Podcasts about Chaos Monkeys

 Andy and Mon-Chaio challenge the traditional notions of root cause analysis and incident reviews within complex systems. They examine how the framing of ensuring errors 'never happen again' can be counterproductive, suggesting a shift towards faster recovery and continuous learning instead. Drawing parallels with After Action Reviews in the military and Netflix's Chaos Monkey, they advocate for embracing controlled chaos and fostering a culture of practice and micro-decisions. Listeners will gain insights into how technical errors and normative errors are perceived, and why focusing on organizational culture can be more effective than strict process adherence. By the end, listeners will understand the importance of balancing process with flexibility and why living at the edge of chaos is crucial for organizational resilience. Transcript: https://thettlpodcast.com/2024/09/29/s2e39-living-on-the-edge-of-chaos/ References Books by Sidney Dekker - https://sidneydekker.com/books/ Chaos Monkey - https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/ Andy's talk "From Outage to Understanding" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5grWMM5nIC4

We have Miko Pawlikowski as a guest and we will dive deep into the world of Chaos Engineering and SRE (Site Reliability Enginering). Miko also co-founded multiple startups, including SREday and Conf42 with his brother, Mark PawlikowskiOther topics we talk about are UniKernels, GoldPinger, Chaos Monkey, SRE Days Amsterdam and a lot more.https://nanovms.com/https://hockeystick.showhttps://sreday.com/Stuur ons een bericht.

This week we have the Shopify President Harley Finkelstein joining the squad. This is one not to miss - we're talking founder mode, getting rid of chaos monkeys, how to stay focused on the most important thing, having a growth mindset in business, the future of Shopify and much more. 00:00 Introduction to Shopify and Harley's Journey 04:09 Founder Mode: Insights and Experiences 23:13 The Importance of Being in the Details 34:01 Chaos Monkey: Streamlining Operations 49:52 The Future of Shopify: A Retail Operating System Operators Exclusive Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/9operators/shared_invite/zt-20pd2eq4n-UVM6oTQkdltEwLINwkCWIA Powered by: Motion. ⁠⁠⁠https://motionapp.com/pricing?utm_source=marketing-operators-podcast&utm_medium=paidsponsor&utm_campaign=march-2024-ad-reads⁠⁠⁠ Prescient AI.⁠⁠⁠ https://www.prescientai.com/operators Richpanel.⁠⁠⁠ https://www.richpanel.com/?utm_source=MO&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=ytdesc Haus. http://Haus.io/operators Subscribe to the 9 Operators Podcast here:https://www.youtube.com/@Operators9 Sign up to the 9 Operators newsletter here: https://9operators.com/

Dan Neciu, technical co-founder and tech lead of CareerOS, shares intriguing production horror stories, discusses the importance of rigorous testing, and provides valuable insights into preventing and managing software bugs in both backend and frontend development. Links https://neciudan.dev https://www.youtube.com/@NeciuDan https://www.linkedin.com/in/neciudan https://x.com/neciudan We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Emily, at emily.kochanekketner@logrocket.com (mailto:emily.kochanekketner@logrocket.com), or tweet at us at PodRocketPod (https://twitter.com/PodRocketpod). Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/get-podrocket-stickers), and we'll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket provides AI-first session replay and analytics that surfaces the UX and technical issues impacting user experiences. Start understand where your users are struggling by trying it for free at [LogRocket.com]. Try LogRocket for free today.(https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr) Special Guest: Dan Neciu.

In this conversation, Erik Torenberg sits down with Antonio Garcia Martinez, founder of Spindl and author of ‘Chaos Monkeys', and Parker Thompson, partner at SAX Capital, TNT Ventures, and AngelList, to explore the influence of social media on society. They discuss media literacy and journalism, how politics change people's views of social media, and the rise of unique religious movements in social activism. This episode marks the first time Erik interviewed Antonio Garcia Martinez on Venture Stories back in 2019 and remains relevant today. If you're looking for an ERP platform, check out NetSuite: https://netsuite.com/zen. -- SPONSORS: NETSUITE NetSuite has 25 years of providing financial software for all your business needs. More than 36,000 businesses have already upgraded to NetSuite by Oracle, gaining visibility and control over their financials, inventory, HR, eCommerce, and more. If you're looking for an ERP platform head to NetSuite: http://netsuite.com/zen and download your own customized KPI checklist. -- FOLLOW ON X: @antoniogm (Antonio) @pt (Parker) @eriktorenberg (Erik) @moz_podcast (Moment of Zen) @TurpentineMedia -- BOOKS CITED: Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan  Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America by Daniel J. Boorstin The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri Seven Types of Atheism by John Gray -- TIMESTAMPS: (00:00) Intro (01:23) Impact of Facebook (02:41) Evolution of Media and Its Influence on Society (10:10) Journalism and Media Ethics (26:25) Effectiveness of Media Regulation (33:10) Facebook's Content Curation (34:02) Content Control (35:32) Impact of Algorithms on Society and Business (38:50) Generational Shifts in Media Consumption (45:57) Exploring the Ideology of Silicon Valley (49:44) Secular Religions and the Quest for Community (58:39) Future of Religion and Community in the Digital Age (01:03:36) Wrap This show is produced by Turpentine: a network of podcasts, newsletters, and more, covering technology, business, and culture — all from the perspective of industry insiders and experts. We're launching new shows every week, and we're looking for industry-leading sponsors — if you think that might be you and your company, email us at erik@turpentine.co.

Elizabeth Stone is the chief technology officer of Netflix. She previously served as vice president of product data science and engineering, and as vice president of data and insights, at Netflix. Before Netflix, Elizabeth was vice president of science at Lyft, chief operating officer at Nuna, a trader at Merrill Lynch, and an economist at Analysis Group. In our conversation, we discuss:• Elizabeth's advice for career advancement• Netflix's unique high-performance culture• How, and why, Netflix maintains a high bar for excellence• Intentional leadership practices• How to foster an “open door” culture within your team• The Keeper Test and how it contributes to maintaining a high bar for excellence• The power of transparent communication• Much more—Brought to you by:• Vanta—Automate compliance. Simplify security.• Sendbird—The (all-in-one) communications API platform for mobile apps• Explo—Embed customer-facing analytics in your product—Find the full transcript at: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/how-netflix-builds-a-culture-of-excellence-elizabeth-stone-cto/—Where to find Elizabeth Stone:• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-stone-608a754/—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• X: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Elizabeth's background(04:36) Life as CTO vs. VP of Data(05:57) The role of economists in tech companies(08:32) Using economics to understand incentives(10:07) Success and career growth(20:15) Setting expectations(25:02) Advice for how to avoid burnout(27:44) Netflix culture: high talent density(30:31) Netflix culture: candor and directness(31:45) The Keeper Test(39:01) Maintaining a high bar for excellence(43:54) Netflix culture: freedom and responsibility(46:18) Unconventional processes at Netflix(47:55) Examples of candor(51:44) Data and insights team structure(01:00:12) Staying close to teams(01:02:31) Advice on being present(01:07:40) Lightning round—Referenced:• What to Know About the Netflix Cup, Today's First-Ever Live Sports Event: https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/netflix-cup-live-event-date-news• Ann Miura Ko interview | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2GO0Ks_VGg• Netflix culture: https://jobs.netflix.com/culture• No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention: https://www.amazon.com/No-Rules-Netflix-Culture-Reinvention/dp/1984877860• Reed Hastings on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reedhastings/• Netflix's “Keeper Test” and Why You Need It | Lorne Rubis: https://www.highlights.lornerubis.com/2015/08/the-netflix-keeper-test-and-the-courage-to-take-it/• The Hunger Games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games• Nan Yu on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thenanyu/• Work Life Philosophy: https://jobs.netflix.com/work-life-philosophy• The Scoop: Netflix's historic introduction of levels for software engineers: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/netflix-levels/• Chaos Monkey: https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/Chaos-Monkey• Ali Rauh on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-rauh/• Keith Henwood on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-henwood/• Jeff Bezos' Morning Routine of Puttering Around—How It Works: https://medium.com/illumination/jeff-bezos-morning-routine-of-puttering-around-how-it-works-9d73f359ac8d• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir: https://www.amazon.com/What-Talk-About-When-Running/dp/0307389839• A Fine Balance: https://www.amazon.com/Fine-Balance-Rohinton-Mistry/dp/140003065X• Triangle of Sadness on Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/movie/triangle-of-sadness-f60937bd-45f4-469a-938f-db95026953a1• Beef on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81447461• Fellow pour-over coffee set: https://fellowproducts.com/products/stagg-xf-pour-over-set• Peloton bikes: https://www.onepeloton.com/shop/bike—Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com.—Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed. Get full access to Lenny's Newsletter at www.lennysnewsletter.com/subscribe

Ever been on an executive cruise? This episode is brought to you by UnCruise Adventures Small Ship Cruising that connects guests with nature and wildlife while exploring some of the most remote and scenic destinations on the West Coast of the Americas including Alaska, Baja, and Hawaii. Get the latest deals benleads.com/cruise---He Unlocked the Key for Performing Under Pressure...Mark W. Angle, Chief Cloud Operations Officer at OneStream Software, shares an important message for boosting your team's performance.Even when people can execute…...can they actually do it under pressure?Too many leaders wait for a crisis to find out.Then things fall a part and the entire organization and customers suffere.That's where this interview with Mark comes in.He communicates the mindset and his personal playbook to vet the weaknesses BEFORE the crisis hits by effectively testing your team, processes, and systems plus……the key strategy to avoid future damage and protect the bottom line.—OneStream™ provides an intelligent finance platform built to enable confident decision-making and maximize business impact. OneStream unleashes organizational value by unifying data management, financial close and consolidation, planning, reporting, analytics and machine learning. With over 1100 customers, 230 implementation partners and over 1200 employees their primary mission is to deliver 100% customer success. LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/mangle/Company Link: https://www.onestream.com/What You'll Discover in this Episode:Why You Need Chief Cloud Operations Officer.How to Use the “Chaos Monkey” to Save Your Company.Three Steps to Benefit from the Cloud.How a Rock Star Dream Led Him to the C-Suite.The One Presentation Skill He Uses Daily.How to Use Improv to Boost Your Effectiveness.A Twist that Led to his Career Growth.The Power of Becoming an Open-Minded Leader.-----Connect with the Host, #1 bestselling author Ben FanningSpeaking and Training inquiresSubscribe to my Youtube channelLinkedInInstagramTwitter

In this episode, Matt Swalley, the Chief Business Officer at OmniKey, discusses how OmniKey uses data and analytics to optimize advertising and content. He explains how AI can shorten creative cycles and enable personalized storytelling for different customer profiles. Matt also talks about the challenges and pain points of implementing AI in advertising, as well as the importance of brand security and approvals. He shares insights on the future of AI in the workplace and recommends the book 'Chaos Monkeys' by Antonio Garcia Martinez. In this episode, Matt Swalley discusses the importance of dedicated practice and the concept of putting in 10,000 hours to master a skill. He also emphasizes the compound effect of daily habits and how small changes can lead to significant improvements over time. Matt shares his drive for continuous improvement and the mindset of not expecting immediate gratification. He explores the idea of expanding the brain through challenging tasks and the impact of pushing through discomfort. Matt also talks about building a well-rounded skill set and the benefits of cross-training. The conversation concludes with a discussion on Andrew Huberman's concepts and Matt's experience with cold plunges for mental space. Thank you as always for listening. What did you think of this episode? Please leave us your thoughts about the episode and a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠rating⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on Apple Podcasts. We'll be responding to comments every Saturday on the main podcast! RESOURCES & LINKS:

How can I get emails sent to my Fastmail account to show up in email clients such as Apple's Mail app? What are the easiest methods to convert my old VHS tapes into digital files? Plus, Dick DeBartolo shares a cool beanie that you can wear with Bluetooth capabilities, and Chris Marquardt goes over the Unusual photo assignment review!  Seven things we learned analyzing 515 million Wordle. Inside Mark Zuckerberg's top-secret Hawaii compound. Four men indicted in $80 million 'pig butchering' scheme. Is there a difference in quality when I watch Netflix on certain devices? What brand of keyboards would Leo & Mikah recommend that are quiet when using it? How can I convert old home movie tapes to digital? Dick Debartolo and the Bluetooth beanie! At what point is it an issue when connecting to public WiFi? Can I download my purchases from a streaming service like Apple TV+? How can I get emails sent to my Fastmail account to show up in email clients such as Apple's Mail app? Which free two-factor authentication app would Leo & Mikah recommend that uses the "push" functionality and not type in a code? What's a great budget Android phone to upgrade to? Chris Marquardt and the Unusual photo assignment review! What's the best way to prepare myself to do cold-weather photography and capture the Northern lights? What are some recommendations to get children started in computer programming? Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent Guests: Dick DeBartolo and Chris Marquardt Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys/episodes/2005 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys

How can I get emails sent to my Fastmail account to show up in email clients such as Apple's Mail app? What are the easiest methods to convert my old VHS tapes into digital files? Plus, Dick DeBartolo shares a cool beanie that you can wear with Bluetooth capabilities, and Chris Marquardt goes over the Unusual photo assignment review!  Seven things we learned analyzing 515 million Wordle. Inside Mark Zuckerberg's top-secret Hawaii compound. Four men indicted in $80 million 'pig butchering' scheme. Is there a difference in quality when I watch Netflix on certain devices? What brand of keyboards would Leo & Mikah recommend that are quiet when using it? How can I convert old home movie tapes to digital? Dick Debartolo and the Bluetooth beanie! At what point is it an issue when connecting to public WiFi? Can I download my purchases from a streaming service like Apple TV+? How can I get emails sent to my Fastmail account to show up in email clients such as Apple's Mail app? Which free two-factor authentication app would Leo & Mikah recommend that uses the "push" functionality and not type in a code? What's a great budget Android phone to upgrade to? Chris Marquardt and the Unusual photo assignment review! What's the best way to prepare myself to do cold-weather photography and capture the Northern lights? What are some recommendations to get children started in computer programming? Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent Guests: Dick DeBartolo and Chris Marquardt Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys/episodes/2005 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/all-twittv-shows

How can I get emails sent to my Fastmail account to show up in email clients such as Apple's Mail app? What are the easiest methods to convert my old VHS tapes into digital files? Plus, Dick DeBartolo shares a cool beanie that you can wear with Bluetooth capabilities, and Chris Marquardt goes over the Unusual photo assignment review!  Seven things we learned analyzing 515 million Wordle. Inside Mark Zuckerberg's top-secret Hawaii compound. Four men indicted in $80 million 'pig butchering' scheme. Is there a difference in quality when I watch Netflix on certain devices? What brand of keyboards would Leo & Mikah recommend that are quiet when using it? How can I convert old home movie tapes to digital? Dick Debartolo and the Bluetooth beanie! At what point is it an issue when connecting to public WiFi? Can I download my purchases from a streaming service like Apple TV+? How can I get emails sent to my Fastmail account to show up in email clients such as Apple's Mail app? Which free two-factor authentication app would Leo & Mikah recommend that uses the "push" functionality and not type in a code? What's a great budget Android phone to upgrade to? Chris Marquardt and the Unusual photo assignment review! What's the best way to prepare myself to do cold-weather photography and capture the Northern lights? What are some recommendations to get children started in computer programming? Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent Guests: Dick DeBartolo and Chris Marquardt Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys/episodes/2005 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/total-leo

How can I get emails sent to my Fastmail account to show up in email clients such as Apple's Mail app? What are the easiest methods to convert my old VHS tapes into digital files? Plus, Dick DeBartolo shares a cool beanie that you can wear with Bluetooth capabilities, and Chris Marquardt goes over the Unusual photo assignment review!  Seven things we learned analyzing 515 million Wordle. Inside Mark Zuckerberg's top-secret Hawaii compound. Four men indicted in $80 million 'pig butchering' scheme. Is there a difference in quality when I watch Netflix on certain devices? What brand of keyboards would Leo & Mikah recommend that are quiet when using it? How can I convert old home movie tapes to digital? Dick Debartolo and the Bluetooth beanie! At what point is it an issue when connecting to public WiFi? Can I download my purchases from a streaming service like Apple TV+? How can I get emails sent to my Fastmail account to show up in email clients such as Apple's Mail app? Which free two-factor authentication app would Leo & Mikah recommend that uses the "push" functionality and not type in a code? What's a great budget Android phone to upgrade to? Chris Marquardt and the Unusual photo assignment review! What's the best way to prepare myself to do cold-weather photography and capture the Northern lights? What are some recommendations to get children started in computer programming? Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent Guests: Dick DeBartolo and Chris Marquardt Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys/episodes/2005 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys

How can I get emails sent to my Fastmail account to show up in email clients such as Apple's Mail app? What are the easiest methods to convert my old VHS tapes into digital files? Plus, Dick DeBartolo shares a cool beanie that you can wear with Bluetooth capabilities, and Chris Marquardt goes over the Unusual photo assignment review!  Seven things we learned analyzing 515 million Wordle. Inside Mark Zuckerberg's top-secret Hawaii compound. Four men indicted in $80 million 'pig butchering' scheme. Is there a difference in quality when I watch Netflix on certain devices? What brand of keyboards would Leo & Mikah recommend that are quiet when using it? How can I convert old home movie tapes to digital? Dick Debartolo and the Bluetooth beanie! At what point is it an issue when connecting to public WiFi? Can I download my purchases from a streaming service like Apple TV+? How can I get emails sent to my Fastmail account to show up in email clients such as Apple's Mail app? Which free two-factor authentication app would Leo & Mikah recommend that uses the "push" functionality and not type in a code? What's a great budget Android phone to upgrade to? Chris Marquardt and the Unusual photo assignment review! What's the best way to prepare myself to do cold-weather photography and capture the Northern lights? What are some recommendations to get children started in computer programming? Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent Guests: Dick DeBartolo and Chris Marquardt Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys/episodes/2005 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/all-twittv-shows

How can I get emails sent to my Fastmail account to show up in email clients such as Apple's Mail app? What are the easiest methods to convert my old VHS tapes into digital files? Plus, Dick DeBartolo shares a cool beanie that you can wear with Bluetooth capabilities, and Chris Marquardt goes over the Unusual photo assignment review!  Seven things we learned analyzing 515 million Wordle. Inside Mark Zuckerberg's top-secret Hawaii compound. Four men indicted in $80 million 'pig butchering' scheme. Is there a difference in quality when I watch Netflix on certain devices? What brand of keyboards would Leo & Mikah recommend that are quiet when using it? How can I convert old home movie tapes to digital? Dick Debartolo and the Bluetooth beanie! At what point is it an issue when connecting to public WiFi? Can I download my purchases from a streaming service like Apple TV+? How can I get emails sent to my Fastmail account to show up in email clients such as Apple's Mail app? Which free two-factor authentication app would Leo & Mikah recommend that uses the "push" functionality and not type in a code? What's a great budget Android phone to upgrade to? Chris Marquardt and the Unusual photo assignment review! What's the best way to prepare myself to do cold-weather photography and capture the Northern lights? What are some recommendations to get children started in computer programming? Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent Guests: Dick DeBartolo and Chris Marquardt Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys/episodes/2005 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/total-mikah

How can I get emails sent to my Fastmail account to show up in email clients such as Apple's Mail app? What are the easiest methods to convert my old VHS tapes into digital files? Plus, Dick DeBartolo shares a cool beanie that you can wear with Bluetooth capabilities, and Chris Marquardt goes over the Unusual photo assignment review!  Seven things we learned analyzing 515 million Wordle. Inside Mark Zuckerberg's top-secret Hawaii compound. Four men indicted in $80 million 'pig butchering' scheme. Is there a difference in quality when I watch Netflix on certain devices? What brand of keyboards would Leo & Mikah recommend that are quiet when using it? How can I convert old home movie tapes to digital? Dick Debartolo and the Bluetooth beanie! At what point is it an issue when connecting to public WiFi? Can I download my purchases from a streaming service like Apple TV+? How can I get emails sent to my Fastmail account to show up in email clients such as Apple's Mail app? Which free two-factor authentication app would Leo & Mikah recommend that uses the "push" functionality and not type in a code? What's a great budget Android phone to upgrade to? Chris Marquardt and the Unusual photo assignment review! What's the best way to prepare myself to do cold-weather photography and capture the Northern lights? What are some recommendations to get children started in computer programming? Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent Guests: Dick DeBartolo and Chris Marquardt Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys/episodes/2005 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/total-leo

How can I get emails sent to my Fastmail account to show up in email clients such as Apple's Mail app? What are the easiest methods to convert my old VHS tapes into digital files? Plus, Dick DeBartolo shares a cool beanie that you can wear with Bluetooth capabilities, and Chris Marquardt goes over the Unusual photo assignment review!  Seven things we learned analyzing 515 million Wordle. Inside Mark Zuckerberg's top-secret Hawaii compound. Four men indicted in $80 million 'pig butchering' scheme. Is there a difference in quality when I watch Netflix on certain devices? What brand of keyboards would Leo & Mikah recommend that are quiet when using it? How can I convert old home movie tapes to digital? Dick Debartolo and the Bluetooth beanie! At what point is it an issue when connecting to public WiFi? Can I download my purchases from a streaming service like Apple TV+? How can I get emails sent to my Fastmail account to show up in email clients such as Apple's Mail app? Which free two-factor authentication app would Leo & Mikah recommend that uses the "push" functionality and not type in a code? What's a great budget Android phone to upgrade to? Chris Marquardt and the Unusual photo assignment review! What's the best way to prepare myself to do cold-weather photography and capture the Northern lights? What are some recommendations to get children started in computer programming? Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent Guests: Dick DeBartolo and Chris Marquardt Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guys/episodes/2005 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/total-mikah

Chaos Monkeys: It's All About The Team

Meetings are an inevitable part of office life – but how many of them are actually useful? Host Isabel Berwick speaks to Kaz Nejatian, chief operating officer of ecommerce group Shopify, to find out why the company slashed staff meetings and what the effects of that policy – dubbed “Chaos Monkey” – have been. Isabel also speaks to Dr Joe Allen, director of the Center for Meeting Effectiveness at the University of Utah, to find out how managers can make meetings less painful.Got a workplace dilemma you'd like Isabel and Jonathan to help you with? Submit it here: https://telbee.io/channel/ygf7_gly04xgtckcb0g56a/Want more? Free link:If you invite someone to a meeting, there has to be a purposePresented by Isabel Berwick, produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval, mixed by Simon Panayi. The executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Cheryl Brumley is the FT's head of audio.Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Antonio García Martínez joins us to discuss why onchain attribution and advertising are crucial to crypto's growth. Antonio is a prolific ad tech entrepreneur, the author of Chaos Monkeys and now the founder of Spindl. In this episode, we discuss the evolution of Web2 advertising, crypto's massive onchain attribution opportunity, data privacy and ownership, potential catalysts for crypto's adoption, how AI will impact advertising and more! - - Timestamps: (00:00) Introduction (00:56) The Evolution of Ad Tech (13:47) How Spindl Brings Attribution to Web3 (22:11) Crypto's Publisher Problem and Discovery (25:38) The Importance of Being Native to the Medium (33:19) Data Privacy and Ownership (35:55) Antonio's Web3 Thesis (41:03) Should DAOs Exist? (44:24) What Will Catalyze Crypto's Adoption? (48:09) AI's Impact on Advertising (51:10) Advice for Startup Founders (54:20) Rapid Fire - - Follow Antonio: https://twitter.com/antoniogm Follow Mert: https://twitter.com/0xMert_ Follow Garrett: https://twitter.com/GarrettHarper_ Follow Lightspeed: https://twitter.com/Lightspeedpodhq Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/43o3Syk Subscribe on Apple: https://apple.co/3OhiXgV Subscribe on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3OkF7PD Get top market insights and the latest in crypto news. Subscribe to Blockworks Daily Newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter/ - -  Resources Spindl https://www.spindl.xyz/ Chaos Monkeys https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Monkeys-Obscene-Fortune-Failure/dp/0062458191 Stratechery (Ben Thompson) https://stratechery.com/ Mobile Dev Memo https://mobiledevmemo.com/ - -  Disclaimers: Lightspeed was kickstarted by a grant from the Solana Foundation. Nothing said on Lightspeed is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Mert, Garrett and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.

Ari and Eric are joined by Antonio Garcia-Martinez, author of undoubtedly the best (perhaps the only) ad tech memoir, Chaos Monkeys. He's building attribution for Web3 and convinces Ari it's actually a good idea.Also, apparently Zuck is about to murder Elon in the ring. Also:NBC CTV marketplace: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/cannes-lions-nbcuniversal-comcast-advertising-buy-multi-market-1235518791-1235518791/ ID5 integrated into TTD: https://www.adexchanger.com/online-advertising/the-trade-desks-id5-integration-makes-european-audiences-more-addressable/ Visit Marketecture.tv to join our community and get access to full-length in-depth interviews. Marketecture is a new way to get smart about technology. Our team of real industry practitioners helps you understand the complex world of technology and make better vendor decisions through in-depth interviews with CEOs and product leaders at dozens of platforms. We are launching with extensive coverage of the marketing and advertising verticals with plans to expand into many other technology sectors.Copyright (C) 2023 Marketecture Media, Inc.

