This week: How new technologies earn our trust, and why it’s so hard.

Mik said it was Ep 27 in the intro. But you and me? We know it’s not.

Thanks for reading the show notes!

links:

• Steelcase on Environment in the workplace
• Gensler on Environment in the workplace
• HBR (October, 2014)
• Email Mik: mik@bizvsdev.com
• New York Times on Soylent
• Sprouts.io
• Most corn is fed to cattle
• Deng Xiaoping: “It doesn’t matter whether a cat is black or white, if it catches mice it is a good cat”
• Bertrand Russell: “In Praise of Idleness” (full text, or buy on amazon)

Books:

• The Power of Place
• Pandoras seed
• The Happiness Hypothesis

(music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)

This week: How James created a successful open source project, and the parallels between trust in business and romantic relationships.

links:

• Pydub
• City Mapper
• Plated
• Blue Apron
• Sweet Roots
• Plague Inc (game)
• f.lux
• Twilight for Android
• Nobel prize in Physics: Blue LEDs
• Google “Why am I…” in NYC will suggest “…so tired”

Book recommendation:

• The Empathic Civilization by Jeremy Rifkin

(music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)

This week: We talk about Focus. James’ Soylent arrived, and a little about Typography.

links:

• Soylent
• Garden of life
• Exo bars made with cricket flour
• Moshe Safdie’s TED talk, How to reinvent the apartment building
• Paul Graham: Before the Startup
• Simon Sinek: Start with Why
• Elon Musk article on Aeon Magazine

Book recommendations:

• M. Scott Peck: The Road Less Traveled
• Ellen Lupton: Thinking With Type
• Ellen Lupton: Type on Screen

(music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)

This week: How ads work and ahem “Wearables”… Ok let’s be honest. The Apple Watch. But we discuss the form factor in general.

links:

• Melting Asphalt: Ads Don’t Work That Way
• Myo Gesture-control Armband by Thalmic labs
• “Alone Together” by Sherry Turkle
• Sherry’s TED Talk
• Alibaba (info on Wikipedia, Google Finance)
• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Book Reccomendations:

• Small is Beautiful
• Vampires in the Lemon Grove

(music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)

Peter Crysdale founded StrategyHack to close the divide between the startup and marketing communities in NYC. He also runs Startup Grind New York. In this episode Peter shares stories, tactics, and useful resources for entrepreneurs.

links:

• The Atlantic: Article about how we could have a better web (no ads!).
• Peter was the CEO of The Green Economy
• Hitlist
• Biz vs Dev on Speaking Plainly
• One Medical Group (offices where you get proper, pleasant treatment)
• Yesterbox
• Paul Graham: Maker’s Schedule. Manager’s Schedule
• LaunchLM - Paid Internship. Mik’s hiring!
• The Scaffold
• SumAll
• Joaquin Phoenix starred in Her (not She)
• GetTaxi
• Jared Sinclair (created Unread, an RSS reader) wrote about his App Store sales
• Noah Kagan
• Early Adopter Network: NYU startup that helps you do QA by recruiting students to test your product. (Via: Hackers of NY)
• The Test Tube (monthly NYC meetup on testing UX)
• Product Hunt
• Duck Duck Go’s Don’t Track Us Campaign
• ClickToTweet.com
• Peter runs the NYC chapter of Startup Grind
• Mark Suster: Why You Need to Take 50 Coffee Meetings

Find Peter elsewhere:

• twitter: @PCrysdale
• email: peter@strategyhack.org
• Strategyhack.org
• Startup Grind NYC

(music: “So Fine” by Shenandoah and the Night)