields.2020-04-171h 01The Podcast205: Chat about: kaizen & performanceThis episode is a new, experimental format. It’s just Radek calling Michael to chat about work. Like they normally would. Except that it happens to be recorded and published, so you can get a glimpse into how we do it.
In this chat, we’re trying to figure out how to institute cultural change at the company, and make Kaizen part of our everyday work and thinking. Also, Radek’s frustrations with UI work, and change of direction for 2020.2020-04-021h 10The Podcast204: Core HoursMake a huge impact with just 2 hours per day. Discussing Michael’s latest productivity hack and how this simple change allowed him to be way more productive this year.2020-03-2645 minThe Podcast203: Lean at NozbeHow we apply Lean philosophy to the Nozbe Teams development process:
- Weekly release train
- Phased releases
- One-day pull requests
- CI/CD
- Asynchronous testing
- Feature flags
- Bug fixing Mondays
- Dev responsibilities
- Roadmap Rangers
- Time scoping
- Kaizen in customer support
- Text daily standups
- Kaizen math
Feel free to follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/msliwinski and https://twitter.com/radexp2020-03-1159 minThe Podcast202: The Machine That Changed The WorldWe dive deep into Lean Manufacturing - how Ford’s mass manufacturing changed the world, how Toyota dramatically improved on the process - and why it matters even if you’re not in manufacturing.2020-03-0558 minThe Podcast201: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**kIn life, there’s a limited number of f’s you can give — very few in fact. And yet we give them out left and right, robbing us of simple tranquility in life.
We discuss the book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k — a modern, approachable guide to stoicism.2020-02-2642 minThe Podcast200: Best of The PodcastCelebrating nearly 5 years and 199 episodes of The Podcast, and giving our recommendations for the best stories and recommendations we’ve recorded so far.2020-02-1459 minThe Podcast199: Art of FeedbackWhen we receive feedback, or an idea, a suggestion, we tend to become defensive. We’re sure they’re wrong and we’re right, and we stop listening. And thus we miss out on good insights.
Or do we? Perhaps the real problem is the culture, people being too delicate, and so we are forced into unnecessary niceties instead of giving and receiving feedback straight?2020-01-2934 minThe Podcast198: 2019 in ReviewLike every year, we’re taking this moment to reflect on 2019, review our successes and failures, set some goals (not resolutions!) for 2020, and put in motion a process to ensure it’s going to be a great year.2020-01-161h 12The Podcast197: Horizontal ResponsibilitiesExploring the idea of abolishing (or enhancing) the hierarchical structure of companies in favor of dispersing responsibilities broadly into a mesh — not based on rank, but particular skill, specialization, experience.2020-01-0836 minThe Podcast196: Hands Are DirtyGetting your hands dirty to create physical objects, tinker, work with plastic, metal, and wood is fun! A more soothing hobby than doing stuff at the computer, and a better way to spend an evening than Netflix.
We discuss home renovations, CNC milling, concrete casting, and industrial robots.2019-12-1945 minThe Podcast195: Gadgets, with loveWe got, no, we _made_ some cool new gadgets for the Fall 2019 Nozbe Reunion: Laser-cut phone stands, zero waste produce bags and hemp dish cleaner, and smog sensors.2019-12-0841 minThe Podcast194: TrendsettersTo create Nozbe Teams, we had to grow from being a product company to being a technology company. In this episode, we’re telling the story of what technological infrastructure we’ve chosen and created for this project (and why).2019-11-2648 minThe Podcast193: Two-Product CompanyIn 2016, we decided to make "Nozbe for Teams". Then, we changed its name to just Nozbe 4.
Ultimately, we've decided to call the new product Nozbe Teams and become, at least for a while, a two-product company.