Shopify's Deann Evans takes us behind the scenes of its dramatic growth across 175 countries. She also explains how its ‘Chaos Monkey's' have eradicated 320,000 hours of internal meetings resulting in a productivity increase of 25%, what it's like in a 100% ‘work anywhere' company, and why no one ever joined Shopify to sit in meetings.Further Reading Links:https://www.linkedin.com/in/deannre/

Chaos Engineering started in the mid 2000s. It was made famous by the Netflix engineering team under an internal app they developed, called Chaos Monkey, that randomly destroyed pieces of their customer-facing infrastructure, on purpose, so that their network architects could understand resilience engineering down deep in their core. But the concept is much more than simply destroying production systems to see what will happen. This elevates the idea of regression testing to the level of the scientific method designed to uncover potential and unknown architectural designs that may cause catastrophic failure. I make the case that the CSO should probably own that functionality.

Have you ever found yourself ruminating over a difficult conversation at work? Our guest on this episode is here to help. Amy Gallo is an expert on human conflict. She is Harvard Business Review's contributing editor, co-host of the Women at Work podcast and author of two books on conflict. The latest is called Getting Along, How To Work With Anyone, (Even Difficult People). In her book, she identifies eight types of difficult people which will probably be all too familiar to listeners, including the insecure boss, the passive-aggressive peer, the know-it-all and the tormentor. She offers practical strategies to deal with each type of person, as well as advice on how you cope personally with the fall out, from understanding why these battles can be so troubling and how to let them bother you less. MT's Kate Magee and Éilis Cronin also discuss whether Chaos Monkey theory is a good way to run a business and look at new research, which says most people are too frightened to take the top job.You can read MT's interview with Amy Gallo here: XXCreditsPresenters: Kate Magee and Éilis CroninProduction: Nav PalArtwork: David RobinsonSpecial thanks to Amy Gallo for joining us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Die App muss skalieren. Das kann doch nicht so schwer sein, oder?Sekundenschnelles und automatisches Hochskalieren bei einem erhöhten Traffic-Aufkommen. So oder so ähnlich versprechen es die Cloud-Hyperscaler in ihren Marketing-Texten. Das erweckt oft den Anschein, dass das Ganze gar nicht so schwer sein kann. Doch ist dies auch in der Realität so? Eine Applikation skalierbar zu gestalten, ist bei weitem nicht einfach. Stichworte wie Ausfallsicherheit, vertikale- oder horizontale Skalierung, Stateless- oder Stateful-Applications, Loadbalancer und Auto-Discovery, Kubernetes und zusätzliche Code-Komplexität, finanzieller Impact, Load-Tests, Request-Deadlines, Chaos Monkey und Down-Scaling. Alles Begriffe, die damit in Verbindung stehen und einen wichtigen Bestandteil ausmachen.In dieser Episode geben wir einen Überblick über das Thema Application-Skalierung: Was ist das? Wer braucht es? Was sind die Grundbegriffe und welche Grundlagen müssen erfüllt werden, damit das ganze erfolgreich wird?Bonus: Warum Andy eine Märchenstimme hat und warum wir Milchmädchenrechnung nicht mehr sagen sollten.Feedback (gerne auch als Voice Message)Email: stehtisch@engineeringkiosk.devMastodon: https://podcasts.social/@engkioskTwitter: https://twitter.com/EngKioskWhatsApp +49 15678 136776Gerne behandeln wir auch euer Audio Feedback in einer der nächsten Episoden, einfach Audiodatei per Email oder WhatsApp Voice Message an +49 15678 136776LinksRule of 40: https://aktien.guide/blog/rule-of-40-einfach-erklaertKubernetes: https://kubernetes.io/Amazon S3: https://aws.amazon.com/de/s3/Vitess: https://vitess.io/Ceph: https://ceph.io/Chaos Monkey: https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey/Zu Besuch bei Hetzner Datacenter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0KRLaw8Di8ProxySQL: https://proxysql.com/PlanetScale: https://planetscale.com/Sprungmarken(00:00:00) Intro(00:00:35) Das Märchen der Skalierung und meine Datenbank skaliert nicht(00:02:55) Was ist Skalierung?(00:06:45) Braucht man Skalierung überhaupt? Wer muss skalieren?(00:12:41) Es ist cool auf Scale zu arbeiten(00:16:23) Wenn wir skalieren können, sparen wir Geld(00:20:50) Stateless vs. Stateful-Systeme(00:31:43) Horizontaler vs. Vertikaler skalierung(00:35:38) Ab wann skaliere ich die Hardware oder optimiere die Applikation?(00:39:24) Gesteigerte Komplexität durch Skalierung(00:42:42) Was braucht ihr, um skalieren zu können bzw. damit anzufangen?(00:48:49) OutroHostsWolfgang Gassler (https://mastodon.social/@woolf)Andy Grunwald (https://twitter.com/andygrunwald)Feedback (gerne auch als Voice Message)Email: stehtisch@engineeringkiosk.devMastodon: https://podcasts.social/@engkioskTwitter: https://twitter.com/EngKioskWhatsApp +49 15678 136776

On last week's Dead Cat episode with ex-Facebook security chief Alex Stamos, we spent a lot of time trying to steel man the free speech moderation crowd's argument — even though none of us seemed to hold it ourselves. The other week, we had Jason Calacanis on the show but he didn't want to talk about Elon Musk. This week, finally we have someone on the podcast who is a defender of the so-called free speech regime and is also willing to talk to skeptical journalists about it on air. Antonio García Martínez, the author of Chaos Monkeys and startup CEO, came on the show. On his Substack The Pull Request, he defended the free speech argument in April — before Musk acquired Twitter. (I've written that no one, Musk included, was plausibly going to govern social media under a free speech standard so invoking free speech is a pure marketing ploy. I think that position has been vindicated by Musk's recent actions.) More broadly, García Martínez, or AGM as he is widely known, is someone who has pushed back against the tech media and leftwing employees. With Dead Cat co-host Tom Dotan, we set out to make sense of the culture war between tech “builders” and reporters. Give it a listenRead the automated transcript Get full access to Newcomer at www.newcomer.co/subscribe

On last week's Dead Cat episode with ex-Facebook security chief Alex Stamos, we spent a lot of time trying to steel man the free speech moderation crowd's argument — even though none of us seemed to hold it ourselves. The other week, we had Jason Calacanis on the show but he didn't want to talk about Elon Musk. This week, finally we have someone on the podcast who is a defender of the so-called free speech regime and is also willing to talk to skeptical journalists about it on air. Antonio García Martínez, the author of Chaos Monkeys and startup CEO, came on the show. On his Substack The Pull Request, he defended the free speech argument in April — before Musk acquired Twitter. (I've written that no one, Musk included, was plausibly going to govern social media under a free speech standard so invoking free speech is a pure marketing ploy. I think that position has been vindicated by Musk's recent actions.) More broadly, García Martínez, or AGM as he is widely known, is someone who has pushed back against the tech media and leftwing employees. With Dead Cat co-host Tom Dotan, we set out to make sense of the culture war between tech “builders” and reporters. Give it a listenRead the automated transcript Get full access to Newcomer at www.newcomer.co/subscribe

Our guest this week is Antonio Garcia-Martinez, New York Times bestselling author of Chaos Monkeys and Founder of Spindl. Spindl is creating attribution solutions for the Web3 space. They offer easy integration, Web2 and Web3 funnels, and meaningful analytics on ROI, CAC, retention, and more in an actual dashboard. In this week's podcast we talk to Antonio about the obstacles in measuring marketing performance in Web3 and how developing Web3 attribution will impact marketers and consumers. We also take a step back to discuss the differences between Web2 and Web3 – not just technologically, but from an ethical and human perspective – and the implications of striving for a Web3 digital marketing system that's similar to what we know in Web2. We also discuss the latest news about Robinhood, podcast ad fraud, and Walmart's metaverse – as well as the "not-news" regarding Apple's supposedly changed policy on NFTs (hint: nothing has changed). SOURCES & MORE: https://upptic.com/web3-marketing-measurement-with-antonio-garcia-martinez-spindl-app-talk-with-upptic REGISTER FOR OUR WEB3 WEBINAR: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1416618928232/WN_nq5y952aSiO0BMmTeKK9dQ

Antonio Garcia-Martinez is an author of best-selling book “Chaos Monkeys”, the Founder of “Spindle”, and was previously a product manager at Facebook. In this conversation, we talk about American states going in opposite directions, why the people of Miami understand capitalism, what the tech industry gets right and what it gets wrong, user growth in the new digital age, going to Ukraine during the war, thoughts Balaji Srinivasan's “Network State”, and “dying for the DAO”. ======================= The bridge between iGaming, online sports betting, and emerging technology, such as Blockchain, NFTs, fintech, GameFi, metaverse, and AI, is loud and clear. The largest global summit of this kind is heading to Malta from November 15 to 17. Over a thousand exhibitors and 25,000 industry leaders will be there, including top executives from Draft Kings, Bet365, Socios, crypto exchanges, betting software providers, operators, gaming affiliates, and more. Log on to AIBC.WORLD and SiGMA.WORLD to see all our upcoming global summits! See you in Malta, November 15 to 17 for the leading global event in Gaming & Emerging Tech! THIS IS SiGMA! ======================= If you're trying to grow and preserve your crypto-wealth, optimizing your taxes is just as lucrative as trying to find the next hidden gem.Alto IRA can help you invest in crypto in tax-advantaged ways to help you preserve your hard earned money. Alto CryptoIRA lets you invest in more than 200 different coins and tokens with all the same tax advantages of an IRA.They make it easy to fund your Alternative IRA or CryptoIRA via your 401(k) or IRA rollover or by contributing directly from your bank account. So, ready to take your investments to the next level? Diversify like the pros and trade without tax headaches. Open an Alto CryptoIRA to invest in crypto tax-free. Just go to https://altoira.com/pomp ======================= FTX.US is the safe, regulated way to buy and sell Bitcoin and other digital assets. Trade crypto with up to 85% lower fees than top competitors. There are no fixed minimum fees, no ACH transaction fees, and no withdrawal fees. Download the FTX App today and use referral code “Pomp” to earn free crypto on every trade over $10. The more you trade, the more you earn. ======================= Exodus is leading the world out of the traditional financial system by building beautiful and user-friendly blockchain products. With its focus on design and user experience, Exodus has become one of the most popular and loved cryptocurrency apps. It's supported on both desktop and mobile, allowing you to sync your wallet across multiple devices so you can have access to your funds anywhere. Visit exodus.com/pomp for your free download or search Exodus on the App Store or Playstore. ======================= Compass Mining is the world's first online marketplace for bitcoin mining hardware and hosting. Compass was founded with the goal of making it easy for everyone to mine bitcoin. Visit https://compassmining.io/ to start mining bitcoin today! ======================= LMAX Digital - the market-leading solution for institutional crypto trading & custodial services - offers clients a regulated, transparent and secure trading environment, together with the deepest pool of crypto liquidity. LMAX Digital is also a primary price discovery venue, streaming real-time market data to the industry's leading analytics platforms. LMAX Digital - secure, liquid, trusted. Learn more at LMAXdigital.com/pomp =======================

How do we use chaos monkeys in real life, and practically? This happens all the time when we have failures. The Rogers failure that took out the internet and cell phone use in Canada last week was the start of our discussion. Predicting how things are going to go out is a common theme for chaos monkeys, and really comes back to how we test infrastructure. Should we be putting it under stress in planned ways like Chaos Monkey, in order to ensure that our increasingly internet and power dependent society is prepared for the inevitable outages? We have a really fascinating discussion about what it would take to make this type of practice real, including alternatives that people can look at today. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/D0ZV5c3ikvAiinsK7ugf_duCjv8 Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/monkey-sitting-on-a-fence-and-looking-at-its-hands-11999152/

(0:00) - Intro(1:27) – Welcoming Antonio García Martínez (AGM)(4:04) – AGM's greatest hits(7:45) – Ad tech(10:04) – Why AGM wrote Chaos Monkey(14:50) – His character in Chaos Monkey(17:19) – Bringing your whole self to work(19:14) – Politics in social media(26:17) – Converting to Judaism(30:58) – Visiting Ukraine(35:19) – Current thing theory(43:25) – Chamath example(46:45) – What's something everyone incorrectly believes is true?(51:16) – Facebook isn't listening to your phone(56:09) – IG vs Twitter ad targeting(57:56) – AGM announces his Web3 company(1:04:28) – Zach agrees in a Web3 debate(1:06:41) – Fundamental business models in Web3(1:11:44) – Web3 skepticism(1:15:44) – Acquisitions in Web2 vs Web3(1:22:53) – Web3 macro analysis(1:25:00) – Farcaster(1:31:54) – Will Zach invest?(1:36:02) – Outro Mixed and edited: Justin HrabovskyProduced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad AssirExecutive Producer: Josh MachizMusic: Griff Lawson 

