Podcast appearances and mentions of Gina Trapani

Catalyst host, Clinton, chats with innovation and design strategist Trevor Anulewicz to discuss innovation at a repeated scale for the enterprise.Innovation historically has not been in an enterprise's lane. Enterprises stick to what they are good at and innovation has stayed in the start up's lane. But with the right processes and infrastructure - enterprises can change, and maybe even should. Trevor Anulewicz joins Clinton today to dive into how enterprises can do innovation on a repeated scale so that they can succeed far into the future. Often innovation theater can stunt this growth but innovation gardens, that we invest in and cultivate consistently, can be so important for when companies are inevitably in trouble. Tune in to hear how your enterprise can invest in finding new, novel and valuable opportunities to innovate. Links: Operationalizing Repeatable Innovation - NTT Data Trevor Anulewicz LinkedIn Zoning in on Zone to Win with Geoffrey Moore See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Industry veterans Gina Trapani and Chris LoSacco chat with their friends and team about technology, business, and leadership. Decades of experience inform their insightful discussions about what digital transformation really means. Created by Postlight, the digital strategy, product, design, and engineering firm they lead in New York City.

How do you account for small change items within larger product roadmaps? Should you keep small changes separate from the bigger items or lump them together? This week Chris and Gina answer a listener's question about how to do the clean-up work while rolling out big shiny features. They share how to get creative with your work so you can focus on the big and small features in parallel.Links:Stephen Covey

This week Chris and Gina answer a listener who asks, “What do you do when you get work back that isn't going in the right direction…and you hate it?” From unpacking why you hate the work to coming up with ways forward, Chris and Gina share tips to ensure everyone follows the north star and puts out high-quality work.

Often, your best thoughts come in the shower or on vacation. This week, Gina sits down with Chris — fresh off a two-week vacation — to talk about the recentering that comes with taking a break. They discuss how a vacation can help you realize what matters in the day-to-day and make a case for leaders to take more vacation time, not only for themselves but also to set a standard for others.

If you've ever been the victim of a content management system (CMS), raise your hand. This week Chappell Ellison, Postlight's Associate Director of Digital Strategy, joins Gina and Chris to unpack their complicated relationships with CMSs. They talk about knowing when it's the right time to dump your current system, how you can move on from the trauma of past CMSs, and how to choose your next one.  Links: Chappell Ellison 

Making mistakes and learning from them is a vital part of project management and product delivery — but what should you do when a recession or a worldwide pandemic hits mid-product launch? From preparing in advance to giving yourself some wiggle room, Chris and Gina share how to minimize impact. Chris Barbin's BlogScene from the Sopranos The Psychology of Money by Morgan HouselEffects from the unexpected pandemic

Something wonderful happened recently — Postlight joined NTT DATA Services! This week, Chris and Gina sit down with Wayne Busch, NTT DATA's Group President of Consulting and Digital Transformation. They discuss how NTT Data thinks about digital transformation and what this partnership means for Postlight going forward. Don't worry, Postlight lives on — in a bigger and better version

Feeling anxiety before a big presentation isn't uncommon. Michael Shane, Postlight's Head of Digital Strategy, knows all about nailing a great performance. This week he shares the lessons he has learned from over 15 years of training and performing as a clarinetist at the likes of Carnegie Hall. Michael breaks down how the key to overcoming anxiety involves removing uncertainty – and how that translates to presentations at work.Links How to turn anxiety into great performances at work 

How can you make meetings better? This week Chris and Gina break down what causes a meeting to drag and how a good meeting can unfold. They explore how to get at a meeting's true agenda — finding the solution to a problem. They also delve into how to ensure everyone feels their time is valued.

How do you build a great company that a lot of people want to buy? Paul and Rich join Chris and Gina to discuss their Postlight journey, the process behind NTT Data's acquisition of the company, and how to date interested buyers when looking to sell your agency.Links An Exciting Next Chapter: Postlight Joins NTT DATA!

What was the last show you watched? Why did you choose it? And how would you describe it? As Director of Product at Peacock TV, Kate Radway wants to know. This week Kate joins Chris and Gina to discuss what it's like shipping product for a major streaming platform. She breaks down some of the biggest pain points she sees — like when the platform brings you back to the credits of an episode you've already watched — and why solving them isn't always as easy as it seems. Links: Kate Radway Twitter 

Consumer experience should always be the number one priority when developing a product. This week, Chris and Gina are joined by Michael Shane, Postlight's Head of Digital Strategy, to discuss how to balance pragmatism and panache at every stage of the journey. Links: Chris's article about why health insurance websites are badPrevious Postlight episode about Speed

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Tim Leland - developer of browser extensions like WeatherExtension and Link Shortener Extension. Postlight Podcast - Sponsor Postlight is a strategy, design, and engineering firm that builds platforms for some of the biggest organizations in the world. The Postlight Podcast is hosted by senior leaders Rich Ziade, Paul Ford, Gina Trapani, and Chris LoSacco. If you're looking for answers to tough leadership questions, the Postlight Podcast has you covered. Listen to new episodes every Tuesday, wherever you get your podcasts. WP Mail SMTP - Sponsor Did you know that many WordPress sites are not properly configured to send emails? With WP Mail SMTP, you can easily optimize your site to send emails, avoid the spam folder, and make sure your emails land in the inbox every time. WP Mail SMTP comes with detailed email logs, email engagement tracking, visual email reports, weekly email summaries, integrations with popular email providers like SendLayer, Gmail, Outlook, and more! Try WP Mail SMTP Pro today and get 50% off or start with their free version by downloading it from the WordPress plugin directory. Show Notes 00:33 Welcome 02:21 Guest introduction @tim_leland TimLeland.com WeatherExtension Link Shortener Extension 03:40 Why develop browser extensions? 07:58 How did you market your extensions? 09:43 Where is a Chrome extension running? Caddy 14:29 What's your URL shortener extension? 18:50 OneLink service 20:30 SSL Domains 21:35 Sponsor: The Postlight Podcast 23:00 Maliciousness with URL shorteners 28:26 How do you come up with ideas? 30:03 Running Chrome extensions as Firefox extensions 34:03 Does blogging still work? 36:38 Sponsor: Sendlayer 37:53 Supper club questions Tim Leland /uses/ 45:12 ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Tchibo Coffee machine Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott's Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes' Instagram Wes' Twitter Wes' Facebook Scott's Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk edge functions and Deno with Eduardo Bouças of Netlify. Hasura - Sponsor With Hasura, you can get a fully managed, production-ready GraphQL API as a service to help you build modern apps faster. You can get started for free in 30 seconds, or if you want to try out the Standard tier for zero cost, use the code “TryHasura” at this link: hasura.info. We've also got an amazing selection of GraphQL tutorials at hasura.io/learn. Postlight Podcast - Sponsor Postlight is a strategy, design, and engineering firm that builds platforms for some of the biggest organizations in the world. The Postlight Podcast is hosted by senior leaders Rich Ziade, Paul Ford, Gina Trapani, and Chris LoSacco. If you're looking for answers to tough leadership questions, the Postlight Podcast has you covered. Listen to new episodes every Tuesday, wherever you get your podcasts. WP Mail SMTP - Sponsor Did you know that many WordPress sites are not properly configured to send emails? With WP Mail SMTP, you can easily optimize your site to send emails, avoid the spam folder, and make sure your emails land in the inbox every time. WP Mail SMTP comes with detailed email logs, email engagement tracking, visual email reports, weekly email summaries, integrations with popular email providers like SendLayer, Gmail, Outlook, and more! Try WP Mail SMTP Pro today and get 50% off or start with their free version by downloading it from the WordPress plugin directory. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 02:31 Who is Eduardo? EduardoBoucas.com @eduardoboucas 04:29 What is a serverless function? 06:42 What is the edge and an edge function? Edge Functions Explained Deno 08:41 Sponsor: Hasura 09:18 The internet is global, and server locations matter 17:09 Chaining multiple edge functions 20:18 Sponsor: WP Mail SMTP 21:01 Why use Deno? 24:38 What are the limitations of using Deno? 27:44 Why not run NodeJS servers on the edge? 29:34 Do you see a future where people are writing packages that work anywhere? 31:32 Sponsor: Postlight Podcast 32:25 What about databases and serverless functions? Planetscale 37:46 What language does Netlify use to write apps in? Netlify Edge Handlers 43:39 Supper Club questions Warp S Town Podcast Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott's Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes' Instagram Wes' Twitter Wes' Facebook Scott's Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

