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Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: From sports to driving to preparing food and more, there are so many things we need, or want, to do each day which we choose to learn about, understand, and practice on a regular basis. Why have we made that one big thing that we all use continuously in one way or another, such a mystery? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me an Updat...

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Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A graph is a collection of nodes connected in one or both directions by edges, which is a fancy way of saying we can represent notions and their interconnections and relationships with a graph. What might be nice is if we could help the memory of the masses with graphs, but how soon we forget… Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me an...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Reviews are everywhere, whether stars or hearts or likes with categories or rankings and of course the long form anecdote where we get to tell our stories, relevant or not. Have we lost the plot? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo KoFi Solo h...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We all use technology nowadays, why is it so difficult to know when it is working and when it is not? Should this problem not have been solved a long way back? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts User...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The world revolves around corporate internet, whether they are hosting your products to sell, reviews of products or services, your content, your thoughts, your dreams. Yet, you must comply with their terms or face the dreaded Violation email and worse… Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhu...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Protests are in the news, and Collective Action in general can be a great way to amplify the voice of the masses, but sometimes they became a playing piece on a giant chess board, which usually undoes the possibilities. Can protests be re-imagined for the modern era? Should they be? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me an Update http...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We can spot generated content, we know when it is probably fake, maybe, right? What happens when AI is doing things you cannot see for yourself, doing things you may not understand yourself? Fingers crossed. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: In a world where a great many of us can consume almost anything from a vast menu of written word, imagery, audio, and video, produced by a diverse population of people, companies, and now artificial sources, we find ourselves in a time when we could choose from this tremendous collection of possibilities, but are we not more often chosen instead? Links Buy Dan A...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: You know this person, the one who always seems to be involved, to step up, to be the bridge between plan and action, the person who takes the initiative. If you do not know this person, hopefully you are this person. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.co...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: How many times has this happened to you, where you receive a notification of some kind to update your software, your computer, your phone, and all you know is that you will receive Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements by going through the update process. Does that work out every time? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me an Update...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We live in a consumption world, obviously, and as consumers we will encounter issues when placing an order, completing a purchase, receiving a delivery, using the thing whatever it might be, and dealing with warranties or returns in general. Is it me, or is all of this getting worse? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me an Update htt...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I think we all get comfortable with stuff that seems to be working, if it isn´t broken we should not try fixing it, or maybe we should just not mess with it, but then when things go off the rails we learn just how fragile the thing is, or was. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts D...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We live in a twilight world, and there are no friends at dusk. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo KoFi Solo - Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts Sensemaking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensemaking Movie Quote https://www.youtube.co...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A 2024 survey of people in the US suggests that we are all for more domestic manufacturing jobs, so long as someone else works those jobs. I have often said myself, an Entrepreneur is not a real Entrepreneur if they believe someone else should solve their problem. This might read like a continuation of the previous episode, and maybe it is, someone else should do...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Two books about similar things, what does the future hold for the US and, more importantly perhaps, those of us who are still here, when it comes to the structure and function of our communities and society, federally and locally. Can we still do things, and if so, how? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me an Update https://www.buyme...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We are living in interesting times, with one sign of the times making the news now and then, maybe not making the news, that is crossing a national border and facing inspection or even confiscation of digital devices to learn more about you, a visitor or resident or citizen of the country in question. The tech can work with you or against you. Links Buy Dan A Cof...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A lot of talk in the news this week (as recorded) about government officials using a non-government, consumer-aimed messaging tool on their devices to communicate sensitive information, allegedly improperly. Should we be concerned about our own messaging and how we use these tools? You already know the answer. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The earliest of cave paintings, the running messenger, the town crier, printed media, radio, television, the Internets… finding out what is going on, who is doing what to whom, and why it matters has always been an important thing, the question is who we should be getting this stuff from. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me an Updat...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: One fun feature of the one single language spoken in the United States, if you believe some executive orders, is that it is always changing. Are you always current on what those words mean, where they come from, and how they are being used? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo American Dictionary of the...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Debugging is not something everyone does consciously, but we all do it in one way or another. It is about understanding the way something works and taking a close look to try to determine why it is not working. Like everything else it is a skill that needs to be developed, which means knowing that you are doing it and knowing when you need to, take practice. Link...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Way back in Episode 15 we went into the notion that there are connections that we know about and that we do not know about, between people and systems and things in general that we all interact with, maybe depend upon, on a daily basis. Should we have some idea how these things work? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A few connected episodes about different parts of the crowd and extracting wisdom from it, based on one view anyway, so what can we do with our fellow humans when it comes to finding out what they know about what we want to know? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: One last supplementary episode in the Crowd Wisdom series, a brief dive into the response to reaction, when there is tumult amongst the crowd and the target of aggression has something to say to correct the record. Does that even matter? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Churchill Version https://www...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Thinking out loud about Crowd Wisdom, what happens when the crowd encounters some new information, or impression, or perception, that forces a rapid change in opinion, does the crowd become more wise, or can reaction be distraction? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Groupthink https://en.wikipedia.or...