004 - What Is the Fifty-Fifty?
No Dumb Questions
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🗓️ 1 March 2017
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Matt and Destin introduce the world to "The Fifty-Fifty" and respond to the first wave of listener feedback... which makes for a great opportunity to unpack the nature of feedback in general; giving it, receiving it, and the dangers associated with over-responding to as well as under-delivering on feedback given to us by loved ones.
Intro: Matt pitching a tent
Ad 1 - What is The Fifty-Fifty?
Section 1 - Listening to the Feedback
Very clear thesis statement as requested: "Should we listen to the feedback?"
Analyzing the feedback we received about the podcast itself
An engineering look at feedback and its uses in control theory (Example: Tracking a rocket).
Discussions about Matt's feedback from teaching at a university.
Boardgames used as teaching aids
- - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogun_(1986_board_game)
- - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_%26_Allies
- - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest_of_the_Empire
Battlefield simulations without immediate feedback
Canoeing vs Pilot Induced Oscillations
Ad 2 - Consequences of losing the Fifty-Fifty
Section 2 - The Veldt
The Veldt - Ray Bradbury http://www.veddma.com/veddma/Veldt.htm
deadmau5 feat. Chris James - The Veldt (Music Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_esYONwdKuw
deadmau5 discovers vocals for "The Veldt" (Crude Language Warning) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgeWHnSmPKE
Original vocal track by Chris James: https://soundcloud.com/chrisjamesofficial/deadmau5-theveldt-vocal-mix
Providing negative feedback after extended positive feedback.
Using technology to calm children
Casting your pearls before swine: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A6&version=ESV
Ad 3 - The Fifty-Fifty triple-down
"Blood oath covenant with yourself and with the very notion of integrity".
Or you could always skip the risk of ruining your life by just going straight to Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/nodumbquestions
Section 3 - Listener Questions Lightning Round
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| 0:00.0 | Where are you at? |
| 0:01.0 | I'm at a high at in Tempe, Arizona. |
| 0:05.2 | Tempe? |
| 0:06.2 | Okay. |
| 0:07.2 | So I sent my family away and it's a little sweet so the kids have a pullout couch. |
| 0:13.6 | So I'm on the pullout couch but it was echoey in the room so I took blankets and I put them |
| 0:19.0 | up on the other side of the room. |
| 0:20.0 | Please say you have a tent. |
| 0:21.0 | I do. |
| 0:22.0 | I've got my daughter. |
| 0:23.0 | I've got my baby. |
| 0:24.0 | I've got my baby. |
| 0:25.0 | I've got my baby. |
| 0:26.0 | I've got my baby. |
| 0:27.0 | I've got my baby. |
| 0:28.0 | I've got my baby. |
| 0:29.1 | I've got my daughter's fuzzy kitten blanket set up in front here because that seems to |
| 0:34.0 | eat up some sound and I've got one, two, three, four, five wires coming out of me in order |
| 0:43.5 | to make this mobile setup work. |
| 0:45.3 | I should have just brought the big mic and gutted it out. |
| 0:48.6 | That's good. |
| 0:49.6 | I had this stupid set up last time this time it's you. |
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