Full Stack Banana

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Full Stack Banana est un nouveau podcast de conversations nourrissantes au carrefour de la philosophie et de la culture contemporaine. Au fil de réflexions parfois existentialistes mais absolument relax, on s’efforce de bâtir un modèle d’échafaudage pour la vie moderne. fullstackbanana.substack.com (https://fullstackbanana.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

LJ Darveau & Alex Gervais

Category

news · society & culture

Language

fr

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Nov 2022

Latest episode

26 May 2023

Latest episodes

39 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 May 2023

   039 — Meta-anxiété [PAB]

   Cette semaine, on navigue encore une fois les incidents dramatiques dans les transports, jusqu’au paysage changeant de l'emploi, explorant encore une fois les impacts de l’IA. On discute aussi de santé mentale et de “meta-anxiété”, de la sagesse de Buffett et Munger et enfin, l'ornithologie comme passe-temps transformateur? Notes et références [01:00] South Korea detains passenger after Asiana plane door opened mid-air (https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-police-investigate-after-door-opened-during-asiana-flight-2023-05-26/) [05:00] Man Is Charged With Shoving Woman’s Head Against Moving Subway Train (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/nyregion/subway-attack-woman-pushed-manhattan.html) [10:00] Michelle Go (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Michelle_Go) [11:00] The Disappearing White-Collar Job (https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-disappearing-white-collar-job-af0bd925?mod=hp_lead_pos7) Companies are rethinking the value of many white-collar roles, in what some experts anticipate will be a permanent shift in labor demand that will disrupt the work life of millions of Americans whose jobs will be lost, diminished or revamped partly through the use of artificial intelligence. [22:00] Uber suspends diversity chief over 'Don’t Call Me Karen’ events (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/22/uber-suspends-diversity-chief-karen-bo-young-lee) Lee’s suspension, which was first reported by the New York Times, follows mounting internal discontent over two “Don’t Call Me Karen” sessions that she convened on Zoom for up to 500 employees. The events, one in April and the second last week, were billed as “diving into the spectrum of the American white woman’s experience from some of our female colleagues, particularly how they navigate around the ‘Karen’ persona”. [29:00] Andrew Sullivan sur le lancement vertement critiqué de la campagne de Ron DeSantis. [31:00] Musk for president? [35:00] Community notes (https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/community-notes) [41:00] Buffett and Munger on Success, Toxicity and Elon Musk (https://www.wsj.com/articles/warren-buffett-on-finding-success-at-work-and-what-matters-in-hiring-43da47c3?mod=Searchresults_pos2&page=1) Mr. Munger said that success comes from steering clear of toxic people. “The great lesson of life is get them the hell out of your life—and do it fast,” Mr. Munger said. [44:00] Eulogy virtues vs. resume virtues (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/opinion/sunday/david-brooks-the-moral-bucket-list.html) [45:00] Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work (https://www.amazon.ca/Shop-Class-Soulcraft-Inquiry-Value/dp/0143117467) [47:00] Why we should not be so anxious about anxiety (https://www.ft.com/content/cee8e505-3a17-41d4-903b-72a762b634ff#comments-anchor) [50:00] Of boys and men (https://www.amazon.ca/Boys-Men-Modern-Struggling-Matters/dp/0815739877/ref=sr_1_1?hvadid=620868084148&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9000432&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=16486407004888077032&hvtargid=kwd-300730450987&hydadcr=27680_14550622&keywords=of+boys+and+men&qid=1685131765&sr=8-1) & Is there really a crisis (https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?productCode=TY&te=1&nl=opinion-today&emc=edit_ty_20230526&uri=nyt://newsletter/0e90707a-af59-5c62-ab3c-de758da6dba3)? [55:00] Three Years After a Fateful Day in Central Park, Birding Continues to Change My Life (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/opinion/birds-freedom.html) I believe that birds in the wild are meant to inspire such passions in us all. The wonders they offer are always available, freely given, to anyone willing to partake. All we have to do is step outside, look and listen. [57:00] Merlin (https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fullstackbanana.substack.com (https://fullstackbanana.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

2. 

