Justin and Jason discuss the emergency emails that Justin received from Digedu while on vacation and why he selected Sifter as a project management tool, how Uber and Digedu use Git, Git rebase vs Git merge and general GitHub bureaucracy, how Digedu makes use of NodeJS and how Uber leverages the NodeJS profiler that Jason and Guyon created, the rising importance of system administration <wbr />expertise, Jason's idea of teaching the Catalyst kids basic command line skills and why it may make sense to abandon the Catalyst IDE, the incredible rise in the Telsa stock price and the Tesla autopilot project, the self-driving car intersection simulation, the simulation software that shows Elon Musk&#8217;s Hyperloop is likely to work, how Alien bugs were discovered in the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, the hell that is the iOS developer center, the idea of segmenting AnyFu between premier and standard level experts and the possibility of bringing on a business / marketing partner, the segment on This American Life that mentions Jason's high school, how to increase your luck surface area by writing about increasing your luck surface area, how the CIA has been arming and training rebels since late 2012, the Pentagon&#8217;s desire to get in on the actions, AIPAC&#8217;s push for war and why the US ultimately backed down, Jason's @ tweet to his congressional representative, the famo.us Javascript rendering framework and how China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales technique.

Justin and Jason discuss the debt ceiling and the government shutdown, the upcoming Limitless television show, a theory on what made Einstein so clever and the difficulty in finding a genetic map for IQ, how the Arsenic DNA paper exposed flaws in the peer review process and The Reproducibility Project, the television shows Breaking Bad, Falling Skies, Revolution, Defiance, The Agents of Shield and The Walking Dead, how to make Star Wars great again, the first two sessions of Catalyst's second year, how kids differ in the way their brains work, training Colby to play quarterback and his Uber birthday party, using evolutionary strategies to solve Uber's worker allocation problem, how Jason got to take pitches in a major league baseball stadium, installation problems with Kerbal Space Program, how Justin is looking to hire someone to do devops at Digedu and how Hired.com&#8217;s business model compares to what Mecruit was going to try.

Justin and Jason talk about bringing on a potential marketing partner for AnyFu, why Justin may buy some Twitter shares, Jason's investment thesis and why he believes Apple is reverting to the mean, Google&#8217;s mystery barges, Jason's post on teaching kids how to code, Nitrous.io, the audio book Masters of Doom, the movies WarGames, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Enders Game, the surprising momentum of the Jason's posts How to Increase Your Luck Surface Area and Why I Quit Algorithmic Trading to Do Web Startups, motivations for contributing to open source projects, how listener James Jensen taught himself electronics and designed his own circuit board on Upverter, dark silicon, memristers, Darpa's analog computer initiative and spintronics, how IQ doesn&#8217;t appear to be set in stone and why watching TV probably doesn&#8217;t make you dumber, the Flynn effect and James Flynn&#8217;s TED Talk, the relationship of working memory to IQ, how Jason embedded Sandy's voice into a trading system's audible alerts, wireless devices powered by ambient backscatter rather than batteries, how US hypocrisy has come to light as a result of the Manning and Snowden revelations, combining mastery learning with the flipped classroom approach and Bloom&#8217;s two-sigma problem.

Justin and Jason talk with Rob Walling about the rollout of his new project, Drip, as well as a few other assorted topics.

Justin and Jason discuss getting the show back on a weekly schedule, how listener Ben Reyes gave Jason a Bitcoin, China&#8217;s stance on crypto currencies and why it's been to their geopolitical advantage to pin the renminbi to the US dollar, how Bitcoin's inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto, is now a billionaire and whether Satoshi is really Nick Szabo, whether Amazon&#8217;s drone delivery initiative is real or a cynical public relations ploy, whether drone delivery and self-driving cars are likely to become a reality in the near future, how easy it is to remotely hack into and gain control over a modern car, the fear mongering of mainstream news, the 5K MVP, the Heyday journaling iPhone app, the Pluggio update, Jason's various secret projects – Vortex, Cryptonite, Givetronic and SnapLearn, using an S-corp to minimize consulting taxes, the prospect of building games in Catalyst, Colby's day at Uber and the RC helicopters that Justin and the guys at MightyHive bought for him, how Jason and Sandy are going to co-coach the 4th grade math team, how Soylent has hit its 1.0 formula, the creation of XNA &#8211; a synthetic DNA that&#8217;s stronger than the real thing and the fact that there are likely billions of planets in our galaxy that could support life, the show Alphas, the Mindy Project, the Goldbergs, Defiance, The Black List, The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, and Treme, how the NSA slapped malware on 50,000+ networks, is tracking cellphone locations worldwide and how the NSA&#8217;s surveillance is having a chilling effect on American Writers, the new Bitcoin funded Assassination Market and the shocking news that men with attractive wives report higher levels of marital satisfaction.

Justin and Jason discuss why they like recording discussion shows on Friday afternoons, PayPal dispute resolutions, Jason's friend who lost his business and is now teaching himself how to code, how to determine whether your programmers are lazy, how Fog Creek compensates their developers, why Treehouse is eliminating managers, how to inspire developers to hit deadlines, using the minmax algorithm as a game strategy, why there's so much hate for Soylent, Bitcoin and Tesla, why Justin only bought 0.01 Bitcoin and 1 share of TSLA, a method for identifying asymmetric investments, why Jason thinks Soylent haters are thinking about it all wrong, why Justin is worried about GMOs and why Jason just can't seem to get worried about it, some Christmas present ideas for Colby – like a programmable quadcopter, an heirloom chemistry set or maybe some synthetic biology, how coaching Colby's 4th grade math team is going and how the Catalyst kids are about to start programming their own games, a La Critique of CastFeedValidator and JustAddContent, the first 3D commercial game powered by asm.js, a map of the best medical prices, the new science show Futurescape with James Woods, the Neurogrid analog computer that can simulate one-million neurons using only 5 watts of power, the new SciFi show Almost Human, the British show The Wong Mans, the awesome video show This Week in Engineering, how Google has started caching email images, and how a 6,000-page report on CIA torture has been suppressed for 1 year by the Obama administration.

Justin and Jason discuss how 0.01 Bitcoin was donated to the show, why Justin has been blogging so much lately, their respective Christmas plans and family traditions, an intriguing anti-ageing compound that&#8217;s set for human trials, an Oxford debate on ageing, why science fiction tends to restrict itself to exploring such a limited set of advances and how difficult it is to predict the future, the possibility of <wbr />mind-reading technologies, how the French recently implanted the first artificial human heart, how difficult it would be to adapt to the far future, what's different about kids today, how task laziness is all relative, Justin's post refuting Bitcoin FUD and a short discussion about inflation and deflation, Jason's mad scientist idea about how to accelerate the 4th grade math team he's coaching, the latest on Catalyst, how James Jensen's kids are following along with the Catalyst concept of using real tools, Jason's monster MySQL stored procedure, why Justin rewrote a CloudDB solution in MySQL and why he doesn't use a debugger, Glenn Bennett's humo&lt;wbr /&gt;rous image validator, more on Jason's friend who's teaching himself how to code and Jason's idea for a reality TV show called Geek Up, the ‘Superbugs’ found breeding in sewage plants, CryptoLocker&#8217;s crimewave, the revelation that the NSA program has stopped zero terror attacks, how its phone surveillance program has been ruled unconstitutional, how the White House is attempting to prevent federal judges from ruling on surveillance efforts, scary acoustic cryptanalysis, how an NSA coworker remembers Edward Snowden as a genius among geniuses, how the NSA likely bribed RSA into weakening its BSAFE library, RSA&#8217;s unimpressive rebuttal and an insightful counter rebuttal, the ridiculous, whitewash 60-minutes report on the NSA and how the pandering reporter is expected to land a top intelligence role at the NYPD, how no one is watching mainstream news anymore, especially in comparison to The Walking Dead, Amazon's new show Alpha House, how Treehouse manages to get anything accomplished without managers, and their respective views on wishing people a Merry / Happy Christmas.

