Systematic

Brett Terpstra
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Oct 3, 2015 • 1h 4min

150: Building Core Memories with Georgia Dow

Georgia Dow takes on many roles in many fields: psychotherapist, Brazilian Jiujitsu badass, technology writer, and multi-podcaster. She and Brett discuss martial arts, accepting the importance of negative emotions, and they unpack the complexity of Georgia’s reaction to Pixar’s Inside Out. Brought to you by …your loyal listenership, whether you’ve been with the show from the beginning or only recently found Systematic. In honor of Brett’s sesquicentennial episode, introduce a friend with this one, and if you haven’t done so since the move to ESN, mark the occasion by rating and reviewing the show in iTunes. Show Notes and Links Georgia Dow Georgia Dow on Twitter Anxiety Videos Inside Out (2015) Georgia Dow – The Montreal Center for Anxiety & Depression Georgia’s Various Podcasts Usually/Always Found on… Vector Isometric The now-retired ZEN & TECH, which ended with episode 72 Often/Sometimes Found on… Review Clockwise Total Party Kill Top Picks Georgia: Sphero BB-8 App-Enabled Droid Dialr Mad Max Fury Road Brett: Zen Timer Dictater Blink 2.0
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Sep 23, 2015 • 1h 8min

149: Pants-Leg Intimate with Gerry Hayes

Gerry Hayes repairs and designs guitars, and has recently published Sketchy Setups, a book about setting up specific instruments. He and Brett talk about guitars, writing, and personal touch. Haze Guitars Sketchy Setups Truss Rods Made Easy @hazeguitars Sketchnotes Yes Please by Amy Poehler Don Hertzfeldt is the animator you were screaming at Brett about as he grasped at “Herzog” Top 3 picks Gerry Neil Young – Live From Massey Hall 1971 Neil Young Live At The Cellar Door Nick Cave – Live from KCRW Spiritualized Johnny Cash American III Dessa (and Doomtree) Hellboy in Hell – Mike Mignola iStrobosoft Peterson Tuners Brett SwitchUp Secondhand Souls Keyboard Maestro
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Sep 7, 2015 • 1h 1min

148: Ten Jokes Out of a Thousand with David Wain

Writer/actor/director/producer/return guest David Wain is back for his third appearance on Systematic. He reveals secrets (or not) about Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, updates us on his standard workflow tools, and endorses the use of phanton children as a GTD device. Later this fall, watch for a Systematic Special marathon cut of David’s first three appearances on the show. Brought to you by Smile: Save 20% on new licenses for PDFpen, PDFpen Pro, and TextExpander through October 15th if you buy direct from Smile. Use this link or offer code SYSTEMATIC at checkout. Symbolicons: by Jory Raphael, designer of all our show artwork. Get 40% off any icon bundle by using code ESN1 at checkout SaneBox: Stop letting your email eat you alive. Get a no-credit-card-required, 2-week free trial and $25 off your new membership when you sign up by visiting SaneBox.com/esn. Show Notes and Links @davidwain on Twitter DAVIDWAIN.COM davidwain on Instagram Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp Hurricane of Fun Another Period Children’s Hospital Voice Dream Reader Things Fantastical 2 Top 3 picks David Orphan Black (Amazon – iTunes) Studio Neat Glif Kenu Paris, France Brett Lamb by Christopher Moore Omron 7 Series Wrist Blood Pressure Monitor ring Monsters ate my Metropolis
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Aug 28, 2015 • 0sec

147: Building Systems with Glenn Fleishman

Glenn Fleishman is a writer, former Jeopardy! champion, and autodidact. Since an early age, he’s been very aware that he has “story bones”. He and Brett (unintentionally) discuss the power of deadlines and different types of currency: monetary systems built by children, cryptocurrency, and the not-so-common currency shared by their respective minds. Brought to you by SaneBox: Stop letting your email eat you alive. Get a no-credit-card-required, 2-week free trial and $25 off your new membership when you sign up by visiting SaneBox.com/esn. Casper: premium mattresses for a fraction of the price. Use coupon code OVERTIRED to save $50 on your choice of Casper mattress. Terms and Conditions Apply. Show Notes and Links @glennf Glenn Fleishman:Unsolicited Pundit Take Control Books Derrick Dollars Virtual currency:Following the Bitcoin trail All eyes on the sharing economy Cartoon Captures Spirit of the Internet On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog Tough old birds Top 3 picks Glenn The Everyday Songbook AbeBooks Electronic disabling tech Honda Fit Why Stealing Cars Went Out Of Fashion Nuzzel SaneBox Brett Bisect isbn.nu:search for books and compare prices-fast! iTextEditors StackEdit Nifty MiniDrive Jettison BetterTouchTool Taptronome
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Aug 17, 2015 • 58min

