Biz vs Dev James Robert and Mik Pozin

This week: How new technologies earn our trust, and why it’s so hard.


Mik said it was Ep 27 in the intro. But you and me? We know it’s not.


Thanks for reading the show notes!


links:



Steelcase on Environment in the workplace
Gensler on Environment in the workplace
HBR (October, 2014)
Email Mik: mik@bizvsdev.com
New York Times on Soylent
Sprouts.io
Most corn is fed to cattle
Deng Xiaoping: “It doesn’t matter whether a cat is black or white, if it catches mice it is a good cat”
Bertrand Russell: “In Praise of Idleness” (full text, or buy on amazon)


Books:



The Power of Place
Pandoras seed
The Happiness Hypothesis


(music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)

This week: How James created a successful open source project, and the parallels between trust in business and romantic relationships.


links:



Pydub
City Mapper
Plated
Blue Apron
Sweet Roots
Plague Inc (game)
f.lux
Twilight for Android
Nobel prize in Physics: Blue LEDs
Google “Why am I…” in NYC will suggest “…so tired”


Book recommendation:



The Empathic Civilization by Jeremy Rifkin


(music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)

This week: We talk about Focus. James’ Soylent arrived, and a little about Typography.





links:



Soylent
Garden of life
Exo bars made with cricket flour
Moshe Safdie’s TED talk, How to reinvent the apartment building
Paul Graham: Before the Startup
Simon Sinek: Start with Why
Elon Musk article on Aeon Magazine


Book recommendations:



M. Scott Peck: The Road Less Traveled
Ellen Lupton: Thinking With Type
Ellen Lupton: Type on Screen


(music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)

This week: How ads work and ahem “Wearables”… Ok let’s be honest. The Apple Watch. But we discuss the form factor in general.


links:



Melting Asphalt: Ads Don’t Work That Way
Myo Gesture-control Armband by Thalmic labs
“Alone Together” by Sherry Turkle
Sherry’s TED Talk
Alibaba (info on Wikipedia, Google Finance)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves


Book Reccomendations:



Small is Beautiful
Vampires in the Lemon Grove


(music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)

Peter Crysdale founded StrategyHack to close the divide between the startup and marketing communities in NYC. He also runs Startup Grind New York. In this episode Peter shares stories, tactics, and useful resources for entrepreneurs.


links:



The Atlantic: Article about how we could have a better web (no ads!).
Peter was the CEO of The Green Economy
Hitlist
Biz vs Dev on Speaking Plainly
One Medical Group (offices where you get proper, pleasant treatment)
Yesterbox
Paul Graham: Maker’s Schedule. Manager’s Schedule
LaunchLM - Paid Internship. Mik’s hiring!
The Scaffold
SumAll
Joaquin Phoenix starred in Her (not She)
GetTaxi
Jared Sinclair (created Unread, an RSS reader) wrote about his App Store sales
Noah Kagan
Early Adopter Network: NYU startup that helps you do QA by recruiting students to test your product. (Via: Hackers of NY)
The Test Tube (monthly NYC meetup on testing UX)
Product Hunt
Duck Duck Go’s Don’t Track Us Campaign
ClickToTweet.com
Peter runs the NYC chapter of Startup Grind
Mark Suster: Why You Need to Take 50 Coffee Meetings


Find Peter elsewhere:



twitter: @PCrysdale
email: peter@strategyhack.org
Strategyhack.org
Startup Grind NYC


(music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)

Robin Williams was a magical person, gone too early.


links:



Ugly Fruit and Vegetables campaign
“You can’t just live off vitamins and drink water” Food is more than the sum of its parts
Book: “Dune”
“People are tricked into liking a song”: article with a featuring sensationalist words such as, “literally”, “hostage”, and “brainwashing”
Book: “This is Your brain on Music”


(music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)