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Systematic

by Brett Terpstra

Explore unexpected curiosities as Brett dives deep with a new guest and new interests each week.

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  1. 261: Kids in the System with Jeff Severns Guntzel

    This week's guest is Jeff Severns Guntzel an investigative researcher with 20 years of journalism and humanitarian work under his belt. He joins Brett to talk about the juvenile detention system, prison abolition, activism, good deeds through hardware hacking, and trips to the garbage dump.

  2. 260: Autism and Women with Betty and Colleen McCluskey

    This week’s guests are Betty and Colleen McCluskey. Betty is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Wisconsin with a special interest in Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Colleen McCluskey is a graduate student with Asperger’s Syndrome attending the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (UWEC)...

  3. 259: Restoration with Patrick Rhone

    This week's guest is Patrick Rhone, writer, blogger, technology consultant, mental health advocate and home restoration enthusiast. He joins Brett to talk mental health, home restoration, and some of his favorite tools.

  4. 258: Stuff of Lore with Aaron Mahnke

    This week's guest is Aaron Mahnke, the creator of the Lore podcast and the small empire that's grown up around it. He joins Brett to talk about Lore, podcasting, and how life can change when you least expect it.

  5. 257: A Freewheeling Conversation with Tris Hussey

    This week's guest is Tris Hussey, a freelance content marketer. He joins Brett for a wide-ranging discussion about writing, mind mapping, software tools, and Cadbury Cream Eggs.

  6. 256: Just Build Things with Tiffany White

    This week's guest is Tiffany White, an independent software developer. She joins Brett to talk about getting started in a tech career, some indie filmmaking, and some classy Top 3 Picks.

  7. 255: A Weighty Discussion with April Herndon

    This week's guest is April Herndon, an English professor and author (and many other things). She joins Brett to talk about fat advocacy, her Appalachian roots, and the joys of punching bags.

  8. 254: The Psychology of Addiction with Steve Daviss, MD

    This week's guest is Dr. Steve Daviss, a consultation laison psychiatrist. He joins Brett to talk about pandemic psychology, addiction, ADHD, note taking, and a bit of making music with code.

  9. 253: The Thing About Poker with Victor Agreda Jr.

    This week's guest is Victor Agreda Jr, a polymath for hire. He joins Brett to talk startups, poker, comedy, and mental health.

  10. 252: Quarantine Comedy with David Wain

    This week's guest is David Wain, a writer, director, actor, comedian, talented musician and amateur magician, among other things. He and Brett talk about getting a show to Netflix, quarantine content production, and some great Top 3 Picks.

  11. 251: Coding Talk with Jesse Grosjean

    This week's guest is Jesse Grosjean, an independent developer known for WriteRoom, TaskPaper and a love of plain text. He joins Brett to talk coding, coffee, and board games.

  12. 250: Crossovertired with Christina Warren

    This week's guest is Christina Warren, senior cloud advocate at Microsoft. She's also my co-host on Overtired, so consider this a rare crossover episode.

  13. 249: Fully Functional with Jesse Atkinson

    This week's guest is Jesse Atkinson, a software engineer at Credit Karma. He joins Brett to discuss modern web development, keyboards, movies, and the rabbit holes of new hardware.

  14. 248: Organizing ADHD with Nikki Kinzer

    This week's guest is Nikki Kinzer, ADHD coach and co-host of Taking Control: The ADHD podcast. She joins Brett to talk about ADHD coaching, the transition from organization professional to ADHD coach, and the joys of online grocery shopping, and more.

  15. 247: Attention, Memory, and Anxiety with Howard Buddin

    This week's guest is Howard Buddin, a neuropsychologist and four-time guest on Systematic. He joins Brett to talk offer his perspectives on psychological health in and out of quarantine.

  16. 246: Sane Is a Relative Term with Ashley Esqueda

    This week's guest is Ashley Esqueda, senior producer at CNET and woman about the internet. She joins Brett to talk about producing video at home, gaming, and some media picks worth talking about.

