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Breadcrumbs
by Elias Lanz & Sean Lunsford
Elias and Sean grew up together overseas before studying engineering in Germany and the US respectively. Breadcrumbs is their weekly chat about things past, present, and future.
Episodes
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198: Neanderthal Nostalgia Trip
Sean spends a week in a (very nice) cave and recounts his exploration of Cappadocia/Kapadokya. Links and Show Notes Rock-cut architecture of Cappadocia - Wikipedia Tuff - Wikipedia Göreme Open Air Museum Churches of Göreme - Wikipedia Apse - Wikipedia Transept - Wikipedia Nave - Wikipedia…
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197: The Calculus of Detergent Choices
Taking a page from a different genre of podcast to try something new, Elias and Sean look at the economics of budget airlines. Links and Show Notes Transcript Elias: So in my time traveling around Europe and all, I’ve actually flown Ryanair quite a lot. The detergent they use on the airplanes...
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196: Americafast
The 2021 Yearly Themes episode Links and Show Notes (Recorded 13 January) 163: Surprisingly Existential - Breadcrumbs (Overcast | Castro) 189: Six Months of Lazy - Breadcrumbs (Overcast | Castro) Your Theme -- yearly themes explained The Theme System 2020: Mid-Year Performance Review Regeneration…
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195: A Spark in a Jar (Revisited)
Elias eats bread and ice cream in a historical German naval town. Then Sean and Elias discuss this recut of episode 191 as a prototype 10-ish minute travel episode. Links and Show Notes Wilhelmshaven - Wikipedia Breakfast breads in Germany: 64: Not to Be Confused With Meatloaf - Breadcrumbs…
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194: Lazy Design Cycle
Elias and Sean share mood boards to convey what they hope to create in “Breadcrumbs 2.0” and Sean experiments with audio clips for the same purpose. Elias has a confession to make. Links and Show Notes Elias's mood board Sean's mood board Design Cycles @breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks...
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193: Healthy Dose of Self-Awareness
Elias and Sean watch and discuss a TED Talk about creativity, the addiction to getting attention, and focusing on the things that matter. Links and Show Notes How craving attention makes you less creative | Joseph Gordon-Levitt Castro Podcast Player Overcast @breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford |...
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192: Lousy Also-Ran Pineapple Can
Elias and Sean continue the discussion about the future of Breadcrumbs—considering the limits of what they could create, the cornerstone of a new show, and the idea of a structural framework as a podcast’s premise. Links and Show Notes Gimlet 16: The Secret Formula | StartUp (Overcast | Castro)...
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191: A Spark in a Jar
Sean queries Elias about his trip to the German coast. Links and Show Notes Wilhelmshaven - Wikipedia Amazon.com: Audio-Technica ATR2100x-USB Cardioid Dynamic Microphone (ATR Series): Musical Instruments Breakfast breads in Germany: 64: Not to Be Confused With Meatloaf - Breadcrumbs (08:39 --...
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190: Lower-Stake Legos
Elias and Sean talk about things being like Legos and then talk through the common building blocks of podcasts—all to set up discussion about the future of the show. Links and Show Notes K'Nex - Wikipedia Playmobil - Wikipedia Membership - Relay FM Juggling by Numbers - Numberphile - YouTube...
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189: Six Months of Lazy
Elias and Sean review the year so far and look ahead to the next four months. Links and Show Notes 163: Surprisingly Existential - Breadcrumbs (Overcast | Castro) Cortex #104: RGB on the eGPU (Overcast | Castro) Regeneration | seanlunsford.com 165: A Puddle of Failure - Breadcrumbs (Overcast |...
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188: Spreadsheets Are Ziplines
Elias and Sean share stories of hard work and then talk about hard work as climbing a mountain. Links and Show Notes See where projects really stand with Hill Charts: Basecamp @breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm....
