Breadcrumbs

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 Derinkuyu underground city - Wikipedia Basilica Cistern - Wikipedia Aynalı Church Photo Gallery by Dick Osseman at pbase.com Transcript Sean: So remember how we joked that time about me pretending to record in a cave? Elias: Yeah. It was when we were talking about my trip to Wilhemshaven, and I was walking with all the background noise, and you were mimicking that. You did a great job on that in post. And then when we re-released the episode as a shorter version, it was the darling we couldn’t cut, but probably should have. Sean: So, I actually am coming to you from a cave this time, sort of. Elias: Okay. So like a cave cave? Like I’m either picturing some fancy hotel, which tries to be a cave, or like some neanderthal nos

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 between flights is just nasty stuff. So I ended up getting into the habit of putting something into my bag, like a deodorant stick or toothpaste or something that would smell strong and I could rub below my nose so I wouldn’t be so overwhelmed by whatever this detergent smell is. I can’t even quite describe it. Sean: So why use a, uh, detergent that you have to overpower with a stick of deodorant? Elias: Yeah. I mean, I think—okay. Ryanair is a budget airline and maybe they’re just saying, okay, well, everyone’s paying less so they can buy their own deodorant sticks and survive the plane. I don’t know for sure. We did actually get a brief intro and business model of budget airlines in a design class, but that didn’t cove

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 | seanlunsford.com Sermonic Scenes of the Seven Churches Podcast -- The Ten Minute Bible Hour 2021 Focus Course Digital Planner GoodNotes 5 Feedly Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) - IMDb Global Voices Smarter Every Day Mark Rober Mike Boyd @breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

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 (08:39 -- Overcast | Castro) @breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

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 Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

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 | @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

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) Accidental Tech Podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed Top Four - Relay FM How craving attention makes you less creative | Joseph Gordon-Levitt -- to be discussed next episode @breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

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 -- Overcast | Castro) @breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. Rainforest Sounds licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Cave River licensed under a Creative Commons 0 License.

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 Fracture @breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

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 | Castro) Your Life in Weeks -- Wait But Why xkcd: Nerd Sniping 133: Blanket Poo-Pooing Shoulds - Breadcrumbs (Overcast | Castro) The Crossroads of Should and Must Focused - Relay FM Faith-Based Productivity The Theme System Bullet Journal Totebook -- Studio Neat God and the Pandemic @breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

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. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

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 Anyone Watching Quibi? HEY - Email at its best, new from Basecamp. Juicero The Chosen (TV series) @breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

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 way to automate your work Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps - The Verge Brave New World - Wikipedia @breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

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 eBook: Harrison, Scott, Sweetingham, Lisa: Kindle Store Netflix to start cancelling inactive customers' subscriptions -- TechCrunch ‎Alto's Odyssey on the App Store 'Warren Buffett's Paper Wizard' is Apple's First iPhone Game Since 2008 - MacRumors @breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

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 @breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

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 Employee-surveillance software is not welcome to integrate with Basecamp - Signal v. Noise Scientific management - Wikipedia Plex How we structure our work and teams at Basecamp - Signal v. Noise Status meetings are the scourge - Signal v. Noise @breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

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. Organic Organizational Structure | Bizfluent Things Fantastical @breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

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) Things OmniFocus Bootstrap · The most popular HTML, CSS, and JS library in the world. React Native · A framework for building native apps using React Inbox Zero - YouTube Bullet Journal @breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

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 (2018) - IMDb Linguistic relativity - Wikipedia Amazon.com: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World eBook: Epstein, David J. : Kindle Store Economist Debates: Language: Statements About -- x-callback-url @breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

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 Prevent It Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms - Kindle edition by Fry, Hannah. Arts & Photography Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. @breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.