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That Tech Show

118 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating

The podcast that reveals the magicians behind magic that is everyday technology.

We've spoken to leaders and Inventors from Google, Amazon, BBC, Intel, NHS, NATO, various startup founders and public figures in the technology world, revealing the part they play in shaping the modern world.


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Episode 74 - Scaling Through Times of Turbulent Tech with Peter O’Driscoll

December 22, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 91.9 MB

Today we have Peter O Driscoll who has joined us from RingGo, the car parking app you might have used in and around London, or various cities across the country. This was a fantastic episode to end on as we get into the nuances of Ringo’s journey as they pivoted from train-station parking into city parking and their plans to provide digital parking across Europe, we also get down to the nitty gritty of why parking is so inconsistent as well as the different jurisdictions Ringo have to negot...

Episode 73 - Change Your Mindset with Jeff Perry

December 08, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 90.8 MB

Today we have Jeff Perry, who will be talking about mindset and coaching. Jeff started out in his career developing products and has switched to developing people which is clearly his passion. So if you’re ready to be inspired today, take a listen. Fiverr: https://go.fiverr.com/visit/?bta=454260&brand=fiverrcpa Namecheap Affiliate Link (discounts using the link): https://namecheap.pxf.io/c/3510278/386170/5618 Webflow Affiliate Link: https://webflow.grsm.io/vju2g2zhpv53 Support the show a...

Episode 72 - Out the Ebb with the eBike Revolution with Rhys Howell

November 24, 2022 05:00 - 55 minutes - 76.2 MB

On today’s episode we welcome Rhys Howell who comes to us from Berlin and we have a good old fashioned chinwag about exercise, tech, gadgets, and of course ebikes and the new, age-old debate around the attitudes towards them. We also talk about city infrastructure around the huge increase of cycling, personal travel and e-mobility as a whole. Fiver: https://go.fiverr.com/visit/?bta=454260&brand=fiverrcpa Namecheap Affiliate Link (discounts using the link): https://namecheap.pxf.io/c/351027...

Episode 71 - Building a Tech Business that Scales with Patrice Archer

November 11, 2022 10:18 - 59 minutes - 81.2 MB

Patrice talks to us about how he had built a successful career in finance only to quit when his first child was born. This spurred a left turn into running his own businesses and finding his way into technology. 10 years later, he’s built and sold a number of companies and is now helping new business get their start by working with non technical Founders to build successful tech business through Appy Ventures Fiver: https://go.fiverr.com/visit/?bta=454260&brand=fiverrcpa Namecheap Affiliat...

Episode 70 - East London Sales, Worklife and Jellysmack with Jason Brown

October 27, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 87 MB

This week on the show we have Jason Brown from Jelly Smack and we of course get into what Jelly Smack is but we also chat about branding and brand perception, the world of advertisement through the eyes of Jason, and we get into some real-talk about dealing with anxiety and depression. An important discussion that is often avoided between men. Namcheap Affiliate Link (discounts using the link): https://namecheap.pxf.io/c/3510278/386170/5618 Webflow Affiliate Link: https://webflow.grsm.io/v...

Episode 69 - Personified Adtech in the Age of GDPR with Ossie Bayram

October 13, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 86.9 MB

Today on the show we caught up with Ossie Bayram from Ogury a personified advertising engine. We talk about what personified advertisement is, the trials and tribulations of online advertisement brought about GDPR and how Ogury’s early belief in personified advertisement works with GDPR and leaves others in the dust as the most effective form of user profile generation. Ossie also shares his colourful and varied path to become the managing director of Ogury in particular how his semi-profes...

Episode 68 - Dealing with Load at Shopify with Harry Brundage

September 29, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 88.6 MB

Today on the show we have Harry Brundage who has taken his experience in the early years of Shopify seeing it grow from a small Canadian start-up into the go-to e-commerce platform it is today. We talk to him about how to scale an ecommerce platform that serves many many sites, each dealing with it’s own spiky load that can be triggered by viral sensations and how shopify manages to handle all of that. Harry finished up as the Director of Engineering for Shopify, and has now founded his ow...

Episode 67 - Rise Up. Lead. with James Fair

September 15, 2022 04:00 - 48 minutes - 66.6 MB

This week we’re talking with James Fair. A man with 35 years of experience under his belt, working his way up from IT support to Senior Vice President at Executech but what’s probably most interesting is his work in Utah based Feature Films for Families, a mormon production company based in Salt Lake City and his voice-over work. Webflow Affiliate Link: https://webflow.grsm.io/vju2g2zhpv53 Support the show and Buy us a coffee! Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chri...