   19 May 2023

   038 — Milton Glaser : 10 leçons de vie (troisième partie)

   Dans ce troisième et dernier épisode de la série, on décortique les cinq derniers principes de Glaser : de l’attrait du style à l'influence profonde des expériences de vie sur le cerveau, la vertu du doute, les perspectives sur le vieillissement, et l'importance primordiale de dire la vérité. La première partie se trouve ici (https://www.fullstackbanana.com/p/032-milton-glaser-10-lecons-de-vie#details) et la deuxième, ici (https://www.fullstackbanana.com/p/035-milton-glaser-10-lecons-de-vie#details). Notes et références Le texte dans son intégralité a originalement été publié sur Reading Design (https://www.readingdesign.org/ten-things?mc_cid=8b12bef661&mc_eid=b4675409c6&utm_source=pocket_reader). [02:00] Style is not to be trusted I think this idea first occurred to me when I was looking at a marvelous etching of a bull by Picasso. It was an illustration for a story by Balzac called The Hidden Masterpiece. I am sure that you all know it. It is a bull that is expressed in 12 different styles going from a very naturalistic version of a bull to an absolutely reductive single line abstraction and everything else along the way. What is clear just from looking at this single print is that style is irrelevant. In every one of these cases, from extreme abstraction to acute naturalism they are extraordinary regardless of the style. It’s absurd to be loyal to a style. It does not deserve your loyalty. I must say that for old design professionals it is a problem because the field is driven by economic consideration more than anything else. Style change is usually linked to economic factors, as all of you know who have read Marx. Also fatigue occurs when people see too much of the same thing too often. So every ten years or so there is a stylistic shift and things are made to look different. Typefaces go in and out of style and the visual system shifts a little bit. If you are around for a long time as a designer, you have an essential problem of what to do. I mean, after all, you have developed a vocabulary, a form that is your own. It is one of the ways that you distinguish yourself from your peers, and establish your identity in the field. How you maintain your own belief system and preferences becomes a real balancing act. The question of whether you pursue change or whether you maintain your own distinct form becomes difficult. We have all seen the work of illustrious practitioners that suddenly look old-fashioned or, more precisely, belonging to another moment in time. And there are sad stories such as the one about Cassandre, arguably the greatest graphic designer of the twentieth century, who couldn’t make a living at the end of his life and committed suicide. But the point is that anybody who is in this for the long haul has to decide how to respond to change in the zeitgeist. What is it that people now expect that they formerly didn’t want? And how to respond to that desire in a way that doesn’t change your sense of integrity and purpose. [14:00] How to live changes your brain The brain is the most responsive organ of the body. Actually it is the organ that is most susceptible to change and regeneration of all the organs in the body. I have a friend named Gerald Edelman who was a great scholar of brain studies and he says that the analogy of the brain to a computer is pathetic. The brain is actually more like an overgrown garden that is constantly growing and throwing off seeds, regenerating and so on. And he believes that the brain is susceptible, in a way that we are not fully conscious of, to almost every experience of our life and every encounter we have. I was fascinated by a story in a newspaper a few years ago about the search for perfect pitch. A group of scientists decided that they were going to find out why certain people have perfect pitch. You know certain people hear a note precisely and are able to replicate it at exactly the right pitch. Some people have relative pitch; perfect pitch is rare even among musicians. The scientists discovered – I don’t know how – that among people with perfect pitch the brain was different. Certain lobes of the brain had undergone some change or deformation that was always present with those who had perfect pitch. This was interesting enough in itself. But then they discovered something even more fascinating. If you took a bunch of kids and taught them to play the violin at the age of 4 or 5 after a couple of years some of them developed perfect pitch, and in all of those cases their brain structure had changed. Well what could that mean for the rest of us? We tend to believe that the mind affects the body and the body affects the mind, although we do not generally believe that everything we do affects the brain. I am convinced that if someone was to yell at me from across the street my brain could be affected and my life might changed. That is why your mother always said, ‘Don’t hang out with those bad kids.’ Mama was right. Thought changes our life and our behavior. I also believe that drawing works in the same way. I am a great advocate of drawing, not in order to become an illustrator, but because I believe drawing changes the brain in the same way as the search to create the right note changes the brain of a violinist. Drawing also makes you attentive. It makes you pay attention to what you are looking at, which is not so easy. [26:00] Doubt is better than certainty Everyone always talks about confidence in believing what you do. I remember once going to a class in yoga where the teacher said that, spirituality speaking, if you believed that you had achieved enlightenment you have merely arrived at your limitation. I think that is also true in a practical sense. Deeply held beliefs of any kind prevent you from being open to experience, which is why I find all firmly held ideological positions questionable. It makes me nervous when someone believes too deeply or too much. I think that being skeptical and questioning all deeply held beliefs is essential. Of course we must know the difference between skepticism and cynicism because cynicism is as much a restriction of one’s openness to the world as passionate belief is. They are sort of twins. And then in a very real way, solving any problem is more important than being right. There is a significant sense of self-righteousness in both the art and design world. Perhaps it begins at school. Art school often begins with the Ayn Rand model of the single personality resisting the ideas of the surrounding culture. The theory of the avant garde is that as an individual who can transform the world, which is true up to a point. One of the signs of a damaged ego is absolute certainty. Schools encourage the idea of not compromising and defending your work at all costs. Well, the issue at work is usually all about the nature of compromise. You just have to know what to compromise. Blind pursuit of your own ends which excludes the possibility that others may be right does not allow for the fact that in design we are always dealing with a triad – the client, the audience and you. Ideally, making everyone win through acts of accommodation is desirable. But self-righteousness is often the enemy. Self-righteousness and narcissism generally come out of some sort of childhood trauma, which we do not have to go into. It is a consistently difficult thing in human affairs. Some years ago I read a most remarkable thing about love, that also applies to the nature of co-existing with others. It was a quotation from Iris Murdoch in her obituary. It read, ‘ Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.’ Isn’t that fantastic! The best insight on the subject of love that one can imagine. [37:00] On ageing Last year someone gave me a charming book by Roger Rosenblatt called ‘Ageing Gracefully (https://www.amazon.ca/Rules-Aging-Witty-Guide-Life-ebook/dp/B004H1U2HO)’. I got it on my birthday. I did not appreciate the title at the time but it contains a series of rules for ageing gracefully. The first rule is the best. Rule number one is that ‘it doesn’t matter’. ‘It doesn’t matter what you think. Follow this rule and it will add decades to your life. It does not matter if you are late or early, if you are here or there, if you said it or didn’t say it, if you are clever or if you were stupid. If you were having a bad hair day or a no hair day or if your boss looks at you cockeyed or your boyfriend or girlfriend looks at you cockeyed, if you are cockeyed. If you don’t get that promotion or prize or house or if you do – it doesn’t matter.’ Wisdom at last. Then I heard a marvelous joke that seemed related to rule number 10. A butcher was opening his market one morning and as he did a rabbit popped his head through the door. The butcher was surprised when the rabbit inquired, ‘Got any cabbage?’ The butcher said, ‘This is a meat market – we sell meat, not vegetables.’ The rabbit hopped off. The next day the butcher is opening the shop and sure enough the rabbit pops his head round and says, ‘You got any cabbage?’ The butcher, now irritated, says, ‘Listen you little rodent I told you yesterday we sell meat, we do not sell vegetables and the next time you come here I am going to grab you by the throat and nail those floppy ears to the floor.’ The rabbit disappeared hastily and nothing happened for a week. Then one morning the rabbit popped his head around the corner and said, ‘Got any nails?’ The butcher said ‘No.’ The rabbit said ‘Ok. Got any cabbage?’ [52:00] Tell the truth The rabbit joke is relevant because it occurred to me that looking for a cabbage in a butcher’s shop might be like looking for ethics in the design field. It may not be the most obvious place to find either. It’s interesting to observe that in the new AIGA’s code of ethics there is a significant amount of useful information about appropriate behavior towards clients and other designers, but not a word about a designer’s relationship to the public. We expect a butcher to sell us eatable meat and that he doesn’t misrepresent his wares. I remember reading that during the Stalin years in Russia that everything labelled veal was actually chicken. I can’t imagine what everything labelled chicken was. We can accept certain kinds of misrepresentation, such as fudging about the amount of fat in his hamburger but once a butcher knowingly sells us spoiled meat we go elsewhere. As a designer, do we have less responsibility to our public than a butcher? Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public not designers or clients. ‘Do no harm’ is an admonition to doctors concerning their relationship to their patients, not to their fellow practitioners or the drug companies. If we were licensed, telling the truth might become more central to what we do. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fullstackbanana.substack.com (https://fullstackbanana.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

