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Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Intersections are tricky, with multiple interactions, multiple parties, multiple states and perspectives. Sometimes they are actual intersections you pass through in a vehicle or otherwise, sometimes they are a bit more complicated, yet somewhat similar… Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo 2Way https:/...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Evolve in Tennessee, yet another bank compromised by evil so-called hackers, the penetration vector a phishing email opened and engaged-with by an unsuspecting employee, or so we are told. We bank there, among other places, but this is a solvable problem, sort of, that will never actually be solved. But Why? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dan...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: These are interesting times, and keeping track of how interesting they are can be a challenge when there are so many people, and robots, telling us how interesting, for different reasons, and with different agendas. What to do? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Wonk https://www.merriam-webster.com/di...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: “A lady asked Dr. Franklin ‘Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy’ – ‘A republic,’ replied the Doctor, ‘if you can keep it.’” Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Elizabeth Willing Powel vs Dr Benjamin Franklin https://blogs.loc.gov/manuscripts/2022/01/a-republic-if-you-can-keep-it-eliza...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: On the one hand, a good reaction video, to a movie perhaps, a movie already seen, can be interesting and entertaining, watching someone in excerpts experience that which we already have, the big moment, the final outcome, and so on. When those excerpts are news stories, important presentations, or other reactions to similar things, and we treat those reactions as...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Systemic procrastination is a problem, let us begin to discuss it now, rather than later. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Self-service Street Repairs https://news3lv.com/news/local/east-las-vegas-valley-residents-take-decades-long-road-repairs-into-their-own-hands SeeClickFix Clark County/Las Vegas...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Phone free schools and surgeon general warning labels are all the rage, on both sides of each and still other routes to fixing the pickle in which we find ourselves, thank you social media and attention and surveillance economy platforms. Something does not seem right about these solutions, though, let´s engineer this thing. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buy...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Woody Allen of all people famously suggested that 80% of Life is Showing Up. Words to that effect, anyway, you really had to be there. If we take that suggestion literally, we may end up where we are now… perhaps we have. 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: The availability heuristic, motivated reasoning, groupthink, and more can combine to shape the way we see the world around us, and its finer details, but should we believe what we think? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Availability Heuristic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic Moti...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Online debates are all the rage, but are they even debates anymore? Should a debate have an after action smack-down session, declarations of victory, and celebrations of the crushing and ultimate destruction of the other side? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Start Here for Debates https://en.wikipe...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: What do we do when there is only one substantive choice, when the masses accept that choice, and then the one choice fails miserably? Do we go to the next most popular and make it the new one, and do that again and again? Is it possible to take back a modicum of agency and maybe autonomy into our uncertain futures? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee....

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Some observations about modern news coverage, the non-stop news coverage situation, and cameras in the court room. The best time to be aware of biased and incomplete reporting was a few thousand years ago, the second best time is now. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo The Blind Men and the Elephant h...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Once upon a time, products were available to customers when they were Done. Now we are asked to spend real money on all manner of novel thing that is almost ready, or maybe not even that far along. Somewhere in the middle, we all got somewhat used to the Greek alphabet, and we should make a point of bringing it back… Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffe...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The news today is awash with strife at our college campuses, surely a sign of the end times, so long as we believe that a vanishingly small population of students are world-wise enough to represent their generation… in the mean time, where does college and higher learning fit into the near term? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Many engineers, maybe more the ones from the old days but I hope not, will try to find a root cause for some problem and see about fixing it. In an age of personal economics, solving an immediate problem and calling that Done seems to be the new thing, and that always comes back around. Always. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Reviews have always been a thing, often contentious for any of a number of reasons, from fake to paid-for to fraught with agenda, and more. What is wrong with reviews, or is it, what is wrong with reviewers? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Net Promoter Score https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_promot...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Precision and Accuracy, orthogonal but definitely appealing when encountered together, but so often lacking individually. In a world only moving faster, we have the tools and the devices in our pockets, why are we apathetic? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Accuracy and Precision on Wikipedia https:...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We already know that what you find on the internet is not always correct, but how can we tell, if we can tell at all? Maybe it begins with doing it yourself… Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Frontline on Boeing 737-MAX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z76YpCz9N2Y Debunking Jordan Peterson and Destiny...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: If you have the wherewithal to start a company of some kind, operate a business, or simply maintain a personal or professional brand of some kind, why on earth would you or anyone hand that over to others who could not care less about anything you do but for the money it makes them? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://k...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There was a time, maybe too long ago to remember, when excellence, innovation, and individual pride in a job well done. A quick glance across the headlines over these months, years, and even recent decades, reveals clearly the transition very clearly to the priority of profit, financial or otherwise Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We live in modern times, with access to so many ways for people to take advantage of us. There are ways to defend ourselves, but like carrying keys to locks, they do require some sacrifice and effort, and some motivation to comprehend and be aware. Do we have these? 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: The US Postal Service is actually sort of amazing if you really think about it, and today we are looking at something of a shadow of its actual, historical self. Some truly clueless people would like to see it go away for some reason, but what about… Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo In Their Own Wor...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Community is a thing, but it is not always what you think it is, and that gap can be described sometimes by way of some understanding of the connections between members of the community and between communities, and beyond. Do we understand them, do we even know them, and do we know when they disco? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: With rare exceptions, we exchange time and/or effort for money. If we do it right we exchange more effort than time, and if we can do it passively, even better. Now about these circumstances that throw a spanner into the works… Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Gratuity (Tip) https://en.wikipedia.org...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There is a time and a place for a social silo, where two or more individuals need to conduct business away from others, whatever that business may be. Is it good, though, when silos become the primary landscape feature across an ecosystem? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Conway´s Law https://www.me...