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Sources and Methods
Hosted by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Matt Trevithick · EN
Sources and Methods is a podcast hosted by Alex Strick and Matt Trevithick in which interesting people doing interesting things get to talk about the what, how and why of what they do.sourcesandmethods.com
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49: Sebastian Marshall
Apr 26, 202000:59:14Tap to summarizeSebastian is co-founder of Ultraworking, a company that runs timed group work sessions on the internet (among other things). We get into the things he’s discovered really help improve productivity as well as the world outside pure ‘productivity’ gains.Follow Sebastian on Twitter here.Learn more about Ultraworking at https://www.ultraworking.com/
Transcribe →48: Tiago Forte
Apr 19, 202001:00:09Tap to summarizeTiago is a writer, thinker and trainer in productivity systems. He runs the online course ‘Building a Second Brain’ and we discuss the techniques he developed to support knowledge work. We also get into the weaknesses of the ‘deep work’ trend.Follow Tiago on Twitter here.Follow Tiago’s work at Forte Labs.Check out the ‘Building a Second Brain’ course here.
Transcribe →47: Lýdia Machová
Apr 12, 202000:46:48Tap to summarizeLýdia is a polyglot, mentor and inspiration to language learners. We discuss language learning methods, her experiences running online education programmes as well as what it’s like to work as a simultaneous interpreter in high-stress situations.Watch her TED talk here.Learn more about language mentoring and her methods at https://www.languagementoring.com/
Transcribe →46: Eva Hagberg
Apr 5, 202000:55:30Tap to summarizeEva Hagberg is the author of a new memoir entitled ‘How to be Loved’. We speak to her about her experience of chronic illness, grief and her career in architecture and criticism.Learn more about Eva at https://www.evahagberg.com/Follow Eva on twitter at https://twitter.com/evahagberg/Buy Eva's book here
Transcribe →45: Bruce Smith
Dec 28, 201901:01:27Tap to summarizeMatt speaks with Bruce Smith, entrepreneur and CEO/founder of Hydrow. Bruce coached the US Lightweight Eight rowing team to a Bronze medal at the 2015 World Rowing Championships and is a former executive director of Community Rowing — Boston.Learn more about Hydrow here: https://hydrow.com/
Transcribe →Deep Learning with fast.ai's Jeremy Howard
Jun 28, 201900:56:07Tap to summarizeJeremy Howard is a giant of the deep / machine learning space. He's also deeply interested in how to democratise this set of skills and has lots to say on how best to do this.Full show notes are available at sourcesandmethods.comIf you're inspired to give learning this skill a try, visit fast.ai to learn more.
Transcribe →Teaching Programming with Matthias Felleisen
May 28, 201901:04:13Tap to summarizeThis week we spoke with Matthias Felleisen who is a professor at Northeastern University and heavyweight in the coding / teaching world, one of the driving forces behind Racket, a general-purpose programming language.Full show notes are available at www.sourcesandmethods.com
Transcribe →Parsing Complexity with Zavain Dar
May 9, 201900:55:09Tap to summarizeZavain Dar is a venture capitalist based in New York and San Francisco. He spoke with us about his work that takes him from business and investment in Silicon Valley to science and teaching at Stanford and elsewhere.Full show notes are available at sourcesandmethods.com
Transcribe →Improving Counterterrorism with Stephen Tankel
Apr 30, 201901:05:47Tap to summarizeThis week in an interlude from the technology theme of season three, we discuss Stephen Tankel's new book, With Us and Against Us: How America's Partners Help and Hinder the War on Terror.Full show notes are available at sourcesandmethods.com
Transcribe →Data Science with Eric Schles
Apr 15, 201901:19:40Tap to summarizeEric Schles is a data scientist working at Microsoft. He’s worked in various places but he uses his skills in understanding large amorphous chunks of data to drive policy and allow organisations to make smarter decisions. Recorded at he initial onset of some of the recent onset of border wall discussions in the United States, Eric talked about some of the data-derived work he was doing to better monitor what was going on. We talk about some of the practical consequences of this work and ways to get involved in it.Full show notes are available at sourcesandmethods.com
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