3. 

   16 May 2023

   037 — Interventions citoyennes [PAB]

   Cette semaine, on discute du cas tragique de Jordan Neely, soulignant la nécessité de réformes systémiques pour gérer la question de la santé mentale et de la sécurité publique. De plus, Snoop Dogg clarifie la pensée de tous sur l'IA lors d'une table ronde, et les préoccupations de Yuval Noah Harari concernant les dangers potentiels de l'IA et la nécessité de la transparence et d’une forme de réglementation. Nous avons également abordé des conseils pour la prévention de l'arthrite, le partenariat innovant entre Apple et Goldman Sachs dans le secteur bancaire, les difficultés auxquelles les hommes modernes sont confrontés et les avancées récentes dans la recherche sur l'anti-vieillissement. Enfin, nous avons célébré le succès surprenant de Mark Zuckerberg lors de son premier tournoi de Jiu-Jitsu! Notes et références [05:00] Affaire Jordan Neely Voices Politicizing NYC Subway Death Opposed Mayor’s Plan for Severe Mentally Ill (https://www.leefang.com/p/voices-politicizing-nyc-subway-death?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1239256&post_id=119592727&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email) Charging Daniel Penny, the Subway Samaritan (https://www.wsj.com/articles/jordan-neely-daniel-penny-charged-alvin-bragg-manhattan-new-york-crime-mental-illness-subway-a012a0e5) Neely’s death is a tragedy, but the charges against Mr. Penny raise troubling questions about the decline of public order and the way the mentally ill have been left to fend for themselves on our streets and public spaces. And What Would You Have Done? (https://www.city-journal.org/article/after-jordan-neelys-killing-soul-searching-and-self-righteousness) [T]he government’s message to subway passengers is: You’re on your own; there’s just not that much the city will do to keep you out of situations involving homeless people. These situations will sometimes feel dangerous and occasionally be dangerous, but another part of being on your own is that you’ll have to figure out for yourself which situations do and do not pose a genuine threat. To make the challenge even more stimulating, be advised that the world’s most influential newspaper is prepared to denounce you if it believes your response to a particular situation was disproportionate to its true dangers. A Subway Killing Stuns, and Divides, New Yorkers (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/nyregion/jordan-neely-death-subway-nyc.html#:~:text=After%20a%20homeless%20man%20was,mental%20health%20and%20public%20safety.) Paul Graham on Twitter (https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1655702842194243584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1655702842194243584%7Ctwgr%5E29b7e09c38a98fa27b257ad31cf3a9a9a4873273%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Froamresearch.com%2F%2Fapp%2FLJD1%2Fpage%2FvZuVc3Dq_) [19:00] Snoop Dogg & IA (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/snoop-dogg-on-ai-risk-sh-what-the-f/) Yuval Noah Harari argues that AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation (https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/04/28/yuval-noah-harari-argues-that-ai-has-hacked-the-operating-system-of-human-civilisation) Sam Altman: Is AI the End of the World? Or the Dawn of a New One? (https://www.thefp.com/p/is-ai-the-end-of-the-world-or-the) I think the development of artificial general intelligence, or AGI, should be a government project, not a private company project, in the spirit of something like the Manhattan Project. I really do believe that. But given that I don’t think our government is going to do a competent job of that anytime soon, it is far better for us to go do that than just wait for the Chinese government to go do it. Lire aussi: [32:00] Prévention de l’arthrite (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/well/live/arthritis-prevention-symptoms.html) [36:00] Reddit vs. Google (https://piedmontclearinghouse.substack.com/p/notes-from-a-month-of-illnesses?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=988972&post_id=118550926&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email) Parents: Use Reddit, not Google. Google was once a fantastic collator of the best things the Internet had to offer. Now it’s a cesspool of sponsored content and boring, standard-ass Top 125 websites that all say the exact same things. If you’re a parent and you’re searching for some answers to your medical questions, well, you should probably first talk to the doctor to whom you pay money for just these sorts of things. But if you’re going to go digging on the Internet, don’t use Google. Use Reddit. You know why? Because Reddit at its best is basically the Internet at its finest: pure information, undiluted exchange. It’s full of people just sharing the stuff they know. [37:00] Apple’s New Savings Account Draws Nearly $1 Billion In Deposits In First Four Days (https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilymason/2023/05/01/apples-new-savings-account-draws-nearly-1-billion-in-deposits-in-the-first-four-days/?sh=76b99e4d4e4a) [43:00] Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It (https://www.brookings.edu/book/of-boys-and-men/) et Why men are hard to help (https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/why-men-are-hard-to-help) [46:00] Redshirting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirting_(academic)#:~:text=Redshirting%20is%20the%20practice%20of,%2C%20intellectual%2C%20or%20physical%20growth.) [48:00] Zuck does Jiu Jitsu (https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1655647393776279553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1655647393776279553%7Ctwgr%5E29b7e09c38a98fa27b257ad31cf3a9a9a4873273%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Froamresearch.com%2F%2Fapp%2FLJD1%2Fpage%2FvZuVc3Dq_) [52:00] My Plan to Slow Down Aging (https://www.richardhanania.com/p/my-plan-to-slow-down-aging?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=98102&post_id=119516295&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email) But his second argument is: we put a lot of time and money into researching cures for cancer, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimers’, et cetera. Progress in these areas is bought dearly: all the low-hanging fruit has been picked, and what’s remaining is a grab bag of different complicated things - lung cancer is different from colon cancer is different from bone cancer. The easiest way to cure cancer, Sinclair says, is to cure aging. Cancer risk per year in your 20s is only 1% what it is in your 80s. Keep everyone’s cells as healthy as they are in a 20-year-old, and you’ll cut cancer 99%, which is so close to a cure it hardly seems worth haggling over the remainder. As a bonus, you’ll get similar reductions in heart disease, stroke, Alzheimers, et cetera. Peter Attia: Outlive (https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Outlive-Science-Art-Longevity/dp/B0B64WL9PK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2TLX2H846W2N1&keywords=peter+attia&qid=1684196478&s=books&sprefix=peter+attia%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C99&sr=1-1) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fullstackbanana.substack.com (https://fullstackbanana.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

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