Episode 66 - Cash & Carry to CEO with Vishal Marria

September 01, 2022 04:00 - 42 minutes - 58.5 MB

On todays episode we have Vishal Marria who’s the big cheese and founder over at Quantexa which is a platform that brings together all of your data and provides an intelligence layer over the top which, at the time was on version one but they’ve since launched Quantexa 2! Vishal shares his time at Dedica, EY, SAS and BAE his 1st class degree on computer science at Royal Holloway University of London, how he approaches problems from a business perspective having to start a business from scra...

Episode 65 - AWS, Microsoft & The Road to Redis with Taimur Rashid

August 18, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 95.6 MB

Today on the show we have Taimur Rashid, Chief Business Development Officer of Redis and if you don’t know who Redis are well… shame on you! Only joking, they’re an open-source datastore used by pretty much anyone you can shake a stick at. In this episode Taimur gives us a whistle stop tour of coming from a computer science degree to AWS, Microsoft and eventually a C-suite member at Redis. We take a trip down memory lane as he saw the very beginnings of AWS and being in meetings with Jeff B...

Episode 64 - Arguing with People on the Internet with Uncle Bob

August 04, 2022 16:39 - 1 hour - 102 MB

Boy do we have a magician for you today as on today’s episode we have the one and only Uncle Bob Martin. Bob is a legend in the computing world best known for his role in establishing Test Driven Development, the SOLID principles, being one of the signatory’s of the Agile Manifesto and of course Clean Code. Bob has had his fair share of controversy over the years and we get into all that but what was important to us was his impact on the technology industry, and ultimately, the world. Video...

Episode 63 - Construct 3, No Code Game Creation with Tom and Ashley

July 21, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 91.9 MB

Today on the show we have double trouble. Tom and Ashley, the creators of gaming platform Construct 3. Can you imagine building a multi-national computer game company with your brother?? I think most of us would just end up fighting. Tom and Ashley give us a wholesome, grass-roots insight into what it takes to grow a company from humble beginnings to be one of the most popular game development platforms on the internet, and how it came to be so popular in NASA, EA, Sega, Zynga and King! Vid...

Episode 62 - Exposing Google's Sentient AI with Blake Lemoine

July 07, 2022 04:00 - 53 minutes - 42.9 MB

You may have seen in the news recently that a Google employee was put on leave after claiming their AI, LaMDA2 was sentient! That Google employee was Blake. The news report is where we started this conversation, but as you’ll come to learn, what’s reported isn’t the whole story, and after it was simplified to explain the tech it wasn’t exactly true anymore… Video Podcast: https://youtu.be/8hkpLqo6poA Namcheap Affiliate Link (discounts using the link): https://namecheap.pxf.io/c/3510278/386...

Episode 61 - Building a Great Internet Experience with Kris Beevers

June 30, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 99.5 MB

Kris Beevers who is the founder and CEO of NS1. This week we get into of course, what NS1 is and if you know… you know, we speak about the history of the internet and how NS1 came to be, the problems that the internet had that NS1 solves, cat pictures, leadership and how Kris developed his leadership skills, the future of NS1, how to build a great experience. That Tech Show Live: https://show.us18.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=ef17b72a23240c06f1a48f203&id=77b17749f8 Namcheap Affiliate Link (...

Episode 60 - Laiye's Artificial Intelligence-Driven Intelligent Automation with Neil Parker

June 23, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 83.5 MB

This week we have Neil Parker from Laiye and he’s here to tell us all about their AI IA tool. That’s Intelligent Automation using Artificial Intelligence. we get into what the tool itself is, how chatbots and IA is being used to empower customer service and provide new jobs for those that would effectively get displaced by such a tool, we talk about the saturated market of chatbots and how automation will take over the world…. we also casually dip into how Neil took a startup from his garage...

Episode 59 - The Magic Behind Event-Driven Architecture with Jamil Ahmed

June 16, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 110 MB

Today we’re talking to Jamil Ahmed, Distinguished Engineer from Solace. This is a pretty deep conversation about event-driven architectures. We talked about his introduction into the event-driven world whilst he was working in the now-defunct Lehman Bros, the environment around the collapse and how event-driven architectures have evolved from the algorithmic trading world to become the default way of doing business for the modern real-time organisation that needs it’s information now whilst...

