Andy McMillan makes things that bring people together: the Build conference, the XOXO festival, and The Manual, a series of books with thoughtful essays about design. After producing three print volumes of The Manual, he’s trying to take it to the next level, and produce something openly, broadly available across many media, that’s a collaboration… Continue reading Fit to Print with Andy McMillan (Episode 92)
Category: Community
Plug Me In with Mara Zepeda (Episode 91)
Mara Zepeda is the co-founder and CEO of Switchboard, a site that lets you ask for what you need and offer what you have within a trusted community. It’s a way to more efficiently interconnect generosity, and is sometimes described as Craigslist without the creeps. I’m used to reading personal histories that have windy roads,… Continue reading Plug Me In with Mara Zepeda (Episode 91)
Set Your Radio Dial to Maximum Fun with Jesse Thorn (Episode 88)
Jesse Thorn is a polycast — a polymath of podcasts. He helped define the form by taking a show that he developed with others on a college radio station and making it into a podcast in 2004. That show, the Sound of Young America, now called Bullseye, focuses on interesting cultural trends and sports in-depth interviews,… Continue reading Set Your Radio Dial to Maximum Fun with Jesse Thorn (Episode 88)
Welcome to the World of Tomorrow with Nicole Dieker (Episode 85)
Nicole Dieker wears a lot of hats, as well as a brown coat. She’s a freelance copywriter and ghostwriter, pens fiction, and writes essays. She’s also a musician who bootstrapped herself out of a convention to which she returns every year, a rock climber, a Firefly fan, a whiskey drinker, and much more. Nicole wears… Continue reading Welcome to the World of Tomorrow with Nicole Dieker (Episode 85)
Conjunction Junction with Oni Hartstein and James Harknell (Episode 83)
Oni and Harknell founded Intervention (Internet + Convention) after constantly fielding questions from creators looking for advice; it’s now in its fifth year. The partners created the event aimed at people trying to make their own opportunities to express creativity, often with a commercial angle as part of a career, while keeping it affordable, accessible,… Continue reading Conjunction Junction with Oni Hartstein and James Harknell (Episode 83)
It’s Like Money You Can’t Hold with Chris Higgins and Adam Cornelius (Episode 80)
Adam Cornelius and Chris Higgins are making the film Coined, about the rise of cryptocurrency. They previously worked together on Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters. Adam is a documentary filmmaker; Chris, a journalist. They’ve just launched a Kickstarter to fund Coined, and have shot quite a bit of footage already. We talk about what… Continue reading It’s Like Money You Can’t Hold with Chris Higgins and Adam Cornelius (Episode 80)
I Never MetaFilter I Didn’t Like with Matt Haughey (Episode 78)
Matt Haughey founded MetaFilter, a well-moderated forum for discussions about interesting things that expanded to also answer questions. At just a few months over 15 years old, it’s a veterans of many Internet lifecycles. In the last couple of years, however, MetaFilter began to face an existential challenge, which we’ll talk about in this episode,… Continue reading I Never MetaFilter I Didn’t Like with Matt Haughey (Episode 78)