As a hybrid and remote-friendly workplace, it's rare that the whole Postlight team gets together, but recently the entire team congregated in New York City for a week of in-person events. In this episode, Chris and Gina chat about the importance of Remotes Week in building trust and relationships and share tips on how to make everyone feel at home during in-person events. IRL cheers to IRL meet-ups! 

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Connor Finlayson about his experience building and teaching no code projects. Postlight Podcast - Sponsor Postlight is a strategy, design, and engineering firm that builds platforms for some of the biggest organizations in the world. The Postlight Podcast is hosted by senior leaders Rich Ziade, Paul Ford, Gina Trapani, and Chris LoSacco. If you're looking for answers to tough leadership questions, the Postlight Podcast has you covered. Listen to new episodes every Tuesday, wherever you get your podcasts. SeedProd - Sponsor Our Sponsor for today's episode is a popular WordPress plugin, SeedProd, a fast growing drag & drop WordPress website builder that helps you create custom WordPress themes & page layouts without any code. Over 1 million websites are using SeedProd to build WordPress sites faster. You can start with one of their hundreds of pre-made website templates to save time or use the blank canvas to build a no-code website. It has built-in email marketing integrations, dynamic personalization, and many other powerful features to help you build a fast WordPress website without writing code. Try SeedProd Pro today and get 50% off or start with their free version by downloading it from the WordPress plugin directory. Strapi - Sponsor Strapi enables developers to build projects faster by providing a customizable API out of the box and giving them the freedom to use their favorite tool as it has both REST and GraphQL endpoints. Strapi is extensible and frontend agnostic, built to cover all your content use cases. Give Strapi a try at Strapi.io/demo, find your missing content workflow piece on our marketplace, and learn more about Strapi and how it help you on our Youtube. Show Notes 00:38 Welcome to Syntax 01:54 Guest introduction Unicorn Factory ConnorFinlayson.com Connor's YouTube channel 04:49 What is no code? 10:57 Is no code going to replace programmers? 14:57 Sponsor: Postlight Podcast 15:59 What are your favorite tools for no code? Zapier Webflow Make.com Airtable Memberstack Jetboost Bubble 19:23 When do you need to use real JavaScript? 23:23 Where do you find information about no code? 25:26 Sponsor: SeedProd 39:25 How do you handle version control? 43:26 Are there native apps in no code land? Notion Editor X 46:16 What is AirTable? 49:36 Cost of no code tools 52:45 Sponsor: Strapi 53:45 Supperclub Questions 06:42 Shameless Plugs CodeMeetsNoCode 09:49 Sick Picks Flowbase Relume Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott's Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes' Instagram Wes' Twitter Wes' Facebook Scott's Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

Keeping huge software projects on track is hard but not impossible. This week Chris and Gina walk us through how they come up with deadlines that work both for the client and the team. They explain what questions you should be asking to make sure nothing is overlooked in the beginning planning stages and explain what to do in that dreaded scenario when you realize you're not going to hit your target. A good tip: Challenge anyone who says, “This should be easy.” Links: The New MVP: The Minimum Valuable Product 

There's nothing worse than waiting for a page to load. This week, Chris LoSacco and Gina Trapani go deep on a crucial yet underappreciated feature of digital platforms — speed. They break down how things can get so slow and share tips on how you can build for speed, from database indexing to managing how much processing is happening on the service side versus the client side. We've got the need for speed!Links:Why Are Health Insurance Websites So Bad? Lighthouse Honeycomb

Software is never done — but that doesn't mean you need to be stressed about constantly reworking it. The codebase architecture choices you make at the outset can set you up better for the future. This week, Chris and Gina share their tips on building for the future, from reusing code wherever possible to deciding what kind of technical debt you're willing to take on to addressing accessibility concerns first instead of last.

No founder should be all-consumed with work, and that is why Head of Bloomberg Beta Roy Bahat is no longer a founder. This week Roy joins Gina Trapani and Michael Shane to discuss how workplace boundaries are becoming normalized and why providing VC support in a company's irrational phase excites him more than a later, safer bet. He also stresses the importance of language in a large and diverse workforce and questions whether metaphors and analogies are useful or alienating.Links:Roy Bahat on TwitterBloomberg Beta#thisisnotadviceJam.ai‘It's All Just Wild': Tech Start-Ups Reach a New Peak of Froth - Erin Griffith'My company is not my family': Fed up with long hours, many employees have quietly decided to take it easy at work rather than quit their jobs - Aki Ito

From polar expeditions to Twitter's Longform team, Tony Haile knows how to lead — and when to step back. Former CEO of Chartbeat and Scroll, Tony is now Senior Director of Product at Twitter. This week, he joins Gina and Paul to share wisdom on managing the managers, knowing your weaknesses, and successfully integrating a team after being acquired by a bigger player.Links:Tony Haile on TwitterChartbeatScrollOn Grand Strategy - John Lewis GaddisManagement Time: Who's Got the Monkey? - William Oncken, Jr. and Donald L. Wass, Harvard Business Review

Recently, Gina Trapani shared this question on Twitter: What are good metaphors for running a company that aren't about sports or war? To her surprise, her Twitter mentions exploded. This week, she and Chris LoSacco share some of their favorite responses. They also draw parallels between playing in a band and running a business and share why running a company can be like tending a garden.Links: Gina Trapani Twitter Peloton's New CEO on the Tough Road Ahead - The New York Times  

Gina Trapani, Chris LoSacco, and Michael Shane got together on Twitter Space to chat about how people with big ideas — but less authority — can get buy-in and budget for future tech projects. What kind of storytelling will be the most persuasive to get your project going? What will motivate your boss to support the change? In the live event, Chris, Gina, and Michael answer these questions and share strategies to talk to execs to get them to recognize the value of your idea.

How do you find new leaders? Is it better to promote from within or hire from outside? Do former practitioners make better leaders? As Postlight's CEO and President, Gina Trapani and Chris LoSacco ask themselves these questions daily. This week, Gina and Chris share their thoughts on how to spot leadership qualities and empower new leaders.Links:How to Build for the Handoff - Gina Trapani

Six months ago, Gina Trapani and Chris LoSacco took over as CEO and President of Postlight, respectively. This week, they join Paul and Rich to discuss their new roles, the leadership transition, and why Gina thought it might never happen. Chris and Gina also share their vision for Postlight's future and what they'll tackle first. Here's to a new year and new opportunities!