Episode 58 - Material Design in a Virtual World with Daniela Paredes

June 09, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 84.5 MB

Daniela Parades is on the show this week and what a treat this episode is. Gravity Sketch is a design and collaboration tool set in Virtual reality. In this episode we get into product design, how Gravity Sketch came to be and how it drastically changed as virtual reality headsets evolved since the early days of VR, what those early days of VR looked like and of course, the infinite possibilities in Gravity Sketch and the future of the platform. Support the show and Buy us a coffee! Edite...

Episode 57 - Retro Gaming and API Security with Rob Dickinson

June 02, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 96.9 MB

We get all nostalgic talking about retro console programming and hacking Atari and Commodore 64, database development with dBase IV, and infrastructure (pre-cloud) all wrapped in a neat little jacket of cybersecurity and entrepreneurship. Support the show and Buy us a coffee! Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Addams Sponsored by: Jupiter and the Giraffe Website: https://thattech.show YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4...

Episode 56 - Navigating Your Career in Tech from an MIT Instructor with Mark Herschberg

May 26, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 104 MB

Mark Herschberg is on the show today to talk a bit about career growth bringing 20 years of experience at MIT into your ears. Buy the career toolkit: https://amzn.to/39zsBu3 Mark gives deep insight into what it takes to grow your career in tech whether that be startups or large organisations, we get into career planning, and what he wishes he knew knowing what he knows now (that’s a lot of ‘knows’), what it was like at MIT, we touch on imposter syndrome and how to overcome it and how his e...

Episode 55 - Sidepreneurship and Launching a Product in a New Market Category with Nicole Smith

May 19, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 101 MB

We welcome Nicole Smith on the show this week as we talk about Flytographer, a company she founded after a trip to Paris that led to a breakthrough Idea. Nicole is the CEO and founder of Flytographer and this episode gives us an insight into what she calls herself, a ‘sidepreneur’ while making the switch from a successful career and making that jump into starting your own company whilst being a parent. There are some juicy bits in here about developing a startup efficiently in a brand new p...

Episode 54 - Becoming Energy Independent with Laurent Schmitt

May 12, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 66.4 MB

Laurent is a French Elon Musk of sorts! and we’ll talk to him about his love for EV’s and all things renewable energy, and we’ll be discussing DCBEL innovative home energy solution which has the potential to solve the home energy crisis. He’ll take us through their journey in bringing their North American solution to the UK and European market and we also get into the operations of the startup which has currently raised an impressive $50 million before it’s even hit the metaphorical shelves...

Episode 53 - Actionable Cybersecurity with Dmitriy Ayrapetov

May 05, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MB

Today we’re joined by Dmitry Ayrapetov. This is a really insightful conversation about cyber security. We learn about how hackers exploit a system, and ransomware as a service. There’s a lot of actionable stuff in this episode, and Dmitry is going to throw out to you that you’re going to want to check out. Shodan: https://www.shodan.io/ Support the show and Buy us a coffee! Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Addams Sponsored by: ...

Episode 52 - Solar-Powered Headphones and Urbanista's Sustainability Mission with Anders Andreen

April 28, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 53.3 MB

We’re pretty excited to have Anders join us to talk about their company. This is a really great insight into an innovative hardware company. Amongst other things, we’ll be talking about ear size, Dr Frankenstein’s approach to designing new headphones by chopping up existing ones to make new, chipsets, plastics and working with local companies as they build components to develop a sustainable future for headphone design. The Los Angeles Headphone: https://www.urbanista.com/uk/losangeles Su...

Episode 51 - Building Sustainable Websites with Reuben Marshall and Bailey Bryan

April 21, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 54.4 MB

This week we have guests Reuben Marshall and Bailey Bryan from Footprint Digital who have come to speak to us about digital sustainability and what we can being doing more of when building out our websites. They also share details of their new tool launching on World Earth Day 2022. https://footprintdigital.co.uk Buy How bad are bananas: https://amzn.to/3n7gRSl Shoot The HiPPO: How to be a killer Digital Marketing Manager: https://amzn.to/3mYKxkG Support the show and Buy us a coffee! Ed...

