Where Does Our Motivation to Fix Bugs, Exercise, Shop, or Become a Politician Come From?
Is Dax really not going to TwitchCon? Why hasn't video calling gotten better? Vercel makes an AI image generator mess. Are politicians really necessary? Does Florida have the worst drivers? And how is Adam so buff?
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Links:
- TwitchCon
- Age of Empires | Multiplayer Game Programming: An Overview of Networked Games
- React Miami
- Nico on X: “Part 2, it gets worse 💀💀 Apparently, @OpenDevLog was threatened by a Vercel employee because his domain name was too similar to the employee’s personal project. He threatened to get lawyers involved if the name wasn’t changed
- lil uzi perf on X: “When you think about it, politicians are an antiquated technology, really only useful back when there wasn’t instant communication so we had to send a representative” / X
- Fidel Castro
- Adam's workout body tweet
- Rogue Echo Bike V3.0
Topics discussed:
- (00:00) - Transitioning from the previous episode...
- (00:37) - Is Dax really sure he's not going to TwitchCon?
- (02:06) - Learning about programming in video games
- (05:45) - Will video ever not stop freezing?
- (10:48) - Being motivated to fix bugs
- (12:49) - Vercel AI image generator mess
- (18:31) - Startup Marketing advice from Dax
- (20:28) - Buying decisions influenced by bad behaviour
- (24:43) - Are our opinions in the majority or minority?
- (27:12) - Are politicians necessary?
- (35:17) - Could Adam be a politician?
- (37:20) - Getting pulled over by the police
- (44:34) - Does self driving eliminate driving tickets?
- (46:00) - Does Florida have the worst drivers?
- (49:06) - Social accountability for fitness
