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Mondays on Tuesday - Compare Basic
by Firecrow Silvernight
This is our software and psychology podcast, each episode starts with an update and then features banter about more interesting things. Each episode starts with a 5 minute intro and update from Compare Basic, then wanders into the topic at hand.
Episodes
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Confusion Is Not A Crime: Episode 38
This is an examination about how the brain is an organ seperate from morality. This consideration places some of the attacks against transdgender medical treatment in the exact same category as attacks against the treatment of mental disorders such as anxiety and bipolar disorder. I talk from my...
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Learning Up Close: Episode 37
Learning in the age of a changing world is sometimes confusing. My assessment in this episode is that our education system and our reliance on institutions to solve problems has made it even harder. Linked to how the economy is churning and employment is changing, I try to explain why American...
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Magic Cost Centers: Episode 36
This is an episode with a very impactful topic: how outdated accounting disables innovation. This understated subject covers how bank lending works, and why banks see a complex operational business through a very disfunctional lense. Your host, Madison Silvernight: https://firecrow.com
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Coming Out as Madison: Episode 35
Gender issues are something I wanted to talk about for a while, turns out coming out as trans femenine created the perfect oportunity to talk about it. This episode talks about gender. My dangerous descision to define men and women seperately. And the idea that consistency is in short supply…
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Anti-Violence Through Competence: Episode 34
If violence is the last resort of the incompetent, then competence is the avenue of non-violence. Video from Prof Steve Keen and Nivi Jaswal: https://youtu.be/bcy4dL4v8B8?si=vKD3qCwHiUCLDFfY The conversation about energy and it's early effect on economics happens around 5:27 of that video. Your...
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Transformative Econ: Episode 33
Transformative Econ refers to the concept of focusin on transformative value instead of extractive business. I go over a few examples of how this applies in cooking and software companies and explain the background and reason why I'm building the Caneka runtime software system. Economists...
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Money Has a Lane: Episode 32
As I reflect on the decades of work history I have, I'm somewhat interested in how little I expected from employers and how much that has cost me. Your host, Firecrow Silvernight: https://comparebasic.com/team/firecrow.html
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The Care Economy: Episode 31
Two concepts that are blowing my mind, money is less important that justice or democracy, and maybe we don't have to change capitalism at all, just put it in it's place! And the best things in human achievement are areas of work that extend what other people have worked on. Notably these...
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Conspiracies are Real-ish: Episode 30
Are data-centers grow-house bunkers? Does greed run the economy? These are both questions I believe I have debunked and while the comfort of their falsity is nice the concerns is raises are also unsettling. Join me for another not-so-peppy pep talk, where I'm both inspired and profoundly…
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Freedom is Free: Episode 29
Speculating on the concept of how to effect your life deeply by creating scenarios rather than wishing things changed. And a potential theory about why American's have such an unhealthy relationship with limits. Your host, Firecrow Silvernight: https://comparebasic.com/team/firecrow.html
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Knowledge vs Muscle: Episode 28
A look at the kind of things you have to do to be good at vs the kinds of things you can know once and always be able to do. This comparison is applied to the idea of transformative business, which is different than territory business, and could be the next wave of value and true wealth. Your…
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We Crave Death: Episode 27
A look at the sterilization goal of American culture in our food and our avoidence of drama. Also our fascination with drama in entertainment. I do dive into my history of experiencing suicidal behaviour, and a puzzling aspect of capitalism that I have no solution for. If you are feeling like you...
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A Few Degrees: Episode 26
How the economy of banking, business culture, and recognizing kindness and decency can put us back on track. I think we are only a few degrees off, but it's been off for a long enough time that it looks more massive of a problem than it is. In an effort to be more inspiring, supportive, and...
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Us or All of Us: Episode 25
In the age of pillaging and stealing, having a healthy economy to steal from was a requirement. Now the requirement is the talent to transform and innovate. I talk a lot about personal experience and why I have compassion and also what is wrong with the idea of status driving so much of our...
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Safe for Work: Episode 24
Unpacking what of a whole human could grow at work personally to grow a business and how effort-intensive leisure activities may be a window into a better work experience. I talk about the difference between proffesionalism and a hobbyist. I also make fun of what people think money can buy: the...
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Agile the Good Parts: Episode 23
This week I go over the parts of Agile development that I miss, in an effort to reframe what has happened with my soloprenuer journey over the last two and a half years. The title is modeled on a book by Douglas Crawford titled JavaScript the Good Parts. I also go into why LLM based AI may be the...
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Ideating Unions with Jav: Episode 22
Jav joins me today as a special guest! Our discussion winds from idating on society setups through a role playing game that he has run through a few groups for two year long games at times. And our speculation on the reason small online projects, sports teams, and marriages all share the same…
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Patterns: Episode 21
Two conventions that have overstayed their welcome: being first as a means of business value, and education through memorization. I reflect these insights through two events from 100 and 200 years ago. I also make a case for what could be done differently, by treating the concept of "first" as…
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Chicken or Egg: Episode 20
The age-old question of the chicken or the egg... contextually relevant to both job-hunting, basic operational economics, and the question that keeps me pondering: how do we get the experience we need to get the jobs that need that experience? Your host, Firecrow Silvernight:...