Episode 50 - That Tech Show 50th Birthday Extravaganza with Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams

April 14, 2022 04:00 - 59 minutes - 48.3 MB

We celebrate a monumental 50 episodes with a trip down memory lane of some of our favourite moments from some of our favourite guests. Edited by: Samuel Gregory Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Addams Sponsored by: Jupiter and the Giraffe Website: https://thattech.show YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4paazkqrlwtB_WW28w4Gsg Instagram: @thattechshow_ Patreon: @thattechshow LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/thattechshow/ Get in touch: hello@th...

Episode 49 - Bringing Technology to Grass Roots Sports with Francisco Baptista

April 07, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 48.9 MB

This week we have Fransisco Baptista of TeamSportz who speaks to us about being born into the war-torn country of Angola where he developed a love for grass roots sports. He’ll be telling us about how he blended his passion for tech and sports to create a digital personal trainer. This is a cool conversation about innovation, startups, pivoting and bringing new ideas to life. Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Addams Sponsored by:...

Episode 48 - Building Products and Technical Recruitment with Michal Juhas

March 31, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 49.2 MB

This week we have Michal Juhas of Geek Recruiters, a serial entrepreneur who will be talking to us about his progression from successful startup CTO to Technical Recruitment and all the things in between like his books, training courses and public speaking engagements. IT Roles Cheatsheet: https://resources.geekrecruiters.com/it-roles-pdf-download36180404 Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Addams Sponsored by: Jupiter and the Gira...

Episode 47 - Inside Intel's Federal Division

March 17, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MB

This week we have Steve Orrin, Chief Technology Officer for Intel Federal is on the show today. That feels like a huge deal to me having grown up obsessing over the latest intel chipsets. Keeping things topical with the current threats to the world that are both physical and virtual we’ll be talking to Steve all about cyber threats, federal cyber threat response and the role that intel plays in advancing technology with the federal government. Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel ...

Episode 47 - Inside Intel's Federal Division with Steve Orrin

March 17, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MB

This week we have Steve Orrin, Chief Technology Officer for Intel Federal is on the show today. That feels like a huge deal to me having grown up obsessing over the latest intel chipsets. Keeping things topical with the current threats to the world that are both physical and virtual we’ll be talking to Steve all about cyber threats, federal cyber threat response and the role that intel plays in advancing technology with the federal government. Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel ...

Episode 46 - Leading NATO's Cyber Defence with Lauri Almann

March 10, 2022 11:33 - 1 hour - 61.2 MB

This week we have Lauri Almann - Co-Founder of CybExer Security. This is a very topical episode despite being recorded before the war broke out in Ukraine. We’ll bet talking about Cyberattacks, hacks and his role in establishing the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence as the secretary-general for the Estonian Ministry of Defence. Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Addams Sponsored by: Jupiter and the Giraffe Websit...

Episode 45 - Movies, Games & Google with Chris Hood

March 03, 2022 05:30 - 1 hour - 55.8 MB

Chris Hood is on the show this week, a Googler who is head of business platform strategy and host of the similarly named Google podcast “That Digital Show”. Chris talks us through his rich history of how working in a movie theatre helped to develop a love for movies and media. This led to his work transforming how users engage in content at Fox for shows including Glee, Gotham, Sleepy Hollow, and American Idol. We talk about his passion for gaming and his work at Electronic Arts And of cour...

Episode 44 - SHE Engineers and Women in STEM with Stephanie Slocum

February 24, 2022 05:30 - 1 hour - 47.4 MB

Today’s guest is Stephanie Slocum author of SHE engineers and founder of Engineers Rising. Buy SHE Engineers: https://amzn.to/3tLFEPS Stephanie is an engineer, not a software engineer like us, but a real architectural engineer with 15 years of experience in the construction industry where she has designed structures for buildings in the healthcare, retail, and higher education sectors. She is on a mission to help other female engineers create extraordinary lives and careers. She believes ...

Episode 43 - Salesbeat, The Secret Sauce of Supply Chain Success with Veena Giridhar Gopal

February 17, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 52.5 MB

Today’s guest is Veena Giridhar Gopal who is the founder of Sales Beat - an AI-driven platform to model consumer buying behaviour and make recommendations of optimal stock levels for supermarkets, distributors and wholesalers. And so we’re going to be talking about getting this business off the ground, working within an accelerator programme, finding a co-founder, pivoting business and a little about how her background travelling all around the world with Pepsi-co and Diageo which lead her ...

