

TechZing
TechZing
TechZing is an informal bi-weekly chat show aimed at entreprenures and hackers interested in creating their own web app startup. The show is both educational (with practical advice) and conversational. Join our Discord, chat with us and fellow listeners! https://discord.gg/2EbBwdHHx8
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Jan 1, 2024 • 1h 41min
393: TZ Discussion - Never Miss a Workout!
Justin and Jason review and grade the progress they made over the past year on their respective health, fitness, and startups, detail their goals for 2024, discuss the shows Only Murders in the Building, Band of Brothers, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul, and Jason explains how he thinks Hollywood will adjust its strategy in the coming years. Artwork by https://sonsofcrypto.com. Join our Discord, chat with us and fellow listeners! https://discord.gg/2EbBwdHHx8

Dec 14, 2023 • 2h 2min
392: TZ Discussion - Firestorm
Justin and Jason discuss how Justin and his family had to leave town to avoid a forest fire, the show Welcome to Wrexham, how Justin is tiptoeing into his new diet program, the latest on Project Superhero, the professional dunker who increased his vertical from 25 to 45 inches and then later to 50 inches, Justin's reaction to Alex Jones being allowed back on X and some thoughts on free speech, Lightwave's features and usability and whether it would make sense to build in the open, creating a strategic plan for Math Academy and the foundational document The Science of Math Academy, the progress that's been made on climate change and why Jason is much more concerned about micro plastics and nano plastics, the latest season of Rick and Morty, the second season of Invincible, and the movie Interstellar. Artwork by https://sonsofcrypto.com. Join our Discord, chat with us and fellow listeners! https://discord.gg/2EbBwdHHx8

Nov 27, 2023 • 1h 58min
391: TZ Discussion - Rogue AI
Justin and Jason discuss Justin's new weight-loss coaching service, why Jason got a coronary heart scan and his experience so far with the ATG program, the series Welcome to Wrexham, why Justin is wary of Sam Altman not least of which because of World Coin, a recap of the recent Open AI coup and counter-coup, and some speculation around Q*, the coming battle between swarms of good and bad AI agents, Justin's recent progress on Lightwave, Jason's opinion on the recent respiratory outbreak in China, the second season of Invincible, the new series Gen V, and the movie Napolean, and finally the idea of building a critic-matching service and a "pandering critic" detector using ChatGPT 4. Artwork by https://sonsofcrypto.com. Join our Discord, chat with us and fellow listeners! https://discord.gg/2EbBwdHHx8

Nov 14, 2023 • 2h 4min
390: TZ Discussion - Into the Lightwave
Justin and Jason discuss Justin's progress on Lightwave (nee List) and the near-term development roadmap, why Jason thinks Justin would benefit from a diet coach, and why he believes the hype around Hoka running shoes is entirely justified, the latest with Math Academy including the prospect of building a distraction detector, and the shows Generation V, Welcome to Wrexham, and the Yogi Berra documentary It Ain't Over.. Artwork by https://sonsofcrypto.com. Join our Discord, chat with us and fellow listeners! https://discord.gg/2EbBwdHHx8

Nov 2, 2023 • 1h 58min
389: TZ Discussion - The Struggle Sessions
Justin and Jason discuss how Justin has been listening to The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy audiobook, their respective project superhero updates and the latest with Lightwave and Math Academy, the problem with mobile-first web development, what makes a great student, and the movies Donny Darko and Friday Night at Freddy's. Artwork by https://sonsofcrypto.com. Join our Discord, chat with us and fellow listeners! https://discord.gg/2EbBwdHHx8

Oct 16, 2023 • 1h 55min
388: TZ Discussion - Fighting the Madness
Justin and Jason discuss how emotion fuels Justin's process and why that may ultimately be to the detriment of long-term progress, Justin's thoughts on the Steve Job biography, the latest with Lightwave, project superhero updates, why Jason believes de-optimizing our lives could lead to better health, Math Academy's upcoming Methods of Proof course and how to build a cheat-detection system, the audiobooks Control Freak and Sid Meiers Memoir, and the shows Star Trek: Lower Decks, and Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty. Artwork by https://sonsofcrypto.com. Join our Discord, chat with us and fellow listeners! https://discord.gg/2EbBwdHHx8

Oct 2, 2023 • 2h 4min
387: TZ Discussion - Who's Afraid of Elon Musk?
Justin and Jason discuss Elon Musk's experiences, seeking out interesting people, lack of loyalty and consequences, visions of the future, weight loss journey, impact of pizza and ice cream on uric acid levels, strategies for increasing activity levels, struggling with healthy eating, communication, personal weight loss goals, building a complete guide, creating a private vault, discussing progress on a project, text formatting and a book recommendation, and Elon Musk as a force of nature.

Sep 21, 2023 • 1h 59min
386: TZ Discussion - Going Tribal
Justin and Jason discuss walking as a weight-loss strategy and Justin's health-journey hiccups, Isaacson's Elon Musk biography, why Justin changed his Discord photo, the latest with Math Academy, why Justin hasn't been working on List/Nitro and whether he's planning to continue with the project, Balaji's latest Gray Tribe ideas, what Colby accomplished over the summer with Galactic Conquerors and how he's been preparing to take some advanced, for-credit math exams, and Apple's streaming Foundation Series. Artwork by https://sonsofcrypto.com. Join our Discord, chat with us and fellow listeners! https://discord.gg/2EbBwdHHx8

Sep 1, 2023 • 1h 57min
385: TZ Discussion - Flipping the Switch
Justin and Jason discuss Justin's new morning walk/run, Jason's college track career, Justin's diet regime, and Jason's new focus on lowering fructose intake and uric acid, the latest with Galatic Conquerors, and technical limitations of a web-based game, and how struggle is an integral part of the learning process, the prospect of the emergence of human-level AGI within 3 to 7 years, how the LK99 team is not giving up, Elon's plan to strip headlines and other metadata from Twitter/X posts, the image preprocessing library that will prevent AI mimicry and the power of AI image generation with tools like Midjourney, Eric Weinstein's criticism of String Theory, the latest with Math Academy, including locale-based courses, and the growth firm they're working with, the rom-com When In Rome and the sci-fi movie Zoe about the synthetic humans, the book Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, how untrustworthy the mainstream news has become, how their viewership has plummeted as a result, and why this is driving the push for censorship. Artwork by https://sonsofcrypto.com. Join our Discord, chat with us and fellow listeners! https://discord.gg/2EbBwdHHx8

Aug 22, 2023 • 1h 55min
384: TZ Discussion - The Breakthrough That Wasn't
The hosts discuss integrating exercise, the link between excess fructose and uric acid, a million-dollar prize for the Riemann hypothesis, an idea for a website challenging fixed beliefs, confusion about a scientific replication, AI vs AGI, Elon Musk's response to an ETF, and the block vs mute debate on Twitter.