In this episode, we're winding the history back to the beginnings of this project and re-telling the story of why and how this came to be.2019-11-0730 minThe Podcast192: Corrupted SystemThis wasn't supposed to be this week's show. We meant to talk about Nozbe Teams… but instead, we go on a 40 minute long crusade against… jeans and MacBooks.2019-10-2347 minThe Podcast191: Summer's GoneCatching up after a 3-month summer break from The Podcast. Vacations, conferences, open source, webmastering, Nozbe Teams, Portland, and driving licenses.2019-10-1143 min
Becoming Your Greatest Possible Self Podcast | Business | Success | Motivation | Entrepreneurship with Chris BurnsIntrovert Dating: How To Be Courageous With Martha PietruszewskiMartha Pietruszewski is a podcaster, cheese pizza lover, and a TEDx Speaker. She helps introverts, people with social anxiety and awkward humans of the world find confidence, connection, and their cool factor! As a millennial, she knows life can be tough. That's why she has created her podcast, Shit You Need to Know, to help them live their best life and make informed decisions.
2019-08-031h 00The Podcast190: Webmaster is back!The Podcast is on a summer break.
Meanwhile, Michael started playing with code again and have just launched three new website projects.
And we briefly discuss and update on Digital Minimalism and Michael's break from social media.2019-07-0550 minThe Podcast189: Dub dubLive from Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, we discuss our fresh reactions from Apple's conference. New iPadOS, the cheese grater, Shortcuts and automation, Catalyst, and SwiftUI.2019-06-1952 minThe Podcast188: Michael 4.0Having reached his 40th birthday (and we, The Podcast, our fourth), Michael shares his best bits of wisdom: Finding what you're good at, striving for longevity, knowing when to reinvent yourself, having fun, and nurturing friendships.2019-05-3136 minThe Podcast187: CaminoMichael talks about what it's like to walk a 260km pilgrimage over a week and a half, why he and his wife did it, how it can be a great experience even for non-religious people, how to pack for it, and why northern Spain is kinda nice.2019-05-2046 minThe Podcast186: Courage to be dislikedDiscussing The Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. Giving autonomy to live their own lives, neither prasing nor rebuking, and finding happiness in being beneficial to people around us.2019-05-0838 minThe Podcast185: FactfulnessThe world is bad, but better. The vast majority of westerners believe the world is poorer, more violent, deadly, primitive, and awful than it actually is. This book beautifully illustrates our ignorance, updates your knowledge, and gives you tools for a fact-based worldview.2019-04-3048 minThe Podcast184: Digital MinimalismDigital Minimalism - A philosophy where you focus your technology use on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that support your values, and happily miss out on everything else.
We discuss Cal Newport's new book on this very topic. Why clutter is costly, optimization is imporatant, and intentionality is satisfying. We explore reclaiming our leisure time.
BREAKING NEWS: Michael pledges to go on a 30 day digital declutter from Twitter and Instagram!2019-04-2445 minThe Podcast183: N is 4 NozbeNozbe 4, our brand new app has a brand new icon (and logo). This week, we talk about what's wrong with ticks and circles, what makes a good logo, why we decided to go for it, and how it almost didn't happen.2019-04-1738 minThe Podcast182: Purple DayWhat we've learned about productivity and collaboration over the years. How technology improvement allows us to get to the next level. And why starting from scratch is scary, but sometimes necessary.2019-04-0439 minThe Podcast181: The DeadlinePulling back the curtain on the development process of Nozbe 4. When we started, how we progressed over time, and why we had to impose on ourselves the deadline of April 4.2019-03-2842 minThe Podcast180: Childhood bribesStories about competition, punishment, and rewards in the classroom and our childhoods. We continue discussing what we've learned from Punished by Rewards.2019-03-2053 minThe Podcast179: Punished by rewardsWhen we reward someone (an employee, a student, a child) for doing what we want them to do, we think we're doing the right thing, motivating them to keep doing it.
In reality, incentives only have a shallow, immediate effect — and in the long term, we're killing the other person's intrinsic motivation, and making them resent us for being controlling.2019-03-1445 minThe Podcast178: ComplainingThe good, the bad, and the necessary of complaining and complainers.
To keep improving, and to communicate efficiently in an organization (and to be grown up) is to understand that complaints are not usually toxic, negative, or a personal attack against you — but are simply feedback. To say to someone not to bring you problems, but only solutions is to guarantee you'll be oblivious to everything that's broken in a company.
