Podcasts by Hope in Source

Everyone is "Protestant" Online (L.M. Sacasas) from 2022-09-27T22:54:53

How do we all act as protestants online? L.M. Sacasas joins Henry (4th time!?) to chat about material/digital culture, how we compensate for natural affordances in new digital interfaces, our in...

Finding Hope Amid Burnout (Alex Kim) from 2022-09-27T22:16:32

Where can hope be found? Alex Kim joins again to open up questions of responsibility, and our place in relation to times of weariness. He speaks out his experiences growing up and also shepherdi...

Digital Communion (Nick Ripatrazone) from 2022-08-29T15:44:26

Can our digitally mediated environment be spiritual? Nick Ripatrazone takes us through the lens of the Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan, focusing on his not well-known Catholic faith. McLuh...

History is Necromancy (David Cayley) from 2022-08-29T15:44:14

What is the place of history in our society? Who was Ivan Illich and how might he be a helpful voice, even in his passing? David Cayley shares about his new book, "Ivan Illich: An Intellectual J...

Reality is Personal (Esther Meek) from 2022-08-25T03:43:39

What is the nature of reality? Esther Lightcap Meek speaks of reality as interpersonal, saying yes to life, everyday knowing. We discuss hope as a person-ed affair, how life is a sort of scrabbl...

The Dorean Principle (Conley Owens) from 2022-08-24T16:23:42

Why is Christianity so commercialized? Conley shares about The Dorean Principle, his new book which explains this biblical concept of the Gospel being "freely given". We talk about being a colab...

Attending to Silence (L.M. Sacasas) from 2021-09-01T19:58:47

How can we think about digital communication, let alone silence? Is it possible? L.M. Sacasas is back to chat about a few of his last newsletter posts: the nature of silence, attention not as a ...

Ivan Illich (L.M. Sacasas) from 2021-06-18T11:00

Why read Ivan Illich today? What does the thought of this radical historian have to bear on our modern tech world? In this episode, Madhu Suri Prakash and Dana L. Stuchul of Penn State Universit...

Digital Disembodiment (Maggie Appleton) from 2021-04-05T16:17:17

How does the digital life shape our perceptions of ourselves? Maggie Appleton starts us off on a discussion of school in pandemic times which lead to a discussion of the disembodiment that techn...

Software Tetris (Stephen Kell) from 2021-03-09T17:23:05

How is the state of modern software like losing at Tetris? Stephen Kell joins Henry to chat about Ivan Illich's thought (counter-productivity, radical monopoly, critique of institutions) applied...

TabFS (Omar Rizwan) from 2021-02-20T01:02:38

What happens when we open up browser APIs like a filesystem? Omar Rizwan joins Henry to chat about his latest project, TabFS! We discuss possible extensions, tinkering with scripts vs being a wh...

Essence (Sonya Mann) from 2021-02-19T00:34:49

How do we think about ourselves and the communities we move into? Sonya Mann and Henry continue a chat about the nature of conversion: about using jargon within a community, individuation, and t...

Reconversion (Sonya Mann) from 2021-01-03T05:22:13

How does one come to faith, let alone come back to it? Sonya Mann graciously shares some raw thoughts on her re-conversion to Christianity. We cover a lot of ground, going through doubt and spir...

Approaching Advent (Alex Kim) from 2020-12-09T19:02:23

What is Advent anyway? Alex Kim joins Henry to chat about the season of waiting, memory, our loss and discovery of tradition, teaching ritual as meaningful, a Christian conception of time, and o...

Technology as Process (Maggie Appleton) from 2020-11-03T05:24:44

Is technology just of chips and gadgets? Maggie Appleton joins Henry again in a 2-part chat to discuss how tech isn't such a static thing, building off of Mcluhan's thought of media and Dan Wang...

Embodied Knowledge (Maggie Appleton) from 2020-11-03T05:24:38

Can there be knowledge without a knower? Maggie Appleton joins Henry again in a 2 part chat to discuss how knowledge can be intimately personal, through the work of Michael Polanyi. We cover how...

The Convivial Society (L.M. Sacasas) from 2020-10-13T17:49:38

What does a convivial society entail? L.M. Sacasas joins Henry in the second part of a conversation about Illich and his views of the common good. We speak about Illich's critique against instit...

Natural Limits (L.M. Sacasas) from 2020-10-12T19:10:52

Can we consider our limits as a gift? L.M. Sacasas and Henry discuss an understated concept in our modern times, namely our limited nature. We are limited in our ability to control others (paren...

Emotional Programming (Omar Rizwan) from 2020-10-05T18:33:57

What can we learn from someone's last tweets? Omar Rizwan joins Henry to chat about the Dynamicland way of thinking: communal, involving the whole person, user agency. We discuss user control, t...

MA 16: Philip Gee (#3) on Life After Digital Death from 2020-09-22T05:05:37

What's life after removing yourself from social media? Philip Gee joins Henry (the last in the "trilogy") to chat about LAT, life after Twitter. We discuss being irrelevant, forcing yourself to ...

MA 15: Philip Gee (#2) on Unlisting Yourself from 2020-09-16T12:00

Why would you choose to leave the public internet on your own terms? Philip Gee joins Henry (for the 2nd time) to chat about his recent choice to make a minimal public web presence after being o...

MA 14: Shawn Wang on Open Knowledge from 2020-09-02T13:02:50

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/re...

