011: Personalities

February 10, 2015

In This Episode:

This week we take a look at the strange world of personalities. Bryan kicks things off by discussing learning styles and whether or not they really have an impact on us or not. Sean discusses the interesting challenge of designing for apps and platforms that have a personality of their own, and how we design for the personality of our users. Finally, Sam closes things out by considering how we quantify and group personalities through various tests such as the Myers-Briggs, DISC, and the Big Five.

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Show Notes & Links

Intro

WebMD: Weather triggering migraines
Sean’s Blog Post: The Stress is Real
Alcoholics Anonymous

Bryan: Learning Styles (Starts at 1:53)

Overview of Learning Styles
Sean’s STEM Experience
Wikipedia: Learning Styles
Wikipedia: iPAQ
StackExchange: Audiobooks for Programmers
SparkNotes: Base Case and Recursion
All of the Above: Episode 008: Writing, with John Saddington
NYU Article: Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence
PBS: The Santa Squeeze
Institute of Education Sciences: Teacher to Student Ratio Map
The Washington Post: The Flip
Adayana: One of the many companies in the adult learning industry

Sean: Designing for, and with, Personality (Starts at 11:58)

UX Lady: Using Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) for User Personas
Facebook Data Science: What’s on your mind?
Twitter Corporate Blog: What’s Happening?
Know Your Meme: You Are Now Breathing Manually
The Guardian: Facebook Rants & Bikini Pics
CARROT’s Website
iOS App: CARROT To-Do - Talking Task List
iOS App: CARROT Alarm - Talking Alarm Clock
iOS APP: CARROT Fit
The New York Times: Why I Use Snapchat
Slate: Snapchat makes Facebook users feel old
Snapchat Corporate Blog: Discover
The Hollywood Reporter: Comedy Central’s Snapchat Discover Web Series
Ello Corporate Blog: What is Ello?
All of the Above on Ello

Sam: Quantification of Personalities (Starts at 24:09)

Human Scavenger Hunt PDF
Nodes Agency: Tinder, etc.
Wikipedia: DISC Assessment
Wikipedia: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
16Personalities:
- Bryan is an INFJ Princess
- Sam is an ENTJ Horseback General
- Sean is just in the middle of a puzzle, being an INTP
Wikipedia: Big Five Personality Traits
Parks & Recreation: Swanson Pyramid of Greatness
SlideShare: Beliefs, Values, and Attitudes + Behavior
Bloomberg: Big Data, Advertising, and Your Poor Children
Amazon: Kurt Vonnegut’s Hocus Pocus
ScienceDaily: Confirmation Bias
XKCD Forums: Google and Confirmation Bias
Dictionary: Platitude
Daring Fireball: The Plus in Google Plus
DuckDuckGo Web Search
DuckDuckGo: Don’t Track Us
DuckDuckGo: Don’t Bubble Us

Share Your Personality With Us

010: Retrospective

February 3, 2015

In This Episode:

This will be a different kind of episode. Since we cover a lot on this show, and sometimes in a very short span of time, we wanted to take a look back at what we have learned and what new ideas came from those discoveries. It also gives our new listeners a chance to jump right in without feeling they have missed too much.

This is an experiment, so let us know if you like it or not. If it is something that you seem to enjoy then we will start doing these at regular intervals to help keep everyone up to date in case they missed an episode or two. Just let us know.

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Show Notes, Links, and Free Resources

5 Days a Week (Starts at 1:00)

Launching with three episodes is recommended
VIDEO: Jason Snell editing The Incomparable 230
Listen to Episode 001: About All of the Above
Listen to Episode 002: About Sean Doran
Listen to Episode 003: About Sam Bantner
Listen to Episode 004: About Bryan Brush

Episode 005: Podcasts (Starts at 4:15)

Listen to the episode
Podcasts on podcasts on podcasts
QUOTE: “They have one of the biggest and most comprehensive show notes ever.”
Our Survey and accompanying blog post
VIDEO: Walter White goes shopping in a Fugue State

Download the Podcast Survey Results

Excel

Numbers

PDF

CSV

Episode 006: Calendars (Starts at 7:55)

Listen to the episode
PICTURE: The Foambrero
Our Pinterest page
VIDEO: Game of Thrones Quote

