Casual Chat

Andrew Liu & Hongbo Tian

Find it frustrating to keep up with tech? Every episode, Casual Chat breaks down recent developments in tech such that casual listeners (i.e. you) can understand their implications (while being entertained).

Episodios

  1. 02/06/2022

    #13: How to Effectively Pitch Anything

    Hong and Andrew do a book review of Pitch Anything, by Oren Klaff, which covers the emotional aspects of pitching that everybody gets wrong. Show notes: 00:35 - Introducing Pitch Anything 00:55 - The shortcomings of the methodical personality 02:02 - The problem with (Hong’s) scientific writing 03:02 - A human nature book disguised as a pitching book 04:00 - The problem of projecting neediness 05:01 - The social consequences of eating another man’s apple 06:37 - The primal Lizard Brain vs. the logical Ape Brain 08:16 - How to get past the lizard brain’s defenses 10:14 - The curse of knowledge 11:24 - How car commercials hook your reptilian mind 12:38 - Painting a picture in the mind to sell your pitch 13:58 - Parallels to the book “Thinking, Fast and Slow” 16:41 - How to apply human nature insights to a real pitch 17:25 - Pitching to someone who really needs to pee 19:00 - Balancing positive and negative emotion in a pitch 19:45 - Playing the Good Cop and the Bad Cop 21:20 - The cross-cultural value of wild pitching stories 22:10 - The dire pitching consequences of projecting neediness 23:22 - The problem with neediness in all areas of life 24:35 - Don’t lose sight of the transactional aspect of your pitch 26:58 - The inherent selfishness of displaying neediness 27:30 - Don’t fear all negativity, use it as a tool 28:48 - Translating the Mad Men boardroom into the civilized world 30:36 - Separating the gold from the ore Follow us on Twitter: Casual Chat: https://twitter.com/TheCasualChat Andrew: https://twitter.com/liuandrewk Hong: https://twitter.com/c0fpv

    33 min
  2. 12/10/2021

    #10: A Disastrous Week for Facebook

    Facebook's been having a rough week. On October 4, 2021, there was a complete outage of all Facebook-owned systems, including Instagram and WhatsApp. The next day, a whistleblower testifies before congress about how Facebook prioritizes profits over public safety, implying that the company may have been complicit with the storming of the Capitol Building earlier in the year. Andrew (@liuandrewk) and Hong (@c0fpv) opine about the whole debacle and discuss whether this news is evening surprising in the first place... Links: ARM China splits from ARM UK: https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/the-semiconductor-heist-of-the-century ProtonMail amends its policy after giving up data to the feds: https://www.wired.com/story/protonmail-amends-policy-after-giving-up-activists-data/ Prior research shows that Instagram is in fact unhealthy for adolescents: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739 The whistleblower Frances Haugen testifies before congress: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043377310/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-congress Facebook engineering's official blog post on how the site-wide outage occurred: https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/ Mark Zuckerberg's response to the whole debacle: https://www.facebook.com/4/posts/10113961365418581/?d=n Follow us on Twitter: Casual Chat: https://twitter.com/TheCasualChat Andrew: https://twitter.com/liuandrewk Hong: https://twitter.com/c0fpv

    34 min

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Find it frustrating to keep up with tech? Every episode, Casual Chat breaks down recent developments in tech such that casual listeners (i.e. you) can understand their implications (while being entertained).