Will Web3 help decentralize the web and give us more privacy, or will it fall into the same old traps? This week, Gina Trapani joins Paul and Rich to dissect Web3 and its many utopian promises. Are they right to be critical of it, or is their point of view out-of-touch? Probably — but there's still a lot to discuss.

What is Web3, and why should we care about it? Will it be the digital revolution that brings the internet back to its decentralized and democratic roots? This week, internet expert (and Postlight CEO) Gina Trapani joins Rich and Paul to chat about their experiences with different iterations of the web and break down how it ended up so siloed, control-driven, and centralized. Will Web3 save us? Stay tuned.

This week Chris and Gina sit down with Nathan Henry and Vicky Volvovski of Postlight's PM leadership to talk all things product management at a client services firm. Nathan and Vicky share ideas on building lasting client relationships and break down how to structure client workshops to get at the root of the problems you're trying to solve. Then, they discuss what questions you should be asking to gain trust and encourage your clients to open up.Links:Postlight MTAPostlight Careers

Exciting things are happening at Postlight! This week Paul and Rich introduce the new President and the new CEO of Postlight. Paul and Rich explain why they are stepping back into their roles as Co-Founders and share what they'll be doing next. Also, Gina Trapani and Chris LoSacco talk about their new roles and what they envision for the future of the firm. Don't worry — the Postlight Podcast isn't going anywhere. Links: Gina Trapani Chris LoSaccoDigital Transformation for the MTA Careers at Postlight

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is North America’s most expansive mass transit system — and Postlight partnered to take it digital. This week, Gina Trapani and Chris LoSacco discuss shipping such a large and sprawling project, from the importance of engaging with stakeholders to furthering team leadership opportunities along the way. All aboard! Links:  MTA Case Study - Postlight

Google details its new "Works With Google" smart home program and IoT partnersGoogle briefly mentions its partnership with Apple and Amazon to develop a new IoT standard - details still to comeMacOS on Apple Silicon and Windows on ARM are both ARM implementations, but are they compatible? Will Windows be able to run on Macs? Twitter stock goes crazy over the possibility that Twitter will add a subscription service How will schools open in the fall? Facebook's subscription service The Bezos future: do we really want Amazon to take over everything so Jeff Bezos can send us to space? Walmart will launch an Amazon Prime competitor later in JulyRethinking late-stage capitalismGoogle Changelog: RIP Pixel 3a, Loon Internet in Kenya, traffic lights in Google Maps, Google Fiber in West Des Moines Iowa, Android 11 Beta 2, YouTube TV price hike Tech titans vs journalists and writers vs social media: cultural aggression online The mystery shopper who is leaving behind dozens of shopping carts has online merchants flummoxed Japan bans screaming on rollercoasters Fraunhover creates a new h.266 VVC codec to shrink video files even more - but Google won't use it US might ban Tik Tok, Tik Tok leaves Hong Kong Uber requires masks for drivers and riders Gina Trapani was way ahead of her time: Wave and a revolution in document creation Ghost kitchens: how Covid will change our culture and our parking lots University of the People: how education will change in the future Leo's Tool: Project Audio for GitHubStacey's Thing: Eufy Video Doorbell 2k Jeff's Number: Ben Evans Slide 18: 40% of heterosexual couples met onlineKarsten's Mask: Need a mask that works with FaceID? Order a custom mask of your lower face! Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: Melissa.com/twit

Google details its new "Works With Google" smart home program and IoT partnersGoogle briefly mentions its partnership with Apple and Amazon to develop a new IoT standard - details still to comeMacOS on Apple Silicon and Windows on ARM are both ARM implementations, but are they compatible? Will Windows be able to run on Macs? Twitter stock goes crazy over the possibility that Twitter will add a subscription service How will schools open in the fall? Facebook's subscription service The Bezos future: do we really want Amazon to take over everything so Jeff Bezos can send us to space? Walmart will launch an Amazon Prime competitor later in JulyRethinking late-stage capitalismGoogle Changelog: RIP Pixel 3a, Loon Internet in Kenya, traffic lights in Google Maps, Google Fiber in West Des Moines Iowa, Android 11 Beta 2, YouTube TV price hike Tech titans vs journalists and writers vs social media: cultural aggression online The mystery shopper who is leaving behind dozens of shopping carts has online merchants flummoxed Japan bans screaming on rollercoasters Fraunhover creates a new h.266 VVC codec to shrink video files even more - but Google won't use it US might ban Tik Tok, Tik Tok leaves Hong Kong Uber requires masks for drivers and riders Gina Trapani was way ahead of her time: Wave and a revolution in document creation Ghost kitchens: how Covid will change our culture and our parking lots University of the People: how education will change in the future Leo's Tool: Project Audio for GitHubStacey's Thing: Eufy Video Doorbell 2k Jeff's Number: Ben Evans Slide 18: 40% of heterosexual couples met onlineKarsten's Mask: Need a mask that works with FaceID? Order a custom mask of your lower face! Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: Melissa.com/twit

Google details its new "Works With Google" smart home program and IoT partnersGoogle briefly mentions its partnership with Apple and Amazon to develop a new IoT standard - details still to comeMacOS on Apple Silicon and Windows on ARM are both ARM implementations, but are they compatible? Will Windows be able to run on Macs? Twitter stock goes crazy over the possibility that Twitter will add a subscription service How will schools open in the fall? Facebook's subscription service The Bezos future: do we really want Amazon to take over everything so Jeff Bezos can send us to space? Walmart will launch an Amazon Prime competitor later in JulyRethinking late-stage capitalismGoogle Changelog: RIP Pixel 3a, Loon Internet in Kenya, traffic lights in Google Maps, Google Fiber in West Des Moines Iowa, Android 11 Beta 2, YouTube TV price hike Tech titans vs journalists and writers vs social media: cultural aggression online The mystery shopper who is leaving behind dozens of shopping carts has online merchants flummoxed Japan bans screaming on rollercoasters Fraunhover creates a new h.266 VVC codec to shrink video files even more - but Google won't use it US might ban Tik Tok, Tik Tok leaves Hong Kong Uber requires masks for drivers and riders Gina Trapani was way ahead of her time: Wave and a revolution in document creation Ghost kitchens: how Covid will change our culture and our parking lots University of the People: how education will change in the future Leo's Tool: Project Audio for GitHubStacey's Thing: Eufy Video Doorbell 2k Jeff's Number: Ben Evans Slide 18: 40% of heterosexual couples met onlineKarsten's Mask: Need a mask that works with FaceID? Order a custom mask of your lower face! Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: Melissa.com/twit

Google details its new "Works With Google" smart home program and IoT partnersGoogle briefly mentions its partnership with Apple and Amazon to develop a new IoT standard - details still to comeMacOS on Apple Silicon and Windows on ARM are both ARM implementations, but are they compatible? Will Windows be able to run on Macs? Twitter stock goes crazy over the possibility that Twitter will add a subscription service How will schools open in the fall? Facebook's subscription service The Bezos future: do we really want Amazon to take over everything so Jeff Bezos can send us to space? Walmart will launch an Amazon Prime competitor later in JulyRethinking late-stage capitalismGoogle Changelog: RIP Pixel 3a, Loon Internet in Kenya, traffic lights in Google Maps, Google Fiber in West Des Moines Iowa, Android 11 Beta 2, YouTube TV price hike Tech titans vs journalists and writers vs social media: cultural aggression online The mystery shopper who is leaving behind dozens of shopping carts has online merchants flummoxed Japan bans screaming on rollercoasters Fraunhover creates a new h.266 VVC codec to shrink video files even more - but Google won't use it US might ban Tik Tok, Tik Tok leaves Hong Kong Uber requires masks for drivers and riders Gina Trapani was way ahead of her time: Wave and a revolution in document creation Ghost kitchens: how Covid will change our culture and our parking lots University of the People: how education will change in the future Leo's Tool: Project Audio for GitHubStacey's Thing: Eufy Video Doorbell 2k Jeff's Number: Ben Evans Slide 18: 40% of heterosexual couples met onlineKarsten's Mask: Need a mask that works with FaceID? Order a custom mask of your lower face! Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: Melissa.com/twit

