

Systematic
Brett Terpstra
Brett Terpstra explores the idea that all work is creative work, welcoming a different guest each week.
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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.
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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

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

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.
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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

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.
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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
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iTextEditors
StackEdit
Nifty MiniDrive
Jettison
BetterTouchTool
Taptronome

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.
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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

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

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.
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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

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.
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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

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.
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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

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.
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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