Episode 42 - Palate Club's AI Wine Tasting and Serial Entrepreneurship with Nicolas Mendiharat

December 02, 2021 05:30 - 1 hour - 49.6 MB

Today on the show we have serial entrepreneur Nicholas Mendiharat, who is the founder of Palate Club, which is a start-up that is aiming to demystify the world of wine, using artificial intelligence and blind taste tests to build customers taste profiles. This is a hugely interesting business model with massive potential. There's so much to explore in this episode, as we dive into using data science to first define taste and then choose wines that match. Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced ...

Episode 41 - Metaverse, Consciousness and the Nature of (Virtual) Reality with Luke Levene

November 25, 2021 05:00 - 54 minutes - 43.7 MB

Luke started life as a professional animator and found a passion for developing immersive theatre - he's now using his skills to imagine our future reality as we run head-on into the Virtual Reality space. Now, this is a bit different to our usual episodes, so strap in and prepare to go on adventure with Luke on how his approach to life has allowed him to follow his instincts which has lead him to the world of VR. Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme...

Episode 40 - Global Diversity in Technology and the Future of Microsoft with William Adams

November 16, 2021 07:30 - 1 hour - 53.6 MB

Today we are joined by William Adams. Spoiler alert, we've already spoken to him - and wow is this guy a hidden gem. William has probably invented, popularised and then forgotten more than I will ever know about technology. We'll take a tour through his career highlights and boy are there some highlights - and we'll talk about his work as technical advisor to the CTO at Microsoft and founder of the LEAP apprenticeship programme aiming to boost global diversity in technology. Edited by: Simo...

Episode 39 - Technical Agile Coaching and the Samman Method with Emily Bache

November 09, 2021 07:30 - 57 minutes - 46.9 MB

Emily Bache is a rare breed, a Technical, Agile Coach. She has a strong background as a software developer and has used her talents as a polyglot, and her particular passion for test-driven development, to teach and help others to write better software. Buy Emily's book: https://amzn.to/3QsvI7H Emily doesn't just share this information face to face, she has a Pluralsight course, a blog called 'coding is like cooking' and a few books to her name. Emily talks to us about the coaching method...

Episode 38 - Starting a Podcast When You're Too Old For This Sh*t with Angie

November 02, 2021 07:30 - 1 hour - 76.5 MB

Today's show is going to be a bit unusual, as our guest's day job is not tech. in fact, today's show is going to be a bit meta as we're joined by Angie - The host of the podcast "Too old for shit" to talk all about starting a podcast as we're "pulling back the curtain", to use the words from her website learnpodcasting.online where she teaches people how to get started in podcasting and how to not be daunted by the technology. Angie S Website Learn Podcast Online Too Old for this Sh*t Ed...

Episode 37 - Zombies, Emacs and Getting Clojure with Magnar Sveen

October 26, 2021 06:30 - 1 hour - 59 MB

On the show today, as part of our Norwegian Techie series, we have another great Norwegian techie Magnar Sveen. You might know Magnar as the "emacs rocks guy" - and you can find his content at emacsrocks.com where he has been hosting webcasts on tips and tricks of emacs since 2011. But that's not all, he's a big fan of functional programming in particular Clojure and Clojure script and on his other site Parens of the Dead, you'll find screencasts that will teach you how to build a zombie gam...

Episode 36 - The Modern CTO and Code in Space with Rakesh Ravuri

October 19, 2021 06:30 - 1 hour - 51.1 MB

Rakesh and Chris met back in 2013 when we worked together at Tesco. I was fresh out of Amazon at the time and maybe a bit brash, young, egotistical and opinionated back then... as if I've changed in any way other than getting older... so initially, I think rubbed him up the wrong way, but over the next 18months I think at the very least we developed a mutual respect, enough that he'd accept our invitation to join us as a guest on the show. And I'm so glad because he's a really smart guy and ...

Episode 35 - Self-Organising Teams and Leading from the Middle with Gill Bennet

October 12, 2021 06:30 - 57 minutes - 46.9 MB

Gill Bennet is on the show this week where we talk all about self-organising teams, unconscious bias and leading from the middle. Stemming from her work at Hospital Radio through to the BBC World Service where she was technical program manager managing 28 World Services Sites and 16 BBC News sites. She credits her success on these projects to her determination and curiosity into how things work. Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Ad...

Episode 34 - Digital Transformations and Naked Wines with David Crawford

October 05, 2021 06:30 - 1 hour - 58 MB

David Crawford is on the show today and he gives us an insight into his work as CTO at Naked Wines bringing a monolithic application into something more modern while keeping business as usual. Some great insight into how to balance feature delivery of a live website while working on a next-gen product along side and the communication necessary. Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Addams Sponsored by: Jupiter and the Giraffe Website...