Scripted Interactions: On this week’s episode of Track Changes, Paul, Rich, and Gina chat about ways to keep your team focused and on track when working remotely. How do you create urgency to make sure things get done? How can you keep people focused during remote calls? They discuss the need for clear communication and accountability, and share some tools to help structure meetings and interactions in a digital-first work world.  Links:  Gina Trapani  Cheer on Netflix  Tiger King on Netflix  Campfire  Navigator  Second Life

Specify like a caveman: This week on Track Changes, Paul and Rich are joined by Gina Trapani, a managing partner at Postlight, to talk about statements of work (SOWs). We chat about Postlight’s unique SOW process. We talk about why we base our approach on trust and relationships rather than just time and money. We also talk about managing risk, what to do when someone oversteps their original demands and Paul gives some tips on how to make the SOW writing process easier. Hint: write like a caveman.  Links:  Gina Trapani  React Native  Org Mode  Google Analytics Facebook Twitter Github  LinkedIn 

There’s no secret knowledge: This week on Track Changes, Paul and Rich are joined by Postlight managing partner Gina Trapani to do a follow up on our previous episode about intranets. Gina explains why she was annoyed that we didn't know we had an intranet. From there we discuss why management and employees often need different tools and talk about what makes a good leader. Protip: a good leader is someone who knows how to limit stress, not spread it.   Links:  Gina Trapani  The Private Network: Paul and Rich on Intranets  Basecamp  Slack  Google Drive  Clockwise  Paper  Away  Warby Parker  Emotional Baggage - The Verge  The Verge  Gawker  Lifehacker  Postlight - Twitter 

Focus on Core Needs: Lara Hogan knows and loves management so she wrote a book about it. This week she joins Paul and guest host Gina Trapani to chat about her new book and about leadership in the workplace. Lara breaks down her framework for managing different types of people and gives tips on how to adapt your management style. She also gives Paul some useful advice on where he should sit in the office and explains why moving desks can be so traumatic.      LINKS: Lara Hogen - Resilient Management  Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard   

Email sucks: On this week’s episode of Track Changes, Paul Ford and Gina Trapani reflect on how Gmail has revolutionized email over the past fifteen years. We recall the many iterations the platform has gone through—going all the way back to the days when it was invite only— and discuss the many flaws that still remain. Is there ever going to be a productive solution to deal with that ever growing pile of emails?   Links: Superhuman: The Fastest Email Experience Ever Made Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster and Better

Don’t Add Bullshit To The World: In recent episodes you’ve heard from Paul, Rich, and various guests talk about scaling, ethics, design, and engineering — now it’s time to hear from Postlight’s other leaders. We discuss the diverse backgrounds of our leadership team, how have their roles have changed over time, and how we come together to make good software while shipping great products. This episode is also the debut of Paul’s new, deeper voice, which Gina Trapani calls “a massage for your ears.”

  Don’t Quit Your Day Job: This week, Paul Ford and Gina Trapani sit down with Rick Webb, COO of Timehop, to discuss his 2015 book Agency: Starting a Creative Firm in the Age of Digital Marketing. Rick lays out how anybody — even someone born in a ditch in Topeka — can start an agency. He also leads a discussion about the legacy of viral marketing in his own career, and the history of the advertising mega-structure.   Rick — 5:55: “I think that at any moment in marketing there is some technology, craft, or medium that is the new emerging thing that’s very good for agencies to be able to make their mark in.” Rick — 7:20: “The book is really written like you came to this business as a craftsperson.” Rick — 7:50: “In the old days, an agency operated as an agent on behalf of their clients and the reason they’re operating as an agency is because they’re going to buy media… this is the classic definition.” Rick — 9:10: “That’s why they really want video ads to be a thing and they have since the early 2000s. They could just take the model they had and use them again — and they are winning. It is slowly becoming that.” Gina — 9:50: “Timehop is a great product. When it first launched […] it was something my company took a lot of inspiration from. It just let you kind of appreciate your social content in a perspective that you wouldn’t have had.” Rick — 11:15: “[Timehop uses] programmatic advertising. We don’t do data-driven advertising. Your data isn’t in your advertising.” Rick — 12:55: “There’s a business case for Timehop that’s out there, but really we took it because I believe in nostalgia. I always have. That’s why I wrote the first cheque for them. I like little simple things that are just a couple minutes of your day.” Paul — 17:40: “So we’re living in this world of giants. We scamper around in the shadows of dinosaurs as a little mouse with our firm, but a lot of the people listening to this show are people who are doing a reset of some kind in their career. If somebody wants to get into your world, what do they do?” Rick — 18:00: “I think one thing that really confounds everyone is the compensation structure of start-ups. Like there’s this widely pervasive belief you can get rich in start-ups.” Rick — 18:50: “Right now, hundreds of companies are being planned in New York. Maybe one or two will become a unicorn. […] The minute you can tell they’re going to go anywhere, everyone else can too. It’s just a waste of time.” Paul — 19:10: “Going to a late-stage start-up is just a job.” Gina — 22:18: “In the beginning, though, you have to have some resilience for feast and famine. You know, when you’re first starting out, you have to be able to take a couple of months where you’re not getting paid or getting paid very little.” Rick — 24:15: “You don’t have to quit your day job until you make enough to quit your day job.” Rick — 29:20: “Advertising is a very, very, very big part of our world and people don’t think about it. […] Mass media and technology are both primarily funded by advertising. LINKS Rick Webb Agency: Starting a Creative Firm in the Age of Digital Marketing The Subservient Chicken Timehop Martin Sorrell LUMA’s State of Digital Media 2018