(But yes, some complaints are nothing more than unhelpful snark — learn to distinguish between the two)2019-03-0732 minThe Podcast177: Planning togetherHow to review and plan a year together. Because Annual Review is not just for you, and for your work, but for your family and relationships too.2019-02-2838 minThe Podcast176: Salary formulaWe started paying our employees salaries based on a formula that applies to everyone, not based on individual negotiations. Here’s why, and how.2019-02-2052 minThe Podcast175: 100% Buzz-FreeFollow-up on our journey towards a (slightly) calmer life — with fewer distractions, push notifications, and social media. Pushing forward to find the right balance between utility and mindfulness.
How to hide (but not delete) distracting apps on iOS and Android, time and open limits on Facebook and other apps, blocking websites, old school newsletters, and more.2019-02-0638 minThe Podcast174: 12 yearsCelebrating 12 years of profitably running Nozbe (without any outside investors), Michael recounts some of the most important milestones, and most amusing anecdotes of the company’s history.
That, and a sneak peak into the future of Nozbe2019-02-0152 minThe Podcast173: The Year of PurpleHere’s a sneak peak for Michael’s and Radek’s plans for 2019 (a.k.a. the year of Purple / the year of intentionality).2019-01-2435 minThe Podcast172: It doesn’t have to be crazy at workAlways busy? Endless meetings? Can’t sleep? No time to think?
Screw that. It doesn’t have to be crazy at work. It makes no sense. Exhausted, overworked, sleep-deprived people with no long stretches of uninterrupted time can’t really be productive. Busyness and effectiveness are not the same.
We discuss a book from Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson.2019-01-1643 minThe Podcast171: 2018 in ReviewThe biggest themes, projects, successes, and failures of 2018 in Michael’s and Radek’s lives.
And COOKIES! (And rockets!)2019-01-1144 minThe Podcast170: Live intentionallyHere’s your choice to live a more intentional life. To learn from the events, plans, successes, and failures of the last year. To contemplate what makes you, you. To make plans, set goals, learn new things, and develop habits for next year. To let go.
Here’s the end of the year, and our definitive guide to Annual Review.2018-12-2143 minThe Podcast169: Bull**it JobsHere’s a crazy idea: what if half of all work performed in our society was useless or unnecessary, and if it stopped, no one would notice — or care.
We dive into David Graeber’s food for thought.2018-12-1446 minThe Podcast168: Get boredWe own technology so that it makes our life better. Right? Or is it the other way around?
What if filling every single second of our life with social media and compulsively checking all our inboxes and feeds 50 times per day makes us unable to focus and to be intentional?
What if visiting social media once per day for 20 minutes is good and healthy, but 20 times per day for one minute isn't?
A discussion + some coping hacks2018-12-0644 minThe Podcast167: The clunky futureThe state of computing is in an awkward state, but full of promise. On one side, unnecessary complicated PCs; on the other, fun but somewhat clunky iPads.
One year into the #iPadOnly lifestyle, Radek unpacks pros and cons of both, and their future converging paths.
(Last time we talk about iPads until next WWDC, promise!)2018-11-3050 minThe Podcast166: Talk about sizeMichael’s new iPad is faster than Radek’s 15’’ MacBook Pro. Ouch!
Why “you can’t work on an iPad” is (mostly) BS.
Which iPad to buy?2018-11-2141 minThe Podcast165: Let’s fix it!Instead of only complaining, you can act to change things for the better in your local community, neighborhood, city, school. Most people tend to think that getting involved must be very difficult, impossible, or political. But the truth is, a lot of the time, it takes very little to make a positive impact.2018-11-1641 minThe Podcast164: Why we do what we doOver time, we start taking things for granted, get used to the status quo, get into the rut, and forget the basics — the motivating factors behind why we do what we do. Here are our reasons.2018-11-0645 minThe Podcast163: Joy of lessFollow-up on the joy of minimalist backpack-only packing: wallets, cycling, charing, shaving… and a follow-up on home renovations and tidying up.2018-11-0236 min
React Native Radio109 - WatermelonDB with Radek PietruszewskiWatermelonDB is a next-gen database for powerful React and React Native apps. Today we're joined by the author of WatermelonDB, Radek Pietruszewski, to talk about how it works & the benefits of using the database.
2018-10-3135 minThe Podcast162: Backpack OnlyThe Podcast special, live from a Nozbe company reunion in Kraków! This one, if you can, you should really watch on video.
