TechZing

Justin and Jason discuss the movie Guardians of the Galaxy and the show Halt and Catch Fire , why they both like the post-apocalyptic genre, the final dates for the TechZing Summit , a progress report on Operation Superhero, Justin's "audacious goal" of starting a funk band, why Jason thinks Derek Sivers is wrong about keeping your goals to yourself , Jason's electrical engineering learn...

Justin and Jason discuss Jason's ambitious health and fitness plan, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s six rules of success , why Jason has decided to pursue his two long-time athletic goals of bench pressing 315 lbs and of dunking a basketball, Karch Kiraly’s athletic transformation at the age of 44, a few of the top vertical jump programs , the 42-year who added 9 inches to his vertical...

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's upcoming trip to Mexico, their new low-sugar / high-protein diet and HIIT training regime, the TechZing Summit, how Justin has STILL not received his Soylent , Jason's interview on Bootstrapped with Kids , how Jason found a personal instructor to teach him electrical engineering, the latest on Jason's math card game – Battle Math, why his iPhone project got reject...

Justin talks to Derrick Reimer and Rob Walling about the Drip tech stack.

Justin and Jason discuss the details of Jason's angel investment in the Mill Valley Code Club , Jason's weight-loss plan, the power of gradualism, the time required to form a new habit , the importance of short and long-term goals, accountability and positive feedback loops, how an article by Jason's brother Jay was listed as one of The Atlantic’s top pieces of journalism , a little bit...

Justin and Jason discuss Jason's recent trip to Disneyland, the latest progress on Disco, Jason's first angel investment, how Justin has been slowly accumulating Bitcoin, finding a remote, junior Rails developer, the site We Work Remotely , Jason's new weight-loss plan, StrongLifts , the TV shows Continuum and Halt and Catch Fire , some details on the TechZing Summit , whether it's harmful to let...

Justin and Jason discuss the TechZing Summit , the last session of Catalyst, Uber’s new office and Jason's thoughts on Uber’s rapid growth , Justin's "no DB" project, how options work at most venture-funded startups, getting compensated in convertible debt, Jason's experience with AirPair and why you should never do a fixed-bid project, shutting down AnyFu and some le...

Justin and Jason discuss Jason's night with the "Korean billionaires", the 30 for 30 documentary The Opposition , the big Digedu demo, Justin's excitement over Node.js and socket.io , why Jason turned down an IdeaLab company, how Justin finally sold Pluggio and the new side project he's working on with Lance Jones and Joanna Wiebe called Disco, how CNBC contacted Jason about debating Mar...

Justin, Jason and special guest Ben Reyes discuss Ben's investment in Tesla and investing in general, Bitcoin as a technology and whether Dorian is the real Satoshi, how experts f ound that Mt. Gox lost a mere 386 Bitcoin due to transaction malleability , pending comments on Hacker News , Justin's new meme – "The Iceberg Strategy", Jason's trick for scrambling his own memories, why Notch...

Jason talks with Nathan Hawkins about his new (TCG) trading card game Conjure , what it took to create it and how they're bringing it to market .

Justin and Jason discuss why the show has been on a mini hiatus, the Spritz speedreading technology and the open source bookmarklet , Justin's Catalyst experiment, the face behind Bitcoin , the denial and some confirmations by Los Angeles County deputies , what most likely happened at Mt Gox , autotrading crypto-currencies at Cryptotrader , the death of AnyFu , why Justin likes the idea of being a...

Justin and Jason discuss why they're not going to change the name of the show, the unpaid bill that launched a thousand starships , the cryptography breakthrough that could make software unhackable , how GoPro is going public , Russia’s banning of Bitcoin , China’s large scale 3D printers , the breakthrough bionic hand that restores an amputee’s sense of touch , the latest on t...

Justin and Jason discuss Digedu's latest technical hire, how Uber's real-time team uses Github, the growth of Uber's engineering team and what Jason has been working on, building software that never gets used and the three criteria by which to evaluate a job, the two most unrealistic aspects of the TV show 24 , Jason's latest trip to SF and why he doesn't like to spend money, math team madness, Ja...