  Paul and Gina meet up with Christian Madsbjerg to discuss the ideas behind his new book, “Sensemaking: The Power of Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm” What happens when you take a philosopher out of their element and plunk them into management? How can the business and tech worlds benefit from the humanities? Are we putting too much trust into algorithms and the promise of artificial intelligence? Courtesy of ReD Associates Just because Google does it, doesn’t mean we should do it too: This week Paul Ford and Gina Trapani meet with Christian Madsbjerg, author of Sensemaking: The Power of Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm. Christian ruminates on the limits of the algorithm, bringing human insight into tech and business where artificial intelligence falls short, and the impact of Elon Musk (ed. note: unfortunaltey this interview was recorded before the Met Gala) 4:00 — Christian: “Philosophers are for critique and against suggesting anything. But if you want to make something, you’ve got to suggest something.” 4:55 — Christian: “[Philosophers] see there’s still a way to have integrity in what you’re doing, and still deal with the kinds of things and the way they want to deal with them but in a different world.” 7:15 — Christian: “I suppose philosophy is just making manifestos — what’s sort of underneath us all the time, and that we didn’t think about. What’s happening, at least in the technology space right now, it’s this big reckoning. There’s this big sort of realization that there’s more to this than we thought there was. That’s what a philosopher would do, they would ask, ‘based on what do you say that? What are the underlying assumptions?’” 8:15 — Paul: “A vast number of our conversations… are ultimately about ethics. It’s a constant refrain through the organization. It’s daily and it’s top-to-bottom. Everything we do — maybe also because we deal with so many abstractions and so many requirements from the client — it’s more about preventing unethical situations.” 10:40 — Christian: “It’s often a group of people that aren’t like you and trying to understand what their life is like. ‘What is it like to be them?’ is the basic idea. You can enter their world and you can enter it in a way that can inform that world with whatever you’re making. 13:45 — Christian: “There are things we humans can do that we don’t understand yet. The fact that the machine can beat us in chess doesn’t mean that it can beat us in every other aspect of life, including understanding each other.” 16:20 — Paul: “No one is going to buy a car that sacrifices your life to save another life… We’re about to hit a wall. This is where capitalism and ethics are about to have a very exciting moment around self driving cars.” 16:45 — Christian: “Another way to think about driverless cars is [asking] are they really so attractive? Some people enjoy driving cars […]and that’s worth something as well. Another way of seeing it is that you can look at the people that get slaughtered in traffic every day, but does that really mean that all cars have to be driverless? Isn’t it a magical thing if you think about all the people that step into a car every day and they somehow find their way through these streets and they don’t crash?” 20:50 — Christian: “I wish [Elon Musk] would represent a more interesting dream for eighteen-year-olds than going to Mars.” 21:05 — Christian: “The first process is that in any public institution or any company there is a language that is often native to that place… The first thing is to translate that business language, or the language of the institution, into a human language. So how would human beings think about this? What would be the human phenomenon at the heart of this?” 24:15 — Paul: “So sensemaking as a practice is observing and understanding an organization well enough that you now have a foundation for organizational change, for defining what needs to happen now.” 25:55 — Christian: “The humanities are the place where you can try to exercise the muscle of [understanding] others in the most advanced way… The world of literature and art is a place where you can see human worlds in a way that’s advanced and interesting and often beautiful. So, often, the people that are good at [sensemaking] have a level of sensitivity to it.” A full transcript of this episode is available. LINKS Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm by Christian Madsbjerg ReD Associates The Moment of Clarity: Using the Human Sciences to Solve Your Toughest Business Problems by Christian Madsbjerg Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with SpaceX Track Changes is the weekly technology and culture podcast from Postlight, hosted by Paul Ford and Rich Ziade. Production, show notes and transcripts by EDITAUDIO. Podcast logo and design by Will Denton of Postlight. 

How did cyberpunks and activists affect the tech industry? Do we understand the history of the internet? How much of what we know comes only from a man’s perspective? This week, Claire L. Evans tells us about her new book, Broad Band, and the women who created the internet. Photo by Jaclyn Campanaro There Were Women In The Room: This week Paul Ford and Gina Trapani sit down with Claire L. Evans to chat about her new book, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. We discuss the impact of online communities, how weird the dot-com era was, and the stories of the women who made things work. We also get a window into Y△CHT’s future project — the Broad Band Musical! 2:29 — Claire: “[This book is] a corrective if you will, of all the books we’ve all read and love about Silicon Valley, and the garage-to-riches stories of entrepreneurship… These are the stories about the women who were in the room the whole time, and nobody asked about them.” 5:06 — Paul: “Women get forgotten from activist histories too, and it was kind of an activist scene in the early days.”  5:22 — Gina: “Weird was welcome, in a way that is no longer the case.” 7:03 — Claire: “My big takeaway is how little we value long-term care and maintenance when it comes to building things… I profile Stacy Horn, who founded Echo BBS in the late 90s. It still exists. And she has devoted 25 years of her life to fostering and caring for this community. … She’s taking care of something, because she’s responsible for a community, and I think that’s really beautiful.” 8:24— Claire: “We mythologize the box, but it’s the users that change the world; it’s what you do with it. The culture work, the development of making things worth linking is almost as important as making the conventions for linking.  8:24 — Gina: “It’s broadening the definition of what making the web was. It wasn’t just about standardizing protocols and running code, it was about building the places where people wanted to come and connect and share.”  9:07— Paul: “Moderation…it’s critical, it’s key to these communities but it doesn’t get as much appreciation as ‘I wrote a page of code.’” 20:51 — Claire: “We’re all very siloed in the contemporary media landscape.” A full transcript for this episode is available. LINKS Claire L Evans Y△CHT Broad Band : The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet Ada Lovelace Jamie Levy Halt and Catch Fire BBS Echo BBS Stacy Horn Heather Champ Polymaths Track Changes is the weekly technology and culture podcast from Postlight, hosted by Paul Ford and Rich Ziade. Production, show notes and transcripts by EDITAUDIO. Podcast logo and design by Will Denton of Postlight.

Changing the podcast user experience: with Paul away, Rich is joined by Postlight’s new partner, Gina Trapani, for a conversation with developer Leah Culver. They discuss her career trajectory, from embracing computer science in college to moving Silicon Valley to founding startups Pownce and Convore to becoming an engineer at Dropbox. They then discuss her newest venture, Breaker, an “end-to-end podcast company,” and the podcast space in general, from the fractured digital spaces for podcast listeners to Apple’s recent announcement to share user data with creators.

Productivity at Postlight: this week, with Rich an ocean away, Paul is joined by Gina Trapani, a director of engineering at Postlight who is well-known for, amongst other things, founding the website Lifehacker. They discuss her productivity tool, TODO.txt, an open-source project now in the hands of Postlight’s team, and productivity tools at large, in a conversation ranging from the specifics of Paul’s favorite, org mode, to the way having children disrupts all your plans for organized, efficient workflows.

Last episode we talked to Gina Trapani about her Lifehacker days. In this episode, we look to the future and hear about her work at Postlight, what it’s like to work with Paul Ford (Episode 82), and what she looks for when she’s hiring an engineer. Show Links Digital Ocean (sponsor) MongoDB (sponsor) Heroku (sponsor) TwilioQuest (sponsor) Postlight Lifehacker IBM PC Junior Track Changes Paul Ford episode Meet the Twitter API (book) The End of ThinkUp ThinkUp Anil Dash TWiG (This Week in Google) Leo Laporte TWiT Danny O'Brien "father of life hacks" CodeNewbie Newsletter Sign up Codeland Conf Codeland 2019

Once upon a time, Gina Trapani started Lifehacker. It got big, really big, with the ups and downs of being the sole editor responsible for a website that millions of people read. But after awhile, she wanted to get back to coding. In part one of our two-part interview, Gina talks to us about her journey going from famous blogger to product creator, the risks of building an app based on APIs, and what it felt like to shut down her company. Show Links Digital Ocean (sponsor) MongoDB (sponsor) Heroku (sponsor) TwilioQuest (sponsor) Danny O'Brien "father of life hacks" TWiT Leo Laporte TWiG (This Week in Google) Anil Dash ThinkUp The End of ThinkUp Meet the Twitter API (book) Paul Ford episode Track Changes IBM PC Junior Lifehacker Postlight Codeland Conf Codeland 2019

I never thought a bathroom bill - the kind they passed in North Carolina - would come to my home state. But it did. They're trying to pass one where I live, and this is the story of my fight (so far) against it. (You can see more photos related to this story on my blog, gendermom.com.)Music credits: "Heartache" by Broke For Free, "Golden" by Little Glass Men, "A void" by johnny_ripper, "Pure Attitude" by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com), "The Tallest Man in Idaho" by Michael Howard, "Blessed Instant" by Oilvia chaney.Thank you to my new supporters on Patreon.com: Cindy McGahee, Amanda Minor, Rene Justin Dado, Nanette Fok, Kristen Albright, Molly Tanner, Rae-Louise Enno, Lazbreath, Gina Trapani, Katelen Michelle Kellogg, Caitlin Pierce, William Shafer, Allison Lefrak 

Programming and blogging for programmers: this week Paul and Rich talk with Gina Trapani, the founder of Lifehacker and one of their newest employees. Gina talks about her journey from coding to the technology and lifestyle blog Lifehacker—and about her decision to return to the programming fold. She also reveals why she took a job at Postlight. (spoiler: simpler tax forms!)

