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What Motivates People?: Paul, Rich and Gina on Leadership Mar 03, 2020

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There’s no secret knowledge: This week on Track Changes, Paul and Rich are joined by Postlight managing partner Gina Trapani to do a follow up on our previous episode about intranets. Gina explains why she was annoyed that we didn't know we had an intranet. From there we discuss why management and employees often need different tools and talk about what makes a good leader. Protip: a good leader is someone who knows how to limit stress, not spread it.

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Gina Trapani

The Private Network: Paul and Rich on Intranets

Emotional Baggage - The Verge

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Politics For Your Eyes: A Conversation with Yello’s Hunter Schwarz Feb 25, 2020

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Campaign Design: On this week’s episode of Track Changes Paul and Rich chat with political reporter Hunter Schwarz about political design trends. He breaks down the forms of visual design he’s seeing in political campaigns today and gives us an overview of the evolution of political design. He also tells us about how the Obama campaign in 2008 changed political visual branding and about the rise of grassroots political design.

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Hunter Schwarz - Twitter

Why Tom Steyer Wears a Tartan Tie

The rise of the single-letter political logo - Washington Post

Pete Buttigieg

Shepard Fairey Obama “Hope” Poster

Bloomberg spent millions of dollars on 2020 campaign ads - CNN

Facebook Ad library

Google Transparency Report

Beto O'Rourke Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Twitter

Stacey Abrams Twitter

Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren Merchandise

The Strokes Bring the Bernie Sanders Revolution to New Hampshire - Rolling Stone

25-foot inflatable balloon of Warrens dog Bailey makes campaign appearance - The Hill

Robyn Grace Kanner

Amy Klobuchar

Bernie Sanders

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The Anti-RFP: Paul and Rich on the RFP Process Feb 18, 2020

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People want to be heard: This week on Track Changes, Paul and Rich bring on their design team to talk about The Design Elephants -- Poslight’s quarterly event dedicated to tackling difficult issues within design. From there we go onto discuss one of the main ways agencies find their clients, the RFP. Paul and Rich share their thoughts on the process as a whole and how they prefer a more genuine and empathetic approach to sales.

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Eventbrite - The Design Elephants

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Manage Your Tasks: An Interview with Doist Founder Amir Salihefendic Feb 11, 2020

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Keep it simple: There are a million different to-do apps, what makes one stand out? This week on Track Changes Paul and Rich chat with Doist founder Amir Salihefendic. He tells us about how he grew Todoist from a side project he would work on in his dorm room to an app that now reaches 20 million people. He also tells us about his struggle with venture capitalists and about the importance of persistence and simplicity.

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Hello, World! - Wikipedia

Todoist

Amir Salihefendic - Twitter

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Constructive Productivity: 5 Tools To Help You Work Better Feb 04, 2020

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Action Items: On this week’s episode of Track Changes Paul and Rich sit down and share their top 5 tools that keep them productive. We chat about our favorite to-do apps, calorie counting apps and about apps that will make your meetings more productive. From simple tools to complex tools, we share our secrets for staying sane and productive at work.

Bloomberg - What is Code? by Paul Ford

Tinysheet by Postlight

Python 4

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Meta Computers and Passive Billing: Paul and Rich on various things Jan 28, 2020

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Control your data: This week on Track Changes Paul and Rich sit down to chat about storage and subscriptions. We talk about Paul’s new network attached storage setup and why we consider it to be the third wave of computing. We also talk about ongoing and annoying online software subscriptions and Rich gives us some good tips on how to remember to cancel those subscriptions before your free months run out.

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Basecamp

SeaGate Ironwolf Pro

QNap Thunderbolt 4 drive Nas

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The Private Network: Paul and Rich on Intranets Jan 21, 2020

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Tools to manage your tools: This week on Track Changes Paul and Rich discuss the best way to keep track of company communications and tools. Our verdict, an Intranet. We lay out what an Intranet actually is, what it should and could look like and why it’s so important in an age of using too many apps at once. We also make a pact to build a functional intranet in the next six months. Wish us luck!

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The 2020 Sh*tshow: Paul and Rich on what needs to change in the coming year Jan 14, 2020

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Still in reactive mode: On this week’s episode of Track Changes we continue off from last week to talk about broad trends in information technology in 2020. This week we dig into the more unsettling trends, like foreign interference in elections, a need for better and more proactive laws that govern internet use and cloud service confusion. We also chat about the return of bundled content creation and break down an unprecedented year in information technology.

Ivanka Trump’s Appearance at CES Tech Show Draws Criticism - Time

CES 2020

The Libertarian Logic of Peter Thiel - Wired

Google Cloud

HP Cloud - Wikipedia

Tata Communications - Cloud Solutions

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Top Trends of 2020 Jan 07, 2020

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The year to come: On this week’s episode of Track Changes, Paul and Rich sit down to discuss some of the top trends to look for in 2020. From codeless platforms to Product Led Growth we chat about some of the biggest trends in tech right now. We share our thoughts on new products and discuss whether some of these trends should actually be trends. We also talk about the craziness that could be 2020.

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User Friendly: A History Dec 17, 2019

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Friction is introspection: How did the iPhone come to feel like an intuitive thing to use? This week on Track Changes Paul and Rich sit down with UX designer Cliff Kuang and co-founder of Dalberg Design Robert Fabricant to talk about their new book User Friendly: How the hidden rules of design are changing the way we live, work and play. We discuss the history of the concept and how it’s become something that we demand yet often take for granted. We also chat about the greater paradigm shift that led to the popularity of user experience design and about why we should maybe start to question the view that ease equals progress.

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User Friendly - Penguin Books

Dalberg Design

Frog Design

Paul Rand - Wikipedia

Carbon Design System

Plex - Google Fonts

Three Mile Island

Raymond Loewy - Wikipedia

Ideo

Marvin Minski - Wikipedia

Doug Englebart - Wikipedia