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187: Make the Work Work
Elias and Sean try to define hard work. Links and Show Notes P versus NP problem Millennium Prize Problems - Wikipedia The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy (Part 1/2) - YouTube Apple's Relentless Strategy, Execution, and Point of View | by Steven Sinofsky | Jun, 2020 | Learning By Shipping Is…
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186: Low-Hanging Biological Fruit
Elias and Sean discuss the messiness of working with humans. Links and Show Notes Thread by @natalienagele Conveyor -- Version control meets task management. Companies | People-First Jobs Automattic -- Making the web a better place Ghost: Turn your audience into a business Zapier | The easiest…
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185: Built on the Backs of Body Counts
Elias and Sean talk about companies treating people fairly and showing humanity. Links and Show Notes ATP 383: Demand-Paged Outrage -- Accidental Tech Podcast (1:44:27 -- Overcast | Castro) Amazon.com: Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World…
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184: You Don’t Fire Family
Elias and Sean talk about companies who just want to be a happy family. Links and Show Notes Basecamp: About our company 3 Reasons to Treat Employees Like Family | Inc.com Why treating people like family is the key to effective leadership Bob Chapman: Why You Should Treat Your Employees As Family...
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183: Building Ships, Not Writing Poetry
Elias and Sean compare and try to learn from the company cultures of Netflix and Basecamp. Links and Show Notes Netflix Culture Gaussian elimination - Wikipedia Netflix Jobs Basecamp: About our company Greatest Hits Archives - Signal v. Noise The presence prison - Signal v. Noise...
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182: Playdough Formalization Committee
Elias and Sean talk about the process of formalization and get into a debate about what counts as a checklist. Links and Show Notes formalise - Google Search 22 Mesmerizing Pasta GIFs You Won't Be Able To Stop Watching Basecamp: Project Management & Team Communication Software Mechanistic Vs....
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181: Weird, Awkward, but Beautiful
Elias and Sean talk about systems before and after they get named and formalized. Links and Show Notes Kanban - Wikipedia Agile software development - Wikipedia Trello Airtable The Toyota Way The Checklist Manifesto Getting Things Done H.I. #39: Getting Things Done -- Hello Internet (Overcast)...
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180: More Names for Snow and Blue
Elias and Sean discuss the effect of language on one’s perception of reality. Links and Show Notes ("Arrival" spoilers between 1:38 and 4:39) Does the Linguistic Theory at the Center of the Film 'Arrival' Have Any Merit? | Science | Smithsonian Magazine Arrival (2016) - IMDb Ready Player One…
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179: Data Whisperers
Elias and Sean consider the problem of too much information. Links and Show Notes Urban Dictionary: TMI Urban Dictionary: t.m.i. TMZ Walk on water (Liquid Mountaineering) - YouTube Big Data or Too Much Information? | Innovation | Smithsonian Magazine Why Too Much Data Is A Problem And How To...
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178: Illegitimate Cucumber
Elias and Sean wonder how many grains of sand make a heap. Links and Show Notes Gravity Leadership Podcast Corona-Maßnahmen: "Viele Menschen sind wieder sorgloser" | tagesschau.de Continuum fallacy - Wikipedia List of VeggieTales characters - Wikipedia What If? Fuzzy logic - Wikipedia...
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177: Legitimacy by Proxy
Elias and Sean try to figure out what makes something legitimate. Links and Show Notes RecordSetter is this generation's Guinness World Records @breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative…
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176: Glasses Manufacturing Plant
Elias and Sean talk about what makes a worldview and how one’s worldview influences one’s understanding of the truth. Links and Show Notes Worldview - Wikipedia UK phone masts attacked amid 5G-coronavirus conspiracy theory | UK news | The Guardian Amazon.com: Thirst: A Story of Redemption,...
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175: Uzbek Homeopath
Elias and Sean tackle conspiracy theories, why they persist, and what makes them so enticing to both adherents and skeptics. Links and Show Notes List of conspiracy theories - Wikipedia Conspiracy theory - Wikipedia Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm - (Part 1/3) Smarter Every Day 213 - YouTube...
