Not Daily Podcast
By Not Daily Podcast
We use our approximate knowledge of many things to craft unanswerable questions. We mix cognitive science and philosophy with pop culture, tech and science to start with raw perspectives. Refining them through steamed up yet rational conversation we generally stumble upon odd answers. Hosted pseudo monthly by two humans.
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Conversations: optimal communication and midnight gospel
Who won the debate? Vlad's support for voice chat, or Yoann's insistence for asynchronous IM? You'll find out here! But before, we go over things we took out from the previous episode as well as listeners’ comments. We discuss how tools allow a media… -
Why this call should (not) have been an email?
Today, we take the infamous thought that a lot of employees have had: “This meeting could have been an email!” and turn it into a debate! Let the duel between oral and written communication begin and crown the One True Communication Form! We examine … -
Conversations: Calendars and Eco
We continue our conversation with you about what the ideal schedule should be. We mentioned how important it was to break monotony, so how about adding randomness and making every week different? They could all be special! Or maybe the answer is to b… -
What is the best week?
We prepare for the revolution and try to imagine what an ideal week reimagined from scratch would be like. We try to look rationally at periodicity and divisions of time and their history, but that only brings us so far. We agree that what really mat… -
Conversations: Japanese psychology and nightmares
We look back on last episode's dive into the field of Japanese psychoanalysis, and discuss what we missed. In particular, we tackle the concepts of Lacanian's Lalangue, the Big Other, and dreams! We also discuss the castration tale of Sada, and Luke … -
Can Japanese psychoanalysis cure us all?
We've been preparing this episode for quite a while and this time we have sources! We confront our knowledge of Japanese language and lacanian psychoanalysis to try and understand the Japanese psyche! We start off by Lacan's famous statements abou… -
Conversations: How I cheated at twitter.
Welcome back to the conversation! This time, we didn't have many listeners' messages, but we know why that is! We come back to our adventure on twitter hacking, by first wondering about the position of twitter in the ever changing landscape of techn… -
How to use data science and hack twitter for maximal engagement?
In this episode, we open the doors to the behind the scenes of podcast production. We disclose without taboo or secret everything about how we measure our number of listeners and how trustworthy those tools are. But …we also talk money! We decided to… -
Conversations: Synesthesia and brain plasticity
In this informal episode, we continue talking with our good friend Geraldine who shares her experience of synesthesia, telling us what it is like to see letters as colors! Then we talk a bit about brain plasticity and memory encoding, trying to take… -
How to unlock new abilities in your brain?
There’s a lot of different ways for imagination to work. Some people can imagine clear pictures, while some others can’t. Vlad recently switched from one group to the other. To understand what happened, we dive into an investigation where we’re joine…