Justin and Jason discuss Digedu's latest technical hire, Quizlet’s incredible feedback center , the PHP logging extension Datadog , the realtime dashboard that Jason built for Uber, why hackers haven't been more creative in the types of targets they've gone after, when it makes more sense to buy TV shows than to it does to just watch them for free and sit through the commercials, the TV...

Justin and Jason discuss the animated series Archer and why it’s no longer going to be about spies , how t he NSA is attempting to build a quantum computer , how a France-UAE satellite deal is shaky after NSA spy tech was discovered onboard , how California legislators are attempting to banish the NSA from the state , the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps , the impending d...

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's hiring strategy for Digedu and IBM's notorious “Black Team” , the women in tech controversy and how it misrepresented Paul Graham's statements on the matter, how Jason finally conquered the Triangle Peg Board Game , his recent day at the slopes and his idea for a social checklist app, the Cradlepoint Hotspot , a post mortem on Digedu's Q4 techn...

Justin and Jason discuss how 0.01 Bitcoin was donated to the show, why Justin has been blogging so much lately, their respective Christmas plans and family traditions, an intriguing a nti-ageing compound that’s set for human trials , an Oxford debate on ageing , why science fiction tends to restrict itself to exploring such a limited set of advances and how difficult it is to predict the...

Justin and Jason discuss why they like recording discussion shows on Friday afternoons, PayPal dispute resolutions, Jason's friend who lost his business and is now teaching himself how to code, how to determine whether your programmers are lazy , how Fog Creek compensates their developers , why Treehouse is eliminating managers , how to inspire developers to hit deadlines, using the minmax algorit...

Justin and Jason discuss getting the show back on a weekly schedule, how listener Ben Reyes gave Jason a Bitcoin, China’s stance on crypto currencies and why it's been to their geopolitical advantage to pin the renminbi to the US dollar, how Bitcoin's inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto , is now a billionaire and whether Satoshi is really Nick Szabo , whether Amazon’s drone delivery ini...

Justin and Jason talk with Rob Walling about the rollout of his new project, Drip , as well as a few other assorted topics.

Justin and Jason talk about bringing on a potential marketing partner for AnyFu , why Justin may buy some Twitter shares, Jason's investment thesis and why he believes Apple is reverting to the mean, Google’s mystery barges , Jason's post on teaching kids how to code, Nitrous.io , the audio book Masters of Doom , the movies WarGames , Close Encounters of the Third Kind , and Enders Game...

Justin and Jason discuss the debt ceiling and the government shutdown , the upcoming Limitless television show , a theory on what made Einstein so clever and the difficulty in finding a genetic map for IQ , how the Arsenic DNA paper exposed flaws in the peer review process and The Reproducibility Project , the television shows Breaking Bad , Falling Skies , Revolution , Defiance , The Agents of Sh...

Justin and Jason discuss the emergency emails that Justin received from Digedu while on vacation and why he selected Sifter as a project management tool, how Uber and Digedu use Git, Git rebase vs Git merge and general GitHub bureaucracy, how Digedu makes use of NodeJS and how Uber leverages the NodeJS profiler that Jason and Guyon created, the rising importance of system administration <wbr /&...

Justin and Jason discuss the Uber wedding that Jason and Sandy attended over the weekend, their two female listeners, how the most recent Pluggio deal fell through and why Justin has decided to take Pluggio off the market for the time being, what needs to happen in order for AnyFu to succeed, possible plans for Catalyst, how Colby is reading Ender's Game and why Justin wishes the technology in Asi...

Justin and Jason discuss Uber's latest fundraising round, the selling of Pluggio, Rob Walling's startup Drip, Justin's hack for creating a tablet unlock code and how's he looking for a front-end developer, how Tesla achieved a perfect safety rating and captured more than 12% of the luxury car market, whether it would be a good idea to invest in Solar City or Yahoo, the prospects for BitCoin and wh...