Episode 33 - Codepen, CSS Tricks and Other Nerdery with Chris Coyier

September 28, 2021 06:30 - 1 hour - 59.1 MB

Chris Coyier needs no introduction and it was a pleasure to have him on the show. Being a front end engineer as well we were able to chat about CSS and front end technologies, product development and running a profitable business, virtual assistants and of course getting into the nitty-gritty of Codepen. I felt like we could have talked for hours on this one but alas it has to come to an end Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Addams...

Episode 32 - Intellectual Property Law and Startups with Devin Miller

September 21, 2021 06:30 - 1 hour - 61 MB

Devin Miller is an entrepreneur with more degrees than you can shake a stick at. We have a great talk about his startup and his career as a patent and trademark attorney and how he combined these two interests, putting his law degree to good use by securing several patents for his startup and how he turned this into his IP law firm to help others. He gives us some advice on how to navigate the confusing and complex global IP laws and Devin also has some great resources available on his webs...

Episode 31 - Finding your Smile & Moldable Development Environments with Tudor Girba

September 14, 2021 06:30 - 1 hour - 85.7 MB

Tudor Girba is on the show today and introduces us to the concept of moldable development with the Glamorous Toolkit which he created. Glamorous Toolkit is a modern evolution on-top of small talk which first appeared in 1972 and with this new twist Tudor aims to find a faster route for us to understand the code in a system without having to read it, which as we discuss, is what developers spend 50% of their time doing. Glamourous Toolkit can be used anywhere, by anyone and it is a replaceme...

Episode 30 - The State of Artificial Intelligence & Unplanned Ice Cream with Daniel Bashir

September 07, 2021 06:30 - 1 hour - 81.1 MB

Daniel Bashir is on the show today, we go deep into Artificial Intelligence and talk about his new book which takes in contemporary ethical and political considerations surrounding AI and its use in recommendations, bias in criminal justice and the dangers of large language models. Buy Daniels's book: https://amzn.to/3zNjnox This is a deep conversation and a really great talk. I think I've had to listen to this several times myself just to take in all the learnings. Luckily Daniel makes t...

Episode 30 - The State of Artificial Intelligence & Unplanned Ice Cream

September 07, 2021 06:30 - 1 hour - 81.1 MB

Daniel Bashir is on the show today, we go deep into Artificial Intelligence and talk about his new book which takes in contemporary ethical and political considerations surrounding AI and its use in recommendations, bias in criminal justice and the dangers of large language models. This is a deep conversation and a really great talk. I think I've had to listen to this several times myself just to take in all the learnings. Luckily Daniel makes this really accessible for us all to get our tee...

Episode 29 - Storytelling and the Product Protagonist with Steve Coe

August 31, 2021 06:30 - 1 hour - 45.6 MB

In this week's episode, we have Steve Coe. Steve and I have worked on many projects together and he's my go-to person when it comes to story-led copywriting. In this episode, we talk about all things creativity as well as Steve’s journey working with the likes of Ogilvy, IBM, and Vodafone. We dig into the process of building websites and their copy as well as what dead person we’d take to mars. I really enjoyed talking to Steve in this episode as we openly chatted about anything and everyt...

Episode 28 - CryptoWars: TrueCrime and Curry Clubs with Erica Stanford

August 24, 2021 06:30 - 1 hour - 58.5 MB

Erica Stanford is the founder of the one and only Crypto Curry Club, the UK's most recommended crypto networking and events organisation - all POWERED BY with a common interest AND LOVE FOR the British National dish. But Erica doesn't just stop there, she is the publisher of both the weekly Crypto Currier industry newsletter and the Blockchain Industry Review. She's the advisor to several crypto start-ups and she is a guest lecturer at Warwick Business School. Erica is also the author of C...

Episode 27 - Living a Nomadic Life with Dean Kuchel

August 17, 2021 06:30 - 1 hour - 51.6 MB

In this weeks episode, we have Nimrod Dean Kuchel or just Dean and we talk all about being a digital nomad, working remotely and how companies can embrace remote workers better. We also talk about what exciting tools and tech are around hoping to address these cultural problems with the new remote-first revolution. References: https://spatial.io https://www.omnipresent.com https://papayaglobal.com https://www.letsdeel.com https://digitalnomads.world Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced ...