Defective Detective
9 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA choose your own data adventure. Join Cakelin (a disabled, queer, nonbinary founder & scientist) as they share self-experiments and interview other makers and self-scientists. This is for the people who had their life game mode set to hard. Let's check out our stats and collectively wonder "wtf is going on with me?". Episode types LAB: Laboratory updates and miscellaneous, INTRO: Introduction to experiment topic, METHODS: Materials and methods, the "making of" a self-experiment, RESULTS: Self-experiment results for me and an experiment partner, DISCUSSION: Community results and what's next?
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Episodes
#6 INTRO: Nudge Cards and Covid, Part 2
August 26, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 54.3 MBWhat kind of tools do we need to communicate our covid behavior and boundaries? What about our other access needs and disabilities? Is user interviewing better if it is one sided? Can you get the same level of helpful data for developing products from podcast interviews? 📚 Books The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick Deploy Empathy by Michele Hansen This is Marketing by Seth Godin Other Resources Mr Rogers PBS Documentary Celiac Disease Foundation Nucleation Invitation: Cakelin’s 2022 Art Collec...
#5 INTRO: Covid and Nudge Cards, Part 1
January 28, 2023 10:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBThis is part 1 of a convo with my sister Sarah about Covid Nudge Cards, discussing what's happening with Covid right now. The next parts will showcase user interviewing. How do we do user research to build a product that would help people with shared safety and accessibility? 📚 Books Write Useful Books Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective Other Resources IndieHackers
#4 LAB: Send Out Ripples
August 31, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 52.1 MBHow do we live in reality right now? What are our reasons for the things we do? How do we align our actions with our values? How do we should up as our authentic selves? How do we practice sustainable activism? How do we form community? How do we work with internal and external chaos and uncertainty? How do we survive late stage capitalism? These questions all have a larger impact for disabled, neurodivergent, immunocompromised, and chronically ill people like me. The disability community ...
#3 LAB: I Don't Think I Can Solve Problems
January 06, 2022 06:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBWhat being disabled and chronically ill has been like for me and how it's affected how I build a company. I talk about consistency, pain, guilt and shame, rumination, and struggling to create. I also include an update of Laboratory de Cake, which will be structuring the podcast like a science paper! I can't solve the problems we are facing with the pandemic and climate change, maybe none of us can. I hope I can support disabled and chronically ill people to find a better standard of livin...
The Process of Connection and Creation
December 16, 2021 22:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBMy second psychedelic integration helped me redefine and accept concepts that have given me a different sense of freedom and ease in my life. This is my attempt to explain my experiences. Thank you to my dear friend Jenny for trip sitting, my psychedelic guide and tattoo artist Bear Cunningham (@cunningbearz on Instagram), and my darling service pup in training Pepper Ann. I am grateful for the many teachers my life has been touched by, whether they were helping me learn by showing me what ...
#2 LAB: The Process of Connection and Creation
December 16, 2021 22:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBMy second psychedelic integration helped me redefine and accept concepts that have given me a different sense of freedom and ease in my life. Thank you to my dear friend Jenny for trip sitting, my psychedelic guide and tattoo artist Bear Cunningham, and my darling service pup in training Pepper Ann. I am grateful for the many teachers my life has been touched by. "Because if I can explain what this feeling is like to other people, then maybe they can make the choice to try and embrace it ...
#2 LAB: The Process of Connection and Creation (audio quality lower)
December 16, 2021 22:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBMy second psychedelic integration helped me redefine and accept concepts that have given me a different sense of freedom and ease in my life. Thank you to my dear friend Jenny for trip sitting, my psychedelic guide and tattoo artist Bear Cunningham, and my darling service pup in training Pepper Ann. I am grateful for the many teachers my life has been touched by. ***Audio lower quality because I didn't use a mic for most of this. "Because if I can explain what this feeling is like to oth...
Introduction
November 20, 2020 11:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBYou're listening to Defective Detective, a podcast about using data to figure out your brain and body. So we can all do the things we want to. I'm your host Cakelin, a disabled and chronically ill founder and scientist. I'll be sharing my own journey towards "health" while interviewing other makers and self-scientists. Here's an introduction to what it's all gonna be about. Huzzah!
#1 LAB: Introduction
November 20, 2020 11:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBYou're listening to Defective Detective, a podcast about using data to figure out your brain and body. So we can all do the things we want to. I'm your host Cakelin, a disabled and chronically ill founder and scientist. I'll be sharing my own journey towards "health" while interviewing other makers and self-scientists. Here's an introduction to what it's all gonna be about. Huzzah!