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.gotopia.tech/bookclubRead the full transcription of the interview hereKelly Shortridge - Co- Author of Security Chaos Engineering and Senior Principal, Product Technology at FastlyAaron Rinehart - Co- Author of Security Chaos Engineering and Co-Founder & CTO at VericaMark Miller - Co-Author of Epic Failures in DevSecOps and Vice President, Community Engagement and Outreach at The Linux FoundationDESCRIPTIONWhat's the state of the art in modern security practices?The authors of the book Security Chaos Engineering, Aaron Rinehart and Kelly Shortridge talk to Mark Miller about the shift in the mental model that one has to undertake to reap its benefits. Their approach paves a new way that allows security engineers to uncover bugs in complex systems by chaos experiments before an actual attack.The interview is based on Kelly's and Aaron's book "Security Chaos Engineering":www.verica.io/sce-bookRECOMMENDED BOOKSKelly Shortridge & Aaron Rinehart • Security Chaos EngineeringNora Jones & Casey Rosenthal • Chaos EngineeringNora Jones & Casey Rosenthal • Chaos EngineeringMikolaj Pawlikowski • Chaos EngineeringRuss Miles • Learning Chaos EngineeringMurphy, Beyer, Jones & Petoff • Site Reliability EngineeringTwitterLinkedInFacebookLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily.Discovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Health, Wellness & Performance Catalyst w/ Dr. Brad CooperLooking for a catalyst to optimize your health, wellness & performance? You've found it!!Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify The New Arab VoiceA podcast from The New Arab, a leading English-language website based in London...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

“No matter what I believe to be true, there always seems to be another side to the question. If you were to put me to the torture, I'd probably confess that this is my analytic ideal: to consider the question from as many relevant perspectives as the mind can hold.” Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! In this episode, Nat, Neil, and Adil talk about their key takeaways from The Revolt of the Public by Martin Gurri. With technology giving us access to more information than ever, the overall trust level between the public and the governing elite is at an all time low.  We cover a wide range of topics including: The relationship between sources of information and their level of authority Nihilism resulting from a lack of trust in authority and the current system How cancel culture may keep people from taking action on their passions Power relations between the elites and the public The move from criticizing people to criticizing the systems themselves And much more. Please enjoy, and make sure to follow Nat, Neil, and Adil on Twitter and share your thoughts on the episode. Links from the Episode: Mentioned in the show: NASA Begins America's Mars Exploration Approach (30:08) Palmer Luckey - All In Summit (30:41) Anduril (30:55) Manhattan Project (33:38) IRB (34:53) Ben Shapiro's on cancel culture (40:56) National Enquirer (42:02) Nat's thread on taking action (43:25) Roe v Wade (48:31) Occupy movement (55:33) V for Vendetta (1:00:24) Pocket Casts (1:24:34) Stitcher (1:24:34) Books Mentioned: Revolt of the Public Seeing Like a State (0:53) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) The Fourth Turning (9:03) (Book Episode)  The Dictator's Handbook (1:11:33) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) The Iliad (1:17:39) Chaos Monkeys (1:25:50) People Mentioned: Alex Jones (15:01) Dan Carlin (15:06) Joe Biden (19:14) Donald Trump (19:30) Joe Rogan (21:21) Elon Musk (23:44) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (25:53) Nassim Taleb (29:56) Jason Calacanis (30:50) Neil Ferguson (38:44) Ben Shapiro (40:37) Jeff Bezos (42:00) Greg Abbott (45:30) Beto O'Rourke (52:00) Andrew Yang (52:13) (Episode #47, #48) Antonio García Martínez (1:25:50) Show Topics: 0:43 In today's episode, Nat, Neil, and Adil are discussing Revolt of the Public by Martin Gurri. This will wrap up our crypto series, and if you're interested in more like this, be sure to check out some of our previous episodes! 4:02 Adil goes over some of the core ideas of the book, with one of them being the relationship between sources of information and their authority. When there's fewer sources of information, each source has greater authority. So if there's only one source, they are the sole authority. There's been an increase on news sources, and with so many sources, it opens up more opportunity for contradiction between them. 7:10 Negation; Many elections have been won by negation rather than inspiration. As we gain access to more and more information, it can become harder to trust authority. There's a need for a new system of trust and authority to emerge that can exist within this hyper-access to information we have. 12:09 In the Choices section of the book, there were two parts: 1. What individuals can do 2. What government can do. Gurri frames our current paradigms around authority as being emergent from the Industrial Age. When the public needs answers, they turn to institutions rather than individuals. "That passive mass audience on which so many political and economic institutions depended had itself unbundled, disaggregated, fragmented into what I call vital communities: groups of wildly disparate size gathered organically around a shared interest or theme." 16:33 How can you influence people in a subtle way? Adil makes a pyramid analogy, where the elites are at the top and the public is at the bottom. The elites are interested in increasing the distance between the top and the bottom, however the author argues that in order to succeed in the age of the Revolt of the Public, you actually need to reduce that space. "The quality that sets the true elites apart – that bestows authority on their actions and expressions – isn't power, or wealth, or education, or even peruasiveness. It's integrity in life and work. A healthy society is one in which such exemplary types draw the public toward them purely by the force of their example. Without compulsion, ordinary persons aspire to resemble the extraordinary, not superficially but fundamentally, because they wish to partake of superior models of being or doing." In the Industrial Age, it was common to believe that politicians and CEOs were super-people, but as we got more access to information, we became more aware that people aren't super-people, and that everyone is human. 20:46 It's not a matter of whether elites are good or bad, there's tradeoffs to having a society that leans more towards the elite side vs. public side.  26:37 The last chapter of the book is an updated edition, speaking on Trump and how he is in a way, the ultimate nihilistic politician. Reducing your distance from the public as a political figure helps you sell your story more. It's also about the way that you tell your story. Failing governments vs. failing companies- What's the difference? 32:34 Lack of big national projects in our lifetime. One big project was the Covid vaccine, but it wasn't the government that implemented this project. 33:59 The threshold for what's acceptable in research has changed since the 1970s, so there's a lot of work that we wouldn't be able to do now that may have been allowed decades ago. A lot of what politicians and other public figures do is almost immediately knowable due to technology and the speed at which news travels. A possible consequence of this could be fear of taking action. When we get to a point of wanting to take action, we may worry about things that we've done in the past that would be resurfaced. 40:03 Cancel culture. If you want to become a positive leader, negative things coming out can hurt you. By acknowledging your faults or even getting ahead of it, you can deflate some of the claims made. 43:04 Many people don't take action on something that they're passionate about. By posting about it, it takes away the felt need to act on it. It feels as if you've already acted on it, and the job is done. A protest may not convince people to change their mind that much, but a lot of the power comes from reminding politicians that they work for us, and also serves as a release of anger. Democracies have led to this tendency for politicians to promise more than they can deliver, and the public will vote for the politicians that promise to deliver the most, regardless of the amount of faith they have that they can execute those promises. 48:05 There's room for either political party to step up and bridge the gap on big issues, especially with with the recent Roe v Wade decision.  53:04 Covid's role in the Revolt of the Public. It changed our relationship with government authority. During this period of time, for many people it was the first time they really felt the presence of government in their life. 55:27 The book has a section about mass protest movements in the US and Europe. The citizens taking place in the protests are generally in the middle or upper-middle class, college-educated, and not actually the ones struggling in society.  59:10 Nihilism as a threat to democratic institutions. As institutions leak credibility and legitimacy, the blame shifts from individuals in the system (such as bad politicians and leaders) to the system. This results in lack of trust of authority, and in turn, people want to destroy everything to feel like there is progress being made in some type of way.  1:04:10 If you could implement one policy what would it be? Adil shares an idea of subsidizing exit costs from one state to another, where if someone wanted to move out of their state, they'd be provided with services and support. This would allow states to see the numbers of people staying and leaving, and there's consequences for passing unfavorable legislature.  Nat's idea would be to have government agencies to cut their budgets by 90% for one year. A lot of the problems that exist in our country stem from financial irresponsibility. Neil shared that he would make Congress 10x larger while making it a part time, work from home job. The number of influential people in Congress is so small that it's easy to bribe them with their district. Initially, being a Congressman wasn't initially a full time job, as most had other roles and they just happened to serve in Congress too. They were more in touch with how people lived. 1:15:38 Nat shares a new technique he's using to track books he reads. He jots the date that he started reading the book with some notes about what's going on in life at the time. When finished, he will write in the book what book he's reading next. Over the years, the books will be networked together in physical form. 1:17:12 This concludes the crypto/libertarian series on Made You Think! The next book we're reading is The Iliad. We're using Tommy Collison's Great Books List to guide future episodes, and we're expanding it to encompass a wider range of books. Got any suggestions of books to add? Let us know! If you enjoyed this episode, let us know by leaving a review on iTunes and tell a friend. As always, let us know if you have any book recommendations! You can say hi to us on Twitter @TheRealNeilS, @adilmajid, @nateliason and share your thoughts on this episode. You can now support Made You Think using the Value-for-Value feature of Podcasting 2.0. This means you can directly tip the co-hosts in BTC with minimal transaction fees. To get started, simply download a podcast app (like Fountain or Breez) that supports Value-for-Value and send some BTC to your in-app wallet. You can then use that to support shows who have opted-in, including Made You Think! We'll be going with this direct support model moving forward, rather than ads. Thanks for listening. See you next time!

Antonio Garcia Martinez is the NYT best selling author of Chaos Monkeys. He is a senior fellow at the Lincoln Network. Previously, he was the founder of AdGrok and formerly a product manager at Facebook. Auren and Antonio explore the unintended consequences of regulation, the growth of the adtech markets, and frameworks to apply when thinking about privacy. They also dive into Antonio's pursuit of religion in an increasingly complex modern world. World of DaaS is brought to you by SafeGraph. For more episodes, visit safegraph.com/podcasts.You can find Auren Hoffman on Twitter at @auren and Antonio at @antoniogm.

IT'S GOTTEN A LITTLE OUT OF HAND FOR ME, SO I RECOMMEND CAUTION.I RECENTLY FOUND THAT I HAD MORE THAN 30 SUBSCRIPTIONS! Scanning these takes hours a day, but full-time covid warriors have to read, and this source is uncensored. A poorly kept secret is that you can get most of Substack's content using free subscriptions. I put *** next to the authors that are required reading. If you briefly scan this post, don't miss the excerpt from one of my favorite books at the very end. The Pull RequestPaid SubscriberThis is the brilliant Antonio Garcia Martinez, the guy who was fired two weeks after being hired by Apple because a woke mob there claimed he was abusing women. Their only evidence was Chaos Monkeys, his best-selling book published five years earlier! I appended the sexy passage they hated at the end of this post so you can judge for yourself (don't miss this or the book). Martinez recently went to Poland and Ukraine to study the situation, then reported back on the Joe Rogan show #1795. He is not an expert on Covid or the vax, so despite my respect for him, I gave him no stars here.***Mercola.com daily posts from the websiteFreeMercola was listed along with RFK Jr. as one of the two worst “disinformation sources” and “domestic terrorists” in America. His essays were free for decades but now disappear behind a paywall on Substack after 48 hours. He was threatened and made this compromise because he feared retribution. I copy and paste his “top stories” into word documents and sometimes reproduce them on my Substack. They are not copyrighted. He also has a podcast with all sorts of interesting ideas, but much of it is off-topic for me.Since Mercola sells vitamins, I ignore everything else in his daily newsletter. However, I now buy all my vitamins from his company because I trust him. I take D, zinc, magnesium, and a few other supplements including Co Q. Cell phone radiation is one of Mercola's concerns. Despite reading several books, I have been unable to understand the science behind this well enough to make a firm judgment. But Mercola is so brilliant that I cannot write off his opinions about this. I do completely turn off my cell phone every night instead of sleeping near a live source of this radiation.***RFK Jr. and Peter and Ginger Breggin are the two best podcasters. These are great people. and I listen to everything they say. They are not on Substack. ***Unreported TruthsPaid SubscriberThis is Alex Barensen, who has the best single blog here. He figured out what was happening in early 2020, and hasn't quit for a moment. He is a brilliant writer and is backed by resources. ***Who is Robert MalonePaid SubscriberMaybe the smartest guy in this room. This is moderately high level, so you will have to see if you like it. Malone is the inventor of mRNA technology and was finally red-pilled after he nearly died from his second jab.SEE robertyoho.substack.com for the rest. Support the show (https://paypal.me/dryohoauthor?locale.x=en_US)

Today's episode is split in two - we start by looking at what Germany's refusal to sanction Russian oil means for both the war and the western alliance before turning our sights to Twitter where Mark Little helps us breakdown the choice we face between viewing the world as an engineering problem or a humanistic one. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Antonio Garcia Martinez is an early Facebook employee, author of Chaos Monkeys, former Apple engineer, and writes the Pull Request on Substack. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a wide-ranging discussion touching on what he learned about Apple's ad platform in his short tenure at the company, how he's navigated being held as a symbol for new-right politics and then pushed back on its pro-Putin narrative, what the meme about Ukraine support being "the current thing" really means, and why he's converting to Judaism if he disdains dogma.