146: Shower Evolution with Brad Go

Brett talks romance, serendipity, and getting out of your comfort zone to become more comfortable (no really) with Hush Project creator and musician Brad Go. Get ready to appreciate different varieties of showers. Brought to you by Casper: premium mattresses for a fraction of the price. Use coupon code SYSTEMATIC to save $50 on your choice of Casper mattress. Terms and Conditions Apply. TextExpander 5: Now with new predictive recommendations and other features and built for Yosemite, start saving literal days of time like Brett does (to the tune of 140 hours in the last 6 months alone). Check out Brett’s shared snippets here. Show Notes and Links The Hush Project Hush Project on iTunes facebook/hushproject @bradgo on Twitter bradgo on Instagram Airbnb Top 3 picks Brad Jim Wendler 5/3/1 Singing bowl Shakti Gawain: The Creative Visualization Workbook Brett GA Today Today Scripts Palette
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Jul 31, 2015 • 57min

145: Adjectives Not Verbs with Sarah Johnson

Sarah Johnson is/isn’t/is sort-of a mental health therapist and consultant working out what answering “what do you do” really involves. Show Notes and Links The Old Fashioneds (GIF) Top Picks Sarah Amtrak Dark Dark Dark Thich Nhat Hanh: The Miracle of Mindfulness Mindfulness Franklin, Franklin, Franklin Brett Rokkit monitors iTelescope Sonicare Toothbrush
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Jul 23, 2015 • 1h 8min

144: Resident Neuropsychologist with Howard Buddin

Neuropsychologist Howard Buddin makes his third appearance on the show, but for the first time, he’s doing so having made the move to private practice. He and Brett discuss those challenges, Brett’s changes in his own self-care, music, and Howard’s appointment to a permanent post on the show. Brought to you by TextExpander 5: Now with new predictive recommendations and other features and built for Yosemite, start saving literal days of time like Brett does (to the tune of 140 hours in the last 6 months alone). Show Notes and Links Neuropsych Now SCNeuro.com Howard Buddin Howard Buddin on Twitter Bill Withers Marvin Gaye Lee Moses Top Picks Howard Ultimate Ears Boom Speaker Presonus Audiobox USB NHT Super Zero monitors Brett Hue Ball Rokkit 5 studio monitor Jiggler lock picks
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Jun 29, 2015 • 1h 1min

143: Love Actuarilly with Eddie Smith

An episode about brainstorming and notetaking? It seems like it was meant to be. Eddie Smith shares how mind mapping and other tools work into his daily life, at work, and at play. Brought to you by App Camp For Girls 3.0: Their IndieGoGo campaign ends at 11:59pm July 1st 2015. Help them meet their funding goal to help build a better foundation for women in tech. Show Notes and Links Practically Efficient Eddie Smith on Twitter Infinite Actuary Actuary (Wikipedia) Markdown Video iThoughtsHD iThoughtsX MindNode Life Insurance Distrubution (video from mind map) MindNode MindMeister RevealJS Slides.com Curio 7 David Sparks OPML Gabe Weatherhead My adventure so far with Photos and other mythology Top 3 picks Eddie WeatherNerd You Are Not So Smart Podcast I done this Brett Bittorrent Shoot Emulsion Night Sky Pro
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Jun 20, 2015 • 1h 8min

142: Birds and Bones with Rich Siegel

Rich Siegel talks with Brett about the origins of BBEdit (going back to 1989), marrying into birds, and the equal importance of engineering and art in your work. Brought to you by PDFpen Pro for Mac: It does everything that PDFpen does, such as add signatures, edit text and images, perform OCR on scanned documents, and export in Microsoft Word format. Only PDFpenPro can create an interactive PDF form, build a table of contents, set document permissions, and convert websites to multi-page PDFs. Rich Siegel @siegel on Twitter Barebones Software Barebones Software company history, in bulleted form BBEdit | Wikipedia BBEdit | Barebones Software Yojimbo | Barebones Software discoveryd Clusterfuck | Craig Hockenberry African Grey Parrot Top 3 Picks Rich Siegel Nomiku Immersion Circulator Fantastical2 for Mac Toddy Brett Terpstra Taskmator CFStringTokenizer/NSLinguisticTagger XcodeColors / other plugins backlight beginning of line alcatraz
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Jun 2, 2015 • 1h 5min

141: Spare Spare Time with Aaron Mahnke

Aaron Mahnke makes the recently launched podcast Lore in addition to working as a designer and writer. He and Brett discuss Aaron’s various projects (especially Lore) as well as their mutual introductions to the horror genre, Stephen King novels and otherwise. Brought to you by Casper: premium mattresses for a fraction of the price. Use coupon code SYSTEMATIC to save $50 on your choice of Casper mattress. Terms and Conditions Apply. The Shuttle: Save $10 while they last with coupon LOSTMYREMOTE. Show Notes and Links Aaron Mahnke @amahnke @lorepodcast Wet Frog Studios Lore Home Work Indian Summer Consumed Destiny, A Fairy Tale Frictionless Stephen King 11/22/63: A Novel otherBrowser Neil Gaiman 4 Rooms Reservoir Dogs The Stand X Files Moleskine Pocket Memo Top 3 picks Aaron The Girl With All The Gifts Criminal podcast The Allusionist Pelican Clip Gerber Artifact Crab wallet Brett MeisterTask IconJar LaunchBar 4.6

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