We unpack our backpacks on camera, and show precisely every single item we have inside. Turns out, you really don’t need that much space to fit everything you need for a trip.2018-10-251h 13The Podcast161: Talk to them!Lessons learned from Michael’s visit to Mobiconf. The liberty of backpack-only lifestyle. Choosing conferences wisely. And talking to people.2018-10-1748 minThe Podcast160: Building with hammersHome office renovations, laying out cable, procrastination, tinkering with Raspberry Pi, and home automation on the cheap2018-10-1041 minThe Podcast159: Home automationExperimenting with home automation with HomeKit2018-10-0249 minThe Podcast158: SabbaticalCan a CEO of a small company stop working completely for 6 weeks? Michael just did, and this are his lessons learned.2018-09-2651 minThe Podcast157: WatermelonThe story behind the first artifact of the secret Project Purple, and Nozbe’s first big piece of open-source code: WatermelonDB. What it is, why we spent more than a year developing it, and what was the process of releasing it at React Native EU.2018-09-1443 minThe Podcast156: Sport hacksSocial accountability, structure, running with guests, cycling to school, and other brain hacks to find more time and opportunities for sports in our lives.2018-08-2924 minThe Podcast155: Spreading the wordTo blog or not to blog? Searching for our personal soapboxes, and pondering if blogging still matters when you can just record a podcast (and if it does, when and why).2018-08-1642 minThe Podcast154: Inevitable ConvergenceThe new MacBook Pro. Why iOS and macOS are destined to converge. The future of Apple computers.2018-08-0637 minThe Podcast153: Attention RequiredGDPR - the good, the bad, the ugly. Dark design of privacy popups. The legal, cultural, and technical fronts of the battle against privacy erosion.2018-07-1849 minThe Podcast152: Power to the people“It’s loud, dangerous, costly, produces poor results, and I love it”. In other words, welcome to the world of 3D printing.
Radek tells about his journey with this: how it works, why it’s way more difficult than it seems, and why it’s amazing.2018-07-1151 minThe Podcast151: Nozbe: AutomatedAdvancements in iOS automation. Simplifying morning/afternoon routine and travel with Nozbe automation. Resisting social media compulsive behavior (also on Android). And what’s next.2018-07-0440 minThe Podcast150: Three years inLearning from three years of The Podcast. Keeping it short, sticking to audio, some stats, and feedback from our listeners!2018-06-2935 minThe Podcast149: Profit FirstDiscussing — a simple system for managing finances designed around human flaws. We talk about the ideas from the book (written mostly for entrepreneurs), and then turn to how we adapted and applied the lessons to our personal lives.2018-06-1949 minThe Podcast148: Don’t spend it allThoughts on saving money. We discuss two different approaches to money when you’re young. And then we talk about ETFs — the simplest, least risky way to invest money in stock markets.2018-06-1348 minThe Podcast147: Shackles, please!Our take on Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 20182018-06-0656 minThe Podcast146: Magic of Tidying UpWhy living in a simple, minimalistic space is efficient, frugal, and good for psychological well-being.
And more importantly: how to get there. (Hint: it’s an emotionally daunting journey, but well worth it!)2018-05-3052 minThe Podcast145: Don't say thatA real snapshot of how we work together. Michael is working on a presentation about remote work for infoShare, and we iterate on the draft, together, live.2018-05-221h 04The Podcast144: Staring at a blank canvasA strategy for dealing with the hardest kind of tasks. Hint: it’s not by trying to make it 100% right in one go.2018-05-1538 minThe Podcast143: How to spend moneyExploring the domain of personal finance: analyzing your spending, how to save money efficiently, why (saving on things you don't care about so you can spend on things you do), and Michael's rant on young people.2018-05-0953 minThe Podcast142: Aliens among usQuestioning the format, purpose, length, and need for the semi-annual Nozbe Reunion — the only time when our remote company is in one physical location. More learning from our mistakes, old and new. And how to let go.2018-05-0252 minThe Podcast141: Nozbe at NozbeThis week, we explain, in detail, do we use Nozbe (the app) at Nozbe (the company). Why not all projects have a specific goal and end, a company message board, how to organize work and communication in a software development team, and how to semi-automate complex procedures with templates.2018-04-2450 minThe Podcast140: Raising the barOur hopes and wishes for Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference next month. Discussing bezel-less iPads, a convergence of iOS and macOS, and products Apple should not be selling anymore.2018-04-1855 minThe Podcast139: First tasks firstRadek explains his best system yet for planning the day and week to squeeze as much deep work as possible.