In this episode, we cover: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:56 - How Alex and Kolton know each other and the beginnings of their companies  00:10:10 - The change of mindset from Amazon to the smaller scale 00:17:34 - Alex and Kolton's advice for companies that “can't be a Netflix or Amazon” 00:22:57 - PagerDuty, Gremlin and Crossovers/Outro TranscriptKolton: I was speaking about what I built at Netflix at a conference and I ran into some VCs in the lobby, and we got into a bit of a debate. They were like, “Hey, have you thought about building a company around this?” And I was like, “I have, but I don't want your money. I'm going to bootstrap it. We're going to figure it out on our own.” And the debate went back and forth a little bit and ultimately it ended with, “Oh, you have five kids and you live in California? Maybe you should take some money.”Julie: Welcome to the Break Things on Purpose podcast, a show about chaos, culture, building and breaking things with intention. I'm Julie Gunderson and in this episode, we have Alex Solomon, co-founder of PagerDuty, and Kolton Andrus, co-founder of Gremlin, chatting about everything from founding companies to how to change culture in organizations.Julie: Hey everybody. Today we're going to talk about building awesome things with two amazing company co-founders. I'm really excited to be here with Mandy Walls on this crossover episode for Break Things on Purpose and Page it to the Limit. I am Julie Gunderson, Senior Reliability Advocate here over at Gremlin. Mandy?Mandy: Yeah, I'm Mandy Walls, DevOps Advocate at PagerDuty.Julie: Excellent. And today we're going to be talking about everything from reliability, incident management, to building a better internet. Really excited to talk about that. We're joined by Kolton Andrus, co-founder of Gremlin, and Alex Solomon, co-founder of PagerDuty. So, to get us started, Kolton and Alex, you two have known each other for a little while. Can you kick us off with maybe how you know each other?Alex: Sure. And thanks for having us on the podcast. So, I think if I remember correctly, I've known you, Kolton, since your days in Netflix while PagerDuty was a young startup, maybe less than 20 people. Is that right?Kolton: Just to touch before I joined Netflix. It was actually that Velocity Conference, we hung out of that suite at, I think that was 2013.Alex: Yeah, sounds right. That sounds right. And yeah, it's been how many years? Eight, nine years since? Yeah.Kolton: Yeah. Alex is being humble. He's let me bother him for advice a few times along the journey. And we talked about what it was like to start companies. You know, he was in the startup world; I was still in the corporate world when we met back at that suite.I was debating starting Gremlin at that time, and actually, I went to Netflix and did a couple more years because I didn't feel I was quite ready. But again, it's been great that Alex has been willing to give some of his time and help a fellow startup founder with some advice and help along the journey. And so I've been fortunate to be able to call on him a few times over the years.Alex: Yeah, yeah. For sure, for sure. I'm always happy to help.Julie: That's great that you have your circle of friends that can help you. And also, you know, Kolton, it sounds like you did your tour of duty at Netflix; Alex, you did a tour duty at Amazon; you, too, Kolton. What are some of the things that you learned?Alex: Yeah, good question. For me, when I joined Amazon, it was a stint of almost three years from '05 to '08, and I would say I learned a ton. Amazon, it was my first job out of school, and Amazon was truly one of the pioneers of DevOps. They had moved to an environment where their architecture was oriented around services, service-oriented architecture, and they were one of the pioneers of doing that, and moving from a monolith, breaking up a monolith into services. And with that, they also changed the way teams organized, generally oriented around full service-ownership, which is, as an engineer, you own one or more services—your team, rather—owns one or more services, and you're not just writing code, but you're also testing yourself. There's no, like, QA team to throw it to. You are doing deploys to production, and when something breaks, you're also in charge of maintaining the services in production.And yeah, if something breaks back then we used pagers and the pager would go off, you'd get paged, then you'd have to get on it quickly and fix the problem. If you didn't, it would escalate to your boss. So, I learned that was kind of the new way of working. I guess, in my inexperience, I took it for granted a little bit, in retrospect. It made me a better engineer because it evolved me into a better systems thinker. I wasn't just thinking about code and how to build a feature, but I was also thinking about, like, how does that system need to work and perform and scale in production, and how does it deal with failures in production?And it also—my time at Amazon served as inspiration for PagerDuty because in starting a startup, the way we thought about the idea of PagerDuty was by thinking back from our time at Amazon—myself and my other two co-founders, Andrew and Baskar—and we thought about what are useful tools or internal tools that existed at Amazon that we wished existed in the broader world? And we thought about, you know, an internal tool that Amazon developed, which was called the ‘Pager Duty Tool' because it organized the on-call scheduling and paging and it was attached to the incident—to the ticketing system. So, if there's was a SEV 1 or SEV 2 ticket, it would actually page either one team—or lots of teams if it was a major incident that impacted revenue and customers and all that good stuff. So yeah, that's where we got the inspiration for PagerDuty by carrying the pager and seeing that tool exist within Amazon and realizing, hey, Amazon built this, Google has their own version, Facebook has their own version. It seems like there's a need here. That's kind of where that initial germ of an idea came from.Kolton: So, much overlap. So, much similarity. I came, you know, a couple of years behind you. I was at Amazon 2009 to 2013. And I'd had the opportunity to work for a couple of startups out of college and while I was finishing my education, I'd tasted startup world a little bit.My funny story I tell there is I turned down my first offer from Amazon to go work for a small startup that I thought was going to be a better deal. Turns out, I was bad at math, and a couple of years later, I went back to Amazon and said, “Hey, would you still like me?” And I ended up on the availability team, and so very much in the heart of what Alex is describing. It was a ‘you build it, you own it, you operate it' environment. Teams were on call, they got paged, and the rationale was, if you felt the pain of that, then you were going to be motivated to go fix it and ensure that you weren't feeling that pain.And so really, again, and I agree, somewhat taken for granted that we really learned best-in-class DevOps and system thinking and distributed system principles, by just virtue of being immersed into it and having to solve the problems that we had to solve at Amazon. We also share a similar story in that there was a tool for paging within Amazon that served as a bit of an inspiration for PagerDuty. Similarly, we built a tool—may or may not have been named Gremlin—within Amazon that helped us to go do this exact type of testing. And it was one part tooling and it was one part evangelism. It was a controversial idea, even at Amazon.Some teams latched on to it quickly, some teams needed some convincing, but we had that opportunity to go work with those teams and really go develop this concept. It was cool because while Netflix—a lot of folks are familiar with Netflix and Chaos Monkey, this was a couple of years before Chaos Monkey came out. And we went and built something similar to what we built a Gremlin: An API, a front end, a variety of failure modes, to really go help solve a wider breadth of problems. I got to then move into performance, and so I worked on making the website fast, making sure that we were optimizing things. Moved into management.That was a very useful life experience wasn't the most enjoyable year of my life, but learned a lot, got a lot done. And then that was the next summer, as I was thinking about what was next, I bumped into Alex. I was really starting to think about founding a company, and there was a big question: Was what we built an Amazon going to be applicable to everyone? Was it going to be useful for everyone? Were they ready for it?And at the time, I really wasn't sure. And so I decided to go to Netflix. And that was right after Chaos Monkey had come out, and I thought, “Well, let's go see—let's go learn a bit more before we're ready to take this to market.” And because of that time at Amazon—or at Netflix, I got to see, they had a great start. They had a great culture, people were bought into it, but there was still some room for development on the tooling and on the approach.And I found myself again, half in the developer mindset, half in the advocacy mindset where needed to go and prove the tooling to make it safer and more scalable and needed to go out and convince folks or help them do it well. But seeing it work at Amazon, that was great. That was a great learning experience. Seeing at work at Amazon and Netflix, to me said, “Okay, this is something that everyone's going to need at some point, and so let's go out and take a stab at it.”Alex: That's interesting. I didn't realize that it came from Amazon. I always thought Chaos Engineering as a concept came from Netflix because that's where everyone's—I mean, maybe I'm not the only one, but that's—that was my impression, so that's interesting.Kolton: Well, as you know, Amazon, at times, likes to keep things close to the vest, and if you're not a principal engineer, you're not really authorized to go talk about what you've done. And that actually led to where my opportunity to start a company came from. I was speaking about what I built at Netflix at a conference and I ran into some VCs in the lobby, and we got into a bit of a debate. They were like, “Hey, have you thought about building a company around this?” And I was like, “I have, but I don't want your money. I'm going to bootstrap it. We're going to figure it out on our own.” And the debate went back and forth a little bit and ultimately it ended with, “Oh, you have five kids and you live in California? Maybe you should take some money.”Mandi: So, what ends up being different? Amazon—I've never worked for Amazon, so full disclosure, I went from AOL to Chef, and now I'm at PagerDuty. So, but I know what that environment was like, and I remember the early days, PagerDuty you got started around the same time, like, Fastly and Chef and, like, that sort of generation of startups. And all this stuff that sort of emerged from Amazon, like, what kind of mindset do you—is there a change of mindset when you're talking to developers and engineers that don't work for Amazon, looking into Amazon from the outside, you kind of feel like there's a lot more buy-in for those kinds of tools, and that kind of participation, and that kind of—like we said before, the full service-ownership and all of those attitudes and all that cultural pieces that come along with it, so when you're taking these sort of practices commercial outside of Amazon, what changes? Like, is there a different messaging? Is there a different sort of relationship you have with the developers that work somewhere else?Alex: I have some thoughts, and it may not be cohesive, but I'm going to go ahead anyway. Well, one thing that was very interesting from Amazon is that by being a pioneer and being at a scale that's very significant compared to other companies, they had to invent a lot of the tooling themselves because back in mid-2000s, and beyond, there was no Datadog. There was no AWS; they invented AWS. There wasn't any of these tools, Kubernetes, and so on, that we take for granted around containers, and even virtual servers were a new thing. And Amazon was actually I think, one of the pioneers of adopting that through open-source rather than through, like, a commercial vendor like VMware, which drove the adoption of virtual everything.So, that's one observation is they built their own monitoring, they built their own paging systems. They did not build their own ticketing system, but they might as well have because they took Remedy and customized it so much that it's almost like building your own. And deployment tools, a lot of this tooling, and I'm sure Kolton, having worked on these teams, would know more about the tooling than I did as just an engineer who was using the tooling. But they had to build and invent their own tools. And I think through that process, they ended up culturally adopting a ‘not invented here' mindset as well, where they're, generally speaking, not super friendly towards using a vendor versus doing it themselves.And I think that may make sense and made a lot of sense because they were at such a scale where there was no vendor that was going to meet their needs. But maybe that doesn't make as much sense anymore, so that's maybe a good question for debate. I don't know, Kolton, if you have any thoughts as well.Kolton: Yeah, a lot of agreement. I think what was needed, we needed to build those things at Amazon because they embraced that distributed systems, the service-oriented architectures early on, that is a new class of problem. I think in a world where you're not dealing with the complexity of distributed systems, Chaos Engineering just looks like testing. And that's fine. If you're in a monolith and it's more straightforward, great.But when you have hundreds of things with all the interconnections and the combinatorial explosion you have with that, the old approach no longer works and you have to find something new. It's funny you mentioned the tooling. I miss Amazon's monitoring tooling, it was really good. I miss the first iteration of their pipelines, their CI/CD tooling. It was a great iteration.And I think that's really—you get to see that need, and that evolution, that iteration, and a bit of a head start. You asked a bit about what is it like taking that to market? I think one of the things that surprised me a little bit, or I had to learn, is different companies are at different points in their journey, and when you've worked at Amazon and Netflix, and you think everybody is further along than they are, at times, it can be a little frustrating, or you have to step back and think about how do you catch somebody up? How do you educate them? How do you get them to the point where they can take advantage of it?And so that's, you know, that's really been the learning for me is we know aspirationally where we want to go—and again, it's not the Amazon's perfect; it's not the Netflix is perfect. People that I talk to tend to deify Netflix engineering, and I think they've earned a lot of respect, but the sausage is made the same, fundamentally, at every company. And it can be messy at times, and it's not always—things don't always go well, but that opportunity to look at what has gone well, what it should look like, what it could look like really helps you understand what you're striving for with your customers or with the market as a whole.Alex: I totally agree with that because those are big learning for me as well. Like, when you come out of an Amazon, you think that maybe a lot of companies are like Amazon, in that they're… more like I mentioned: Amazon was a pioneer of service-oriented architecture; a pioneer of DevOps; and you build it, you own it; pioneer of adopting virtual servers and virtual hosting. And you, maybe, generalize and think, you know, other companies are there as well, and that's not true. There's a wide variety of maturities and these trends, these big trends like Cloud, like AWS, like virtualization, like containerization, they take ten years to fully mature from the starting point. With the usual adopter curve of very early adopters all the way to, kind of, the big part of the curve.And by virtue of starting PagerDuty in 2009, we were on the early side of the DevOps wave. And I would say, very fortunate to be in the right place at the right time, riding that wave and riding that trend. And we worked with a lot of customers who wanted to modernize, but the biggest challenge there is, perhaps it's the people and process problem. If you're already an established company, and you've been around for a while you do things a certain way, and change is hard. And you have to get folks to change and adapt and change their jobs, and change from being a, “sysadmin,” quote-unquote, to an SRE, and learn how to code and use that in your job.So, that change takes a long time, and companies have taken a long time to do it. And the newer companies and startups will get there from day one because they just adopt the newest thing, the latest and greatest, but the big companies take a while.Kolton: Yeah, it's both that thing—people can catch up quicker. It's not that the gap is as large, and when you get to start fresh, you get to pick up a lot of those principles and be further along, but I want to echo the people, the culture, getting folks to change how they're doing things, that's something, especially in our world, where we're asking folks to think about distributed system testing and cross-team collaboration in a different way, and part of that is a mental journey, just helping folks get over the idea—we have to deal with some misconceptions, folks think chaos has to be random, they think it has to be done in production. That's not the case. There's ways to do it in dev and staging, there's ways to do it that aren't random that are much safer and more deterministic.But helping folks get over those misconceptions, helping folks understand how to do it and how to do it well, and then how to measure the outcomes. That's another thing I think we have that's a bit tougher in our SRE ops world is oftentimes when we do a great job, it's the absence of something as opposed to an outcome that we can clearly see. And you have to do more work when you're proving the absence of something than the converse.Julie: You know, I think it's interesting, having worked with both of you when I was at PagerDuty and now at Gremlin, there's a theme. And so we've talked a lot about Amazon and Netflix; one of the things, distinctly, with customers at both companies, is I've heard, “But we're not Amazon and we're not Netflix.” And that can be a barrier for some companies, especially when we talk about this change, and especially when we talk about very rigid organizations, such as, maybe, FinServ, government, those types of organizations, where they're more resistant to that, and they say, “Don't say Amazon. Don't say Netflix. We're not those companies. We can't operate like them.”I mean, Mandy and I, we were on a call with a customer at one point that said we couldn't use the term DevOps, we had to call it something different because DevOps just meant too forward-thinking, even though we were talking about the same concepts. So, I guess what I would like to hear from both of you, is what advice would you give to those organizations that say, “Oh, no. We can't be Netflix and we can't be Amazon?” Because I think that's just a fear of change conversation. But I'm curious what your thoughts are.Alex: Yeah. And I can see why folks are allergic to that because you look at these companies, and they're, in a lot of ways, so far ahead that you don't, you know—and if you're a lower level of maturity, for lack of a better word, you can't see a path in your head of how do you get from where you are today to becoming more like a Netflix or an Amazon because it's so different. And it requires a lot of thinking differently. So, I think what I would encourage, and I think this is what you all do really well in terms of advocacy, but what I'd encourage is, like, education and thinking about, like, what's a small step that you can take today to improve things and to improve your maturity? What's an on-ramp?And there's, you know, lots of ideas there. Like, for example, if we're talking about modern incident management, if we're talking Chaos Engineering, if we're talking about public cloud adoption and any of these trends, DevOps, SRE, et cetera, maybe think about how do you—do you have a new greenfield project, a brand new system that you're spinning up, how do you do that in a modern way while leaving your existing systems alone to start? Then you learn how to do it and how to operate it and how to build a new service, a new microservice using these new technologies, you build that muscle. You maybe hire some folks who have done it before; that's always a good way to do it. But start with something greenfield, start small, you don't have to boil the ocean, you don't have to do everything at once. And that's really important.And then create a plan of taking other systems and migrating them. And maybe some systems don't make sense to migrate at all because they're just legacy. You don't want to put any more investment in them. You just want to run them, they work, leave them alone. And yeah, think about a plan like that. And there's lots of—now, there's lots of advice and lots of organizations that are ready and willing to help folks think through these plans and think through this modernization journey.Kolton: Yeah, I agree with that. It's daunting to folks that there's a lot, it's a big problem to solve. And so, you know, it'd be great if it's you do X, you get Y, you're done, but that's not really the world we live in. And so I agree with that wisdom: Start small. Find the place that you can make an impact, show what it looks like for it to be successful.One thing I've found is when you want to drive bottoms-up consensus, people really want to see the proof, they want to see the outcome. And so that opportunity to sit down with a team that is already on the cutting edge, that is feeling the pain, and helping them find success, whether that's SRE, DevOps, whether it's Chaos Engineering, helping them, see it, see the outcome, see the value, and then let them tell their organization. We all hear from other folks what we should be doing, and there's a lot of that information, there's a lot of that context, and some of its noise, and so how we cut through that into what's useful, becomes part of it. This one to me is funny because we hear a lot, “Hey, we have enough chaos already. We don't need any more chaos.”And I get it. It's funny, but it's my least favorite joke because, number one, if you have a lot of chaos, then actually you need this today. It's about removing the chaos, not about adding chaos. The other part of it is it speaks to we need to get better before we're ready to embrace this. And as somebody that works out regularly, a gym analogy comes to mind.It's kind of like your New Year's, it's your New Year's resolution and you say, “Hey, I'm going to lose ten pounds before I start going to the gym.” Well, it's a little bit backwards. If you want to get the outcome, you have to put in a bit of the work. And actually, the best way to learn how to do it is by doing it, by going out getting a little bit of—you know, you can get help, you can get guidance. That's why we have companies, we're here to help people and teach them what we've learned, but going out doing a bit of it will help you learn how you can do it better, and better understand your own systems.Alex: Yeah, I like the workout analogy a lot. I think it's hard to get started, it's painful at first. That's why I like the analogy [laugh]—Kolton: [laugh].Alex: —a lot. But it's a muscle that you need to keep practicing, and it's easy to lose, you stopped doing it, it's gone. And it's hard to get back again. So yeah, I like that analogy a lot.Julie: Well, I like that, too, because that's something that we talked a lot about for being on call, and understanding how to handle incidents, and building that muscle memory, right, practice. And so there's a lot of crossover—just like this episode, folks—between both Gremlin and PagerDuty as to how they help organizations be better. And again, going back to building a better internet. I mean, Alex your shirt—which our viewers—or our listeners—can't see, says, “The world is always on. Let's keep it this way,” and Kolton, you talk about reliability being no accident.And so when we talk about the foundations of both of these organizations, it's about helping engineers be better and make better products. And I'm really excited to learn a little bit more about where you think the future of that can go.For the second part of this episode, check out the PagerDuty podcast at Page it to the Limit. For links to the Page it to the Limit podcast and to all the information mentioned, visit our website atgremlin.com/podcast. If you liked this episode, subscribe to Break Things on Purpose on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.Jason: Our theme song is called, “Battle of Pogs” by Komiku, and it's available onloyaltyfreakmusic.com.[SPLIT]Mandy: All right, welcome. This week on Page it to the Limit, we have a crossover episode. If you haven't heard part one of this episode featuring Kolton Andrus and Alex Solomon, you'll need to find it. It's on the Break Things on Purposepodcast from our friends at Gremlin. So, you'll find that atgremlin.com/podcast. You can listen to that episode and then come back and listen to our episode this week as we join the conversation in progress.Julie: There's a lot of crossover—just like this episode, folks—between both Gremlin and PagerDuty as to how they help organizations be better. And again, going back to building a better internet. I mean, Alex your shirt—which our viewers—or our listeners—can't see, says, “The world is always on. Let's keep it this way,” and Kolton, you talk about reliability being no accident. And so when we talk about the foundations of both of these organizations, it's about helping engineers be better and make better products. And I'm really excited to learn a little bit more about where you think the future of that can go.Kolton: You hit it though. Like, the key to me is I'm an engineer by trade. I felt this pain, I saw value in the solution. I love to joke, I'm a lazy engineer. I don't like getting woken up in the middle of the night, I'd like my system to just work well, but if I can go save some other people that pain, if I can go help them to more quickly understand, or ramp, or have a better on-call life have a better work-life balance, that's something we can do that helps the broader market.And we do that, as you mentioned, in service of a more reliable internet. The world we live in is online, undoubtedly, after the last couple of years, and it's only going to be more so. And people's expectations, if you're an older person like me, you know, maybe you remember downloading AOL for a couple of hours, or when a web page took a minute to load; people's expectations are much different now. And that's why the reliability, the performance, making sure things work when we need them to is critical.Alex: Absolutely. And I think there's also a trend that I see and that we're part of around automation. And automation is a very broad thing, there's lots of ways that you want to automate manual things, including CI/CD and automated testing and things like that, but I also think about automation in the incident context, like when you have an alert that fires off or you have an incident you have something like that, can you automate the solution or actually even prevent that alert from going off in the first place by creating a set of little robots that are kind of floating around your system and keeping things running and running well and running reliably? So, I think that's an exciting trend for us.Mandy: Oh, definitely on board with automating all the things for sure. So, of the things that you've learned, what's one thing that you wish you had maybe learned earlier? Or if there was like a gem or a nugget for folks that might be thinking about starting their own company around developer tools or this kind of software, is there anything that you can share with them?Alex: Kolton, you want to go first?Kolton: Sure, I'll go first. I was thinking a little bit about this. If I went back—we've only been at about six years, so Alex has the ten-year version. I can give you the five, six-year version. You know, I think coming into it as a technical founder, you have a lot of thoughts about how the world works that you learn are incorrect or incomplete.It's easy as an engineer to think that sales is this dirty organization that's only focused on money, and that's just not true or fair. They do a lot of hard work. Getting people to do the right thing is tough. Helping with support, with customer success.Even marketing. Marketing is, you know, to many engineers, not what they would spend their time doing, and yet marketing has really changed in the last 20 years. And so much of marketing now is about sharing information and teaching what we've learned as opposed to this old approach of you know, whatever you watched on TV as a kid. So, I think understanding the broader business is important. Understanding the value you're providing to customers, understanding the relationships you build with those customers and the community as a whole, those are pieces that might be easy to gloss over as an engineer.Alex: Yeah, and to echo that, I like your point on sales because initially when I first started PagerDuty, I didn't believe in sales. I thought we wouldn't need to hire any salespeople. Like, we sell to other engineers, and if they're anything like me, they don't want to talk to a salesperson. They want to go on the website, look around learn, maybe try it out—we had a free trial; we still have a free trial—and put in a credit card and off to the races. And that's what we did it first, but then it turns out that when doing so, and in customers in that way, there are folks who want to talk to you to make sure that, first of all your real business, you're going to be around for a while and it's not—you know, you're not going to not be around tomorrow.And that builds trust being able to talk to someone, to understand, if you have questions, you have someone to ask, and creating that human connection. And I found myself doing that function, like, myself and then realized, there's not enough time in the day to do this, so I need to hire some folks. And I changed my mind about sales and hired our first two salespeople about two-and-a-half years into PagerDuty. And probably got a little bit lucky because they're technical engineering background type folks who then went into sales, so they ended up being rockstars. And we instantly saw an increase in revenue with that.And then maybe another more tactical piece of advice is that you can't focus on culture too early when starting a company. And so one lesson that we learned the hard way is we hired an engineer that was brilliant, and really smart, but not the best culture fit in terms of, like, working well with others and creating that harmonious team dynamic with their peers. That ended up being an issue. And basically, the takeaway there is don't hire brilliant but asshole folks because it's just going to cause a lot of pain, and they're not going to work out even though they're really smart, and that's kind of the reason why you keep them around because you think, well, it's so hard to hire folks. You can't let this person go because what are we going to do? But you do have to do it because it's going to blow up anyways, and it's going to be worse in the long run.Kolton: Yeah, hiring and recruiting have their own set of challenges associated with them. And similar to hiring the brilliant jerk, some of the folks that you hire early on aren't going to be the folks that you have at the end. And that one's always tough. These are your friends, these are people you work closely with, and as the company grows, and as things change, people's roles change, and sometimes people choose to leave and that breaks your heart because you've invested a lot of time and effort into that relationship. Sometimes you have to break their heart and tell them it's not the right fit, or things change.And that's one that if you're a founder or you're part of that early team, you're going to feel a little bit more than everyone else. I don't think anything you read on the internet can prepare you for some of those difficult conversations you have to have. And it's great if everything goes well, and everyone grows at the same rate, everyone can be promoted, and you can have the same team at the end, but that's not really how things play out in reality.Julie: It's interesting that we're talking about culture, as we heard about last week, on the Break Things on Purposeepisode, where we also talked about culture and how organizations struggle with the culture shift with adopting new technologies, new ways of working, new tools. And so what I'm hearing from you is focusing on that when hiring and founding your company is important. We also heard about how that's important with changing the way that we work. So, if you could give an advice to maybe a very established—if you are going to give a piece of advice to Amazon—maybe not Amazon, but an established company—on how to overcome some of those objections to culture change, those fears of adopting new technology. I know people are still afraid of holding a pager and being on call, and I know other people are afraid of chaos as we talk about it and those fears that you've mentioned before, Kolton. What would your piece of advice be?Alex: Yeah, good—great question. This will probably echo what I've said earlier, which is when looking to transform, transform culture especially, and people and process, the way I think about is try to not boil the ocean and start small, and get some early wins. And learn what good looks like. I think that's really important. It's this concept of show, don't tell.Like, if you want to, you know, you want to change something, you start at the grassroots level, you start small, you start maybe with one or two teams, you try it out, maybe something like I mentioned before, in a greenfield context where you're doing something brand new and you're not shackled by legacy systems or anything like that, then you can build something new or that new system using the new technologies that are that we're talking about here, whether it's public cloud, whether it's containerization and Kubernetes, or whatnot, or serverless, potentially. And as you build it and you learn how to build it and how to operate it, you share those learnings and you start evangelizing within the company.And that goes to what I was saying with the show don't tell where you're like showing, “Here's what we did and here's what we learned. And not everything went swimmingly and here are things that didn't go so well, and maybe what's our next step beyond this? Do other folks want to opt-in to this kind of new thing that we're doing?” And I'm sure that's a good way to get others excited. And if you're thinking about longer-term, like, how do you transform the entire company, well, that's this is a good way to start; start small you learn how to do it, you learn about what good looks like, you get others excited about it, others opt-in, and then at some point through that journey, you start mandating it top-down as well because grassroots is only going to take you so far. And then that's where you start putting together project plans around, like, how do we get other teams to do it, on a timeline? And when are they going to do it? And how are they going to do it? And then bring everyone along for the journey as well.Kolton: You're making this easy for me. I'll just keep agreeing with you. You hit all the points. Yeah, I mean, on one hand, the engineer in me says, you know, a lot of times when we're talking about this transformation, it's not easy, but it's worth it. There's a need that we're trying to solve, there's a problem we're trying to solve.And then the end, what that becomes as a competitive advantage. The thought that came to mind as Alex was speaking is you need that bottoms-up buy-in; you also need that top-down support. And as engineers, we don't often think about the business impact of what we do. There's an important element and a message I like to reiterate for all the engineers that, think about how the business would value the work you do. Think about how you would quantify the value of the work you do to the business because that's going to help that upper level that doesn't, in the day-to-day feeling the pain, understand that what we're doing is important, and it's important for the organization.I think about this a little bit like remote-by-default work. So, when we founded Gremlin, we decided you know, we didn't want offices. And six years ago that was a little bit exceptional. Folks were still fundamentally working in an office environment. I'm not here to tell you that remote-by-default is easy, works for everyone, or is the answer.Actually, what we found is you need a little bit of both. You need to be able to have good tooling so folks can be efficient and effective in their work, but it's still important to get folks together in person. And magic happens when you get a group of folks in a room and let them brainstorm and collaborate chat on the way to launch or on the way to dinner. But I think that's a good example where we've learned over the last couple of years that the old way of doing it was not as effective as it could be. That maybe we don't need to swing the pendulum entirely the other way, but there's merits at looking at what the right balance is.And I think that applies to, you know, incident management, to SRE, to Chaos Engineering. You know, maybe we don't have to go entirely on the other end of the spectrum for everyone, but are there little—you know, is there an 80/20 solution that gets us a lot of value, that saves a lot of time, that makes us more efficient and effective, without having to rewrite everything from scratch?Alex: Yeah, I like that a lot. And I think part of it, just to add to that, is make it easy for people to adopt it, too. Like, if you can automate it for folks, “Hey, here's a Terraform thing where you could just hit a button and it does it for you, here's some training around how to leverage it, and here's the easy button for you to adopt.” I think that goes with the technology of adopting, but also the training, also the, you know, how-tos and learnings. That way, it's not going to be, like, a big painful thing, you can plan for it. And yeah, it's off to the races from there.Kolton: I think that's prudent product advice, as well. Make it easy for people to do the right thing. And I'm sure it's tricky in your space; it's really tricky in our space. We're going out and we're causing failure, and there's inadvertent side effects, and you need to understand what's happening. It's a little scary, but that's where we add a lot of value.We invest a lot of time and effort in how do we make it easy to understand, easy to understand what to expect, and easy to go do and see what happens and see that value? And it sounds easy. You know, “Hey, just make it easy. Just make it simple,” but actually, as we know, it takes so much more effort and work to get it to be that level of simplicity.Alex: Yeah, making something easy is very, very hard—Kolton: [laugh].Julie: —ironically.Kolton: Yeah. Ironically.Mandy: Yeah, so what are you excited for the future? What's on your horizon that maybe you can share with us that isn't too, like, top-secret or anything? Or even stuff, maybe, not related to your companies? Like, what are you seeing in the industry that really has you motivated and excited?Alex: Great question. I think a couple of things come to mind. I already mentioned automation, and we are in the automation space in a couple of different ways, in that we acquired a company called Rundeck over a year ago now, which does runbook automation and just automation in general around something like running a script across a variety of resources. And in the incident context, if an alert fires or an incident fires, it's that self-healing aspect where you can actually resolve the issue without bothering a human.There's two modes to this automation: There's the kind of full self-healing mode where, you know, something happens and the script just fixes it. And then the second mode is a human is involved, they get paged, and they have a toolbox of things that they can do, that they can easily do. We call that the Iron Man mode, where you're getting, like, these buttons you can push to actually resolve the problem, but in that case, it's a type of problem that does require a person to look at it and realize, oh, we should take this action to fix it. So, I'm very excited about the automation and continuing down that path.And then the other thing that really excites me as well is being able to apply AI and ML to the alerting and incident response and incident management space. Especially our pattern detection, looking for patterns and alerts and incidents, and seeing have we seen this kind of problem before? If so, what happened last time? Who worked on the last time? How did they resolve it last time?Because, you know, you don't want to solve the same problems over and over. And that actually ties into automation really nicely as well. That pattern detection, it's around reducing noise, like, these alerts are not real alerts, they're false alerts, so let's reduce them automatically, let's suppress them, let's filter them out automatically because the signal to noise is really important. And it's that pattern detection, so if something major is happening, you can see here's the blast radius, here's the services or systems it's impacting. Oh, we've seen something similar before—or we haven't seen something similar before, it's something totally brand new—and try to get the right folks involved quickly so that they can understand that blast radius and know how to approach the problem, and resolve it quickly.Kolton: So, it's not NFT's is your PagerDuty profile picture?Alex: [laugh].Kolton: Because that's, kind of, what I—no, I'm kidding. I couldn't help but just like what do I not see—like, I've, I've tried to think of the best NFT joke I could. That was what I came up with. I agree on the AI/ML stuff. That opportunity to have more data and to be able to do better analysis of it, I've written some of that, you know, anomaly detection stuff—and it was a while back; I'm sure it could be done better—that'll get us to a point.You know, of course, I'm here to push on the proactive. There's things we can do beyond just reacting faster that will be helpful. But I think part of that comes from people being comfortable sharing more about their failures. It's a stigmata to fail today, and regardless of whether we're talking about a world where we're inciting things like blameless postmortems, people still don't want to talk about their failures, and it's hard to get that good outage information, it's hard to get the kind of detail that would let us do better analytics, better automation.And again, back to the conversation, you know, maybe we know what Amazon and Netflix looks like, but for us to create something that will help solve a broader problem, we have to know what those companies are feeling in pain; we need to know what their troubles are hitting at. So, I think that's one thing I've been excited about is over the past two years, you've seen the focus on reliable, stable systems be much more important. Five years ago, it was, “Get out of my way, I got features to write, we got money to make, we're not interested in that. If it breaks, we'll fix it.” And you know, as we're looking at the future, we're looking at our bridges, we're looking at our infrastructure, our transportation, the software we're writing is going to be critical to the world, and it operating correctly and reliably is going to be critical. And I think what we'll see is the market and customers are going to catch up to that; that tolerance for failure is going to go down and that willingness to invest in preventing failure is going to go up.Alex: Yeah, I totally agree with that. One thing I would add is, I think it's human nature that people don't want to talk about failures. And this is maybe not going to go away, but there is maybe a middle ground there. I mean, talking about postmortems, especially, like, when a big company has a big outage and it makes the news, it makes Hacker News, et cetera, et cetera, I don't see that changing, in that companies are going to become radically more transparent, but where I do think there is a middle ground is for your large customers, for your important customers, creating relationships with them and having more transparency in those cases. Maybe you don't post it on a public status page a full, detailed nitty-gritty postmortem, but what you do do is you talk to your major customers, your important customers, and you give them that deeper view into your systems.And what's good about that is that it creates trust, it helps establish and maintain trust when you're more transparent about problems, especially when you're taking steps to fix them. And that piece is really important. I mean trust is, like, at the core of what we do. I have a saying about this—[unintelligible 00:19:31]—but, “Trust is won in droplets and lost in buckets.” So, if you have these outages all the time, or you have major service degradation, it's easy to lose that trust. So, you want to prevent those, you want to catch them early, you want to create that transparency with your major customers, and you want to let them in the loop on what's happening and how you're preventing these types of issues going forward.Kolton: Yeah, great thoughts. Totally agree.Julie: So, for this episode of deep thoughts with Kolton and Alex, [laugh] I want to thank both of you for being here with Mandy and I today. We're really excited to hear more and to see each of our respective companies grow and change the way people work and make life easier, not just for engineers, but for our customers and everybody that depends on us.Mandy: Yeah, absolutely. I think it's good for folks out there to know, you're not alone. We're all learning this stuff together. And some folks are a little further down the path, and we're here to help you learn.Kolton: Totally. Totally, it's an opportunity for us to share. Those that are further along can share what they've learned; those that are new or have some great ideas and suggestions and enthusiasm, and by working together, we all benefit. This is the two plus two equals five, where, by getting together and sharing what we've learned and figuring out the best way, no one of us is going to be able to do it, but as a group, we can do it better.Alex: Yeah. Totally agree. That's a great closing thought.Mandy: Well, thanks, folks. Thank you for joining us for another episode of Page it to the Limit. We're wishing you an uneventful day.