The gear you use doesn't matter. It's not about the best mic or software or camera. It's about doing the work. We'll use the examples of Casey Neistat, B.J. Novak, and Gina Trapani to see how.

This week Myke is joined by Gina Trapani. They talk about how Thinkup's first year and what the current trends are in social media.

Lifehacker founder and ThinkUp co-founder, Gina Trapani introduces us to a few web based apps that offer elegant design and features well worth their minuscule price-points. Fans of an uncluttered web experience will rejoice to hear what Gina offers up in this installment of the Cool Tools Show.

Diesmal lassen wir die Produktivitäts-Sau raus und treiben sie durchs virtuelle Dorf: Email Management mit Filtern, Regeln, Smart Mailboxen, …. Diese Woche geht es um das Thema Email. Ihr sollt erfahren, welche Programme von uns genutzt werden, und welche Regeln, was für Plugins und Workflows dahinterstecken. Lieber Fluggast, wenn dir das Gehörte gefällt oder dir Sorgenfalten auf die edle Stirn fabriziert, dann haben wir etwas für dich: iTunes Bewertungen. Überbleibsel Letzte Woche gab es ja das erste Ubercast Gewinnspiel. Unsere Gäste von Ojective Development haben uns 4 Lizenzen zur Verfügung gestellt (2 Lizenzen für LittleSnitch, 2 Lizenzen für LaunchBar) und hier gibt’s nun schwarz auf weiß die Gewinner: @tomhelpless Felix / @piXeLixus Paul Kirschmann / @netzpioneer Arnd Gongoll / @cygx1 Und wie angekündigt hat Andreas ein paar LaunchBar Actions zusammengeschraubt für sein GitHub Repository: Down For Everyone Or Just Me Expand URL Überschallneuigkeiten Der Podcatcher “Overcast” von Marco Arment ist nun im App Store erhältlich. Reviews Marco.org: Overcast MacStories: Overcast Review Apple und IBM machen gemeinsame Sachen und planen eine Reihe an Business Applikationen. Link zum Bild: IBM Email Management Hier sind sich noch alle einig: Individuelle und intelligent vergebene Regeln sind neben Shortcuts der Schlüssel zum Erfolg von effizienterem Email-Management. Sven schiebt nach, dass Inbox Zero nicht heißen muss, dass man 2x am Tag seine Inbox leerfegt. Das löst auch direkt schon ein Zögern bei Andreas aus, der seine Inbox noch nicht auch nur einmal unbedingt komplett blank haben muss. Was macht man mit Emails? archivieren oder löschen suchen reagieren schriftlich beantworten eine Tätigkeit ausführen und dann beantworten warten Eine beliebte Herangehensweise ist unter Anderem die 3-Ordner-Taktik, wo nur ein Archivordner benötigt wird, ein Ordner für pausierte Emails (z.B. warten auf eine Antwort) und ein zum dritten ein Aktionsordner der als Todo-Ordner fungiert. Siehe auch: Empty Your Inbox with the Trusted Trio by Gina Trapani. Patrick hat das eine Zeit lang ausprobiert, fand es aber nicht praktikabel, da ihm zum schnelleren und besseren Auffinden von Nachrichten noch Tags fehlen würden. Eine Suche nach Tags wäre wiederum nur auf dem Mac möglich, nicht auf iOS und nicht in Netz. Das will er nicht. Die Taktik kennt Sven auch, er hat aber mittlerweile die Ordnerstruktur weitestgehend durch Tags ersetzt. Überhaupt ist er kein großer Freund von archivieren und fragt kritisch in Runde ob das zwanghafte Archivieren jeglicher Emails überhaupt sein muss. Bei ihm hat sich ein zwei Wochen Grenze herauskristallisiert – länger hebt er die meisten Mails nicht auf. Passend zum Thema: Merlin Manns Inbox Zero Vortrag. Apple Mail Sven ist unser Mail.app Vertreter. Mit seinen Regeln, Plugins und Smartlisten versucht er uns Apples Lösung schmackhaft zu machen. CC und Mailinglisten unter Kontrolle halten: CC Regel um all Emails bei denen man cc ist in einen separaten Order zu schieben, es sei denn nicht Nachricht ist von hoher Priorität Link zum Bild: CC Regel Mailing Lists als gelesen markieren und in einen separaten Order schieben mit der Möglichkeit festgelegte Verteilerlisten von der Regel auszunehmen Link zum Bild: Mailing Listen Regel Die Regeln von Sven sind alle als serverseitige Exchange Regeln mit Microsoft Outlook für Mac implementiert; allerdings können sie in beinahe exaktem Umfang auch serverseitig bei GMail oder iCloud.com implementiert werden (wie auch lokal innerhalb von Mail.app). Das Lob kommt von Patrick an dieser Stelle, da Sven keine separaten Accounts eingerichtet hat, die ihn im Client dazu zwingen würden die Accounts ständig zu wechseln. Sven färbt alle Mails von Kunden grell-orange ein, damit er weiß was wichtig ist. Wir halten fest: Regeln ≥ separate Accounts. Die “unified Inbox” triumphiert. Bei der Yosemite Beta von Andreas läuft Mail.app zurzeit nicht so wirklich rund, aber er mag das Programm auch… so viel schon einmal vorweg. Andreas setzt für jedes Projekt einen Ordner auf und archiviert diese dann alljährlich lokal auf seiner Festplatte (und schafft so wieder mehr Raum in Email-Client). Plugins die Erste: UniversalMailer Behebt den lästigen Mail.app “Bug” durch den Nachrichten auf Windows Outlook standardmäßig in Times New Roman 16pt dargestellt werden egal in welcher Font man sie abgeschickt hat. Svens Workflow mit MailTags und Mail-Act-On Mail Act-On kostenlose Trial Version, dann 24.95 US$ Deferral Workflow mit Tickle Dates, Mail-Act-On Rules und Smart Mailboxes MailTags Integration OmniFocus Eingebaute Wiedervorlage (@Waiting, @Reply) Workflows mit MailTags und Mail-Act-On: Vollständiger Workflow zur Wiedervorlage von Emails als auch zum “Verschieben” von Nachrichten mit denen man sich noch nicht auseinander setzten kann oder will. Link zum Bild: Follow Up & Deferral Zur Wiedervorlage einfach eine Email als “@Waiting” markieren und das Wiedervorlagedatum auf zwei Tage von heute setzten. Link zum Bild: Waiting For Wenn am Wiedervorlagetag kein Antwort da ist, einfach eine Erinnerung schicken und das Wiedervorlagedatum auf Freitag anpassen. Link zum Bild: Tickle on Friday Nicht bereit sich mit einer bestimmen Email in Deiner Inbox auseinanderzusetzen? Mehr Zeit zum Nachdenken von Nöten? Einfach um 2 Tage aufschieben. Link zum Bild: Defer Jegliche Art von Todo-Management im Email-Client selbst ist Andreas fremd, er schreibt wenn wirklich was zu tun ist brav seinen OmniFocus Task, erledigt die Aufgabe und antworten dann. Sven führt zu seiner Verteidigung an, dass er diesen Workflow insbesondere für Micromanagen von Konversationen nutzt die nicht unbedingt Top-Priority sind. Für alles wirklich wichtige nutzt er nach wie vor auch das heißgeliebte OmniFocus. Patrick denkt er kann Sven drankriegen, indem er ihn fragt, ob er auch einen Mac im Berufsleben nutzt, aber weit gefehlt… der Fechner hat/darf/will geschäftlich auch seinen Mac nutzen. Klar, so geht das natürlich alles blendend von der Hand. Anbei, da schon von serverseitigen Regeln gesprochen wird, hier eine kleine Zusammenfassung was mit iCloud Regeln so alles möglich bzw. nicht möglich ist: Limitierung auf max. 99 Regeln. Die Reihenfolge der Regeln ist wichtig. Keine IF/Any Konditionen. Also, einer Regel mehrere Konditionen zuweisen funktioniert in iCloud nicht. In OS X kann man mehreren Emailadressen eine Regeln zuweisen, in iCloud nicht. Apples eigenes Mail Programm kommt für Patrick nicht in Betracht, da es für ihn zu große Unterschiede zwischen den drei Versionen gibt. iCloud Mail ist die