Lunch with Lyle

Maggi Hoogs joins me to speak about Neurodiversity, Celiac Disease, and the lessons we learned from this fun-a-day podcast for the month of January 2022.

Jennifer Gonzalez joins me for a discussion on looking at and researching Art, being an academic, getting comfortable with terms Latinx/Chicanx , specialization in the Humanities, Complexity and Civil Discourse, Profit and Art, Art vs Making, and what we decide to do and not do.

After the birth of her son Raven Lang knew something was wrong with the medical structure around birth. Learning the right way to support a mother giving birth was a process of witnessing births and re-learning. From her and other women's experiences Raven helped spear head the Home Birth Midwifery movement.

Article from the Wall Street Journal on the turn-around of the Cabrillo Festival.

My mother Diana Wright Troxell is an artist and face painter - business owner.

Brian Young, software developer, father, maker, home owner, and good friend.

Bonnie Jean Primbsch is a former radio broadcaster, an artists, a gardener, a grief counselor, a conflict mediator, and does her best not to Bogart the Flow.

Checkout Emerson's book Murder Capital of the World. Em and I made a podcast in 2008 about new Media - Media Sound Off.

My middle child Gwendolyn joins me for a late night chat about shows we like that are problematic, voices, friendship, and stories of bad parenting and hot glue.

DuoLingo Learn a Language with an app? Luis von Ahn Wanna hear more from Warren, check out my episodes with him on GeekSpeak.org - or checkout his book The Software Arts . Fun quote from Warren about being an academic: "You are always in your head and your head is somewhere else."

We talk about these three shows (no spoilers) Bandersnatch Pen15 Love is Blind

Brenna Pavey shares her experience writing about investing in climate change, her time in Germany, and settling in Australia.

Michael Lopp's LinkedIn Story Rands in Repose - Michael's blog

Quincy mentioned two corse that would be cool to check out: Learn Responsive Web Design by Building 20 Projects Relational Database Course

Archive.org is fantastic - here is the source of what I played.

Maggi joins me for a bit of a recap of the shows so far - and also shares her fun-a-day, journaling every day with the Bullet Journal Method - a great way to know yourself.

Pearl Hoogs is an impressive young woman, she has built her own house (yurt) and lived off the grid, and she fights wild fires.... she also happens to be my niece and lives next door. I asked her to join me for "Lunch" to chat about her experiences and what she things about life. We talked all night - and maybe I will release more of the conversation at another time, but here is our second recording... where we tried to be more concise. Enjoy.

The photo app we were talking about is VSCO.

I am not impressed nor excited about NFTs... and here is why.

Wendy Apperson joins Lyle to catch up and talk about the company she co-founded Transforming Privilege.

You can learn more about Little People's Repertory Theatre and even see pictures.

User experience designer Ian Krabacher joins me for a discussion of, thoughtful communication, board games, designing software, technology disposability, hockey, and the opposite of isolation.

Maggi and I walk the dogs while chatting about the podcast.

Seeing the world through Marina Troxell's voice will change you for the better.

On day 7 Lyle needed to trade sleep for a full episode. Join Lyle for an audio tour as he get's support from his youngest, River, and Maggi... while cooking dinner.

In 1999 Jon Compton and I played board games, built internet things for a telco, and debated. And because of this podcast Jon is back in my life right when he is going through the hardest job, the death of his father. Jon works for the DOD simulating conflict. He has a sharp mind and some wonderful ideas on why and how we can make the world better. It's really late - I'm not sure this is all making sense. So please forgive me.

You can go watch ThePrimeagen on Twitch or check him out on YouTube where he does lots of software learning videos. We mention NRDP - here is a great video on what Michael does at Netflix.

Dr. Juko Holiday seems to fill many people's lives with joy. She runs Ease Mountain Yoga in Ben Lomond, CA, which has become a great center of community our small mountain valley. When we were thinking about impressive people with something to teach about having a full-filling life, Juko came right to the top of our list. Have a listen, you will see why.

Ben mentioned... The Toxoplasma of Rage Scott Alexander

Wes Modes's "A Secret History of the American River People" project. Listener Morgan suggested this clip " Mario Savio | Bodies upon the Gears " that is much like the sentiment from Wes that he attributed to Henry David Thoreau.

Adriana has stayed connected with people through out her life and built both a wonderful support structure and also a sense of belonging. She has also picked up the banjo, so let's go get a theme-song and an interesting conversation.