  17. 245: Give Me That Panic Attack with Pete Wright

    This week's guest is Pete Wright, podcaster, producer, and photographer. You may know him as the co-host of Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast. He joins us to talk about podcasting, movies, music, COVID-19 and a dizzying array of topics that only two ADHD podcasters could fit into an hour.

  18. 244: Fidget Knitting with Kelly Guimont

    This week's guest is Kelly Guimont operations manager at Technolutionary in Washington DC, as well as doing the Daily Observations podcast at The Mac Observer, The Incomparable with Don Melton, and The Aftershow with Mike Rose. She joins Brett to talk about remote work, tech support, and her love...

  19. 243: People Who Build Things with Jay Miller

    This week's guest is Jay Miller, a podcaster, developer, and, as of recently, a developer advocate for Elastic. We chat about what a developer advocate does, adventures in productivity, and the joy of building things that help people who build things build things.

  20. 242: People Will Save Us with Alex Cox

    Alex Cox, Senior AV Producer at Cards Against Humanity and prolific podcaster, joins Brett to talk about gender, bipolar disorder, and the wonders of virtual reality.

  21. 241: Solving Problems with Tyler Hall

    This week's guest is Tyler Hall, a prolific Mac and iOS Developer, and father of two. He joins Brett to discuss developing apps that scratch your own itch, and making a profit doing it.

  22. 240: The Racial Divide with Jared Rodriguez

    This week's guest is Jared Rodriguez. He's an assistant professor at the University of Alabama, teaching in the department of gender and race studies. He joins Brett to discuss distance learning, racism, and some lighter-hearted top picks.

  23. 239: Becoming Patrice with Patrice Brend’amour

    Patrice Brend'amour is a content creator and developer. The last time we talked in 2014, Patrice was living as a man, and this episode focuses on her transition to living as a proudly transgender woman.

  24. 238: Hebrew School with Rabbi Eric Linder

    Rabbi Eric Linder returns to discuss things musical, technical, and rabbinical. But not in that order.

  25. 237: Indie Software Development in the Time of Coronavirus with Greg Pierce

    Greg Pierce, indie software developer and creator of Drafts for iOS and Mac, joins Brett to talk about software development, finding a sustainable pricing model, and some TV, film, and literary favorites.

  26. 236: Mental Health During a Pandemic with Sarah Johnson

    This week's guest is Sarah Johnson, mental health director at the YMCA in La Crosse, Wisconsin. She joins Brett to talk about working the crises that are amplified by the current public health situation.

  27. 235: The Study of Gaming with Mike Schramm

    Mike Schramm is a Senior Research Manager at Interpret in Los Angeles, working on providing qualitative research for the video game industry. He returns to Systematic to talk with Brett about his history with writing and gaming and how the two have intersected in meaningful ways.

  28. 234: Catching up with Merlin Mann

    Merlin joins Brett to inaugurate season two of Systematic. From mediocre home automation tools to the latest in Teppanyaki videos, two ADHD podcasters catch up after a couple of years.

  29. 233: Telling Stories with Bill Carroll and Emily Hafele

    Bill Carroll is a scuba diving instructor and marketing guy. Emily Hafele is a salon owner and part time model. They've come together and are pursuing a photo project and exploring visual storytelling.

  30. 232: Anti-Capitalist Accounting with Alex Fischer

    Alex Fischer is a bookkeeper and financial consultant with Open Bookkeeping, and community organizer with The Root Social Justice Center. She joins Brett to talk about anti-capitalist accounting, queer issues, activism, and (mostly Brett's fault) cats.

  31. 231: Visible Bridges with Ted Nelson

    Ted Nelson is a philosopher, free range intellectual, and an American pioneer of information technology. He joins Brett to discuss his project Xanadu, the world wide web, and what he hopes his legacy will be.

  32. 230: Verso or Recto with Kelly Guimont

    Kelly Guimont is, among other things, an App Camp for Girls founding volunteer. She joins Brett to talk about getting girls into tech early, plus her own early start in IT. Dr. Who, Kelly's everyday carry, and all the nerd stuff you love.

  33. 229: Always Going with Jeff Perry

    Jeff Perry is a professional audio engineer, as well as a blogger and podcaster. He joins Brett to talk about life in news production, going iPad only (and back), and an era of online fame and misfortune.

