FFS Talk podcast

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The hype is growing faster than the power bills for AI, with the new coolness found in the ability to run your entrepreneurial endeavors entirely by way of Agents and Skills and Tokens. Oh My! Is this really a good idea? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Is so-called whataboutism a valid argument, rationalizing, or simply insidious? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: These are interesting times, it is perhaps a good thing to be able to see opportunity in the chaos Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Reexamining The Federalist Papers and some history and basically the state of affairs that we started with nearly 250 years ago, our two party system could be a part of the problem. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo History of US Political Parties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_p...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The so-called Resource Curse is a well-known concept, it has been around for a long time, and the place I call home, Las Vegas, Nevada, has definitely suffered from it. In these modern times there is a new curse in town, and it appears we might be ready to switch to that one… Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buy...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There is a quote often attributed to Woody Allen, that Showing Up is 80% of Life. There may be more nuance than that. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Showing Up Quote https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/06/10/showing-up/ The 3.5% Rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.5%25_rule

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have all heard the expression, “Stay in your lane,” or something similar, and there is a different side to that coin, this is about both. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Everything is tech, and if it is not yet tech, there are plans to make it tech, most likely by bolting on some AI and hoping people will buy it. Is this how it all ends? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Age verification online has become the new hot topic, in a time of so many hot topics, and this is going to be another example of good intentions going wrong. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Voting is something that happens during elections, but it can also happen at other times and in other ways. The general notion of voting and casting votes could be better-understood. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We talked about rivers and walls and feeds back in episode 53, now is as good a time as ever to look at this one-dimensional feed that has captured the world in various forms while two-dimensional views are really what we need. Maybe even three. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Artificial Intelligence is going to take all jobs in 18 months leaving you more time to relax and enjoy life for as long as you have money saved up… the hype around AI Coders is pure chaos. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Anthropic Claud makes a C Compiler https://www.anthropic.com/engi...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Look around in your travels and note how many people have cameras (in their phones, in their pockets, on their bodies) and how many cameras mounted on traffic signal poles, buildings, and drones are looking at everything. Always looking… Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Passive participation sounds like something you find on your tax forms (I think it is, actually), but here we are going to ponder modernity when it comes to happenings around us, especially where social media is involved. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We are not talking about databases, but there is a concept in databases where a change set can either be committed for all to see or rolled back to make the change set but a memory that need not be seen. If only such things were possible in the real world… Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhug...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There are probably a few of these sorts of things to which this suggestion applies, that Apathy can be a good thing in moderation. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There is an entire genre of media production built around reacting to the content of others, whether movies, series, or the work of peer content creators. Check out episodes 0033 and 0063 of this very audio program for previous ponderings on this topic, but today it is Movie Reactions. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I may have spoken of this before, but lately I am really feeling the difference between being inside a car and in front of one out on our streets here in Vegas, and this really should not be the case in this twenty-first century, should it? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A tremendous amount of our individual engagement with the rest of the world, near and far, is digital, thanks to social media and search engines and now more and more, AI. We should think about this. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: This year is coming to an end, is there anything that simply works so we do not need to do anything about it? Maybe, but I am seeing some patterns. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The “Smart City” concept has been around for decades, and if you ask anyone anywhere they will tell you what they think makes a city smart, the question is whether they are correct. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Smart City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_city Toronto and Project S...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Certainly the expression “Us versus Them” is familiar, and is usually indicative of an adversarial relationship. Here let us consider a more neutral environment wherein one side or another must Do Something. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: This happens all the time online, more and more daily, but it can happen anywhere and at anytime, and it has, and it does, and will continue, the notion of certainty regarding a topic or event about which there is none (or very little). Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dunning-Kruger Eff...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Today we record and publish on what we all hope is a Happy Thanksgiving, but what about these holidays, what are they all about? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo When is Thanksgiving anyway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franksgiving Hallmark Holidays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallmar...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Predicting the weather was always something of a challenge, getting it wrong could be costly in many ways. In the modern era, filling time or feeding an audience for clicks and views makes speculation essential, whether accurate or otherwise. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo