The Scott And Siew Project

Scott Turley and Siew Wong
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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.

  1. 02/22/2023

    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.

    33 min

  2. 01/08/2023

    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 Topo Data - Topo data that can be used to render the CoC Map. US Data Organized by County  - For each county, the CoC it belongs to, the homeless population of the CoC and the county population. The CoC Data - Contains total population of the CoC, the homeless data in a CoC, and the list of counties within the CoC. Contact Us: thescottandsiewproject@gmail.com Twitter: @thescottandsie1

    25 min

  3. 12/24/2021

    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 Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth.

    34 min

  4. 12/09/2021

    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.

    1h 3m

  5. 10/23/2021

    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 we'll return to.

    38 min

  6. 09/11/2021

    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.

    25 min

  7. 09/01/2021

    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 Ending Homelessness, San Diego's homeless podcast, in particular the episode that talks about how homelessness can be predicted with data, UCLA's research policy lab, and much more... Great to have our friend Josh on the show.

    47 min

  8. 08/21/2021

    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 get around to homelessness a little bit at the very end. We haven't given up. We're still here.

    32 min
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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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  • Creator
    Scott Turley and Siew Wong
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2023
  • Episodes
    23
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Scott Turley and Siew Wong
  • Show Website
    The Scott And Siew Project