First tasks first, then the frog, radio silence until 10am, plan the next day early, manage energy levels, and keep a stash of backup tasks. Easy!2018-04-1049 minThe Podcast138: Leap of faithA meandering discussion on advantages of semi-nomadic lifestyle, the brokenness of companies, changing paradigms, always taking the blame, and being immunized by experience.2018-04-0354 min
Swift by Sundell20: “A dependency injection kind of guy”, with special guest Radek PietruszewskiRadek Pietruszewski, software writer at Nozbe and creator of SwiftyUserDefaults, joins John to talk about developer seniority, being inspired by the React paradigm, singletons & dependency injection, micro features and much more.LinksRadek on Twitter: @radexpJohn on Twitter: @johnsundellDHHNozbeThe PodcastSwiftyUserDefaultsUnboxSwifty methodsSeniority - Krzysztof ZabłockiFunctional Reactive Programming - WikipediaHigher-order components in ReactThe Hub FrameworkDiffyTablesEpisode with Mike AshAvoiding singletons in SwiftPedro Piñera's Micro Features guidelinesTwitter poll about the format of the showRadek's GitHub profileRadek's blog - radex.ioIntro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk2018-04-0256 minThe Podcast137: Nomadic lifestyleRadek explains what it takes to be a digital nomad — how to travel often, with little preparation, overhead, or stress, all while still doing your job.
We discuss: how to pack for a week in a backpack, how to pack extremely fast, how to keep your good habits during the trip, and how to be productive while traveling.2018-03-2757 minThe Podcast136: Traveling with appsUsing technology to make traveling easier.
How to keep track of who owes whom how much, saving money on currency exchanges, running through the airport more quickly, keeping track of expenses, managing preparation for a trip, and sharing all the files, calendars, maps… and more.2018-03-2150 minThe Podcast135: Swiss army appsDiscussing iOS apps, and how to use them powerfully. A follow-up on note-taking, document scanning, and maintaining a Magic Spreadhseet on iPhone and iPad.
Also, why it’s totally normal, even for a minimalist, to have multiple note-taking apps (or to-do apps for that matter).2018-03-1352 minThe Podcast134: Nozbe for youHow Michael and Radek organize their lives (side projects, hobbies, chores, errands) outside of work using Nozbe. http://thepodcast.fm/1342018-03-0648 minThe Podcast133: Better Than BeforeCultivating good habits and overcoming bad ones — discussing the most interesting strategies and brain hacks from Better than Before by Gretchen Rubin.2018-03-0142 minThe Podcast132: Reusable RocketryOn the day of Falcon Heavy's maiden launch (currently the most powerful rocket in the world), we discuss what makes SpaceX great.
SpaceX makes the cheapest and most powerful rockets in the world, and they're reusable. How come they succeeded, and NASA's Space Shuttle (also supposed to be cheap and reusable) failed? There are lessons you can take from SpaceX's success and apply them to companies in other industries.2018-02-1347 minThe Podcast131: Singular Focus of 2018Annual Review series, part 5 (and last!).
Learning from previous years and quarterly reviews, and applying lessons of Burst Projects, Values, and Letting go to design the best year ever. Making fewer goals, and putting them sequentially, not in parallel, to bring margin into our busy lives.2018-02-0650 minThe Podcast130: 2017 HighlightsAnnual Review series, part 4.
We're taking a look back at last year, to consider all that was good, bad, ugly, or just unexpected, and learn from it.2018-01-3047 minThe Podcast129: Letting goAnnual Review series, part 3.
Each year, start anew. Your past projects, goals, habits don’t matter… unless you decide that they really do.
Don’t automatically move last year’s failed goals to this year.
And don’t hold yourself to the highest standard you’ve ever achieved.2018-01-2344 minThe Podcast128: ValuesAnnual Review series, part 2.
Last week we discussed how to structure goals. Today, we discuss how to select your goals in the first place.