In Today's episode of "Moment of Truth," Saurabh and Nick sit down with Antonio García Martínez, former ads targeting product manager at Facebook, author of "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley", and now Senior Fellow at the Lincoln Network, to discuss the early days of Facebook, the invention of ad-targeting, and what's in store for the future internet, cryptocurrencies, and nation states. You won't want to miss this episode!Antonio García Martínez has been an advisor to Twitter, a product manager for Facebook, the CEO/founder of AdGrok (a venture-backed startup acquired by Twitter), and a strategist for Goldman Sachs. He is still officially on leave from his Berkeley PhD program, and lives on a forty-foot sailboat on the San Francisco Bay.Learn more about Antonio García Martínez's work:https://antoniogarciamartinez.com/about-antonio-garcia-martinez/https://twitter.com/antoniogmBuy "Chaos Monkeys" --> https://antoniogarciamartinez.com/purchase/––––––Follow American Moment on Social Media:Twitter – https://twitter.com/AmMomentOrgFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/AmMomentOrgInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/ammomentorg/YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4qmB5DeiFxt53ZPZiW4TcgRumble – https://rumble.com/c/c-695775Check out AmCanon:https://www.americanmoment.org/amcanon/American Moment's "Moment of Truth" Podcast is recorded at the Conservative Partnership Center in Washington DC, produced and edited by Jared Cummings.Subscribe to our Podcast, "Moment of Truth"Apple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moment-of-truth/id1555257529Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/5ATl0x7nKDX0vVoGrGNhAjiHeart Radio – https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-moment-of-truth-77884750/ Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