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The Next Forest: Episode 19
The next forest is a concept about how to re-build the vibrant economic and social society that we want after the world burns down. I talk about my perspective on what has caused this. A lack of modernization as we moved from a manufacturing economy to a services economy. Our memorization based...
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The Racket: Episode 18
This one is a bitter series of topics. Uplifting only if you are looking for the answers about the fleeting small business and entrepreneurial communities, declining industry in the United States, and potentially balanced look at the history of creating something that is ahead of the curve. "I…
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Warriors To Caregivers: Episode 17
From warriors to caregivers this podcasts examines the lens of emerging strength in male archetypes through the lens of a few movies: Blade Runner, Wall Street, Zoe And The Astronaut, The Walterweight, The American Revolution, Margin Call. Strength has historically been associated with war,...
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Small Pigeon: Episode 16
The small pigeon gets bigger by finding crumbs that have bounced far away, while the other pidgins fight over the larges piece of bread. I talk in this episode about how the economy of scale has shaped consolidation, and how small or emerging companies have a huge opportunity by chasing anything...
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Let's Rebuild: Episode 15
Advocating for starting over is tough in a world that is holding on to a business culture that is bleeding out. I outline three things I think the small business world can do to catch the falling pieces of the American big business world. #1 A skills marketplace that goes beyond a traditional...
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What The Value: Episode 14
Live you're values is better than lecturing your values. Lecture your values and walk away with nothing or live your values and have the satisfaction of incremental progress. This episode focuses on the role of patience in knowledge transfer, and how that forms a background for composable…
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Seriously Human: Episode 13
Seriously Human is the employment framework from Compare Basic. This podcast outlines the ideas of how a hybrid worker-collective corporation could be structured and run. And what project-management steps would need to happen for that to be the case. I also outline a little bit about the business...
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Don't Return My Calls: Episode 12
In a bit of a technical mood, I talk extensively in this episode about the cornerstone of the Caneka system I am building with Compare Basic. If your alergic to tech-jargon, best to skip to the next episode! I do explain in metaphorical terms some of the struggles that modeling the world using...
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The Gap: Episode 11
This week it's all about explaining how the business world has eroded from a lack of modern accounting practices. But it's not all sad, there is a lot of hope from explaining how the physical world of manufacturing equipment was easier on business leader egos, but also shines a light into what...
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Zero or One is None: Episode 10
Let's stop ignoring things until they are complete, and take notice of the developmental phases of 0.1, 0.3 0.2 etc... I do a shallow dive into some examples of amazingly successful things (Dyson Vacumes, Godsmack the band) and the sad light their struggles cast on how developing value is...
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Seperation of Concerns: Episode 9
This week is burnout week, as I talk about the separation and boundaries of software and every day life. My hope that we will emerge from this winter in the software industry, with patterns and conventions that empower users rather than rely on extractive media remains strong. Have a good…
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Innovation With Matt Arnold: Episode 8
Innovation big and small. Matt Arnold of Spark Consulting Group joins your host Firecrow Silvernight on the podcast today as we discuss innovation and how large and small companies come to terms with fundamental themes in their business more effectively than conducting "innovation theater". It…
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What Could Have Been: Episode 7
A little trip down memory lane, and how software could bridge the best of the past and the future. The update this week is about stepping back, to supplement my income with a day-job, while I re-tool the system to break through the noise of convention. I talk a little bit about the resistance…
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Algo Observation vs AI: Episode 6
This podcast compares the reliability of classical data-science techniques (NGram, MapReduce, Co-ocurrenceMatrix) vs LLM based AI's. It's a shallow dive full of metaphors and humor, or at-least I laughed a lot while recording it. Your host Firecrow Silvernight
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Identity My Frenemie: Episode 5
Identity issues rule the world, and our login portal is almost functioning, the symphony of components is doing well. In this episode I give an explanation for how in-human behavior can come from Humans. Through the lens of a fictional scenario, at a fictional company that manufactures screws.…
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Why and How: Episode 4
This podcast focuses on the economy of the US and Compare Basic. After an exhausting week it may be a lot to take in. But your host Firecrow Silvernight lays out the motivations and plan for how the Caneka system can build a better business and technology industry. These references are generally...
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Marketing and Hatred: Episode 3
Our third episode focuses on the overlap of marketing that can be combative or competitive. Along with this difference I talk a bit about the seeds of hatred in the modern economy and why some people would seek to find a way out of contributing in a fair way. Your host Firecrow Silvernight…
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Conventions / Cryptography: Episode 2
Our second episode focuses on conventions in cryptography and how the resume could be repositioned to help skills-based hiring. Your host Firecrow Silvernight, founder comparebasic.com
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Positive Outlook / Juvinile Techno: Episode 1
This week is our first episode, it starts with some music I made in my bedroom when I was 17. Then I reflect on what it means to face massive projects. Towards the end, I reflect on an experience I had while hiking in Colorado as a teenager. Psychology comes up throughout the episode as I reflect...
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This is our software and psychology podcast, each episode starts with an update and then features banter about more interesting things. Each episode starts with a 5 minute intro and update from Compare Basic, then wanders into the topic at hand.
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