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's hiring strategy for Digedu and IBM's notorious &#8220;Black Team&#8221;, the women in tech controversy and how it misrepresented Paul Graham's statements on the matter, how Jason finally conquered the Triangle Peg Board Game, his recent day at the slopes and his idea for a social checklistapp, the Cradlepoint Hotspot, a post mortem on Digedu's Q4 technology goals, Salman Khan's thoughts on learning and Digedu's blended learning approach, how there were Von hipsters even in the 1600's, when boys used to wear pink, the story of Minecraft and why Sweden is such a force in IT, the English dramaWallander, why Justin uses both Sequel Pro and MySQL Workbench, how software is eating the world and how it&#8217;s hollowing out the white-collared middle class, our robotic future, Jason's sciatica, Aubrey de Grey&#8217;s link to Cambridge University, how the French high court has approved a 75 percent tax for top earners, the startup that&#8217;s refining plant seeds into jet fuel and how much jet fuel is required by US passenger and cargo airlines, how a former BP geologist claims that we hit peak oil in 2008 and why Elon Musks thinks electric jets are the future.

Justin and Jason discuss the animated series Archer and why it&#8217;s no longer going to be about spies, how the NSA is attempting to build a quantum computer, how a France-UAE satellite deal is shaky after NSA spy tech was discovered onboard, how California legislators are attempting to banish the NSA from the state, the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps, the impending death of Facebook, how little western culture and styles have changed since the 80's, Digedu's upcoming technical challenges, how Assembly is crowdsourcing the development of startup ideas and Justin&#8217;s &#8220;venture matrix&#8221; concept, the difference between money and wealth, Paul Graham's belief that a lack of energetic execution is one of the primary reasons why startups fail, the difference between college and NFL players, Jason's desire for two weeks of solitude every quarter, last week's Catalyst session and why Jason is so excited about coaching Colby's math team, how Zappos is saying goodbye to bosses, some ideas on how to create an attribution platform based on layers of footprint, Simon Holmes' new book on Mongo, Express, Angular and Node, Sebastian Thrun's belief that the current incarnation of MOOC&#8217;s are falling short, the importance of teaching intuition, Stephen Wolfram's remembrances of Richard Feynman, Justin's responses for his job posting on We Work Remotely and Fallacy Man.

Justin and Jason discuss Digedu's latest technical hire, Quizlet&#8217;s incredible feedback center, the PHP logging extension Datadog, the realtime dashboard that Jason built for Uber, why hackers haven't been more creative in the types of targets they've gone after, when it makes more sense to buy TV shows than to it does to just watch them for free and sit through the commercials, the TV show Blacklist and how the actor James Spader makes it worth watching, how Justin has started watching The Walking Dead, the upcoming spinoff series and the comic book, Jason's secret plan for super accelerating the 4th-grade math team and the online math drilling websites AdaptedMind and iXL, why it can be advantageous to push kids to master advanced math at an earlier age, Dropbox&#8217;s $10 billion valuation and reasons why the startup succeeded where others failed, Google's moonshot projects, how value is created by doing, MicroConf, how Jason's purchase of his remaining Uber options wiped out his family's savings, how a $100 worth of Litecoin a year ago is worth $30,000 today, understanding the altcoin markets, why it's important to always remain liquid, why Justin is calling peak Dogecoin, Proof Market, mutual companies and whether the concept could be applied to websites dependent on user generated content, how the NSA has devised a radio pathway into computers that aren&#8217;t connected to the Internet, how Jason has gone retro with Java and is loving it, the IntelliJ IDE and the DropWizard framework, an AnyFu update, the Catalyst game development strategy, the importance of energetic execution and complementary teammates, and why you must always remain cognizant of your enthusiasm half-life.

Justin and Jason discuss Digedu's latest technical hire, how Uber's real-time team uses Github, the growth of Uber's engineering team and what Jason has been working on, building software that never gets used and the three criteria by which to evaluate a job, the two most unrealistic aspects of the TV show 24, Jason's latest trip to SF and why he doesn't like to spend money, math team madness, Jason's idea for how to share information within a large engineering department, how Tesla has completed it&#8217;s L.A.-to-New York charger network, the Bitcoin exchange arrests, how Jason finally got an email reply from that HFT firm, how Richard Feynman became such a great problem solver, how Digedu is moving from the Allman coding style to the K&amp;R coding style, how Starmade has taught Colby the importance of prototyping, avoiding premature optimization and how to manage expectations, the animated TV series Star Blazers, the guy who offered Jason $300 for a link to his algorithmic trading website, the &#8220;good guy&#8221; discount, how the NSA and GCHQ are now targeting mobile apps, the Tor developer who may have become the first known victim of the NSA&#8217;s laptop interception program, how the FBI probably owns your TorMail inbox and how the UK porn filter blocks League of Legends update for having &#8216;sex&#8217; in file name.

Justin and Jason discuss why they're not going to change the name of the show, the unpaid bill that launched a thousand starships, the cryptography breakthrough that could make software unhackable, how GoPro is going public, Russia&#8217;s banning of Bitcoin, China&#8217;s large scale 3D printers, the breakthrough bionic hand that restores an amputee’s sense of touch, the latest on the math team, how Colby is socially distractible in the same way that Jason is, the news that Justin and Georgie are expecting, why so many projects seem to come to Jason and his upcoming meeting with a couple of billionaire investors, the math tutor who claims to be able to advance gifted kids from arithmetic through Calculus in 2 years and the guy who taught his 7-year old Calculus, the new Snowden interview that has been ignored by the major media, achieving a form of immortality with Eterni.me and whether Solyent is ever going to deliver.

Justin and Jason discuss why the show has been on a mini hiatus, the Spritz speedreading technology and the open source bookmarklet, Justin's Catalyst experiment, the face behind Bitcoin, the denial and some confirmations by Los Angeles County deputies, what most likely happened at Mt Gox, autotrading crypto-currencies at Cryptotrader, the death of AnyFu, why Justin likes the idea of being an older dad, the latest at Digedu and what Jason is working on at Uber, the Tesla Gigafactory, Justin's losing cryptocurrency investments, Peter Thiel&#8217;s talk at last year's SXSW, teaching George Pólya&#8217;s problem solving heuristics to the math team, why Nick Bostrom thinks humans could become extinct and the television shows True Detective and Almost Human.

Jason talks with Nathan Hawkins about his new (TCG) trading card game Conjure, what it took to create it and how they're bringing it to market.

Justin, Jason and special guest Ben Reyes discuss Ben's investment in Tesla and investing in general, Bitcoin as a technology and whether Dorian is the real Satoshi, how experts found that Mt.Gox lost a mere 386 Bitcoin due to transaction malleability, pending comments on Hacker News, Justin's new meme – "The Iceberg Strategy", Jason's trick for scrambling his own memories, why Notch has canceled talks with Oculus Rift, the upcoming Math Field Day, Jason's idea for a math TCG (trading card game), why it&#8217;s okay to work on small problems, and the future of the show.

Justin and Jason discuss Jason's night with the "Korean billionaires", the 30 for 30 documentary The Opposition, the big Digedu demo, Justin's excitement over Node.js and socket.io, why Jason turned down an IdeaLab company, how Justin finally sold Pluggio and the new side project he's working on with Lance Jones and Joanna Wiebe called Disco, how CNBC contacted Jason about debating Mark Cuban on high-frequency trading, Jason's phone call with Mark Groton and the subsequent Gawker leak, Empath and Jason's YCombinator interview, the latest evidence debunking Washington's claim about the Syrian sarin attack, and the possibility of hosting a TechZing summit.

Justin and Jason discuss the TechZing Summit, the last session of Catalyst, Uber&#8217;s new office and Jason's thoughts on Uber&#8217;s rapid growth, Justin's "no DB" project, how options work at most venture-funded startups, getting compensated in convertible debt, Jason's experience with AirPair and why you should never do a fixed-bid project, shutting down AnyFu and some lessons learned about premature scaling, the latest on Empath and Disco, Vagrant, RabbitMQ and Composer, Justin's DIY Soylent experiment and the problem with Soylent's distribution strategy, Jason's recap of a year spent coaching the 4th-grade math team, the book Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, Justin's idea for an ancestor constitution, how Occam&#8217;s razor is a statistical syllogism and thus a logical fallacy, why people who write their names with initials seem smarter, Jason's frustration with how mathematicians dismiss any mathematics that isn't about proving theorems, and Izzy's struggle with self-confidence.

Justin and Jason discuss Jason's recent trip to Disneyland, the latest progress on Disco, Jason's first angel investment, how Justin has been slowly accumulating Bitcoin, finding a remote, junior Rails developer, the site We Work Remotely, Jason's new weight-loss plan,StrongLifts, the TV shows Continuum and Halt and Catch Fire, some details on the TechZing Summit, whether it's harmful to let young kids use iPads, how Jason spent his youth fighting BB-gun wars, shooting tennis ball cannons and juggling burning tennis balls, Justin and Georgie's plans for a natural childbirth,how zapping your brain with gamma waves can induce lucid dreaming, the possibility of interviewing the founder of AirPair, why Jason wouldn't consider himself an expert in Titanium (or just about anything else for that matter), why it's hard to give time estimates when developing software, what makes hell banning a pain to implement, why Internet bullying is the result of people not having any &#8220;skin in the game&#8221;, the promise-payoff matrix, Uber&#8217;s $1.4B raise,how the ridiculous Bitcoin predictions of Mark T. Williams have (predictably) been proven wrong, the difficulty of decoupling emotion from investing, the untraceability of DarkCoin and ideas on how to trade all of the new cryptocurrencies, how it's now possible to build a complete mobile platform on .NET using Xamarin and EC2, why having more developers slows down development and the latest progress on Digedu's "No DB" implementation.

Justin and Jason discuss the details of Jason's angel investment in the Mill Valley Code Club, Jason's weight-loss plan, the power of gradualism, the time required to form a new habit, the importance of short and long-term goals, accountability and positive feedback loops, how an article by Jason's brother Jay was listed as one of The Atlantic&#8217;s top pieces of journalism, a little bit about the TechZing Summit, Lucid Dreaming, the Pasadena App Academy, how MIT flipped their physics classes, how Netflix is creating original content like Orange is the New Black and House of Cards, what makes Silicon Valley so damn funny, the Weissman Score, the Facebook outage, how US Marshals accidentally Replied All to a list of anonymous bitcoin auction bidders, why it may be time for a hard Bitcoin fork, how Colby is writing a RobotC tutorial for the Mill Valley Code Club and Jason's expected-value argument against teaching a rigorous, proof-oriented Calculus to high school students and non-math majors.

Executive Producer: Ben Boyter

Thanks Ben!

Justin talks to Derrick Reimer and Rob Walling about the Drip tech stack.

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's upcoming trip to Mexico, their new low-sugar / high-protein diet and HIIT training regime, the TechZing Summit, how Justin has STILL not received hisSoylent, Jason's interview on Bootstrapped with Kids, how Jason found a personal instructor to teach him electrical engineering, the latest on Jason's math card game – Battle Math, why his iPhone project got rejected by the App Store, his recent visit to the Mill Valley Code Club and what's happening with Empath, the latest with Disco and why Justin likes SaltStack, why most people will initially mock and dismiss audacious goals, but later be inspired by them, and how a season of "Daddy Ball" has lit a fire in Colby and why that's a good thing.

Justin and Jason discuss Jason's ambitious health and fitness plan, Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s six rules of success, why Jason has decided to pursue his two long-time athletic goals of bench pressing 315 lbs and of dunking a basketball, Karch Kiraly&#8217;s athletic transformation at the age of 44, a few of the top vertical jump programs, the 42-year who added 9 inches to his vertical, the before and after videos of the kid who transformed himself into a dunking machine, Jason's &#8220;before&#8221; video of his vertical jump, the vertical jump calculation, Justin's exercise and diet plan and why he wants a picture of Elon Musk next to his bed, how 40's can be the new 20's, the TechZing Summit, the latest on Disco and why ownership is split equally among the founders, Jason's life hack for learning electrical engineering and the progress he's made so far, why your perceived limitations are almost all just in your mind, why Elon Musk is so successful, the girl who made it to the finals of America Ninja Warrior, how Colby learned to program in RobotC in his summer school class, the latest on Jason's angel investment in the Mill Valley Code Club, the awesome job that Phillip Monet has done with the TechZing Wiki, Jason's idea for doing a monthly TZ meetup in San Francisco, developing content for Empath, why God's Tweets got rejected from the App Store and whether your life really changes that much after having a baby.

Justin and Jason discuss the movie Guardians of the Galaxy and the show Halt and Catch Fire, why they both like the post-apocalyptic genre, the final dates for the TechZing Summit, a progress report on Operation Superhero, Justin's "audacious goal" of starting a funk band, why Jason thinks Derek Sivers is wrong about keeping your goals to yourself, Jason's electrical engineering learning experiment and his idea of posting his notes and problem solutions to the web using CircuitLab and MathJax, what is was about Stanford's Neurogrid project that inspired Jason to learn electronics, how Jason's MightyHive convertible note actually converted into equity and how his angel investment, MV Code Club, is opening a second location, the latest on Disco, why Justin enjoys doing devops using Salt, how Jason and Sandy are going to be teaching Algebra to 5th graders this year and Jason's plans for the Battle Math card game, a contrarian view of MITx, Parkinson&#8217;s Law, whether it makes more sense to join an established but growing tech company or to just apply to YC, why Justin sold his Soylent, Jason's recent physical and Lightbot – the app / game that teaches basic programming concepts.

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's new baby and all of the related complications, an update on Jason's weight-loss and fitness program and why he's so skeptical of Justin's 15-minutes-per-week workout, the new pullout math class for the 5th-grade math team, an update on Jason's effort to learn electronics and how he couldn't get Anki or Mnemosyne to display equations, the progress on the God&#8217;s Tweets iPhone app, why Empath has stalled out, how MV Code Club is all set to open a new location, and the status of the Battle Math card game.

Justin and Jason talk with Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo, about his new book Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers.

Gabriel also appears in the following TechZing shows:

• 68 TZ Interview – Gabriel Weinberg &amp; DuckDuckGo
• 91: TZ Panel – Phil Aman &amp; Gabriel Weinberg
• 99: TZ Panel – Gabriel Weinberg &amp; Peter Cooper
• 179: TZ Interview – Gabriel Weinberg / Blowing Up DuckDuckGo
• 225: TZ Interview – Gabriel Weinberg / The DuckDuckGo Step Function

Justin and Jason speak with Dr. Doug McGuff about his book, Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week.

A special shoutout goes to Andy Chamberlain who emailed Justin with a heads up about Doug and the Body by Science protocol.

Justin and Jason discuss the upcoming summit, the latest on Disco, Justin's life with a newborn, the summit's super sponsors, MV Code Club&#8217;s new location and possible sources of growth capital, how the brain can classify words during sleep and how people think more creatively when they walk, the book A Whack on Side of the Head, hitting the reset button in your brain, Jason's progress on operation Superhero, Justin's workout and non-diet diet, Justin's favorite new tech site SciTechDaily, why Colby tanked his spelling test, Justin's idea for a baby rocker that simulates a drive in a car, the fact that "luck surface area" is going to be in yet another book – "You:Rebranded", the SyNAPSE Chip by IBM Mimics Brain and the mobile web app that Jason has been developing to monitor and manage Uber's real-time systems.

Summit Super Sponsors

• Glenn Bennett / 250 big ones
• Aaron Night / 250 big ones

Justin and Jason discuss the TZ summit, the prospect of establishing a colony on Mars and what that process might look like, the prospect of an Ebola pandemic, betting on black swans and counterparty risk, why the TV show Lost was unable to close so many of it's story lines, the idea for a productivity app modeled after Lost's Swan computer, Justin's vintage terminal app and his new cardio solution, what motivates people to change themselves, whether Justin has any regrets about selling Pluggio, why Jason gets satisfaction from helping other people and why he's more excited about teaching the math class than any of his other projects, the fake legend of Walter O&#8217;Brien and Scorpion, the This American Life episode The Super, The Cracked Podcast, the upcoming content sites Nautilus, Quartz, Medium and Svbtle, productivity and anti-productivity habits, the apps Self Control, HabitRPG and EpicWin, an update on Operation Superhero, what happened to Jason's screenplay concept, the latest with the math class, why Jason put learning electrical engineering on pause and the progress being made by MVCC.

Justin and Jason discuss the summit and the prospect of hosting another one, whether growing the show would be possible or even make a difference, whether World War III could stop a rising population, how HP&#8217;s Thermal Inkjet printing is going 3D and how Google is developing cancer and a heart attack detector, Amazon Echo, the prospects for AI in the near term and the risks of achieving superintelligence, how Scientists made a telepathy breakthrough, the latest on Operation Superhero and the SAID principle, Justin's diet and why he loves Space Nutrients, Jason's new rules for Colby's computer time and his recent tour of a local all-girls school, the latest with the math team, Justin's private preschool future and what's up with Jason's various projects.

Jason talks with Mike Walmsley, the founder and primary developer of the programming education site Code Avengers.

Justin and Jason discuss why Disco hasn't worked out and what Justin has learned from the experience, balancing product development with sales and marketing, how to select and validate a business idea, the basics of algorithmic trading, how Jason increased his vertical jump by 8 inches, high and low adaptors, Justin's desire for a walking desk, how to raise your IQ, the research in support of it, and Jason's effort to keep the math team together.

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's rebound project and the myriad questions Justin has about HFT (high-frequency trading), learning to code with CodeAvengers and CodeCombat, the latest on Operation Superhero and MV Code Club, scaling with Node.js at Uber, posting error messages to Slack and HipChat, scaling and managing servers at Digedu, Jason's interview on Get Up and Code, why iXL didn't work for the math team and how to setup a backup configuration using MySQL and EC2.

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's short-lived madness about algorithmic trading, the book Building Algorithmic Trading Systems, using neural networks to predict the future price of Bitcoin, why Jason said no to doing the MIT Circuits &amp; Electronics MOOC with his friend Phil, the unexpected benefits of working on toy problems, why teaching the accelerated math class is Jason's favorite three hours of the week, the conditions under which accelerating kids can provide significant advantages and when it doesn't, Colby's "IQ" test and Ms. Extra Credit, moving God's Tweets from a VPS to EC2, RDS and S3 and how changing Apple developer accounts caused a iOS/OSX/Titanium upgrade cascade, MaxCDN vs. Amazon's CloudFront, tricks for developing professional-looking Titanium apps, the TED talk – Behind the Great Firewall of China and how Obama and Cameron are cracking down on encryption, why Jason, like most most security researchers, doesn't believe North Korea was behind the Sony attack, why it's a good idea to dismiss government claims when they fail to provide evidence, Seymour Hersh&#8217;s debunking of the USG&#8217;s claim that Syria used chemical weapons, the failed SpaceX Falcon 9 landing and Elon Musk's recent announcement about the Texas Hyperloop experiment, Larry Summer&#8217;s response to Marc Andreessen's tweet storm about secular stagnation, a listener's app Happy Scales, why pursuing an academic career in math or science is the new monasticism, replicating the career paths of Elon Musk and Jeff Hawkins, the sudden handwringing about the future threat of strong AI, the series Extant, Black Mirror and Video Game High School, the problem with uploading your intelligence into a digital world, the cloned bull that changed, László Polgár and the nature nurture debate, Justin's walking desk and the quest for workout economy, how Jason's leg injury has put a pause on Operation Superhero and his philosophy of how to continue making progress (see Ray Liotta&#8217;s rant in Copland).

Grand Patron $100: David Walz (Thanks so much!)

Justin and Jason discuss the impending delivery of Justin's walking desk and his health and fitness dilettantism, why Instapaper has become just another "to-do list" for Jason, their respective Hacker News reading strategies, the latest on MV Code Club, how the money raising process differs between celebrity and non-celebrity founders, why Jason pulled out of Empath as well as the crypto-exchange (AKA the "secret project"), why success requires focus, how multiple injuries have put Operation Superhero on temporary hold and the latest with the accelerated math class.

Justin and Jason discuss the difficulty of finding a time to record the show, Justin's walking-desk disaster, his new secret project and his thoughts on using Titanium, the latest on the MVCC, Justin's movie concept, the show The 100, the roadblocks to getting God&#8217;s Tweets approved by the App Store, why you should build a Titanium app for Android and iOS at the same time, the benefits of decluttering your life, generating ten new ideas per day for ten days, the employment-status lawsuits against Uber and Lyft, the incredible growth of Uber's engineering department, Jason's ideas for a mobile note-taking app and for a site that teaches you how to do math proofs, the sites Sophia and Brilliant, the status of Battle Math and the latest with the math class.

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's recent purchasing debacles and his latest plan for getting healthy, the latest on Jason's various injuries, Justin as Burger Meister, Meister Burger, the math team's big success at Math Field Day, how Jason is connecting with Caltech&#8217;s Center for Teaching, Learning &amp; Outreach, an update on the Battle Math card game, Justin's TechZing breakfast, how everyone is seemingly trying to dunk, the problem of forgetting what you&#8217;ve read, how to capture selected text in a Titanium webview, the return of The X-Files, The Walking Dead spinoff series, why Jason can't stomach shows like Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, why our brains love high ceilings, living off a dollar a day with Elon Musk and Tesla&#8217;s April Fool&#8217;s joke, the latest with MV Code Club, God&#8217;s Tweets, killing cancer cells with DNA nanobots, whether the human brain can ever fill up and the process of memory formation, recall and forgetting, why Jason is planning on cryogenically freezing himself, the new study that says it doesn't matter how much time you spend with your kids, how inequality is far worse than you think and the prospect of a mostly robotic future.

Justin and Jason discuss Jason's recent near-death experience and how his brother's childhood friend has a small part on The Walking Dead, the Reddit button, how Jason is trading coding hours for Robocraft hours with Colby, kids and electronics, the iWatch and why people are always checking their phones, the essence of peopling, automatic birthday wishes and thank yous on Facebook, why everything that can be automated eventually will be, Patrick McKenzie's new startup – Starfigher, remote working and productivity, the relationship between wealth, power and fame, the two federal agents who were indicted for stealing Bitcoins, the movie The Imitation Game, why the Caltech visit was postponed a week, negative social patterns and the heritability of personality traits, iZombie, how the editors of Basic and Applied Social Psychology are no longer accepting p-values, the Reproducibility Project, why null results tend not to be published as often, the latest with MVCC and Justin's new workout regime at CATZ.

Justin talks with Mike Taber author of The Single Founder Handbook

Justin and Jason discuss the technical issues of streaming the show using Periscope, the possible resurrection of Empath, Jason's advising CTO strategy, fear-based parenting, Justin's secret project and reserving a name in the app store, the Seasteading Institute, nature vs. nurture, the latest with Justin's "get fit" effort and Jason's injuries, the athletes who benefitted from Jason's vertical training protocol, Jason's spontaneous two-man TechZing Summit, the math team's performance at the LA Math Cup, when parents take things too seriously, teaching calculus to the math class and plans for the future, the latest with MV Code Club, the upcoming TV shows Limitless, Fear the Walking Dead and Mr. Robot, the inaccuracies of The Imitation Game and Argo, how the story behind the killing of Osama Bin Laden is a myth, the lie about how Syria used chemical weapons against rebel forces and how easily people are manipulated by the media, the TV show The Blacklist and thoughts on streaming with Periscope.

Justin and Jason discuss the move from Perioscope to Meerkat, Justin's health update and why he got rid of his treadmill, how Colby blew the curve on the math final, the field trip to Caltech and the visit from the district superintendent, BVP&#8217;s anti-portfolio, how to keep from reverting to the mean, teaching kids about money and investments, the story behind CryptoIQ, Justin's "billion dollar" secret project, Jason's idea of how to build the Memory Hole on top of Instapaper, Kurzweil&#8217;s cyborg predictions, the MagicLeap platform, the possibility of doing another TechZing Summit, the Outernet and whether its signal could be jammed, low-power devices running off WiFi and uBeam&#8217;s ultrasound charging technology, ideas on how to interview technical candidates, the difficulty of learning advanced mathematics on your own and whether Justin's obsession with taking shortcuts has hamstrung him in other ways.

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's secret project, Lyte, how he built it and what he sees as its future, the possibility of transforming the math class into a math academy, how Uber is making the world a better place, why inexpensive self-teaching and test-prep books are often better than their equivalent textbooks, Jason's new color laser printer, Chris Sacca&#8217;s anti-portfolio, the U.S. defense department&#8217;s interest in hoverbikes, an interview with James Simons, how China is attempting to genetically engineer genius and Jason's upcoming dual-n-back experiment.

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's new diabetes-reversing diet, the growing momentum of the Math Academy and Jason's new madness, getting Lyte out the door, lessons learned through playing StarCraft that are useful in real life, using unfairness to your advantage, why IQ is more important than people like to admit and the status of Jason's dual-n back experiment.

Justin talks to Gabriel Weinberg about the re-release of his book Traction and the latest news on DuckDuckGo.

Justin and Jason discuss why Jason thinks it may be time to put an end to the show, why Justin stopped working on Lyte and why he quit his low-calorie diet, the Chrome plug-in for motivation, nearsourcing work to Mexican consulting firms, Aaron Francis' commentary on Entreporn, finding a developer for Givetronic, Jason's thoughts on Bitcoin, the latest with the Math Academy, strength training Colby and why you don't have to "protect" your startup idea.

Justin and Jason discuss their decision to continue doing the show, why streaming is a pain in Justin's ass and why the last show was so painful for him, Justin's path to his latest project – Spoke, Jason's jury duty service, getting Colby started on "lion-cub training", the latest with MV Code Club, finding a developer for Givetronic, Colby's defensive playbook, the latest with Operation Superhero, Justin's new 7-minute workout and chiropractor, Jason's criticism ofFear the Walking Dead, the book and upcoming movie The Martian, how most popular songs are written by a duo of middle-aged, Norwegian songwriters and the role of obsessiveness in achieving success.

Justin, Jason and Colby discuss Colby's strength training program, his view on the accelerated math class and why he designed his own football helmet and defensive playbook, the latest on the Math Academy, Justin's 7-minute workout and his reinvention of Weight Watchers, Jason's progress on Operation Superhero and his 3-week sprint concept and the latest on Spoke and Givetronic.

Justin, Jason and Phil discuss how Phil got fit and why he got an MBA, the explanatory power of incentives, Jason and Phil's time together in college, how nanobots in our brains will make us &#8216;Godlike&#8217;, why uploading your conscience will not make you immortal, creating an earth-sized virtual world, why we may not be able to find any alien neighbors, the anti-aging NAD fad, why Justin decided to kill Spoke and his one-month challenge.

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Justin, Jason and Phil discuss the demise of Spoke.

Justin and Jason discuss why they decided not to publish that last show, Jason's Christmas debacle, how we're living in the future, the documentary An Honest Liar, how Dean Kamen is solving the world&#8217;s drinking water problem, solving problems solution first, the First Robotics competition, Jason's recent addiction to the mobil game Hex Fvr, Gone Girl, the Bastard Executioner, Homicide Hunter, the Nerdist Podcast interview with Joe Kenda and the Detective podcast, why Jason receives so many emails about his algorithmic trading blog post, Justin's new project, Jason's idea of aggregating a handful of trading strategies on Collective2 into a fund of funds, Wealthfront and Betterment, the man who had virtually no brain, Jason's new math class, the progress with the Math Academy and the software that's going to power it, the financial pluses and minuses of working for a startup, the stress of running Slack, why Justin thinks the engineers at Slack might snoop on conversations and why Jason is skeptical, treating human disease with the CRISPR technique, The Strain, Nick Bostrom, Super Intelligence, the Open AI initiative and whether true artificial intelligence would have to be imbued with a fear of death.

Justin, Jason and Phil discuss the Math Academy software and the latest with the rollout of the program, the silly idea that children are incapable of abstract thought at age 11, how to raise a creative child, Phil's experience as an analyst for an angel fund and as a head TA in business school, learning from failure and success, what's required in terms of a business plan or financial model to get funding, why Jason prefers to ignore competitors, the non-competition between Microsoft and Google, business models, not following for the aesthetic trap and various winning strategies, a brief history of Uber's rollout, Justin's futuristic UI concept for Twitter (think Minority Report) and the article where Jason was recently quoted about algorithmic trading.

Justin and Jason discuss the latest with Math Academy – Jason's class, the district program and the software, temperpedic beds, the problem of living in the middle of a "fun" area of town, why Jason doesn't want stuff and what he does want, Justin's new "super router", why getting a storage unit is generally a mistake, Phil's hack for how to emotionally detach from books he needs to get rid of, the evolutionary advantage and repercussions of human curiosity, Duolingo and granular learning, why Jason thinks learning a foreign languages is rarely worth the time, Justin's new work-at-home situation, how website design work is drying up, why future actors will have to compete with CGI versions of actors of the past, Justin's idea to create AI from the DNA level, the path and prospect of strong AI, Jason's desire to create a synthetic hedge fund using Collective2 and the prospect of a Trump presidency.

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's Soylent experiment and the diabetes-friendly shake he's settled on called Keto Soy, finding the right diet plan, why Justin is splitting time between home and Cross Campus, Jason's super madness and his new policy against taking on projects that originate from other people, the latest development processes implemented at Modern Teacher – leveraging Laravel's ORM, test-driven development, hot-seat peer reviews, pull requests and Code Ship, recruiting mathematicians to serve as instructors for the Math Academy and the latest with the software platform, how Elon Musk is having the best week ever with the unveiling and pre-ordering of the Model 3 and the vertical landing of a SpaceX rocket on a drone ship, Ted Cruz&#8217;s Simpsons audition, Craig Venter&#8217;s minimal cell, why a rising number of startups have no plans to IPO, more evidence that the building blocks of life may have originated from interstellar space, the astrobiologist collecting unrecognizable beings from the stratosphere, recently discovered bacteria that eat pure electrons and plastic bottles, programming cells with Cello, the prospect of a proactive version of Alexa that asks questions and anticipates needs, the review of the HTC Vive, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and the Cheney&#8217;s One Percent Doctrine, the human-robot trust paradox, Alphabet&#8217;s two-legged robot, why Google is selling Boston Dynamics, whether software development itself will be automated, services that validate a physical address, an email address and a phone number, why the seeds of your destruction have been sown, The Walking Dead, how the FBI director puts tape over his webcam, the upcoming launch of Kite.com and Jason's Catalina UFO tour.

Justin talks to Robin Warren about his bootstrapped startup Corrello, a dashboard for agile teams using Trello.

Justin and Jason discuss why Justin cancelled his membership at a local co-working space, lessons about weight loss and BMR destruction from The Biggest Loser, how Justin has returned to his Super Slow weight training program, Jason's new machine-oriented training routine, dunking at SkyZone, why Jason left Uber and what his goodbye was like, the first anti-aging gene therapy, the assertion that a third of the nation&#8217;s cash is held by 5 U.S. companies, how to freeze people and bring them back to life, Jason's story idea for an emergent AI, thoughts on Fear the Walking Dead, whether to believe claims that Elon Musk is a jerk, the latest with Math Academy and the first Ethereum-based company.

Justin and Jason discuss Colby's drive to play quarterback and early sign's of Jack's athleticism, Justin's new project – Nugget, why Jason believes his peripheral neuropathy may be caused by a B12 deficiency, the world&#8217;s biggest vertical farm, how the Swiss voted against Basic Income, why Jason doesn't worry about the potential downsides of scientific advances, why he's unsubscribing from all email lists, why he doesn't blog or use Google+ anymore, and why he's "getting rid of the crap".

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's new digs, the effects of taking a vitamin B-complex supplement on Jason's (self-diagnosed) peripheral neuropathy, the launch of Nugget and Justin's thoughts on it's future, getting going again on Battle Math, Jason's desire to play a space-opera style strategy game and how he ended up selecting Space Empires 4X (inspired by Stellar Conquest), Jason's new workout plan, Justin's struggle with diets and Jason's theory on cheat days versus cheat meals, how MV Code Club is opening up it's 4th location, Gabriel Weinberg's post on mental models and the inclusion of Luck Surface Area, the summer math class Jason is teaching, the latest with Math Academy and Jason's meeting with the Institute for Educational Advancement.

Justin and Jason discuss Colby's upcoming football season, a postmortem of their first Space Empires 4X game, how Colby keeps beating Jason at Star Realms and seemingly every other game they play, the latest with Nugget and why Ken and Justin are no longer working together, the latest developments with Math Academy, including Jason's class, the documentary, the district pilot program, the software platform and Battle Math, an update on Jason's (self-diagnosed) peripheral neuropathy, why the fathers of the Internet revolution want engineers to reinvent the web, the Scientific American article on how to increase your intelligence, how retirement contributes to physical and mental decay and why society is structured as a two-phase work/post-work system, why Jason believes in choosing quality of life over money, the positive effects of Justin's newly structured work day and how John Humphrey helped Jason acquire BattleMath.com.

Justin and Jason discuss why Justin decided to start pushing his Nugget users to launch their ventures (also known as "horsing") and his plan for how to automate this process, lessons learned scaling Uber, Paul Erdos and the Erdos-Bacon number, the importance of just starting, thoughts on upselling the next level of Nugget services, the latest with the Math Academy pilot and the supporting software platform, the advantages of serving a higher purpose, and the fine line between embracing new tools versus falling victim to overengineering your dev stack.

Rob Walling guest hosts this seminal episode to walk Jason and Justin down memory lane during which they discuss how Rob wouldn't allow Jason to invest in Drip, Appignite, Pluggio, AnyFu, Uber, the interview wth Travis Kalanick, Nugget, the madness, luck surface area, entreporn, blog posts as lead gen and how to make yourself into expert on the web, Jason's prescience on Tesla and Bitcoin, the interview with Patrick Collison, how they got started doing the podcast and what they've gotten out of it, the meaning of some of the funnier show titles, Operation Superhero, the failure that was Justin's treadmill desk and how the show has evolved over the years.

Justin and Jason discuss comments from the previous two shows, Justin's preoccupation with the election, how it affected his productivity and why Jason avoids spending too much time on the news, Justin's plan for his first Nuggetcourse and his nagging doubts about the service, his recent health efforts, and his role at Modern Teacher, Jason's three-year-old idea for an experience-based startup and its similarity to Airbnb Experiences, his plan to hold an end-of-the-year Math Academy competition at Caltech modeled after the MIT Integration Bee and his recent efforts to push the program forward, the movies Arrival and Passengers, the television shows The Walking Dead, Westworld, Mr. Robot and Black Mirror, Elon Musk&#8217;s plan to launch low-latency, worldwide satellite Internet, Britain&#8217;s new surveillance law, Jason's recent purchase of Tesla shares, why Justin is worried about Elon Musk, and the security startup Defence for Startups.

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Justin and Jason talk to Joe Stech about his online magazine, Compelling Science Fiction.

Justin and Jason discuss why Justin wants a Vive and why he's excited about the future of VR, Justin's new swimming routine and his super-low heart rate, Jason's "new" New Man Plan, the show's Patreon campaign, how Jason is learning to play the piano using the app Yousician, the Nugget pivot of 2017, Mr. Robot, the latest with the Math Academy and some related publicity.

Justin and Jason discuss how the English have lost their American accent and their plan to get the show back on a more regular schedule, Justin's workout anti-pattern and his new 800 calorie diet, Jason's plan to overcome some long-term injuries, the sudden appearance of a Nugget clone and Justin's less-than-optimal reaction, the business Justin is starting with Georgie, the latest with the Math Academy, and why Justin's prediction for the future of VR weight loss has yet to be proven.

Justin and Jason discuss SOLVE 2017, how Jason's 7th-grade class took the AP Calculus test and other recent Math Academy successes, Jason's return to algorithmic trading, Colby's audition for Genius Junior, why Elon Musk seems to win at everything and Justin's latest health/diet strategy.

Justin and Jason discuss the latest developments with Math Academy, Jason's success with cryptocurrencies, Justin's thoughts on Nugget and his upcoming startup course, why Phil is stuck in LA, Laravel and Vue.js, what Colby learned at computer camp, and what to do if North Korea launches a nuclear weapon.

Justin and Jason discuss CRISPR&#8217;s impact on curing diseases and on building muscles, the results of a promising new anti-aging drug, a pill that makes exercise obsolete, and a nanoparticle drug that turns calorie-hoarding white fat into calorie-burning brown fat, the TV show Future Man, the upcoming season of X-FIles, why Justin can't go to movies, The Cheesecake Factory, Las Vegas, or country music concerts, Justin's recent purchase of 500 OMG, trading cryptocurrencies and lessons from the Dotcom bust, how Justin got an article on Forbes, the changes to the technology and development team at Modern Teacher, Justin's Nugget strategy, Jason's plan to level-up Colby's coding skills, the latest wiith Math Academy and how Jason is accelerating the development of the platform's content and technology via outsourcing, when to use a modern Javascript framework, what Jason tracks with his new Fitbit and Justin's struggle with exercise, how Jason met a real-life Mater, and what to watch out for when having your iPhone screen replaced.

Justin and Jason discuss crypto as a tradable asset and as an investment (specifically Justin's love affair with OmiseGo – OMG), the latest with the Math Academy program and the software platform, Justin's plans for Nugget, ORMs vs SQL, Stranger Things, the best X-Files episode (Bad Blood), why Jason dropped off The Walking Dead bandwagon, why Justin loves The Last Man on Earth, the movies The Big Short and The Founder, and the TV show Electric Dreams, snowboarding, wireless charging, the computer Colby built, comparing Fitbit stats, Sandy's diet plan for Jason, and why Justin is excited about the future.

Justin and Jason discuss how Jason is finally buying a house, the reinvention of Nugget, Operation Superhero (Part Deux), the software platform that powers Math Academy and the latest with the program, the importance of building a startup around your passion, Blue Origin, the Tesla productions delays, Jason's OmiseGO investment, the latest on MV Code Club, how not to get old, Lost in Space, Electric Dreams, Black Mirror, The Walking Dead and SuperTrooper 2.

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's electric car, what happened at Solve 2018, how the 8th graders just took the AP Calculus BC Exam, why Jason isn't going to teach anymore, Justin's new approach to designing a product, how Jason set up the management structure of his content teams, the local startup that Jason is helping and how first-time founders almost always do all the wrong things, the latest with Nugget, Justin's workout plans and Jason's ongoing debate with his trainer, how to live a healthy life, how Jason doesn't really "hang out" with anyone, and the device that makes suggestions to you while you're just falling sleeping.

Justin and Jason discuss Jason's new house, Justin's desire to get back into music, the latest with Operation Superhero and Math Academy, the road to launching the commercial version of the Math Academy software and the launch of Nugget 3.0.

Justin and Jason discuss how Nugget users are validating their ideas, why and how Justin posted tracks from his old band Moneypenny, Jason's haircut fiasco, the acid-trip television show Legion, why Jason likes the television show Bosch and why Justin likes Rick and Morty, the movie Mission Impossible Fallout and thoughts on the Mission Impossible series, the progress on Operation Superhero and the relationship between metabolism, obesity, and testosterone, what needs to happen before Jason can launch the Math Academy software and his plans for the future.

Justin and Jason discuss the Nugget Mercury launch and some ideas on how best to assign mentors and configure batches, how Justin is helping Jason with the UX/UI of the new Math Academy website, Jason's latest realizations on diet and exercise, Colby's introductory computer science courses, Elon Musk's slow-motion meltdown, how the Luck Surface Area found it's way into yet another book and how Jason and Sandy's work on Math Academy was profiled in the University of Chicago Magazine.

Justin and Jason discuss some new feature concepts for Nugget and Jason's plans for the Math Academy software, the Masters Of Scale Uncut Interview with Airbnb&#8217;s Brian Chesky, how Jason's house is like the Tardis, the state of Justin's cryptocurrency portfolio, Elon Musk's fight against short sellers, top-down vs bottom-up automation, why MV Code Club's future is looking bright, Jason's most underrated movies list, real trends vs. fake trends, the key to happiness, the latest on Operation Superhero, finding underpriced freelance talent, why Jason isn't crazy about the name Nugget, and the best genre of music for writing code.

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's tendency to argue with himself about code, the strategy board game that Jason and Colby are building together, the JS 13K Game challenge, Jason's advice on how to find inexpensive talent on Upwork and how Justin might include these ideas on Nugget, how parents think about after-school coding programs, the Hacker News post asking startup employees how much they made on an exit, the funded vs. the bootstrapped startup model and Jason's plans for Math Academy, the latest on Operation Superhero and the unreasonable effectiveness of strength training.

Justin and Jason discuss the prerequisite viewer that Jason's building for Math Academy, Rob Walling's Tiny Seed, Chamath Palihapitiya's advice to grow slow and to grow real, why Jason's latest hire on Upwork didn't work out, Justin's Nugget webinar and why he's no longer going to employ squeeze marketing, how Jason is back writing code again and loving it, Math Academy's high-school curriculum and overall program, late bloomers, and nature vs. nurture as it relates to mathematics and mathematical talent.

Jason talks to NASA Research Scientist Laura Kerber.

Justin talks with Bryan Helmig (CTO and co-founder of Zapier) about Zapier's genesis and how they won their first 10 customers.

Justin and Jason discuss how injuries have derailed Operation Superhero and Jason's strategy for moving forward with the Math Academy online system. 

Justin and Jason discuss Sean Murphy's extension to the Luck Surface Area, Gabriel Weinberg's mental models, Uber&#8217;s impending IPO, how Jason is adopting a dog, the book Justin is writing called Founder First, the endemic nature of overengineering, the latest with the Math Academy program and software, why Jason is dabbling with cryptocurrency HFT, Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead, and Justin's former life as a musician.

Justin and Jason discuss Jason's new puppy, when "quick and dirty" works and when it doesn't, the latest with Math Academy, the transition from a subject-based to a course-based approach to content development, how Jason works with his remote developer, "The Math Academy Way", fun and profit with 3D printing, Jason's frustrations with trying to capture real-time crypto data, how to automatically and instantaneously restart a crashed Linux process, and the frustration of having to continually relearn Linux administration.

Justin and Jason discuss Jason's elbow surgery, Justin's secret project, the deal he made with his wife, why he's patenting the technology, and how he ended up building it himself, Gabriel Weinberg's new book, a postmortem on SOLVE 2019, the growth of MV Code Club, the movie The Founder, and Jason's automated-trading project.

Justin and Jason discuss Peldi's success with Balsamiq, the site Indie Hackers, the book Crossing the Chasm, Justin's launch strategy for his secret project, how Justin got help with his "maths", the advantage of growing slowly and focusing on developing a product that your users love, the summer Math Academy course that Jason is teaching on proofs and group theory, Justin's desire to encourage entrepreneurship in any company he starts, and tradeoffs in database design.

