Podcast Reviews

A list of Podcasts/Vlog/Blog reviews.

This is a collection of Podcasts/Vlog/Blog Reviews that I've done over the years. These are just things that I probably thought were worth a listen, or really were worth mocking; mostly the former.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni

Podcasts • [5 items]

Freakonomics on Cursive
I listen regularly to the Freakanomics Podcast (Radio). And they did a two part series on writing. Starting with, “do we really need cursive anymore”, some light discussion on cursive, it was an interesting podcast, but just for curiosity. Mostly it was a setup for the next week’s one which was on I Pencil.

IPencil

The podcast on i pencil is an economics treatise by Lawrence W. Reed, founder of fee.org (circa 1958), explaining the complexity of making something as simple as a pencil in the modern world. (No one person knows it all, thus no one person/committee can optimize it). I’d heard parts of this, was very familiar with fee.org, so read I pencil in it’s entirety. It’s definitely worth a listen and/or read.

This American Life: How I got into College
The story of perceptive differences, and tricks of memory, and how it colors our perception. This 45 minutes is time well spent.

This American Life: Nummi and Brand Value
A podcast about the Auto-Industry and NUMMI plant (now where they build the Teslas). The prelude is America (Demming) taught Japan about Kaizen, and this comes in later, with Toyota trying to teach the evolved lessons back to GM. It's not perfect: it gets some things wrong (based on the few dozen books and articles I've read), but it gets more right than wrong, and still is a good listen.

This American Life: The Super
The Super, was enjoyable fluff. Act 1 was how badly some people under-estimated someone else, and how far removed are you from some very bad people. Act 2 was forgettable. Act 3 was about being a 100 unit landlord will harden and change you. Since we own real-estate, this hit home.

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