abgespeckteste Version geringe Konfigurationsmöglichkeiten bei den Regeln Smartfolders vom Mac werden nicht synchronisiert Mail auf iOS ist ein Mittelding Angewiesen auf die wenigen Regeln die in der iCloud möglich sind Zusatzfeatures wie Thread Notifications und den Today Ordner Smartfolders vom Mac werden nicht synchronisiert Mail auf OS X = super, alles da und erweiterbar Dazu kommt, dass er wie Sven hat er alle Regeln serverseitig angelegt, aber Mail spielt ihm manchmal einen Streich und dupliziert Emails willkürlich. So wurde seine einmonatige Testphase zur Showvorbereitung eine wahre Geduldsprobe. Die Leseempfehlung für schlauere Mailordner gibt’s auf dem Ur-Ur-Ur-43Folders-Blog. Plugins die Zweite: MailPluginFix Behebt das Problem von inkompatiblen Plugins nach einen Systemupdate. MsgFiler Alternative: MailActOn Andere Schmankerl: DockStar - Customize your Mail.app dock icon SpamSieve: Easy-to-use Mac spam filter for Apple Mail, Outlook, Entourage, Postbox, and more Und letzten Endes noch ein Repository mit sämtlichen Plug-ins und Tools: Apple Mail Plugins and Tools MailMate Obgleich Gmail lange Zeit für Patrick der König unter den Mailanbietern und Clients war (… und auch immer noch ist), hat er trotz dem fantastischen Spamfiltering und den Myriaden an Shortcuts seit Oktober 2013 Google den Rücken zugekehrt, um bei Uberspace dann mehr Kontrolle und mehr Privatssphäre zu haben. Altgediente Gmail Regeln Trotz des Absprungs von Gmail hier einmal die genutzten Regeln von Patrick, welche so auch bei Uberspace nachgebaut wurden. Falls ich mich ins BCC Feld eingetragen habe: Matches: from:(here|are|all|my|addresses) ==> Do this: Skip Inbox, Mark as read, Never send it to Spam, Never mark it as important Falls ich mir selbst eine Mail schreibe: Matches: from:(patrick+me@gmail.com) ==> Do this: Star it, Never send it to Spam Falls die Mail was mit einem meiner Arbeitsaccounts zu tun hat: Matches: to:(important|accounts|here) ==> Do this: Mark it as important Unwichtige Mails sofort archivieren: Matches: from:(@itunes.com|do_not_reply@apple.com|usw.) ==> Do this: Skip Inbox Noch unwichtigere Mails sofort archivieren und als gelesen markieren. Das ist praktisch für Mails die mehr einen Archiverungscharakter haben. Eine andere Idee wäre diese direkt per IFTTT nach Evernote zusenden oder diese mit IFTTT zusammenzufassen und in einer Notiz per “append” zu sammenln: Matches: subject:(Cronjob|usw.) ==> Do this: Skip Inbox, Mark as read, Never mark it as important Zu guter letzt hat Patrick noch ca. 50 Regel welche nach dem obigen Schema Mails in verschiedene Ordner sortieren (Design, Audio, Personal, Games, Family, Work, …). Viele Regeln sind doppelt bzw. haben das gleiche Ziel, aber er findet es gut Themengebiete z.B. für Design-Newsletter zu haben. Und noch was… die zwei Spezialadressen für das BBC-Feld: ACT-ON Matches: to:(patrick+acton@gmail.com) ==> Do this: Skip Inbox, Star it, Apply label "1: Act on", Never send it to Spam, Mark it as important HOLD Matches: to:(patrick+hold@gmail.com|patrick+waiting@gmail.com) ==> Do this: Skip Inbox, Star it, Apply label "2: Hold", Never send it to Spam, Mark it as important Patricks Uberspace Setup Patrick nutzt auf Uberspace eine Sammeladresse auf der alle meine Emails ankommen. Alles ist ausgerichtet darauf seine Inbox schnell mit Shortcuts und Swipes auf 0 zu bringen. Die Inbox ist somit der einzige Ort, an dem er was zu tun hat… bis auf das händische kontrollieren des Act-on und Hold Ordners. Eine weitere Besonderheit ist, die archivieren Option in allen Clients zieht jede Email in einen Unterordner vom Archiv. Dieser “Filer” Ordner sortiert dann nach vordefinierten Regel, wohin die Email abgelegt wird, greift keine von Patricks Regeln, so landet die Mail im normalen Archiv. Das ist sein Versuch die extrem guten GMail-Regeln für’s automatische sortieren zu ersetzten. Klappt im übrigen bestens. Das Ziel ist es jede Mail zu überfliegen und nicht ungelesene Mails in Unterordner anzusammeln. Auf iOS muss dann nur noch ins Archiv geswipt werden, oder halt in den Mülleimer. Ein Uberspace Setup ist, wie in der letzten Folge schon angedeutet, etwas ganz Anderes und fernab vom gängigen Einrichten von Emails angesiedelt . Es ist nicht für Jedermann und man muss viel in der Shell rumhüpfen bis es läuft. Bringt man aber das nötige Handwerkszeug mit, so kann man ein Mail-Setup sein eigen nennen, welches einem aus der Hand frisst. Im Grunde muss man sich noch nicht einmal so gut in der Shell auskennen, sondern einfach nur die ausführliche Dokumentation im Uberspace.de Wiki lesen. Uberspace hat zu jedem Feature ausführliche, benutzerfreundliche Anleitungen inklusive Beispiele. Jeder Entwickler weiß, wie schwer es ist eine gute und lückenlose Dokumention zu schreiben. Die Jungs von Uberspace haben das so was von raus. Sollte doch mal eine Frage offen sein, schreibt man eine Email und bekommt meist innerhalb von 6-8 Stunden eine Antwort. Servicetechnisch sind die Jungs Spitze. Bestandteile mail: spamassassin [Uberspace.de Wiki] Regelwerk (basierend auf regulären Ausdrücken) untersucht Mail Inhalte und bewertet diese. Überschreitet eine Email einen bestimmten Schwellenwert an Punkten => Spam. Das ganze ist natürlich erweiterbar. mail: maildrop [Uberspace.de Wiki] Sortiermaschine. Man kann hier regeln schreiben was in welchen Ordner geschickt werden soll, ob es an Spamassassin weitergereicht werden soll, etc. mail: dspam [Uberspace.de Wiki] Wer SpamSieve kennt, es ist im Prinzip dasselbe: Ein lernfähiges Filtern mit der Unterteilung von Nachrichten in Spam und Ham. Wenn ich eine Regel ändern/hinzufügen will öffne ich die Datei auf meinem shared host (dem Uberspace Server) in Sublime Text oder in Prompt/Coda auf iOS. Für den Interessierten Tüftler anbei zwei Links zu wirklich guten Tutorials: Maildrop Revisited Was man mit maildrop alles anstellen kann… Jetzt aber MailMate Patricks Grundvoraussetzungen an einen Emailclient sind, dass es keine reine Client-side Lösung sein darf. Das heißt, wenn ein wichtiges Kernfeature welches alles rund laufen lässt nur auf dem Mac funktioniert, so kommt die jeweilige App oder der Workflow für mich nicht in Frage. Dank der serverseitgen Regeln ist es ihm nun “eigentlich” egal welchen Client er verwendet. Auf iOS sollten Wischgesten für Spam und das Archiv unterstützt sein und auf OS X erlaubt er sich peu à peu MailMate besser kennen zu lernen. Seine Lieblingsfeatures: Send Later (als “Undo Send” Alternative Gmail shortcuts Shortcuts: Move to Mailbox (V), Go to Mailbox (⌘T), Tags (T) Schnelles Umschalten zwischen verschiedenen Layouts (Correspondence!!) keine Plugins schlaue Signaturen basierend auf dem Empfänger Und noch zwei Leseempfehlungen: Macdrifter: MailMate Explorations aptgetupdateDE: Review: MailMate · The email client for the rest of us Abschließende Links MacSparky: Email Field Guide Ars Technica: Rage against the Mail machine: the genesis of Letters Airmail Postbox Dispatch Mailbox Triage Picks Andreas: Revisions von Bayesbits Sven: BuyMeAPie! Patrick: Ultratext von Xether Labs Das war’s. Wir wünschen einen angenehmen Aufenthalt. Bis zum nächsten Mal. In Spenderlaune? Wir haben Flattr und PayPal am Start und würden uns freuen.

