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Lo fi hip hop and the meaning of muse

A bit of a break in the regularly scheduled programming and The lo-fi hip-hop community that emerged on YouTube. Eugene brings up the question of what it means to be an artist’s muse.

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Should we use physical psychological testing to optimize us for jobs and why society needs to care about helicopter parenting

A special guest in Scott Masek. With Charis traveling in San Francisco, Scott brings an opinionated point-of-view over a podcast that is packed with insights about Apple as an insurance company, the idea of performance testing for job optimization and How helicopter parenting is affecting the future of society.

Diversity, Music

Ms Banks x Fotan Laiki

Rappers Ms Banks and Fotan Laiki connect to talk craft, expectations and their cities’ evolving rap scenes.

Is there a benefit to copycat technology and assessing the NY Times op ed section

What it means for tech companies and consumers when innovative products get ripped off. We also look at the idea of conflicting opinions in the NY Times’ Op-Ed section and what it means for critical analysis.

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What comes after Facebook and Virgil Abloh at Louis Vuitton

The aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica Facebook news and what this means for the future of Facebook and A dissection of the responses to Louis Vuitton appointing Virgil Abloh as its new artistic director of menswear.

The power of reality television and why people dont ask for help

The UN-backed reality tv show held in Somalia with the goal of changing the population’s perceptions of what’s normal and Why people in working environments don’t ask for help and what creates bad work culture.

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Food is your flag and YouTube stardom doesn’t mean riches

The ideas that author and culinary historian Michael Twitty puts forward in a video interview he did with Eater and How success on YouTube is hard to achieve and how even relative success doesn’t bring in lots of money.

Business, Travel

Curated Kyoto with Sara Aiko

Bringing the cultural richness of the former capital to the rest of the world.

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Authenticity in entertainment published by celebrities and tech logos all resembling each other

Drake’s new music video for his song God’s Plan, the premise of Derek Jeter’s media enterprise The Player’s Tribune which puts the narrative in the hands of the athletes, and why so many tech company logos are starting to resemble each other.

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The shifting nature of Asian American identity and the tyranny of convenience

The shifting nature of Asian-American identity and the history of that identity. She ties it to perceptions of Chloe Kim, the 17-year-old Korean-American snowboarder who took a gold medal at the Winter Olympics and An Asian-American zine from the 1960’s. Eugene brings up an op-ed by Tim Wu, professor at Columbia University and contributing opinion writer to The New York Times, called The Tyranny of Convenience.