Inhabiting a Space (Bernardo Hidalgo, Marianita Palumbo) from 2020-08-28T23:18:24

> Do we think about how the places in which we live are passed down?

Bernardo Robles Hidalgo (architect) and Marianita Palumbo (anthropologist) join He...

Managing Over-Participation (Working in Public) from 2020-08-04T11:36:15

> 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-d...

Very Online (Strange Rites) from 2020-07-23T14:00

What happens to religion when it meets the Internet? 

Tara Isabella Burton joins Henry to chat about her new book, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World. They chat abo...

Towards Shalom (Nicole Williams) from 2020-07-08T16:26:17

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, ...

Legacy (Timothy Patitsis) from 2020-06-01T15:00

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 ...

MA 13: Jordan Scales on Nostalgia and Not Taking Yourself Too Seriously from 2020-05-26T15:30

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 m...

MA 12: Maggie Appleton on Embodiment Through Metaphors from 2020-05-13T12:00

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 (bas...

MA 11: Maggie Appleton on Open Source as a Gift Economy from 2020-03-06T13:00

Is the open source community a gift economy? What even is a gift? Maggie Appleton joins Henry to discuss open source as a gift economy (versus a market economy), why we participate in open sourc...

12: Haircut (Bonus) from 2020-02-14T12:00

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 fai...

MA 10: Jonathan Farbowitz on the Commitment to Infinite Uptime from 2019-07-15T12:00

How should we think about saving something forever? Jonathan Farbowitz (Guggenheim) continues the on-going discussion of software preservation with Henry in talking about the goals of museums, t...

MA 9: Wendy Hagenmaier on Preserving the (Digital) Past from 2019-07-08T17:30

In our pursuit to create products for the future do we neglect the past? Wendy Hagenmaier (Georgia Tech) discusses with Henry on the importance of maintaining our history, especially in software...

MA 8: Anthony Giovannetti on Mastery and Learning through Games from 2019-06-21T15:00

Why play or even make games? Anthony Giovannetti (MegaCrit) joins Henry to chat building video game Slay the Spire with the community. They discuss games an a interactive medium, immersion, play...

MA 7: Philip Gee (#1) On Growing Old with the Web from 2019-05-31T11:15

Do we learn in a vacuum, or does it involve our whole selves? Philip Gee (UC San Diego) joins Henry to chat about maintaining a web presence since its beginnings. We discuss some of the points m...

MA 6: Jory Burson on the Significance of Standards from 2019-05-24T09:00

Why should we standardize? Jory Burson (Bocoup) joins Henry to talk open source and standards: what they are, why we need them, what should be standardized, lifecycles of standards, past/future ...

MA 5: Evan You on Funding One's Freedom from 2019-05-06T17:00

How can we be free? Evan You (Vue.js) chats with Henry about the complexities of funding people vs. projects, non-monetary perks of oss, Patreon potentially just a payment processor, the honing ...

MA 4: Mikeal Rogers on Getting Old in Open Source from 2019-04-29T15:00

How old is open source anyway? Mikeal Rogers (Protocol Labs) joins Henry in talking about making friends through podcasting, conference organizing as maintainer-ship, patronage and fundraising, ...

MA 3: Stephanie Hurlburt on the Perception of Value from 2019-04-19T11:30

What do we treasure? Stephanie Hurlburt (Binomial) joins again to chat about inherent vs. perceived value, success breeding success, psychology around hiding information, code versus money, a ho...

MA 2: Stephanie Hurlburt on Boundaries from 2019-04-12T10:30

How is business development relevant to open source? Stephanie Hurlburt (Binomial) joins Henry to chat about understanding learnings from success, setting health boundaries, what "netwo...

MA 1: Omnigamer on Speedrunning as Research from 2019-04-10T02:10

What's beyond simply beating a video game? Eric "Omnigamer" Koziel joins Henry to chat about speedruning as an optimization problem (code golf), game knowledge as discovery, access as a result o...

11: City as Liturgy (Bonus) from 2019-03-21T17:28:06

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 wo...

10: Trust from 2018-10-16T18:08

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 Listen

9: Liturgy from 2018-10-16T17:07

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:...

8: Authority and Leadership from 2018-10-16T17:06

Does authority have a place in religion?

We talk about authority in decentralized organizations, listening to others versus trying something new, and when to fork or leave a community. Transcript...

7: Mythology and Symbolism from 2018-10-16T17:05

How do symbols and stories foster culture?

We talk about stories as a way to onboard new contributors, the mythology of leadership, when leaders step down, and how traditions evolve over time. Tr...

6: Money from 2018-10-16T17:04

How do communities handle money?

We talk about money and centralization, tithing systems, how much funding is too much, and when to contribute money versus time. Transcript at Listen

5: Evangelism from 2018-10-16T17:03

How do we evangelize our ideas?

We talk about evangelism in religion and tech, meeting people where they're at, living one's values in public, and maintaining humility in the face of conviction. ...

4: Holy Inefficiency from 2018-10-16T17:02

Can everything that matters be measured?

We talk about measuring the output and health of a community, competition between groups, growing a community without losing authenticity, and embracing "...

3: Intrinsic Motivation from 2018-10-16T17:01

Why do we do what we do?

We talk about intrinsic motivation, the role it plays in creative work with uncertain outcomes, motivating new contributors, and sustaining motivation over time. Tran...