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174: Urgency Virus
Elias and Sean share personal updates from the fallout of the pandemic and then reflect further on the Medium post from last week’s episode. Links and Show Notes Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now - Tomas Pueyo - Medium Federico Viticci on Twitter: "It's going to be a tough few weeks for everyone…
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173: Picnic on the Train Tracks
Elias and Sean talk about the coronavirus and trying to convince people of the truth. Links and Show Notes To inform yourself and understand the risk to the public we recommend to rely on your government body responsible for health and the World Health Organization. Coronavirus: Why You Must Act...
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172: Deception Detection
Elias and Sean discuss falsehood and truth’s relationship to reality. Links and Show Notes Truth - Wikipedia Deception - Wikipedia @breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons...
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171: Meaning Transporters
Elias and Sean consider the relationship between meaning and truth. Links and Show Notes Consensus theory of truth - Wikipedia xkcd: Scary Names @breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative…
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170: Instruments to Measure God
Elias and Sean discuss the relation between our individual consciousness and the truth. Links and Show Notes Socrates quote Epistemic Paradoxes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Dunning--Kruger effect - Wikipedia logic - Is finding truth possible? - Philosophy Stack Exchange Truth - Wikipedia...
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169: 7 Billion Words for “Circle”
Elias and Sean search for truth. Links and Show Notes True/False Paradox Truth - Wikipedia Linguistic prescription - Wikipedia Linguistic description - Wikipedia The Trouble with Transporters - YouTube @breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo...
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168: Somewhere Between Socks and Marriage
Elias and Sean discuss matching objects and people. Links and Show Notes Dating Ring StartUp | Gimlet (Overcast | Castro) So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love eBook: Cal Newport: Kindle Store Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World...
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167: Fallen Off the Novel Train
Elias and Sean consider books—from self-help books to novels—and condensing them down to index cards. Links and Show Notes MentorBox LLC MasterClass Online Classes The Martian: A Novel eBook: Andy Weir: Kindle Store Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity eBook: David Allen…
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166: The Dashboard for My Life
Elias and Sean return to the task management well. Links and Show Notes Todoist OmniFocus Things Bullet Journal Stand-up comedy routine about Spreadsheets - YouTube Opener ‒ open links in apps Amazon.com: Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur eBook: Derek Sivers: Kindle…
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165: A Puddle of Failure
Elias and Sean look at three different takes on numbering one’s days. Links and Show Notes (Apologies for Sean's audio. Something weird happened, and then it was completely lost for the last few minutes.) Your Life in Weeks -- Wait But Why WeCroak Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm Sean - @splunsford...
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164: I Envy Your Serenity
Elias and Sean survey the various inboxes in their lives, how they manage them, and how they feel about them. Links and Show Notes xkcd: Inbox Inbox Zero - YouTube Urgency Addiction Assessment -- The Focus Course Tweetbot 5 for Twitter SaneBox Castro Podcast Player Overcast Accidental Tech…
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163: Surprisingly Existential
In the 2020 yearly themes episode, Elias and Sean review their previous themes and look ahead to the new year. Links and Show Notes The Focus Course Matt Whitman Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm Sean - @splunsford Elias - @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by...
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162: Last Show of the Decade
Elias and Sean consider significance and fame with respect to time. Links and Show Notes Who's Biggest? The 100 Most Significant Figures in History | TIME.com Molekule: The Worst Air Purifier We've Ever Tested - YouTube Amazon.com: Leonardo da Vinci eBook: Walter Isaacson: Kindle Store The...
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161: Early Analog Emoji
Elias nitpicks a language quirk and then presents quadrants relating significance to public consciousness. Links and Show Notes Invictus (2009) 42 (2013) Eigenvector centrality - Wikipedia A Night to Remember: The Sinking of the Titanic (The Titanic Chronicles Book 1), Walter Lord, eBook -...
