Episodes

  • Failing Forward #5: A failure to not eat meat (with Heidi O'Brien and Jonathan Jacobson)
    May 15 2024

    Episode 5 of Failing Forward, the show where Nick and Harris analyze personal and professional experiences about failure to see what can be learned. Only when you learn to fail will you succeed.


    Special guests Heidi O'Brien and Jonathan Jacobson join the podcast to do a deep dive into being vegetarian and pescetarian: The motivation to adopt that into their lifestyles, the struggles they've faced doing so, and whether or not they would eat meat again.


    Links:

    • What does it mean to be vegan/vegetarian and why would you choose to do this? https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/what-is-a-plant-based-diet-and-why-should-you-try-it-2018092614760
    • Is being vegetarian or vegan better for the environment? (https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/vegan-diet-better-environment)
    • What have you struggled the most with while being vegetarian?
    • Is it healthy to be vegetarian? (not a given because cake is vegetarian) https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2019/02/07/a-skeptical-look-at-popular-diets-vegetarian-is-healthy-if-you-tread-carefully/
    • I think of being vegetarian as a more upper class thing… is it more expensive to be vegetarian?
    • “Lack of protein/nutrients” is this true? Why do people say this? (bioavailability: https://khni.kerry.com/news/white-papers/nutrition-for-plant-based-diets-managing-nutrient-intake-and-bioavailability/ )
    • Lab grown beef https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/23/business/lab-grown-meat-explainer/index.html
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Failing Forward #4: A failure to drive (with Gabriel Wehrle)
    May 2 2024

    Episode 4 of Failing Forward, the show where Nick and Harris analyze personal and professional experiences about failure to see what can be learned. Only when you learn to fail will you succeed. Special guest Gabriel Wehrle joins the podcast to do a deep dive into driving: The good and bad of self-driving, a deconstruction of public transportation and how we ended up with car-centric cities, and finally a discussion on whether or not it is too easy to become a driver in America.


    Links for stories and articles discussed on this episode:

    • End-to-end Neural Network in Tesla FSD v12 - https://www.thinkautonomous.ai/blog/tesla-end-to-end-deep-learning/
    • Tesla safety report - https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
    • Cruise crash - https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/cruise-sf-collision-timeline/
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    1 hr and 52 mins
  • Failing Forward #3: A failure to eat (with Robert Robertson)
    Apr 19 2024

    Episode 3 of Failing Forward, where Nick and Harris analyze personal experiences and stories about failure to see what can be learned to succeed. Only when you learn to fail will you finally succeed.


    This episode focuses on dieting, eating, and the struggles that come with trying to be healthy. Special guest Robert Robertson joins Nick and Harris.

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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Failing Forward #2: A failure to communicate
    Apr 3 2024

    Episode 2 of Failing Forward, where Nick and Harris analyze personal experiences and stories about failure to see what can be learned to succeed. Only when you learn to fail will you finally succeed.


    This episode focuses on a deep dive of NASA's 2003 Columbia strategy, how PowerPoint was one of the key reasons for the failure, what modern companies have learned, and why communication is important.

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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • Failing Forward #1: Project Sentinel Retrospective
    Mar 21 2024

    Episode 1 of Failing Forward, where Nick and Harris analyze personal experiences and stories about failure to see what can be learned to succeed. Only when you learn to fail will you finally succeed.

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    59 mins