Sources and Methods
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Sources and Methods
Sources and Methods is a podcast hosted by Alex Strick and Matt Trevithick in which interesting people doing interesting things get to talk about the what, how and why of what they do.sourcesandmethods.com
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49 episodes
49: Sebastian Marshall
Sebastian is co-founder of Ultraworking, a company that runs timed group work sessions on the internet (among other things). We get into the things he...
48: Tiago Forte
Tiago is a writer, thinker and trainer in productivity systems. He runs the online course ‘Building a Second Brain’ and we discuss the techniques he d...
47: Lýdia Machová
Lýdia is a polyglot, mentor and inspiration to language learners. We discuss language learning methods, her experiences running online education progr...
46: Eva Hagberg
Eva Hagberg is the author of a new memoir entitled ‘How to be Loved’. We speak to her about her experience of chronic illness, grief and her career in...
45: Bruce Smith
Matt speaks with Bruce Smith, entrepreneur and CEO/founder of Hydrow. Bruce coached the US Lightweight Eight rowing team to a Bronze medal at the 2015...
Deep Learning with fast.ai's Jeremy Howard
Jeremy Howard is a giant of the deep / machine learning space. He's also deeply interested in how to democratise this set of skills and has lots to sa...
Teaching Programming with Matthias Felleisen
This week we spoke with Matthias Felleisen who is a professor at Northeastern University and heavyweight in the coding / teaching world, one of the dr...
Parsing Complexity with Zavain Dar
Zavain Dar is a venture capitalist based in New York and San Francisco. He spoke with us about his work that takes him from business and investment in...
Improving Counterterrorism with Stephen Tankel
This week in an interlude from the technology theme of season three, we discuss Stephen Tankel's new book, With Us and Against Us: How America's Partn...
Data Science with Eric Schles
Eric Schles is a data scientist working at Microsoft. He’s worked in various places but he uses his skills in understanding large amorphous chunks of...
Chris Lee: Learning Programming with Launch School
We speak with Chris Lee of Launch School, an online programming course programming with a mastery-based learning approach. We get into the different w...
Learning the Abacus with RightLobeMath
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Full show notes are available at: https://www.sourcesandmethods.com/podcast/38-rightlobemath
37: Jim Wilcox
For this episode, Matt met up with Jim Wilcox, Professor Emeritus, who taught at Boston University in the College of General Studies for forty-three y...
36: Thomas Nichols
This week Matt speaks with Thomas Nichols, author of 'The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters'. Nichols...
35: Alex & Matt
This is an inbetweenisode. There's no guest, but we (Alex & Matt) had a conversation about the past year of podcast guests, some stuff we've been work...
34: Lynne Kelly
This week, we spoke with Lynne Kelly, author of 'The Memory Code: The Secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and Other Ancient Monuments', a fascinating...
33: Gabe Weatherhead
Alex spoke with Gabe Weatherhead for this episode. We get into the weeds on DevonThink, an incredibly useful piece of database software. Gabe is best...
32: Belle Beth Cooper
This week Alex spoke with Belle Beth Cooper, co-founder of Melbourne-based 'Hello Code'. Belle works in iOS development and as a writer. Hello Code ma...
31: J. Kael Weston
Our guest this episode is Kael Weston. He represented the United States for more than a decade as a State Department official. Washington acknowledged...
30: Deb Chachra
This week I spoke with Deb Chachra from Olin College (USA). She teaches engineering but is interested in and writes on a wide variety of semi-related...
29: Gills Club
Our guest this week is Marianne Long, Education Director of the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy and Co-Founder of the Gills Club. Marianne works to f...
28: Matthew Cassel
Our guest this week is Matthew Cassel, an independent multimedia journalist and filmmaker based in Istanbul, Turkey. As a writer, photographer and vid...
27: K. Anders Ericsson
This week we talk with Dr K. Anders Ericsson about his pioneering work advancing the science of expertise. Key question: how do we get better at speci...
26: Alex Mullen
Our guest this week is Alex Mullen. He’s currently a medical student at the University of Mississipi, but also the current reigning World Memory Champ...
25: Marou Chocolate
Our guest this week is Samuel Maruta, the co-founder of Marou Chocolate in Vietnam, and an increasing presence on the artisanal chocolate scene. He wa...
24: Ben Anderson
Our guest this week is Ben Anderson, a British journalist, television reporter, and writer. A winner of the Foreign Press Award, he has produced docum...
23: Beeminder
Matt is back this week! Our guests this week are Bethany Soule and Daniel Reeves of beeminder.com. They’re a husband and wife team that have put toget...
22: Jonathan Brown
Our guest this week is Jonathan Brown, an Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Dr. Brown ha...
21: Lion Kimbro
Our guest this week is someone who has done a lot of thinking about notes and note-taking. Lion Kimbro now works at Pokemon but he has written chapter...
20: Stephen Krashen
Our guest this week is Stephen Krashen, an academic, linguist, and educational theorist who has been active on the front lines of the academic and med...
19: Naheed Mustafa
Our guest this week is Naheed Mustafa, a freelance writer and award-winning broadcaster based in Toronto. She has reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan...
18: Will McCants
Our guest this week is Will McCants, a fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy and director of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic Worl...
17: Leah Farrall
Our guest this week was Leah Farrall, a Research Associate in Counter Terrorism at the University of Sydney’s United States Studies Centre (USSC) and...
16: Aaron Zelin
Our guest for the show is Aaron Zelin, founder of the essential resource and website, jihadology.net. Aaron is a fellow at The Washington Institute, w...
15: Andrew Abbott
Our guest for the show is Andrew Abbott, a professor at the University of Chicago’s Sociology Department. He studied at Harvard and the University of...
14: Gregory Johnsen
Our guest this week is Gregory Johnsen, author of "The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America’s War in Arabia". Johnsen went to Jordan with the Pea...
13: Paul Clammer
Our guest this week is Paul Clammer. Paul writes travel guidebooks for a living, and he has contributed to over two dozen guidebooks for Lonely Planet...
12: Louie Palu
This week we're joined by Louie Palu, a photographer who has spent long periods documenting Kandahar (Afghanistan) and Guantánamo Bay. Suzanne Schrode...
11: Molly Crabapple
This week we talk with Molly Crabapple, an artist and writer who has worked in Guantanamo Bay, Abu Dhabi's migrant labor camps, and with rebels in Syr...
10: Jason Lyall
This week we catch up with Jason Lyall, an associate professor at Yale University (USA). His research explores the dynamics and effects of violence in...