Sources and Methods
Sources and Methods is a podcast hosted by Alex Strick and Matt Trevithick in which interesting people doing interesting things get to talk about the what, how and why of what they do.sourcesandmethods.com
Episodes
49 episodes
49: Sebastian Marshall
Sebastian is co-founder of Ultraworking, a company that runs timed group work sessions on the internet (among other things). We get into the things he’s discovered really help improve productivity as well as the world outside pure ‘productivity...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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48: Tiago Forte
Tiago is a writer, thinker and trainer in productivity systems. He runs the online course ‘Building a Second Brain’ and we discuss the techniques he developed to support knowledge work. We also get into the weaknesses of the ‘deep work’ trend.<...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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1:00:09
47: Lýdia Machová
Lýdia is a polyglot, mentor and inspiration to language learners. We discuss language learning methods, her experiences running online education programmes as well as what it’s like to work as a simultaneous interpreter in high-stress situation...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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46: Eva Hagberg
Eva Hagberg is the author of a new memoir entitled ‘How to be Loved’. We speak to her about her experience of chronic illness, grief and her career in architecture and criticism.Learn more about Eva at
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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45: Bruce Smith
Matt speaks with Bruce Smith, entrepreneur and CEO/founder of Hydrow. Bruce coached the US Lightweight Eight rowing team to a Bronze medal at the 2015 World Rowing Championships and is a former executive director of Community Rowing — Boston.
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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1:01:27
Deep Learning with fast.ai's Jeremy Howard
Jeremy Howard is a giant of the deep / machine learning space. He's also deeply interested in how to democratise this set of skills and has lots to say on how best to do this.Full show notes are available at
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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56:07
Teaching Programming with Matthias Felleisen
This week we spoke with Matthias Felleisen who is a professor at Northeastern University and heavyweight in the coding / teaching world, one of the driving forces behind Racket, a general-purpose programming language.Full show notes are...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:04:13
Parsing Complexity with Zavain Dar
Zavain Dar is a venture capitalist based in New York and San Francisco. He spoke with us about his work that takes him from business and investment in Silicon Valley to science and teaching at Stanford and elsewhere.Full show notes are ...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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55:09
Improving Counterterrorism with Stephen Tankel
This week in an interlude from the technology theme of season three, we discuss Stephen Tankel's new book,
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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1:05:47
Data Science with Eric Schles
Eric Schles is a data scientist working at Microsoft. He’s worked in various places but he uses his skills in understanding large amorphous chunks of data to drive policy and allow organisations to make smarter decisions. Recorded at he initial...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:19:40
Chris Lee: Learning Programming with Launch School
We speak with Chris Lee of Launch School, an online programming course programming with a mastery-based learning approach. We get into the different ways that education can work, and where further efforts are needed.
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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57:11
Learning the Abacus with RightLobeMath
RightLobeMath.com -- main website / homepageFull show notes are available at: https://www.sourcesandmethods.com/podcast/38...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:05:07
37: Jim Wilcox
For this episode, Matt met up with Jim Wilcox, Professor Emeritus, who taught at Boston University in the College of General Studies for forty-three years. His original interest in teaching as a profession began while in the Air Force and evolved ...
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Episode 37
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36: Thomas Nichols
This week Matt speaks with Thomas Nichols, author of 'The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters'. Nichols is Professor of National Security Affairs at the US Naval War College, an adjunct professor at th...
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45:07
35: Alex & Matt
This is an inbetweenisode. There's no guest, but we (Alex & Matt) had a conversation about the past year of podcast guests, some stuff we've been working on and what's in store for 2017.
Full show notes available at http://sourcesandmethods.com
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34: Lynne Kelly
This week, we spoke with Lynne Kelly, author of 'The Memory Code: The Secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and Other Ancient Monuments', a fascinating exploration of the intersection between history, archaeological sleuthing and memory techniques....
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33: Gabe Weatherhead
Alex spoke with Gabe Weatherhead for this episode. We get into the weeds on DevonThink, an incredibly useful piece of database software. Gabe is best known as @macdrifter online (also check out macdrifter.com). We also talked about developing apps...
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32: Belle Beth Cooper
This week Alex spoke with Belle Beth Cooper, co-founder of Melbourne-based 'Hello Code'. Belle works in iOS development and as a writer. Hello Code make useful services like Exist.io, a website that shows you correlations from all your data.Full s...
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31: J. Kael Weston
Our guest this episode is Kael Weston. He represented the United States for more than a decade as a State Department official. Washington acknowledged his multi-year work in Fallujah with Marines by awarding him one of its highest honors, the Secr...
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30: Deb Chachra
This week I spoke with Deb Chachra from Olin College (USA). She teaches engineering but is interested in and writes on a wide variety of semi-related themes and projects (see show notes for more).
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1:10:27
29: Gills Club
Our guest this week is Marianne Long, Education Director of the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy and Co-Founder of the Gills Club. Marianne works to foster the engagement of young girls in the study of sharks, and I was curious to talk to her abou...
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28: Matthew Cassel
Our guest this week is Matthew Cassel, an independent multimedia journalist and filmmaker based in Istanbul, Turkey. As a writer, photographer and videographer he has reported from the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and beyond. His most recent...
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27: K. Anders Ericsson
This week we talk with Dr K. Anders Ericsson about his pioneering work advancing the science of expertise. Key question: how do we get better at specific skills and learning? We get into everything covered in his latest book, 'Peak', and discuss h...
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