TechZing

Justin and Jason discuss Jason's ambitious health and fitness plan, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s six rules of success, why Jason has decided to pursue his two long-time athletic goals of bench pressing 315 lbs and of dunking a basketball, Karch Kiraly’s athletic transformation at the age of 44, a few of the top vertical jump programs, the 42-year who added 9 inches to his vertical, the before and after videos of the kid who transformed himself into a dunking machine, Jason's “before” video of his vertical jump, the vertical jump calculation, Justin's exercise and diet plan and why he wants a picture of Elon Musk next to his bed, how 40's can be the new 20's, the TechZing Summit, the latest on Disco and why ownership is split equally among the founders, Jason's life hack for learning electrical engineering and the progress he's made so far, why your perceived limitations are almost all just in your mind, why Elon Musk is so successful, the girl who made it to the finals of America Ninja Warrior, how Colby learned to program in RobotC in his summer school class, the latest on Jason's angel investment in the Mill Valley Code Club, the awesome job that Phillip Monet has done with the TechZing Wiki, Jason's idea for doing a monthly TZ meetup in San Francisco, developing content for Empath, why God's Tweets got rejected from the App Store and whether your life really changes that much after having a baby.

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's upcoming trip to Mexico, their new low-sugar / high-protein diet and HIIT training regime, the TechZing Summit, how Justin has STILL not received hisSoylent, Jason's interview on Bootstrapped with Kids, how Jason found a personal instructor to teach him electrical engineering, the latest on Jason's math card game – Battle Math, why his iPhone project got rejected by the App Store, his recent visit to the Mill Valley Code Club and what's happening with Empath, the latest with Disco and why Justin likes SaltStack, why most people will initially mock and dismiss audacious goals, but later be inspired by them, and how a season of "Daddy Ball" has lit a fire in Colby and why that's a good thing.

Justin talks to Derrick Reimer and Rob Walling about the Drip tech stack.

Justin and Jason discuss the details of Jason's angel investment in the Mill Valley Code Club, Jason's weight-loss plan, the power of gradualism, the time required to form a new habit, the importance of short and long-term goals, accountability and positive feedback loops, how an article by Jason's brother Jay was listed as one of The Atlantic’s top pieces of journalism, a little bit about the TechZing Summit, Lucid Dreaming, the Pasadena App Academy, how MIT flipped their physics classes, how Netflix is creating original content like Orange is the New Black and House of Cards, what makes Silicon Valley so damn funny, the Weissman Score, the Facebook outage, how US Marshals accidentally Replied All to a list of anonymous bitcoin auction bidders, why it may be time for a hard Bitcoin fork, how Colby is writing a RobotC tutorial for the Mill Valley Code Club and Jason's expected-value argument against teaching a rigorous, proof-oriented Calculus to high school students and non-math majors. Executive Producer: Ben Boyter Thanks Ben!

Justin and Jason discuss Jason's recent trip to Disneyland, the latest progress on Disco, Jason's first angel investment, how Justin has been slowly accumulating Bitcoin, finding a remote, junior Rails developer, the site We Work Remotely, Jason's new weight-loss plan,StrongLifts, the TV shows Continuum and Halt and Catch Fire, some details on the TechZing Summit, whether it's harmful to let young kids use iPads, how Jason spent his youth fighting BB-gun wars, shooting tennis ball cannons and juggling burning tennis balls, Justin and Georgie's plans for a natural childbirth,how zapping your brain with gamma waves can induce lucid dreaming, the possibility of interviewing the founder of AirPair, why Jason wouldn't consider himself an expert in Titanium (or just about anything else for that matter), why it's hard to give time estimates when developing software, what makes hell banning a pain to implement, why Internet bullying is the result of people not having any “skin in the game”, the promise-payoff matrix, Uber’s $1.4B raise,how the ridiculous Bitcoin predictions of Mark T. Williams have (predictably) been proven wrong, the difficulty of decoupling emotion from investing, the untraceability of DarkCoin and ideas on how to trade all of the new cryptocurrencies, how it's now possible to build a complete mobile platform on .NET using Xamarin and EC2, why having more developers slows down development and the latest progress on Digedu's "No DB" implementation.

Justin and Jason discuss the TechZing Summit, the last session of Catalyst, Uber’s new office and Jason's thoughts on Uber’s rapid growth, Justin's "no DB" project, how options work at most venture-funded startups, getting compensated in convertible debt, Jason's experience with AirPair and why you should never do a fixed-bid project, shutting down AnyFu and some lessons learned about premature scaling, the latest on Empath and Disco, Vagrant, RabbitMQ and Composer, Justin's DIY Soylent experiment and the problem with Soylent's distribution strategy, Jason's recap of a year spent coaching the 4th-grade math team, the book Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, Justin's idea for an ancestor constitution, how Occam’s razor is a statistical syllogism and thus a logical fallacy, why people who write their names with initials seem smarter, Jason's frustration with how mathematicians dismiss any mathematics that isn't about proving theorems, and Izzy's struggle with self-confidence.

Justin and Jason discuss Jason's night with the "Korean billionaires", the 30 for 30 documentary The Opposition, the big Digedu demo, Justin's excitement over Node.js and socket.io, why Jason turned down an IdeaLab company, how Justin finally sold Pluggio and the new side project he's working on with Lance Jones and Joanna Wiebe called Disco, how CNBC contacted Jason about debating Mark Cuban on high-frequency trading, Jason's phone call with Mark Groton and the subsequent Gawker leak, Empath and Jason's YCombinator interview, the latest evidence debunking Washington's claim about the Syrian sarin attack, and the possibility of hosting a TechZing summit.

Justin, Jason and special guest Ben Reyes discuss Ben's investment in Tesla and investing in general, Bitcoin as a technology and whether Dorian is the real Satoshi, how experts found that Mt.Gox lost a mere 386 Bitcoin due to transaction malleability, pending comments on Hacker News, Justin's new meme – "The Iceberg Strategy", Jason's trick for scrambling his own memories, why Notch has canceled talks with Oculus Rift, the upcoming Math Field Day, Jason's idea for a math TCG (trading card game), why it’s okay to work on small problems, and the future of the show.

Jason talks with Nathan Hawkins about his new (TCG) trading card game Conjure, what it took to create it and how they're bringing it to market.

Justin and Jason discuss why the show has been on a mini hiatus, the Spritz speedreading technology and the open source bookmarklet, Justin's Catalyst experiment, the face behind Bitcoin, the denial and some confirmations by Los Angeles County deputies, what most likely happened at Mt Gox, autotrading crypto-currencies at Cryptotrader, the death of AnyFu, why Justin likes the idea of being an older dad, the latest at Digedu and what Jason is working on at Uber, the Tesla Gigafactory, Justin's losing cryptocurrency investments, Peter Thiel’s talk at last year's SXSW, teaching George Pólya’s problem solving heuristics to the math team, why Nick Bostrom thinks humans could become extinct and the television shows True Detective and Almost Human.