Episode 007: Messaging (Starts at 9:50)

Listen to the episode
PODCAST: 3 Guys 3 Questions (3G3Q)
Emojli: The emoji-only network

Episode 008: eBooks, with Connor Mason (Starts at 11:07)

Listen to the episode
TWITTER: Connor Mason is @conmas
EBOOK: Punchkick Interactive’s CarPlay for Automakers
EBOOK: Punchkick Interactive’s iOS 8 in Context
ARTICLE: Publishers take note: Native app development is the ebook’s next frontier
APP: OverDrive

Episode 009: Writing, with John Saddington (Starts at 14:22))

Listen to the episode
Oculus Rift: Virtual Reality
Microsoft HoloLens: Holographic Computing
Tell Me A Story
BOOK: The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

Failed Episode 010: Weather (Starts at 18:37)

Columbus Winter Beerfest

Lessons Learned & Transparency (Starts at 20:28)

Collaborating on documents in iCloud
Google Docs
APP: Producteev
APP: iMessage
APP: Slack
Slack + Giphy
TWITTER: Aaron L. M. Goodwin is @aaronlmgoodwin
VIDEO: Too Many Cooks (NSFW)

Marketing Efforts (Starts at 24:29)

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Here are all the promotional images I created for every day leading up to our launch. The social network images are easily reusable, and handy for marketing efforts in the future. I also made a bit.ly link for each social network that consisted of the bit.ly/aotanetwork format. It helps both users to easily navigate directly to the page if the image is out of context, and it helps us quickly get to a page as it's a consistent URL scheme.

Some of these didn't see the light of day, such as the Egg Nog one. That page simply doesn't exist.

And then there's this one. It was way too inside joke-based, but there isn't even a joke—it's just confusing. Here are all the references:

If you want to see what I did, you can download the actual Sketch file I used to make all these. I didn't cleanup anything, so this is pretty raw, and to give you some context — I did all of these within three hours, starting around midnight. Once I get going, I don't like to stop. If you don't have Sketch, you can download a free trial or buy it from the Mac App Store.

Download .Sketch Source File

Also, if you're interested in seeing the Social Media spreadsheet that has all of the links and purpose of each site, you can download it in the format you'd like.

Download the All of the Above Content Inventory Spreadsheet

Excel

Numbers

PDF

Traction (Starts at 25:37)

APP: Sketch 3 on Mac
VIDEO/PODCAST: Basic Bros
Crazy Projects
TWITTER: All of the Above is @AbovePodcast
APP: Tweetbot — Mac, iPhone, and iPad
APP: 1Password — Mac and iOS
REDDIT: r/alloftheabovepodcast
REDDIT: Hello Internet
REDDIT: We Have Concerns
PODCAST: The Allusionist
PODCAST: The Gently Mad
PODCAST: Upvoted by reddit
Our iTunes Page — Rate us if you like puppies
Our contact form
PODCAST PLACES: Podcast Apps & Directories
All of the Above: on TuneIn Radio
Polynomials?
What is RSS?
TWITTER: Squarespace Episode Downloads

OUTRO

This ended up being show notes mixed with a blog post, and it feels like a great way of doing things.

Two birds, one stone, tons of value.

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009: Writing, with John Saddington

January 27, 2015

In this episode:

Desk: tell me a story — **Desk:** tell me a **story**

We had a great conversation with Indie Mac Developer John Saddington (a hacker, a human, a doer) about writing and his new app Desk PM, which is now available in the Mac App Store. We talk about life, death and doing things that matter.

To start things off, Bryan brings up flash fiction and asks if limitations can actually help creativity. Sam puts on his software engineering hat as he asks whether or not programming should be considered a foreign language. And to close things up, Sean asks the group what the evolution of writing could look like.

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Show Notes & Links:

The websites we talked about and references to everything we said.

Intro: About John Saddington and Desk PM

Bryan Brush: Flash Fiction (Starts at 13:48)

Sam Bantner: Computer Programming as a Foreign Language (Starts at 26:15)

Sean Doran: The Evolution of Writing (Starts at 39:05)

Outro (Starts at 53:12)

008: eBooks, with Connor Mason

January 20, 2015

In This Episode:

This week we are joined by special guest, Connor Mason, as we continue our series inspired by stock iOS apps. This time around we tackle eBooks and discuss what they mean for the future of reading and physical books.