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160: A Less Panda-Happy Time
Elias and Sean add a few more people to last week’s list and then take a step back to look at what the public consciousness is and how it works. Links and Show Notes The Insane Logistics of Formula 1 - YouTube Canonical's dream for an Ubuntu phone is dead | TechRadar Kony 2012 - Wikipedia...
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159: The Scrooge Who Stole Christmas
Elias and Sean run through a list of iconic people and characters. Links and Show Notes Bill Gates no longer 2nd richest person; Jeff Bezos may also lose crown to this fashion mogul - The Financial Express (Sean totally misread this headline) Songs that Cross Borders | Radiolab | WNYC Studios...
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158: The Einstein of Sports Medicine
Elias and Sean discuss the term “genius” and the people to whom it is applied. Links and Show Notes Clever Package Design Trickery: Bike Company Prints Flatscreen TVs on Shipping Cartons, Reduces Damage by 70%-80% - Core77 Elizabeth Gilbert: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating | TED...
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157: Successful Enough
Elias and Sean take a look at more bad stock photography and then talk about success. Links and Show Notes Success -- Google Images 148: Kenya Literacy - Breadcrumbs (Overcast | Castro) Lance Armstrong - Wikipedia So You've Been Publicly Shamed - Amazon.com. Srinivasa Ramanujan - Wikipedia...
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156: The Paragon Endpoint
Elias and Sean talk about what they wanted to be when they grew up. Links and Show Notes we'll pay you $5,000.00 to design the 368 logo - YouTube FIP 010: Why Human Connection is Good For Your Social Enterprise, with Devin Hibbard | | Finding Impact (Overcast | Castro) Hot Fuzz (2007) - IMDb...
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155: Camel-Back-Breaking Moment
Elias tells a tale of Wi-Fi woe. Links and Show Notes Incorrect password Wait Wait...Tell Me! - 99% Invisible (Overcast | Castro) Accidental Tech Podcast: 348: Panic Shutdown (1:23:00 -- Overcast | Castro) Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm Sean - @splunsford Elias - @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from...
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154: More Dice to Roll With
Elias and Sean address the role of nature versus nurture in making the next genius billionaire playboy philanthropist. Links and Show Notes Nature vs. Nurture FIP 010: Why Human Connection is Good For Your Social Enterprise, with Devin Hibbard | | Finding Impact (Overcast | Castro) Impostor...
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153: A Hope of a Date
Elias and Sean talk about being one’s own boss, and how that applies to their current situations. Links and Show Notes The Pros and Cons of Being Your Own Boss | Bplans 137: Convenience Glutton - Breadcrumbs (Overcast | Castro) Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm Sean - @splunsford Elias - @muffinworks...
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152: Paid Kindergarten
Elias and Sean discuss “literacy” as a third category next to hard and soft skills. Links and Show Notes Looking for a Job Studio Neat Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm Sean - @splunsford Elias - @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a...
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151: Manufacturing Clarity
Elias and Sean talk about review cycles and feedback loops. Links and Show Notes Q&A with Grey #2 (One Million Subscribers) - YouTube H.I. #39: Getting Things Done -- Hello Internet (Overcast) Amazon.com: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity eBook: David Allen, James Fallows:...
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150: All Good Things
The night before Elias leaves Kenya, he and Sean discuss endings and finding resolution. Links and Show Notes Eleven Days No Dumb Questions: 063 - No Longer a Pastor (27:31 -- Overcast | Castro) Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm Sean - @splunsford Elias - @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from...
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149: A Million Parentheticals
Elias and Sean discuss reductionism as applied to everything from tech products to continents and people. In the aftershow, they comment on last week’s Apple event. Links and Show Notes Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World_and Why Things Are Better Than You Think: Hans Rosling…
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Elias and Sean grew up together overseas before studying engineering in Germany and the US respectively. Breadcrumbs is their weekly chat about things past, present, and future.
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Breadcrumbs is created and hosted by Elias Lanz & Sean Lunsford.
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