  34. 228: After Radio Shack with Amanda Daniels

    Amanda Daniels --- a podcaster, a personal banker, and director of The Tech Homies--- joins Brett to talk about going from having little interest in tech to working at Radio Shack to starting a non-profit to bring tech to the residents of Pontiac, Michigan.

  35. 227: Automating Everything with Rosemary Orchard

    Rosemary Orchard is a web developer and automation expert who co-hosts a new podcast called Automators along with David Sparks. She joins Brett to talk about being a woman in tech and how she got started in automation and coding.

  36. 226: Taking Control with Jeff Porten

    Jeff Porten is an IT consultant and author, most recently of Take Control of Your Productivity. He joins Brett to talk about ADHD, Pugwash USA, and (obviously) productivity.

  37. 225: A System of Violence with Mary Jo Klinker

    Mary Jo Klinker, activist, agitator, associate professor and director of women's gender and sexuality studies at Winona State University in Minnesota, returns to talk about abolition as a concept and a modern movement.

  38. 224: Perfect 6 with Carley Knight

    Carley Knight, a painter and artisan jewelry maker, joins Brett for a Perfect Six episode and three each of their favorite things this week.

  39. 223: Not Wrong Just Different with Rebecca Fleetwood Hession

    Rebecca Fleetwood Hession is a consultant, coach, writer and speaker. She joins Brett to talk about raising a child with ADHD and the extraordinary measures she took to help ensure success in public schools and beyond. And goat yoga. Obviously.

  40. 222: The Everyday Pressures of Space Travel with Jacklyn Duff

    Jacklyn Duff is an aerospace engineer who currently runs a YouTube channel called SciJoy. She joins Brett to talk about her time at NASA, rovers, robotics, and the science experiments she's sharing now.

  41. 221: Silent Running with Jesse Atkinson

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  42. 220: Human Readable Privacy Policy with George Browning

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  43. 219: Changing Lives with Suzanne Horstman

    Suzanne Horstman is the director of Home and Community Options in Winona MN, providing services to developmentally disabled citizens. She's heading up an organization doing amazing work, and joins Brett to talk about the mission and the passions behind her 27 years of working with HCO.

  44. 218: No Accounting for Supertaste with Alex Cox

    Alex Cox, Sr. AV Producer at Cards Against Humanity and prolific podcaster, joins Brett to talk about mental health, discuss growing up with podcasts, and debate the future of humanity.

  45. 217: Drive Safe and Stay Out of the Way with Todd McCann

    Todd McCann, a truck driver, author, and podcaster (from the cab of his truck), joins Brett to talk about life on the road, big rigs, and sleeping without a schedule.

  46. 216: A Sweet Precious Angel with Merlin Mann

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  47. 215: Choice or Birth with Mary Jo Klinker

    Mary Jo Klinker, activist, agitator, and assistant professor of women's gender and sexuality studies at Winona State University in Minnesota joins Brett to talk about #metoo, prison abolition, online dating in a feminist world, and astound each other with music they haven't heard of but…

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  48. 214: The Psychodynamics of Lawyering with Gary Nissenbaum

    Gary Nissenbaum, the managing attorney and founding principal of the Nissenbaum Law Group, joins Brett to talk about emotional intelligence and its place in the legal profession.

  49. 213: Black Newyorican Social Studies with Jared Rodriguez

    This week's guest is Jared Rodriguez. He teaches at Northwestern, DePaul, and the University of Illinois, Chicago, and is a Doctoral Candidate in African American Studies at Northwestern University. He joins Brett to talk about the journey of a Black Newyorican kid in public housing to being a...

  50. 212: From Russia with Engineering with Marina Epelman

    Marina Epelman is a professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. She also grew up in the USSR. She joins Brett to talk about math, education, and life in Russia.

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Explore unexpected curiosities as Brett dives deep with a new guest and new interests each week.

HOSTED BY

Brett Terpstra

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Explore unexpected curiosities as Brett dives deep with a new guest and new interests each week.

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