The Zettelkasten: Joan Rivers' Million Index Cards and the First Wiki
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Zettelkasten, German for slip box, is a system of modular, cross-referenced notes that the e...
28 Okt 21min
Hermann Ebbinghaus: Nonsense Syllables, a Metronome and Forgetting
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before the 1880s, memory was treated as a philosophical question rather than something that coul...
28 Okt 21min
Gamification: Foldit's 57,000 Players and Disneyland's Electronic Whip
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Gamification is the practice of pulling the psychological hooks out of games, such as points, ba...
28 Okt 22min
David Allen's Getting Things Done: Open Loops, Mind Like Water and GTD
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!David Allen's 2001 book Getting Things Done presents productivity as a way to reach a stress-fre...
28 Okt 22min
Taylorism on Trial: The Watertown Strike, Congress and Lenin's U-Turn
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1877 Frederick Winslow Taylor took a job as a clerk at the Midvale Steel Company, and as fore...
28 Okt 23min
Frederick Taylor's Path: From Tennis Champion to the Shovel Stopwatch
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Frederick Winslow Taylor was born into old Philadelphia money in Germantown, with a mother desce...
28 Okt 22min
The Anchoring Effect: How a Roulette Wheel and a $100 Steak Skew Choices
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The anchoring effect began as an observation in psychophysics, where people judging weights or l...
28 Okt 25min
Eugen Sandow: The Draft Dodger Who Invented Bodybuilding Posing
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Eugen Sandow was born Friedrich Wilhelm Müller in 1867 in Königsberg, in a family that had conve...
28 Okt 22min