With the non-stop information being forced upon us every single day, is anyone able to sit still and think for themselves? Today on the Spiritual Spiral, I begin by reading an excerpt from Steven Pressfield's amazing book, The War of Art, and talk about my own creative process and how I often oscillate from feeling positive to negative about my own craft. I talk about energy and instinct and share a story from this past week where I stopped at a gas station on the border of Arizona and California. As I walked out of the bathroom, I immediately had a feeling in my gut that something could go terribly wrong. I play a clip from the Joe Rogan podcast where Joe talks with Sam Harris about the complexity surrounding the human instinct and why it's so challenging to predict what may happen at any given moment. I read an excerpt from Antonia Martinez's incredible book Chaos Monkey's and wonder how technology and algorithms have impacted the way people think. I end the show by talking about propaganda, how the mainstream news media seemingly wants everyone to think the same way and I play a powerful clip from a recent Joe Rogan podcast where his guest finds some striking similarities between present day and the 1920's. Remember, if you enjoy today's episode and you want to support the show, please subscribe to the podcast on iTUNES or Spotify. Consider sharing the show with your friends which is also a huge help or head over to iTunes and write a quick review. You can also support the show by becoming a subscriber at www.patreon.com/eddiecohn where you can access exclusive content only available to subscribers. I also released a new record which you can purchase at eddieconn.bandcamp.com or visit my website www.iameddiecohn.com and sign up for my email list and newsletter and as always, thanks so much for listening and supporting the show. Please reach out on Twitter or IG @eddiecohn with any questions. 