It starts with deep self-knowledge. Truly understanding the things about you, what motivates you, what excites you, what makes you tick, and also what you dislike and despise. Not the things that everyone will nod their head at, but the things particular to you.
When you write down what you really are like, it suddenly becomes clear which things are important, and which ones merely seemed like a good idea.2018-01-1649 minThe Podcast127: Burst Projects vs Keystone HabitsAnnual Review series, part 1.
Sometimes you stumble upon a project that excites and engages you so much, it gives you what feels like superhuman power. We discuss how to foster the right environment for such projects to appear in your life.
We also explore the subject of focus. We're much better at doing hard things sequentially than all at once. Well… most things. Some — keystone habits — only work if you do them with high consistency.
And so we present a new template for planning goals for the year. Either as burst projects (high intensity, short duration), or keystone habits (low intens...2018-01-1146 minThe Podcast126: Inbox Non-ZeroHow to become less addicted to notifications and badges.
The thing is: they're designed to make us react. Every time we see there's a new message, we check it out. And thus it becomes a compulsive behavior we cannot stop (we're just humans after all). We can reduce our exposure to the trigger (have less notifications), but how do we fix the root cause?2018-01-0441 minThe Podcast125: No speed limitLearn a new language in the New Year!
Following up on the previous two episodes on learning languages, we share more tips on how to learn efficiently, as well as our own progress (Radek learning Spanish, and Michael learning French)2017-12-1949 minThe Podcast124: Making geeks smileCool gadgets you can get for Christmas.
Also: Review of 2017 in hardware, and why Radek doesn't wear an Apple Watch anymore.2017-12-1240 minThe Podcast123: So Good They Can’t Ignore YouJust follow your passion, right? … No.
Unless you’re already highly skilled at something you’re passionate about, following your passion will only drive you to be miserable. To get a great job you can feel passionate about, you must first have something rare and valuable to give. You must be so good they can’t ignore you.
A much better idea: Follow your curiosity.2017-12-0541 minThe Podcast122: Deep Pre-DecisionOptimizing your day for Deep Work.
Or, what to do to make highly productive, deeply focused work possible (and likely).2017-11-2939 minThe Podcast121: Scanning & PlanningMore mobile life & iOS automation talk:
1. Using Scanbot (and not Evernote) for document safekeeping
2. Optimizing Magic Spreadsheet for iPhone, tracking time spent, micro-journaling2017-11-2252 minThe Podcast120: SpanglishPart 2 of our discussion on:
- How to develop a better accent in a foreign language
- Michael’s story of learning Spanish
- Duolingo and computer-aided language learning2017-11-1554 minThe Podcast119: The PolyglotsThe story of how Michael and Radek learned English, German, and other languages. Michael's way was to watch lots of movies and sing lots of songs. Meanwhile, Radek plugs in historical spaced repetition learning data from his very first magic spreadsheet (again!).2017-11-0949 minThe Podcast118: More Than Good EnoughAfter a few months of heavy iPad use, Radek admits: despite its (obvious) flaws and limitations, iPad Pro is a surprisingly good computer.
There's still ways to go, but with some determination and a shift in mindset, there are very few things you can't do on an iPad.2017-11-0346 minThe Podcast117: Notch of the FutureDiscussing the good, the bad, and the ugly of the iPhone X.
Also: Wireless charging everywhere, ARM on the Mac, iPhone multitasking.2017-10-2546 minThe Podcast116: App of the ReunionLike every half a year, we reunite in one physical location, this time: Wrocław. We talk about learning languages, beers, Taiwan, and the low-carb diet.2017-10-1845 min
StoneCastEp. 13 Gretchen PietruszewskiGretchen Pietruszewski visits with StoneCast on a summer afternoon. In this episode, we discuss our buddy Bombo as official StoneCast dramaturg and testing for park ranger (1:48); Gretchen's experience managing the Frogtown Curling (3:34); the members-only Frogtown Bonspiel (10:00); a beautiful StoneCast duet (11:28); the Hibbing Curling Club, Last Chance Bonspiel, and outboard motors (14:35); the private St. Croix Beach Club (16:00); dad talk (19:10); Neselpacks [https://www.neselpacks.com] and other inventions (22:30); and a little about the annual Frogtown pig roast (26:08).2016-08-0127 min