Podcast #5: Add Me to Your Professional Network, by Paul Ford (Ftrain)

Mar 21, 2016 · Article · Medium

Podcast #5: Add Me to Your Professional Network

Podcast #5: Add Me to Your Professional Network

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This week Paul Ford (hi) and Rich Ziade want to connect with you, as they tackle the messy hellscape that is LinkedIn. What makes the site so bad? How could we make it better? Why is there that one person whom Paul keeps accepting as a friend—and yet, months later, after hundreds of tries, this person remains forever unfriended in Paul’s LinkedIn LinkBox or LinkBucket or LinkHole? It’s the Track Changes podcast and we’d like to add you to our professional network.

Forever out of network

In the second half of the show, we start talking about the current culture of design and how that culture shapes the way that things get built. As always we do our best to provide high-quality brand-sponsored entertainment, and end up alienating the very people we need in order to succeed. Here are some links, again:

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Paul: You make me do things I’m very uncomfortable with, in the name of sales.

Rich: We need about 2–3 hours to talk about LinkedIn.

Rich: Let’s accept something here. We can talk about how gross LinkedIn is, but when we meet someone, or we’re going to have a meeting with someone we haven’t met yet —

Paul: We always do it.

Rich: I hit “incognito” — and a little guy up on the right watches me check that person out on LinkedIn. I don’t like that LinkedIn tells the person that I went and stood outside their bedroom window for a minute.

Paul: LinkedIn has always been creepy.

Rich: [In the voice of LinkedIn] “Hey — Paul walked over and stared at you for a second.”

Paul: It’s not cool.

Rich: [LinkedIn voice] “Then walked away.”

Paul: It’s not cool.

Rich: [LinkedIn voice] “You should take advantage of that moment. Of leering.”

Rich: (On prototyping) Building stuff means things are going to be in motion. And while it’s really nice to hit a button and hope that something magically turns into product, it never works like that. The stuff’s complicated, and there are things that are unforeseen that will come up as you build.

Paul: Here’s my prediction: I think that the prototyping tools/creative industry will do its damnedest to try to make their tools into the way that you deliver finished mobile applications.

Rich: Good luck.

Rich: Maybe somebody just solves everything and we all just stop coding and…

Paul: What the hell —

Rich: Buy food trucks!

Paul: I’d do that with you.

Below the Fold

Today’s links

Today’s North Korean slogan: “Saying that the national reunification is what Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il had desired in their lifetime as well as the long-cherished desire of the Korean nation, the joint calls stressed the need to firmly defend and add brilliance to their undying leadership feats for national reunification and achieve the country’s reunification independently in the idea of By Our Nation Itself.”
Today’s React component: React-native Animated API with PanResponder.
Today’s JavaScript library: expect.js — Minimalistic BDD-style assertions for Node.JS and the browser.
Today’s Creative Commons media link: GameIcons — SVG icons for board and video games.
Today’s variety of religious experience: Valentinianism.
Today’s freely available programming book: Clojure — Functional Programming for the JVM.
Today’s public data set: Protein-protein interaction network.

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