Podcasts about other good ideas

I met comedian Keith Lowell Jensen shortly after I moved to Sacramento in 2013. We first got to know each other when I interviewed him for the local newspaper, Sacramento News and Review, but soon became friends. Before the pandemic, we were getting wieners on a regular basis. (It technically started as hot dogs for lunch, but soon wieners became synonymous with hanging out) Of the many things we bonded over, a mutual love for ska was high on the list, especially when Keith learned I was writing a book about ska. He insisted that I include him in the book with a chapter called “My Friend Keith Likes Ska.” That didn’t happen, but here we are a few months before In Defense of Ska releases and “My Friend Keith Likes Ska” is now a reality—as a podcast episode. Keith always hires a clown for his birthday partiesIn this episode, Keith talks about local Sacramento band Filibuster (Who Keith attempted to manage for a minute), his love for Fishbone (He was at that crazy Warfield show at the beginning of Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone), and a slew of other topics. One highlight this week comes by way of co-host Adam Davis, who revealed that his childhood church had a “No Skaw dancing” policy at their dances. Scandalous! Check out Keith’s latest special Not For Rehire on Amazon Prime and leave a review. Also be sure to pick up his book Punching Nazis and Other Good Ideas. Keith also has a podcast. Make sure you listen to the episode when he brings on In Defense of Ska author Aaron Carnes. Follow Keith on Twitter. His next book, What I Was Arrested For will be available for pre-order soon. It’s getting released by Clash Books—my book publisher! Do you like this newsletter? You can sign up here Get on the email list at aaroncarnes.substack.com

Welcome to your weekly Coworking Values Podcast. For this episode we welcome back one of our friends from Melting Pot in Edinburgh, UK — Samantha Hulls. For the new listeners, Sam is the head of Collaboration for Melting Pot. She did a podcast with us before — Coworking in Scotland and Other Good Ideas. And today she will be talking about the Melting Pot and how they are moving from physical premises to a virtual one. She will be delving on why’s and how’s of a coworking space moving from a physical address to a virtual one and how their community has responded to the change.

Host Ben Rice visits the new Tilted Mash Brewing location to sit down with owners Derrick Prasad and Jonathan Martinez, along with guest Keith Lowell Jensen, to talk coffee and Tilted Mash's recent relocation. Things go sideways, as Ben chose to record during their twice-monthly comedy show Tilted Mashterpiece Theatre, as every comic on the bill (Shahera Hyatt, Diego Curiel, and Christy Farley) pops on the mic, as do Kyle and Kady, the beertenders. Keith has his first alcoholic beverage in years, Ben tells drunk stories, and Jonathan becomes the second guest to admit to trying to steal a statue. This one goes off the rails and back again. Enjoy! And don't forget to find Keith's albums on Stand Up! Records (www.standuprecords.com) or pre-order Keith's first collection of essays, "Punching Nazis and Other Good Ideas" from Amazon. Follow Tilted Mash at @tiltedmash Follow Keith Lowell Jensen at @keithlowell Follow Barley & Me at @barleyandmepod Intro music: "JamRoc" by Breez (@mr4proaudio) Logo by Jessica DiMesio (@alivingclicheart) Don't forget, you can save $5 off your first ride with Lyft by using the offer code "BarleyAndMe"

We discuss the role of design in the practice of law with renowned typographer-lawyer Matthew Butterick. The conversation ranges among very practical tips for making better documents, why so many legal documents are poorly designed, why lawyers should care about design, and what it even means to design a document. Matthew explains why IRS forms are some of the most well-designed legal documents around. Also, Joe manages to connect (positively) enjoying physical books with smelling gasoline. This show’s links: About Matthew Butterick, also here and @mbutterick on Twitter Nicholas Georgakopoulos, Knee Defender, Barro’s Error, and Surprise Norms Christopher Buccafusco and Chris Sprigman, Who Deserves Those 4 Inches of Airplane Seat Space? Keith O’Brien, America’s Chimp Problem The pronunciation of “chimpanzee” Cecilia Kang, Podcasts Are Back - And Making Money (sadly, not ours, but here’s Christian’s post on Podcasts and some of the reasons we started this show) Overcast, our preferred podcast app Episode 11: Big Red Diesel, in which we discussed typography, text editing, and the worst breaches of email etiquette Butterick’s Practical Typography (and how to pay for it if you choose!) From the book: Typography in Ten Minutes and Summary of Key Rules Matthew Butterick, Typography for Lawyers (and how to purchase physical and Kindle editions) Ben Carter, Typography for Lawyers: One Space, Double Spacing, and Other Good Ideas An example of a Supreme Court opinion, notable for its design Robin Williams, The Mac is Not a Typewriter Matthew Butterick, The Bomb in the Garden, text and images from a talk Matthew gave at TYPO San Francisco in 2013 Rob Walker, The Guts of a New Machine, reporting on the iPod’s first two years and including the quote from Steve Jobs that “design is how it works” (Note too the uncertainty in 2003 whether the iPod would go on to sell like the breakthrough Sony Walkman, which sold 186 million in twenty years. As of this article, the iPod had sold 1.4 million. It went on to sell 350 million in eleven years.) Dan Barry, A Writing Coach Becomes a Listener, a profile of William Zinsser, author of On Writing Well Mike Monteiro, Design Is a Job Lawrence Solum, Legal Theory Lexicon: Fit and Justification Patrick Kingsley, Higgs Boson and Comic Sans: The Perfect Fusion Matthew Butterick, Pollen, “a publishing system that helps authors create beautiful and functional web-based books” and that “includes tools for writing, designing, programming, testing, and publishing” Matthew’s Equity and Concourse typefaces Matthew Butterick, The Economics of a Web-Based Book: Year One Special Guest: Matthew Butterick.

