Quoggling Sand

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: It is probably good to have one or two people around to collaborate with on most things, personal, professional, whatever. Or is it? Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo PodLink for Quoggling Sand https://pod.link/1560015517 AI Disclosure Unless otherwise specified, ALL writing a...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Distributed systems are a thing I deal with from a work standpoint, but everybody runs into this sort of thing, where everybody is not exactly on the same page and they don’t know that they need to fix that. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo PodLink for Quoggling Sand https://...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I don’t think interviews go away in the modern job market, but they do change through one’s career, maybe not for the better. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Pod.link for Quoggling Sand https://pod.link/1560015517 AI Disclosure Unless otherwise specified, ALL writing and spe...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Way back in Episode 0076 we covered the early Idiot Box and hinted at time-shifted modernity, well we can fill in the second half with the TiVo and YouTube today… Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Pod.link for Quoggling Sand https://pod.link/1560015517 AI Disclosure Unless oth...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Sometimes we call the place where we were born our home town, but surely when you are returning home from travel elsewhere, for example, you don’t go there, you go to where you live now, or at least that is what I do… Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Pod.link for Quoggling Sa...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I have talked about my own learning journey, libraries, polymath tendencies, and more, but lately I am seeing vast differences in the way people are learning today versus the way we did it back then… Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Pod.link for Quoggling Sand https://pod.lin...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Getting a haircut was sometimes a bit of an adventure, or maybe a chore, sometimes a piece of cake, lately a chore again. I still have hair, though, for better or worse… Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo AI Disclosure Unless otherwise specified, ALL writing and speaking contai...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: My dietary preferences have evolved over time, with a few caveats, may as well save this in the pile of lifetime receipts… Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo AI Disclosure Unless otherwise specified, ALL writing and speaking contained in this episode of Quoggling Sand is 100% H...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The one where I finally get to Silicon Valley and have an opportunity to work at Apple Computer Corporation, but it is as a contractor, and it is as a Tester. The proverbial foot in the door, to be sure… Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Katamari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I learned what a Tiger Team is, in the tech product development sense, during an interview at Yahoo! and it turns out that I was probably a part of some sort of Tiger Team for a long time before and even after… Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Tiger Team on Wikipedia https://...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I traveled quite a bit on behalf of my employer at the time these two events took place, and yet these two events took place in the SF Bay Area. Both of them. Crazy. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A startup you have never heard of named after something you have never known the name of, a Silicon Valley Tale. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Definition https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/motive%20power

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I checked this book out in audio form from the digital counter at my local library countless times, I find it fascinating for reasons I cannot quite explain, though it was quite popular with a great many people. So I will try to explain anyway. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhug...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: One of the big milestones, or at least it used to be. No more true than it was in the US, cars and driving them represents a form of freedom, to go where we will. Or something like that. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Once upon a time there was no internets for normal people to visit and abuse, or be abused by, and then there was. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I was watching a YouTube Video about Individuation and began to see some familiar notions, this is probably a concept I am living. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo The YouTube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epvvlxg11pM Individuation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indivi...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Way, way, way back in the day, the web was new, html was weird, and it was indeed the Wild Wild West. Hand-coding web pages was the way. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Wayback ReallyCool https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/http://reallycool.com

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Def Leppard Hysteria Tour was something of a big deal back then, so why not go to see them when they were in Phoenix in August, 1988? Why not indeed… Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Hysteria Tour https://www.deflepparduk.com/tour19882.html Compton Terrace https://en.wiki...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A term of art, when one lives on a phone, especially a phone under active development at a place like Apple or Palm, one uses said phone for real, even if it has all of the bugs. Living on a phone might also happen when the laptop stays in the bag while traveling, for another example. As it happens, I have done both… Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsan...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: History is one of those topic areas where you do not need to be an expert, you don’t even need to take classes, all anyone really needs is a library card, and that might not even be true anymore (though you should still have a library card). So what is a Thucydides Trap and are we in the Fourth Turning? Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: To avoid special characters in the title, the simple version, but is it a resume, a resumé, or maybe a résumé? Whatever the case, I think we should be done with them… Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Resume https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 The CV https://en.wiki...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Pilot or Engineer, Engineer or Pilot, it came down to glasses and the way the US Air Force worked at the time, so engineering it was and is, and now purveyors of AI want you to believe pursuit of engineering and technology is not worthwhile. Hmm. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danh...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I did not focus too much on history electives while I was in college, and while it would have been nice to have time for more, history is one of those things that can be tasted, at least, with reading and taking in modern day media productions by subject matter experts. I took the History of European Unification and it was pretty interesting. Links Quoggling Sand...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: If you know a young person who is building robots or embedded systems or 3d-printed items or any number of other possibilities nobody had thought of, it is likely they are doing it standing on the shoulders of Arduino in one way or another. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Ar...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Surely there are many options we come upon through our times, to go this way or that, or maybe a third and more options to select from. However, there is the one big selection, to the left or to the right, that we could probably identify if we really thought about it, and so I have. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everyth...