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FFS Talk podcast
by Dan Hugo
This is a conversational show about problems and solutions, discussing what is working and what isn't and what "we" might do about it.Think of it as darkness+flashlight...
Episodes
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Episode 0151: Learn to Code
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Obama announcement in December 2014 about policy leaning in to coding literacy and direction came as there was a general move toward these, today there are some apparent doubts thanks to AI, but should we still? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/…
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Episode 0150: Emotional Reporting
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Last week we did Reasoned Reporting, this week how about the Emotional version? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Pod.iink for FFS Talk https://pod.link/1829341893 AI Disclosure Unless...
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Episode 0149: Reasoned Reporting
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The human response is calibrated at two different levels, one emotional and the other, the second to respond, logical or reasoned. When we are receiving or otherwise consuming News Reports, we have four possibilities to consider, let’s look at two of them. Links...
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Episode 0148: Automate Everything
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: In these exciting times, the notion that we can have some computer somewhere running some AI model do everything for us is gaining momentum and popularity, is this good? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything...
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Episode 0147: Free
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Who doesn’t love free, whatever it might be? Well there are some caveats, perhaps… Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo No Free Lunch...
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Episode 0146: Product Data Reporting
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: More and more of the products we use are phoning home to tell the mother ship about what the product is doing and how and where we are using it. Is this okay? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything...
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Episode 0145: AI Trust
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Odds are you use AI tools for something, sometimes or all the time, and thanks to momentum you probably take the response as truth. Is that a good idea? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo...
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Episode 0144: Dating Advice Tube
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Anyone can find, or give, advice about anything on YouTube and other media outlets, no matter your education or expertise. One disclaimer and you’re off the hook, and so among other things we have more advice on how to meet women than anyone should encounter in…
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Episode 0143: Tech Shaming
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Are you on the leading or cutting edge and you believe that makes you better in some way than those who are not? Think again… Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
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Episode 0142: So Many Platforms
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: As a follow-on to the Handle Grab episode, is it a good thing to have so many social media platforms and to keep track of them to engage fans and customers? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything...
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Episode 0141: Blame
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: It is human nature to want to place blame somewhere, usually somewhere else, and this is easily seen in the ongoing pursuit of a villain in the Pandemic Timeline, though this is not the only example by any means. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile...
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Episode 0140: Bigger is Better
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Keep in clean if you will, bigger may be better sometimes, more may be also, but not always. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Diminishing Returns...
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Episode 0139: Handle Grab
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Not so often lately, but through the history of the internets there were new social networking and social media platforms coming onto the scene all too frequently, and we always needed to get the same name on the new platforms that we already had on the existing...
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Episode 0138: LinkedIn
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A lot of people use LinkedIn, allegedly around 1.3 Billion registered users worldwide. That is a lot of people, but how many of them respond to your outreach? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything...
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Episode 0137: Norms
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Norms, Social Norms, Structural Norms, all of these are the things we all sort of expect if we know about them, and we can on occasion be surprised. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo...
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Episode 0136: Screenshots
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We all use them, they are easy to create, and they can be convenient in many situations. Yet they can also be misused, and they often are. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
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Episode 0135: Warm Introductions
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: If you have ever set out to meet a group of people by way of introductions, you may have experienced this trap, where you end up meeting a limited cross section of a population, which may not be quite what you were after. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/...
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Episode 0134: AI Means All In
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: AI is showing up in all sorts of places, for a few different reasons, the question is whether this is good or maybe not so much. In other words, what works, what does not, and what are we going to do about it? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile…
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Episode 0133: Flipped Classroom
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I am not an actual educator, no credentials or classroom experience to speak of at all really, but based on my own life experiences, working with young people here and there, and conversations on this topic, along with some research of course, I think the…
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Episode 0132: Participation as Support
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have all been there on either or both sides of this. You want to support your colleague, so you buy a ticket, you like their post, you reshare blindly on social media, or maybe your colleagues are doing this to you. I mean for you. Or is it to you? Links FFS...
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Episode 0131: Do The Maths
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Maths are hard for some, and generally off-putting for more, even though having some idea what the numbers are is usually a good thing. We should all Do The Maths more often, or have our pocket supercomputers do it for us, at the very least. Links FFS Talk Home...
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Episode 0130: Ignorance
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We talked about Apathy in Episode 0113 and Optimism in Episode 0126, today we ponder the wonder of not knowing. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Ignorance...
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Episode 0129: Monolith
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: No, not the mysterious object in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but the notion that an organized whole that acts as a single unified controller of resources, information, people, or maybe just everything. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking...
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Episode 0128: AI Cofounders
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/...
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Episode 0127: Whataboutism
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
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Episode 0126: Optimism
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
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Episode 0125: Our Two Party System
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...
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Episode 0124: Economic Curses
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…
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Episode 0123: Minimally Viable Participation
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...
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Episode 0122: Lane Assignments
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
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Episode 0121: Tech Tech Tech
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...
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Episode 0120: Age Verification
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...
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Episode 0119: Voting
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...
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Episode 0118: Revisiting Feeds
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...
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Episode 0117: AI Hype pt 1
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...
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Episode 0116: Ubiquitous Cameras
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...
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Episode 0115: Passive Participation
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/...
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Episode 0114: Rollback
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...
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Episode 0113: Apathy
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
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Episode 0112: Movie Reactions
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…
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Episode 0111: Cars vs Pedestrians
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...
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Episode 0110: Engaging The World
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...
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Episode 0109: Retrospective 2025
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
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Episode 0108: Smart City
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...
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Episode 0107: We vs They
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...
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Episode 0106: Certainty
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...
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Episode 0105: Holidays
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...
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Episode 0104: Modern Speculation
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...
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Episode 0103: Complexity
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Is simplicity more and more difficult to find? Look around, we depend more and more on things that are less and less transparent, more difficult to repair, and probably doing something to us we would rather they did not do. Links FFS Talk Home…
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Episode 0102: Two
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The paradox of choice, an embarrassment of riches, how to decide, do we even want to? Too many and we might not, none and we may rebel, so we settle on… Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo...
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This is a conversational show about problems and solutions, discussing what is working and what isn't and what "we" might do about it.Think of it as darkness+flashlight...
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