What's life after removing yourself from social media? Philip Guo joins Henry (the last in the "trilogy") to chat about LAT, life after Twitter. We discuss being irrelevant, forcing yourself to think about different things, treating a newsletter like email, restraining your growth, moving to the digital suburbs, engaging with the past, directing your attention and production, being particular and local, making it normal again to not have to create. (recorded in July) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/digital-death.

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MA 16: Philip Guo (#3) on Life After Digital Death

Why would you choose to leave the public internet on your own terms? Philip Guo joins Henry (for the 2nd time) to chat about his recent choice to make a minimal public web presence after being on the web for many years. We discuss the logistics of removing social media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube), moving to longer forms of media (podcasts, essays, books), making introductory content, recognizing different stages of your career, being out of touch, freeing your mind for the next thing, not being ashamed of previous work, taking time to reflect, and friction. (recorded in May) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/unlisting.

MA 15: Philip Guo (#2) on Unlisting Yourself

What does it mean to be code adjacent? Shawn Wang joins Henry to chat about not just open code but open thinking with his experience in community managing, the idea of tumbling, moderating /r/reactjs, starting the Svelete Society meetup, documenting and learning in public, being historians of our field, fresh notes vs. awesome lists, the meta language, and adoption curves. (recorded in June) Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/open-knowledge. Shawn: https://twitter.com/swyx Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

MA14: Shawn Wang on Open Knowledge

Do we think about how the places in which we live are passed down? Bernardo Robles Hidalgo (architect) and Marianita Palumbo (anthropologist) join Henry to chat about living as maintenance. We discuss Bosch, responsibility of taking care of the places we live in, on our desire for comfort, the right to repair, the aesthetic of maintenance, and communal living. (recorded in February) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/heritage/

S3E5: Inhabiting a Space

Is more (information, people, code) always better? Nadia Eghbal joins Henry to chat about her new book, Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, a deep-dive into the of open source community and how it may paint a picture of online communities in general. They talk about her 2x2 model of communities, the public web (Twitter) to private groups (group chat), the turn to individual creators, and the importance of moderation and boundaries. Transcript at https://hopeinsource.com/overparticipation Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad Nadia: https://twitter.com/nayafia The Book: Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

S3E4: Managing Over-Participation (Working in Public)

What happens to our religions when they meet the Internet? Tara Isabella Burton joins Henry to chat about her new book, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World. They chat about our failing institutions, taking fandoms like Harry Potter seriously, how we all remix religion, how consumerism infects all of life, on embodiment and givenness, and most importantly, what is our freedom even for? Transcript at https://hopeinsource.com/online Tara: https://twitter.com/NotoriousTIB Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

S3E3: Very Online (Strange Rites)

What does flourishing look like? Nicole Williams joins Henry to chat about faith in a less reductive way (than many of us may of grown up with): on rationality, the Church as a body, education, liturgy, family, being productive, and simply doing things for it's own sake. Was rather hard to say what we were getting at until the very end, all tying back to a picture of shalom! Transcript at https://hopeinsource.com/shalom Nicole: https://twitter.com/nwilliams030 Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad

S3E2: Towards Shalom

Why do we so easily forget where we come from? Dr. Timothy Patitsis joins Henry again to chat about the affect of legacy on our lives through the language of standards, language diversity, being a melting pot or mosaic, Chesterton's fence and legibility, Jane Jacob's tripartite society, algorithmic control and agency, sanctification and faith as an adventure. Michael Polanyi says that "a society which wants to preserve a fund of personal knowledge must submit to tradition". Transcript at https://hopeinsource.com/legacy

S3E1: Legacy

Why attempt to faithfully recreate the past? Jordan Scales joins Henry to chat about 98.css, design systems, being pixel perfect, accessibility, the Microsoft Windows User Experience reference manual, using VMs, MSPaint and Figma, whimsy and having fun with coding, creating satire at no one's expense, and even how Babel's Guy Fieri meme could of been Jeff Goldblum in another universe. Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/nostalgia

MA 13: Jordan Scales on Nostalgia and Not Taking Yourself Too Seriously

Is programming all digital/cerebral or do we still have embodied roots? How does this affect how we write, teach, and learn code? Maggie Appleton joins Henry to discuss everything metaphors (basically everything). We chat about mental models and abstraction, Polanyi, Cartesian dualism, auto ethnography, knowledge, cats! Transcript: https://maintainersanonymous.com/metaphor

MA 12: Maggie Appleton on Embodiment Through Metaphors

13: Legacy

Why not record an conversation while getting a haircut? Fellow friend and developer Jonathan Tsao cuts Henry's hair and they have a spontaneous conversation about a variety of topics covering faith and culture, living in NYC, creativity, narratives, sharing in vulnerability, and embodiment.

12: Haircut (Bonus)

Is the city a toaster (an object) or a cat (a living organism)? We are joined by Dr. Timothy Patitsis to talk about how our physical and digital spaces, like liturgy, can be understood as "the work of the people". We discuss science as organized complexity, the meaning of knowledge, recursive societies, fractal hierarchies, and implications for governance. Transcript at https://hopeinsource.com/city Website: https://hopeinsource.com Henry: https://twitter.com/left_pad Nadia: https://twitter.com/nayafia Timothy: https://www.hchc.edu/faculty/timothy-patitsas-phd/ Cover art by Jessica Han. Music by Ken Wheeler Support this podcast

11: City as Liturgy

Why do we trust anyone? We talk about trust as an act of faith, trusting people versus trusting code, and the relationship between trust and work.Transcript at https://hopeinsource.com/trustWebsite: https://hopeinsource.comHenry: https://twitter.com/left_padNadia: https://twitter.com/nayafiaCover art by Jessica Han. Music by Ken WheelerSupport this podcast

10: Trust

How do our rituals shape us? We talk about where habits come from, why we use them, and whether they strengthen our belief systems.Transcript at https://hopeinsource.com/liturgyWebsite: https://hopeinsource.comHenry: https://twitter.com/left_padNadia: https://twitter.com/nayafiaLinks:Liturgy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiturgyApproaching God through negation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophatic_theologyCommunion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EucharistThe Medium is the Message: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_messageLiturgy of the Ordinary: https://www.amazon.com/Liturgy-Ordinary-Sacred-Practices-Everyday/dp/0830846239You Are What You Love: https://www.amazon.com/You-Are-What-Love-Spiritual/dp/158743380XCover art by Jessica Han. Music by Ken WheelerSupport this podcast

9: Liturgy

What are the parallels between faith and open source software? Join Nadia Eghbal and Henry Zhu for an off-the-cuff conversation between friends. Check out hopeinsource.com and nadiaeghbal.com/public-faith for the backstory

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