The U.S. News rankings of law schools are out! We wish they would go away. After follow-up on last week’s episode and a dip into viewer mail, we discuss what problems the rankings might be attempts to solve, how they are calculated, and the obvious problems with them. Joe reports that after the conversation, as after other discussions of the rankings, he felt like he needed a shower. This show’s links: Episode 11: Big Red Diesel (http://oralargument.org/11) Typography in ten minutes (http://practicaltypography.com/typography-in-ten-minutes.html) from Butterick’s Practical Typography (http://practicaltypography.com/index.html), see also his Summary of Key Rules (http://practicaltypography.com/summary-of-key-rules.html) Ben Carter, Typography for Lawyers: One Space, Double Spacing, and Other Good Ideas (http://bluegrassroots.org/home/typography-for-lawyers-one-space-double-spacing-and-other-go.html) The 2015 U.S. News and World Report Law School Rankings (http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/law-rankings) LSAC, Choosing a Law School (http://www.lsac.org/jd/choosing-a-law-school/customize-your-law-school-search) The official U.S. News Rankings Methodology (http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/articles/2014/03/10/methodology-2015-best-law-schools-rankings) Brian Leiter, An Open Letter to Bob Morse of U.S. News (http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2010/03/an-open-lette-1.html) Brian Leiter, The U.S. News Law School Rankings: A Guide for the Perplexed (http://www.leiterrankings.com/usnews/guide.shtml) Theodore P. Seto, Understanding the U.S. News Law School Rankings (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=937017), in which Prof. Seto describes an attempt to reproduce the U.S. News model and conclusions about the rankings’ reliability, accuracy, and shortcomings Paul Caron, 2015 U.S. News Peer Reputation Rankings vs. Overall Rankings (http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2014/03/2015-us-news-.html) Robert L. Jones, A Longitudinal Analysis of the U.S. News. Law School Academic Reputation Scores Between 1998 and 2013 (http://law.fsu.edu/journals/lawreview/backissues/vol40/documents/jones.pdf) Jeffrey Evans Stake, The Interplay Between Law School Rankings, Reputations, and Resource Allocation: Ways Rankings Mislead (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=700862) Bill Henderson, Can Stanford Be No. 1 in the U.S. New Rankings? (http://www.elsblog.org/the_empirical_legal_studi/2010/07/can-stanford-be-1-in-the-us-news-rankings-the-data.html)

The Spring Break episode in which Joe and Christian take a break from solving the world’s legal problems to talk about the technology and culture of writing. We start with some listener feedback, and then Joe reports on an accidental experiment he performed with his car lights. Moving on to email, we discuss a number of bad habits, including needless attachments and clicking on links. Then, the big daddy: Microsoft Word. We discuss what Christian thinks is horribly wrong with it and the excellent, usable alternative to the whole concept of the WYSIWYG word processor. We argue. We close with Memphis. Christian's spouse conducts various noisy activities in the background. And Darcy barks. Never fear: we'll get back to the law stuff next week. This show’s links: Episode 1 with Sonja West (http://oralargument.org/1) Charlie Jane Anders, Great Fast Food Glasses of Yesteryear (http://io9.com/5422249/great-fast-food-glasses-of-yesteryear/) Wikipedia on Headlight flashing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headlight_flashing) Please don’t send me Microsoft Word document (http://en.nothingisreal.com/wiki/Please_don't_send_me_Microsoft_Word_documents) John Gruber, On Top (http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top) John Gruber, Markdown (http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) David Sparks, The Joy of Text (http://macsparky.com/blog/2011/2/10/the-joy-of-text.html) Paul Jacobson, Could MultiMarkdown Replace Word for Lawyers? (http://pauljacobson.org/2013/03/09/could-multimarkdown-replace-word-for-lawyers/) Markdown for Lawyers (http://www.whiteheadlawllc.com/technology/ediscovery/markdown-lawyers-ii/) Markdown cheatsheet (https://www.penflip.com/Penflip/help/blob/master/Markdown.txt) Brett Terpstra, The iOS Text Editor roundup (http://brettterpstra.com/ios-text-editors/) Scrivener (https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php), a writing app for Mac and Windows Case study (http://literatureandlatte.com/casestudies.php?show=david_sparks) on using Scrivener in a legal practice, featuring David Sparks Ulysses (http://www.ulyssesapp.com), a writing app for Mac Byword (http://bywordapp.com), a great text editor for Mac, iPhone, and iPad Editorial (http://omz-software.com/editorial/), Christian’s favorite markdown editor for the iPad Typography in ten minutes (http://practicaltypography.com/typography-in-ten-minutes.html) from Butterick’s Practical Typography (http://practicaltypography.com/index.html), see also his Summary of Key Rules (http://practicaltypography.com/summary-of-key-rules.html) Ben Carter, Typography for Lawyers: One Space, Double Spacing, and Other Good Ideas (http://bluegrassroots.org/home/typography-for-lawyers-one-space-double-spacing-and-other-go.html)