Justin and Jason discuss filmmaking with an iPhone and the power of the Filmic Pro app, the latest with Justin's secret business widget, the Bob Lazar documentary on Netflix and his interview with Joe Rogan, Justin's love of The Orville and other streaming recommendations, the summer math course Jason is teaching and how he's tutoring his niece in calculus, the content and algorithms being developed for the Math Academy system, the importance of being challenged, the upcoming Washington Post article on Math Academy, what's happening with OMG, how Luck Surface Area showed up in Gabriel Weinberg's book Super Thinking, and why Justin likes the iPhone app Productive.

Justin and Jason discuss Speak and Justin's thoughts on how to market it, why entrepreneurship isn't for most people, the latest on Jason's crypto-trading project and Math Academy, the motivations for mathematical proofs and why mathematician's do what they do, and the mythology of the 10X engineer.

Justin and Jason discuss Jason's struggle with juggling multiple projects, the latest on the crypto project, Justin's predictions for his son Jack and a hard lesson for Jason's son Colby, Justin's new plans for Speak, Justin's obsession with Occulus Quest and why he loves the Impossible Burger, an update on Operation Superhero, and the latest with Math Academy. 

Justin and Jason discuss the Cybertruck debacle, why Justin is moving to a mountain hideaway, Jason's plans for taking the Math Academy software to the next level, the importance of engaging in R&D even if most of what's developed is thrown away, the Avie Tevanian Oral History, the brilliance of John von Neumann and the potential of the human race, the Legion rap battle, the Shelby American documentary, how any design that's too radical is almost always rejected, the NeXT Computer story, how Jason uses emotion as a guide for context switching, and the modern technology that has eliminated a go-to plot device.   

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's impending move to the mountains and what life will be like living there, how Justin is throwing off his mental chains, why you should take advice from successful people with a grain of salt, the importance of taking time off, working with the Web Audio API, the messy development process of the original iPhone, the General Magic documentary, how startups are responsible for most technology innovation, the history of Slack, Justin's new podcast, and predictions for the new decade.

Justin and Jason discuss the novel coronavirus, how Justin is adapting to his new mountain lifestyle, Jason's crazy, high-risk portfolio, the latest on Math Academy, the challenge and importance of writing simple code, Justin's continuous glucose monitor, Grimes and her evil AI pun, Justin's strategy for creating three things that help each other, and his idea for a productivity app.

Justin and Jason discuss how Jason shorted the COVID-19 crash, the winners and losers of the new normal and what the post-pandemic future may look like, how the shutdown has affected the Math Academy program and the latest with the software, the progress on TaskFlow and the what's new with Nugget, the TV show Devs and Barry, and how closely the show Stranger Things mapped to Jason's childhood, Grimes and Elon Musk, Justin's new video-game addiction, and the Unreal 5 demo.

Justin and Jason discuss their likely demise due to the pandemic, the advanced computer science course that Jason is implementing, the latest on Justin's startup course and the importance of taking action, the latest on Math Academy, and how Justin corned the carrot market in Roblox.

Justin talks with Justin Jackson co-founder of transistor.fm about the importance of catching a good market wave.

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Justin talks with Adam Wathan creator of Tailwind CSS about distribution, the journey from 0 to $2m, and startup lessons learned playing in death metal bands.

Justin and Jason talk about their return after a 9-month hiatus, getting vaccinated and getting back into shape, Chris Schwarz's novel The Cache and the character inspired by Jason's son Colby, the origin and surprising spread of the luck surface area, why Justin has stopped working on TaskFlow, is saying goodbye to Nugget and his new foray into developing Roblox Games, how Jason's daughter is growing a following for her animated stories and fiction writing, the monster project that is Math Academy, and Justin's new project with Joe Stech called Morning Brief.

Justin and Justin discuss how and why Jason is reviving his long-abandoned blog and Twitter account and how he's planning on building an audience for the launch of Math Academy, the First1000 newsletter, and some of the strategies utilized by the companies that have been profiled, the PDF Zero to Users, whether deferred tuition offered at boot camps like Lambda School is a good idea and the upside of buying and selling equity in individuals, the possibility of rebranding and relaunching the podcast, how the pandemic killed MV Code Club and the status of Jason's crypto-trading project, the massive content development project that is Math Academy, why Justin is obsessed with the thumbnail creation service he's building for Morning Brief, how to alter a large and highly active table in MySQL, how bad the series Travellers is and how good The Sinner is, and the upcoming TV sci-fi series Foundation.

Justin and Jason discuss the radically accelerated computer-science course sequence that Jason created for his Math Academy students, why PHP is like the C of the web, the character Scotty Jackson is creating for Morning Brief, Justin's foray into crypto trading, thoughts on the future of NFT's, the story of how Jason was finally able to buy the domain mathacademy.com and why the .com TLD still rules the day, the hypothesis that the laws of physics are evolving, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Young Sheldon, and the Ken Burns documentary The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, Jason's upcoming interview on Donn Felker's podcast, why starting a podcast is an inefficient content development strategy for startups, how the Math Academy system's adaptive algorithms will create a personalized and optimal learning plan for each student, and how Jason is implementing a free-response evaluator for math problems.

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's two-week kidney stone ordeal, why Jason thinks Twitter is probably more distraction than it's worth, the 6 levels of automated learning systems, how Justin and Joe plan to fund Morning Brief with a custom Kickstarter-like campaign, Brandon Sanderson's lectures on writing fantasy and science fiction, Superhuman's methodology for attaining product-market fit, how Jason is still paying off technical debt incurred over two years ago, the power and promise of Math Academy's dynamic diagnostic tool, California's boneheaded attempt to kill off gifted programs, accelerated academics and standardized college-entrance exams, the 60 Minutes story on UAP's, why the gain-of-function research performed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology is the likely origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the TV series Invincible and Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead.

Justin and Jason discuss why Jason isn't planning to use Twitter as a marketing channel, personalized learning and the future of education, how and why the SAT and ACT are useful for college admissions despite their flaws, the orthogonal nature of student aptitude vs. consciousness, semantic tagging and the difficulty of categorizing text, reasons behind the sudden rise in UFO coverage in the media, the downside of always playing the skeptic, the potential of crypto-social networks services like BitClout, binary vs. probabilistic thinking, the ongoing collateral damage caused by Elon Musk's tweeting, the challenge of building an efficient and accurate adaptive diagnostic math test and the prospect of adding coding exercises to Math Academy, why the Wuhan lab leak is the biggest story of our time, why the media screwed it up so badly and the dangers of gain-of-function research on human pathogens.

Justin and Jason discuss the Morning Brief launch strategy, brand concept, and development roles, the difficulties of launching the Math Academy diagnostic in time for the summer program, why Jason had to develop an animation studio for his content team, the underrated "fast zombie" series Black Summer, the sad reality that while everyone in the media seems to have an opinion on the Wuhan lab-leak hypothesis, few are familiar with the basic facts, and likewise for the UAP phenomenon.

Justin and Jason discuss Jason's trip to the Pacific Northwest and Colby's first college tour, why kids are maturing more slowly these days, the launch of Morning Brief, initial feedback from users, pricing, and thoughts on the future, the implementation of the Math Academy knowledge-graph algorithm and preparing for the upcoming commercial launch, John Carmack's article on static analysis and the relationship between code size and code quality, Jason's recent efforts to remove old and unused code from the Math Academy codebase and thoughts on how to better modularize code in a large web application, using a job service like Amazon SQS to process non-real-time tasks, how Justin injured himself gardening, why Jason is teaching his 13-year-old daughter calculus over the summer, the first legitimate math research done by a Math Academy high-school student, and billionaires in space.