On this episode, Paul and Whitney talk intention. We hear the phrase "good intentions" often but, is intention enough? Plus, we're joined by the great Gina Trapani to discuss how she thinks about intention.

This week Myke is joined by Gina Trapani. They discuss the development of the Gina's crowdfunding campaign for Thinkup – that she is running with Anil Dash– the history of the project and future development.

This week Myke is joined by Gina Trapani. They discuss Gina's many forays in to the worlds of blogging, Podcasting and development as well as some of the differences between iOS and Android.

Gina Trapani, Kevin Purdy, and guest Nick Quaranto after In Beta episode 22.

Gina Trapani and Kevin Purdy after In Beta episode 21.

Gina Trapani and Kevin Purdy after In Beta episode 20.

Gina Trapani and Kevin Purdy after In Beta episode 19.

Gina Trapani and Dan Benjamin after In Beta episode 7.

Why do so few women work in tech, despite our love of consumer technology? Gina Trapani, Vivek Wadhwa and Adda Birnir weigh in. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We’re back. Heather, Debs and Kevin talk about the tummeling stories we’ve missed over the last month. Here’s the chat transcript in full Some related links below: SXSW 2012:  A decidedly different show – PR attendance up a whopping 30% Mike […]

Shout outs: 1. Todd Williamson: Audio response. (Visit Todd at http://thetechnorateteacher.wordpress.com ) 2. Dr. Debra Franciosi: From the Twitterverse: * cthumphreys these make me laugh as a huge grammar geek-Humorous Grammar Rules: http://ow.ly/iM8X (via @barbsaka @carolrainbow ) (via @dianadell) * liteNup http://twitpic.com/cdt3m - This is the 4th one in 5 days! This one right in my back yard. Almost got struck by lightning looking 4 the rainbow. * leolaporte We launch a new TWiT show @ 3p today: TWig - This Week in google - with Jeff Jarvis and Gina Trapani. Google… [pic] http://ff.im/-61IaM * web20classroom RT @jgvanides: What is “eLearning”? How I explain variations in online learning http://bit.ly/mJ1u1 #edtech #eLearning #highered #edu * annemareemoore RT @heyjudeonline: great introduction video for students in science getting into blogging. http://bit.ly/16Dwxq * russeltarr Audioboo: Using IPhones as an audio blogging tool with students (e.g. poetry?): http://tinyurl.com/o6ooux FeedBack: I came across this podcast for the first time today, and while significant time has passed, I cannot let this go without comment. While some parts of your program were interesting, I was disappointed in your lack of critical analysis of the reading research. (Yes, I am in a biased position on this, being employed by one of the study treatment companies, but my doctoral work in ed and research came before my latest venture with CRISS, and there is injustice in this!) You (along with an Ed Week reporter, etc) shared that “none of them [treatments] are effective”. The fact is, a null effect or no positive effect in statistical research does NOT mean a treatment is ineffective. It means they didn’t find results — and that can be for a variety of reasons, including faulty research design. Having read the research report and talked to teachers and trainers (for CRISS), I know that the design was flawed, as was the way the researchers grouped the info. CRISS is the only one of the treatments that is a professional development program, NOT a canned curriculum. All four were treated as the same thing. Even if the design wasn’t flawed, the researchers themselves stated that the study demonstrates likely outcomes in a “typical” implementation. In the case of many of the sites CRISS worked with, teachers had NO input into their participation and therefore NO BUY-IN. Some teachers did not show up for the trainings, but the test data was kept in the mix anyway. It makes no sense. Before I started working for CRISS last September, I taught middle school for 9 years and was the 6-12 Literacy Specialist for 3. We implemented CRISS at the high school and the teachers that participated loved it and used what they learned — and saw positive results. But it takes time (3 years to get teachers fully implementing, with regular support); changing pedagogy isn’t easy. That said, gentlemen, I ask that you revisit adolescent literacy again — maybe after looking at the report that came out last spring(Ed Week March or April?)that noted that random control/treatment studies done by the IES are consistently coming out with null effects. It appears that education does not fit into that paradigm of research design. Kids aren’t widgets, and you can’t control for all the chaos that human subjects bring to public schools. There ARE concrete things educators can do to improve students’ literacy. No canned program (or professional development, for that matter) required. Thanks! Dr. Debra Franciosi California should fund Music: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/30/EDQ01910HK.DTL

Last year, Google released an experimental Greasemonkey API for Gmail: coding hooks that let anyone add CSS and Javascript to Gmail that enhances how it looks and behaves. Why would you want to do this? Why wouldn’t you? Hear how Google’s using Greasemonkey to distribute Gmail development amongst independent web developers - and how those developers are integrating their own product into Gmail - resulting in a Better Gmail for everyone. Gina Trapani is a web developer and the founding editor of Lifehacker.com, the 2006 Wired Rave Award-winning daily weblog on software and productivity. Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).

Scott and Carl talk about life hacks with Gina Trapani, web developer and author of the book "Life Hacker - 88 tricks to turbocharge your day".