Connor questions how eBooks differentiate themselves from physical books. Bryan has us contemplate whether digital books are effective for learning, while Sean ponders the future of the library in a digital world. Sam wraps things up by discussing the challenges engineers and developers face when translating ink on a page into pixels on a screen. This episode, like War and Peace, is a doozie.

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Show Notes & Links:

Links to what we talked about, and follow-up info we dug up after we recorded.

Intro

Connor Mason on Twitter: @conmas
Punchkick Interactive Inc.
Ohio State football revelers set fires, tear down goal post
Correction: 89 Fires, not 69
VIDEO: Car being set on fire

Connor: The Growth and Evolution of eBooks (Starts at 2:04)

Bryan: eBooks vs. Physical Books (Starts at 16:29)

Sean: The Library’s Role in the Internet Age (Starts at 24:45)

Sam: Should eBooks be enhanced or just the same? (Starts at 33:26)

Outro (Starts at 46:10)

Punchkick Interactive
EBOOK: Punchkick Interactive’s iOS 8 in Context
EBOOK: Punchkick Interactive’s CarPlay for Automakers
Connor Mason on Twitter: @conmas
The Friday Five
The Dewey Decimal System

Join us next week:

We have a real deep conversation about life, death, and writing with John Saddington, the sole creator of the distraction-free writing and blogging app Desk. It was hand-picked by Apple for their Best Apps of 2014.

Download Desk from the Mac App Store.

007: Messaging

January 13, 2015

In This Episode:

Continuing our series inspired by stock iOS apps, we tackle messaging and how our human brains can't handle it. Sean explores the world of sensors and the additional contextual information they provide, while Sam is obsessed with emoji. We get deep with Bryan and how we are constantly connected. We don't mean to make you depressed, but it might happen. Oh, and Pokémon.

If you haven't already, subscribe and rate us on iTunes so you can enjoy us every week, and so other people can find us as well!

Show Notes & Links:

Follow All of the Above Podcast's board Episode 007: Messaging on Pinterest.

Intro

Sean: Messaging with Context (Starts at 2:05)

Sam: Emoji and Unicode (Starts at 10:20)

Bryan: Constantly Connected (Starts at 28:01)

Join Us Next Week:

We will have our first guest on the show, Connor Mason!

He’s a copywriter at Punchkick Interactive in Chicago, and he’s actually written two eBooks within the past year (iOS 8 in Context and CarPlay for AutoMakers), so we couldn’t think of a better person to help us tackle our next topic: eBooks.

006: Calendars

January 6, 2015

In This Episode

Time. Is it a real thing, or just a way to keep our sanity? Listen in to find out as we talk about wearing foambreros as we present "the bird" to the syllabus, comparing new and old age time tracking methods, all while going through a bit of time dilation. Sean may even squeal like a pig.

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Show Notes

Follow All of the Above Podcast's board Episode 006: Calendars on Pinterest.

Intro

The Foam-brero post
Sam’s foam
Sam’s completed foam-brero
Bryan’s white room
Bryan’s cat picture
Jony Ive’s white room
VIDEO: Raptors are taking over the world June 12, 2015

Note: Betsy and Bryan are a thing

Bryan: How we shouldn’t schedule classes (Starts at 5:38)

Sean: Calendars as memory collectors (Starts at 17:50)

Dog Shaming 2015
Day One Journal
Timehop: A time capsule of you
Wikihow (because of course): How to Forget Your Ex-Girlfriend
Avoiding Old Flames on Facebook
VIDEO: Throat Strike
What happened on June 15, 1992?
VIDEO: The BEST thing that happened on June 15, 1992
Technology to Safely Live in the Moment
How to Retain Information
Prosthetic Knowledge: Information that a person does not know, but can access as needed using technology
Technocracy: the rule of the people made effective through the agency of their servants, the scientists and engineers
Tsars!
How different cultures understand time
Hopi time controversy

Sam: Time dilation and general relativity (Starts at 29:30)

Keep dodging the IRS until you die.