Katie Benner, Tom Dotan, and Eric Newcomer look back on 2021 in Techmeme headlines for our final episode of Dead Cat for the year. We discuss some of the biggest stories of the year: In January, Microsoft said Russian hackers accessed some of its source code and the U.S. government pinned the SolarWinds hack on Russians. In February, Elon Musk drove Clubhouse listeners (and journalists blocked by Marc Andreessen) to YouTube as they tried to listen to the live interview on the platform. It would represent a peak moment of cultural relevance for Clubhouse. In March, Stripe's valuation climbed to $95 billion. (And we talked about Stripe's critics on Y Combinator-owned Hacker News and the coverage of Stripe's hiring practices in Protocol.) In May, Antonio García Martínez declared that Apple had fired him over the culture war backlash to his book Chaos Monkeys. In June, the New York Times wrote about tough working conditions at Amazon. Later this year, a tornado would rip through an Amazon facility, killing six and raising further questions about how Amazon protects its workers. Also in June, Andreessen Horowitz launched its much-discussed Future — a publication that hasn't yet taken Silicon Valley by storm but has put every venture firm on notice that they need to think about getting in the content business. We talked about Robinhood's IPO in July and the rise of meme stocks. And we discussed how big tech executives don't seem to want to worry about the present. Jeff Bezos stepped down as Amazon CEO in July as he spends more time on Blue Origin; Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rebranded his company to Meta in October; and Jack Dorsey left behind moderation challenges at Twitter in late November and then renamed his financial services company Square to Block, hoping to emphasize the company's crypto ambitions. Finally, Tom, Katie, and Eric offer some predictions for what 2022 holds, though no one seems quite sure after this strange year.Techmeme!My favorite tech headline aggregator, tweet tracker, and conversation setter — Techmeme — has been generously featuring me on their home page as part of a round-up of interesting tech newsletters. So I wanted to return the favor.I check Techmeme literally every couple of hours and rely on it to do my job. And in a genuine coincidence, Techmeme served as an easy-to-navigate archive for this week's podcast. It's a free news aggregator for tech industry folks that's updated constantly to show the most important tech stories of the moment and the commentary surrounding those stories. They also publish a daily newsletter with stories from the past day, which is useful if you forget to visit the site. Get full access to Newcomer at www.newcomer.co/subscribe

Katie Benner, Tom Dotan, and Eric Newcomer look back on 2021 in Techmeme headlines for our final episode of Dead Cat for the year. We discuss some of the biggest stories of the year: In January, Microsoft said Russian hackers accessed some of its source code and the U.S. government pinned the SolarWinds hack on Russians. In February, Elon Musk drove Clubhouse listeners (and journalists blocked by Marc Andreessen) to YouTube as they tried to listen to the live interview on the platform. It would represent a peak moment of cultural relevance for Clubhouse. In March, Stripe’s valuation climbed to $95 billion. (And we talked about Stripe’s critics on Y Combinator-owned Hacker News and the coverage of Stripe’s hiring practices in Protocol.) In May, Antonio García Martínez declared that Apple had fired him over the culture war backlash to his book Chaos Monkeys. In June, the New York Times wrote about tough working conditions at Amazon. Later this year, a tornado would rip through an Amazon facility, killing six and raising further questions about how Amazon protects its workers. Also in June, Andreessen Horowitz launched its much-discussed Future — a publication that hasn’t yet taken Silicon Valley by storm but has put every venture firm on notice that they need to think about getting in the content business. We talked about Robinhood’s IPO in July and the rise of meme stocks. And we discussed how big tech executives don’t seem to want to worry about the present. Jeff Bezos stepped down as Amazon CEO in July as he spends more time on Blue Origin; Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rebranded his company to Meta in October; and Jack Dorsey left behind moderation challenges at Twitter in late November and then renamed his financial services company Square to Block, hoping to emphasize the company’s crypto ambitions. Finally, Tom, Katie, and Eric offer some predictions for what 2022 holds, though no one seems quite sure after this strange year.Techmeme!My favorite tech headline aggregator, tweet tracker, and conversation setter — Techmeme — has been generously featuring me on their home page as part of a round-up of interesting tech newsletters. So I wanted to return the favor.I check Techmeme literally every couple of hours and rely on it to do my job. And in a genuine coincidence, Techmeme served as an easy-to-navigate archive for this week’s podcast. It’s a free news aggregator for tech industry folks that’s updated constantly to show the most important tech stories of the moment and the commentary surrounding those stories. They also publish a daily newsletter with stories from the past day, which is useful if you forget to visit the site. Get full access to Newcomer at www.newcomer.co/subscribe

Featuring:Brian Barnes, Partner, Cooper & Kirk PLLCAntonio García-Martínez, Author, Chaos Monkeys, and ex-Advisor, TwitterMichael McConnell, Richard and Frances Mallery Professor, Stanford Law School, and Co-Chair, Oversight BoardChris Pavlovski, Founder and CEO, Rumble.comModerator: Olivia Jackson, General Counsel, Oversight BoardIntroduction: Jonathan Breit, Stanford Law School ’22* * * * * As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speaker.

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Antonio García-Martínez about his recent firing at Apple. They discuss his experience in tech, his book “Chaos Monkeys,” the controversy at Apple, cancel culture, and other topics. Antonio García Martínez is a former early Facebooker, advisor at Twitter, and (very briefly) an employee at Apple before being the object of a petition for his dismissal. His memoir Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure was on The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal bestseller lists, as well as NPR’s Best Books of 2016, and still somehow manages to be a subject of debate five years later. Website: https://www.thepullrequest.com/ Twitter: @antoniogm Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That’s why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life’s most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.

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Leadership in the age of Distraction and Destruction has become very challenging with the old paradigms and time tested concepts being challenged, destroyed and replaced by new thinking. Several elements are creating a change in the management and leadership style. Rise of new media has created new media stars and a different and direct way of communication. It is allowing instant communication between the communicator and the receivers with open channel for communication both ways and that too can happen in full public glare where others can watch it and jump in at their will. Old play books for success are getting replaced with new innovative ideas. Old and ever successful companies are struggling to catch up with the growth rates of new innovative businesses. The new forms of power are emerging with new models of engagement and the New math. What should a leader do?

In this episode RegTech is sexy. No, really, it is! RegTech goes beyond developing new technology to meet regulatory requirements – and it does more than save banks money. It's about automating manual tasks and upskilling humans so their new work makes them feel valued. It's about helping customers get better advice and service. It's about making sure the business doesn't come crashing down when the person in charge of the spreadsheet moves on. In this episode of FinTech Insider, we've assembled an expert team to explain what RegTech is and how to take advantage of this opportunity –  and imperative – to transform your business (you'll also learn about Jason's regulation chaos monkey idea ????). Guests Nick Cook, Head of Market Intelligence, Data, and Analysis at the Financial Conduct Authority Michelle Katics, Co-Founder and CEO, PortfolioQuest & BankersLab Diana Paredes, CEO & Co-founder at Suade Labs Evgeny Likhoded,  Co-Founder and CEO at ClauseMatch Enjoying FinTech Insider? Tell a friend about us and please leave us a review on iTunes. Consider it a birthday present to us – 11:FS turns 1 today! ???? The post Ep234 – RegTech Chaos Monkey appeared first on 11:FS.

“Existe un código de silencio en Silicon Valley”, dice Antonio García Martínez. Él se atrevió a romperlo este año al publicar Chaos Monkeys, un libro en primera persona en que revela intimidades de Facebook, Twitter, la aceleradora Y Combinator y la vida de los startuperos que quieren lanzar el próximo gran gigante de internet. Antonio retrata un mundo sin moral, lleno de cuchilladas por la espalda, chantajes e internas de oficina, muy lejano de esa imagen edulcorada que las grandes empresas nos venden a diario en sus boletines de prensa y videos para redes sociales. ESTE 1 DE ENERO EMPEZAMOS NUESTRA PRIMERA CAMPAÑA DE RECAUDACIÓN EN KICKSTARTER, PARA HACER CRECER LA AUDIENCIA, ATRAER ANUNCIANTES… Y ASÍ SOBREVIVIR.  Abajo te contamos más. Para triunfar aquí, dice Antonio, hay que ser tan “manipulador y sociópata” como él parece ser en la historia. “He conocido muchos emprendedores en Silicon Valley y muchos son de ese tipo”, dice. En nuestra entrevista, derriba varias vacas sagradas del Valle, como lo que llama “el mito de la meritocracia”, la misión de Facebook de tener “un mundo más abierto y conectado” y los ejecutivos que dicen creer en ella pero son meros “mercenarios” de la industria tecno. ¿Y todo, para qué? Para crear un mundo en que una app como Airbnb puede destruir barrios enteros de Berlín o Barcelona con sus alquileres baratos para turistas borrachos: “Ha conquistado y arruinado lo que (el dictador Francisco) Franco no pudo en 40 años”. LINKS Antonio García Martínez: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn ¡AHORA SÍ, APÓYANOS!Este 1 de enero, búscanos en Kickstarter y danos la mayor donación que permita tu generosidad. Arrancan desde 10 dólares y tenemos recompensas atractivas. Ayudarás a que sigamos narrando estas historias de Silicon Valley que nadie más te cuenta después del final de esta primera temporada, en marzo. HÁBLANOSPodrás encontrar la campaña de recaudación en nuestro sitio web. También estamos en Facebook y en Twitter. Déjanos tus comentarios. SUSCRÍBETE Aquí están los links para recibir nuestros episodios en tu aplicación favorita de podcasts de Android o iOS. Suscríbete para no perderte ninguno. SI NOS DEJAN… Si nos dejas una reseña y comentario en iTunes, nos ayudas mucho a que nos encuentren más oyentes. GRACIASMuchas gracias a Weebly, nuestro primer anunciante, una plataforma de sitios web para emprendedores. Weebly nos dio 15 planes de un año sin cargo para nuestra audiencia y te puedes llevar uno si donas en Kickstarter. NUESTRA MÚSICA Es de Pablo Calvi y démon Verlaine. Escúchala en Spotify. Nuestra canción oficial es ‘Mi Luna'. ESCUCHA MÁS Somos miembros de Cuonda, la red de podcasts independientes en español. Allí puedes encontrar ‘Hacía Falta', el podcast de tecno y cultura de Eduo y Alex, desde España. SOMOS Fernando Franco desde San Francisco y Diego Graglia (sitio) desde Santa Cruz. #startups #emprendedores #latinos #Silicon Valley #innovación #inspiración Nos escuchamos en dos semanas.

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Carl and Richard talk to Eric Boyd about what the power of Netflix Chaos Monkey can do to your cloud application. The conversation digs into the thinking around deep testing for highly available systems - it's not what you think of, it's what you never thought about! Eric digs into the thinking around testing in production (what happens when you're too big to test?) and how the various part of the SimianArmy, including Chaos Monkey, are byproducts of very large scale applications in the cloud. You don't choose Chaos Monkey, Chaos Monkey chooses you! Make sure you activate your Windows Azure credits in your MSDN Subscription! You could win an Aston Martin!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations