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This American Life 01 #423  The Invention Of Money

In episode 7 Carl rambles about the death of Lemmy and shares a new song idea. Special guest Bhrigu Sahni plays his finger-style guitar with clean, beautiful vocals on his song "Time to Fall." Sisterwives returns to the podcast with his song "Multiverse." Monsterfuniture wraps up the live music/interview portion.  Carl ends the podcast by reading a portion of a Robert Service poem. 

Episode #7- w/Bhrigu Sahni, Sisterwives, & Monster Funiture

Technology has brought about and will surely continue to reduce transaction costs when it comes to education and employment. Taylor Pearson, author of a bestselling book The End of Jobs, joins me to talk about risky and antifragile when it comes to jobs and occupation.

His work experience, why he thinks that accounting is the riskiest and entrepreneurship safest job, as well as how to think about yourself as a firm are some of the topics that we covered.

Beyond entrepreneurship, we discussed the ongoing democratization of tools of production and creation of new markets. 

Visit his website http://taylorpearson.me

59 - Taylor Pearson on The End of Jobs

Get the full transcript for this episode at https://learnetto.com/blog

In episode 3 of the Learnetto podcast, Hrishi interviewed Laurence Bradford of Learn to Code With Me. Laurence is a self-taught developer, who has been teaching herself how to code for 3 years. Having experienced the difficulties of the learning process first-hand, Laurence understands the most effective ways to obtain tech skills. Her website Learn to Code With Me, now receiving 50,000 unique visitors a month, aims to help those in the same position she was a little while ago. She also runs a popular Facebook group, offers career advice and has written a book. 


003 - How to learn to code with Laurence Bradford

Full transcript - https://learnetto.com/blog/the-learnetto-podcast-episode-004-how-to-learn-new-skills-as-a-software-developer-with-cindy-potvin

Our guest on the fourth episode of the Learnetto podcast is Cindy Potvin, a Montreal-based software developer. Cindy started blogging about her experience of Android and web application development in October 2013 at http://blog.cindypotvin.com. Since then, her blog grew to include series "Learning as a Software Developer" and "Play and Learn as a Software Developer." Titles of the series summarise Cindy's goals well - she wants readers of her blog to enjoy their learning journey to becoming better developers. 


004 - How to learn new skills as a software developer with Cindy Potvin

Full transcript - https://learnetto.com/blog/the-learnetto-podcast-episode-005-how-to-learn-to-design-apps-with-marko-vuletic

Marko Vuletič is a Slovenian web & mobile UI/UX design professional. His work is centred around creating apps and websites which are visually pleasing, but, most importantly, functional and user-friendly. An app he redesigned, Moments, has been featured by the US App Store as the best new app. Marko also writes a popular blog and newsletter about designing apps in Sketch at http://SketchTricks.com. He agreed to speak to Learnetto about it, as well as about what it means to be a UI/UX designer and how to learn design.   


005 - How to learn to design apps with Marko Vuletič

Full transcript - https://learnetto.com/blog/the-learnetto-podcast-episode-007-how-to-become-an-entrepreneur-in-the-age-of-the-end-of-jobs-with-taylor-pearson

The latest guest on the Learnetto Podcast is Taylor Pearson, entrepreneur, coach, and author of the bestselling book The End of Jobs, about a new landscape of the job market. Hrishi invited Taylor to discuss his background and the thesis of his book that in today's world it’s safer to start your own business than to work for someone else.


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007 How to become an entrepreneur with Taylor Pearson

Full transcript - https://learnetto.com/blog/his-first-job-was-writing-code-for-a-nuclear-power-plant-now-swizec-teaches-d3js-and-reactjs

Swizec Teller is our guest on the newest episode of the Learnetto podcast. Swizec is a very talented software engineer and author, originally from Slovenia, now based in San Francisco. A self-proclaimed writing addict, Swizec has published several books, including Data Visualization with d3.js and Why programmers work at night, with tips on work-life balance, productivity, and programming flow. In this interview, he discussed his beginnings as a tech whizzkid, writing about code, coding live, supporting indie tech writers, and using videos as the next hot thing in teaching programming. There was also an unexpected guest on the show!

008 How to choose the right resources to learn with Swizec Teller

Full transcripts here - https://learnetto.com/blog

On the Learnetto podcast, we talk to interesting people teaching and learning useful tech skills online. You'll hear from designers, programmers, marketers and other professionals about the ups and downs of learning and teaching.

Learnetto (https://learnetto.com) is an online learning marketplace, where you can get free and premium courses on tech skills like making websites, apps, design, marketing and sales.

007 How to become an entrepreneur with Taylor Pearson

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