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The Scott And Siew Project
by Scott Turley and Siew Wong
This podcast is about a project being worked on by Scott Turley and Siew Wong. We both have long careers in the software industry and have worked together for a significant chunk of those years. We both have a desire to use our skills and devote our passions to something outside of work. More than that, we want to make a difference in whatever way we can. This podcast is our weekly journal of our attempt to do just that.
Episodes
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Layoffs and Homelessness
In this episode, Siew and I discuss our feelings about experiencing the layoffs. How that is related to our feelings about this project and perhaps would could be done to improve the way we all our affected by a difficult economy.
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The Homeless Map
It's been a whole year of no episodes. We plan on changing that. In this episode we discuss what we've been working on. We spent some time rendering homeless data published from HUD on a map. We have a blogpost that goes into the technical details. We have out code available on our github. CoC…
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We All Need and Crave Human Connection
Siew and I discuss the need for human connection that perhaps one solution for homelessness is to find ways to integrate across class boundaries. Then I discuss some lessons I learned from reading a book about Meth's role in our current homelessness problem. That book is The Least of Us: True…
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Can Blockchain save the world?
In this podcast Siew and I wonder whether there's anything within blockchain and web 3.0 generally that might be helpful in the physical world where homeless people can't find shelter. We both listened to Tim Ferris's podcast with Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant as a seed to this discussion.
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Can Localism Help With Homelessness
We kicked of a debate triggered both by a book Siew read, The Prosperity Paradox and a podcast interview with Jaron Lanier I recently listened to. Siew counters with Ben Thompson's Aggregation Theory ideas about how to leverage current enabling technology. It's an interesting debate, one I know...
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The Importance of Setting Boundaries
In this episode we rift off some insights gleaned from Brene Brown and her book, The Gift of Imperfection about the importance of setting boundaries in order to find compassion. Something we need to work out as we hope to make a difference within homelessness.
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A Special Guest with a Difficult Question
Our mutual friend and work colleague, Josh, joins us today to ask about how to deal with serious mental health issues which is a major component of the homeless problem. We cover a ranging number of topics as we deal with mental illness including Utah's housing first initiative, The Book on…
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A little talk therapy about dealing with work and family stress
In this episode, Siew and I explain why we haven't issued a podcast episode in a very long time and why we haven't accomplished much on our project in a while. We talk about some of the stresses we're both experiencing, how that's affected us and some strategies we've learned a long the way. We…
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Siew's Attempt at Walking Along Side
Siew has been doing volunteer work for the homeless for a very long time through his church's homeless ministry but that was interrupted because of Covid. He has recently restarted and that has also restarted his efforts to be a friend to a man whose been attending this ministry for a while. In...
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Is Homeless an Outgrowth Of Our Scarcity Mindset?
Recognizing it's been a while since Siew and I have met, we covered a number of different topics. We begin by talking a bit about the 2020 AHAR report. I reference a recent Ezra Klein podcast that describes Utah's recent drive to deal with homelessness by housing them. Ultimately, we're…
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Help Those Who Need it Most
In this episode, Siew begins by talking about the possibility of migrating our wordpress site off of wordpress.com and onto alternatives that provide greater flexibility at a cheaper price, perhaps Google Cloud or a friend and listener recommended SiteGround. Next, we transitioned a brief...
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TechnologyTalkAndSomeTherapy
In this episode Siew and I talk about our progress pushing on technology. Siew is ramping up on observable, hoping to get data from HUD into this tool to make the data more visual and giving us the ability to analyze and make broad inferences. I'm trying to ramp deeply into wordpress, using udemy...
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A Bit About Mountain Beyond Mountains
In this episode we talk a tiny bit about Mountains Beyond Mountains - the book talks about a highly innovative and influential doctor who sees his impact by focusing on the individual patient while also caring about global policy. What does that mean for us? We need to volunteer. We also need to...
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Interview With Mary
In this episode, I interview Mary, someone who happens to be living with my mom, keeping an eye on her and finding relative home stability.
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Getting To Work
In this episode Siew and I talk about some brainstorming we did on Miro and our desire to actually do something tangible, laying out a few process principles from the book, Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products.
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Can Charity Do More Harm Than Good - Possibly?
In this episode, Siew and I dive a bit more into The Book On Ending Homelessness. We ask the provocative question whether charity has the potential of causing more harm, the need for deep competency and professionalism in dealing with homelessness, in particular organizing all aspects of our...
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The Book on Ending Homelessness
In this episode Siew and I talk about a bit about Portland homelessness, where I happen to be when this recording was made, tiny homes and its role in affordable housing, and finally a bit of an introduction on my reading of the Book on Ending Homeless. Links discussed in this podcast: The Book…
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Interview with Pam
In this episode, we play segments from a recorded interview I had with someone we happened to know who has struggled with homelessness. Siew and I conclude with our reactions to her life story.
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Our First Dive Into Homeless Data
In this episode, we dive into some of the homeless data Siew analyzed from the HUD website. We published some of his findings on a recent blog post. We need more data and plan on doing more work to understand what's driving homelessness. We also talked about some programs at work in Tempe right...
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What if we could just give homeless people homes?
Siew and I discussed what we accomplished the past week. I had a couple of interesting meetings with a couple of organizations working on homelessness with hopes of getting plugged in. Siew spent the week playing with data. In this episode we wax a little philosophical about some of our initial...
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Episode Three - A Deeper Dive on Effectiveness
In this episode, Siew and I talk about our recent progress, including our expanding website, a podcast now available on all the major channels, a recent blogpost I wrote and we conclude it with next steps and hope for more. More specifically... We now have a website. We discussed some thoughts on...
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Early Steps on Our Journey
In this episode, Siew and I introduce Effective Altruism by discussing the book, Doing Good Better. We reference our barebones website, hosted on Wordpress, thescottandsiewproject.wordpress.com, and whether or not we want to keep it on wordpress.com or find a different hosting site. We discuss...
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The inaugural episode - getting started
Why are we doing this podcast at all? What are we hoping to get out of this? We begin the discussion in this episode.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This podcast is about a project being worked on by Scott Turley and Siew Wong. We both have long careers in the software industry and have worked together for a significant chunk of those years. We both have a desire to use our skills and devote our passions to something outside of work. More than that, we want to make a difference in whatever way we can. This podcast is our weekly journal of our attempt to do just that.
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Scott Turley and Siew Wong
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