My Personal Struggle to be Happy (Coming June 3)
<p>Sometimes the happiness teacher flunks her own class. In a deeply personal new season, Dr Laurie Santos opens up about the things she really, really struggles with. Things like crippling perfectionism, chronic stress and a paralyzing fear of death. </p> <p>With the help of world-class experts, a Hollywood star and a host of normal people who grapple with the same issues, Dr Laurie will face up to her own happiness demons and try to defeat them. </p> <p>Coming June 3, wherever you get your podcasts. </p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>
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Would you board a plane safety-tested by GenAI?
Ben and Ryan are joined by Robin Gupta for a conversation about benchmarking and testing AI systems. They talk through the lack of trust and confidence in AI, the inherent challenges of nondeterministic systems, the role of human verification, and whether we can (or should) expect an AI to be reliable.
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589. Why Has the Opioid Crisis Lasted So Long?
Most epidemics flare up, do their damage, and fade away. This one has been raging for almost 30 years. To find out why, it’s time to ask some uncomfortable questions. (Part one of a two-part series.)
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#194 Abigail Shrier: The Parent-Therapy Trap
<div>Over the last decade, therapy has become the de facto solution to solve all sorts of problems for all sorts of people. Everyone has slowly accepted that therapy is normal and a net benefit to society.</div> <div><br /> But instead of helping kids work through difficult circumstances, what if it's just making the problems worse? That's what Abigail Shrier thinks is happening, and in this conversation, she reveals some surprising reasons why.</div> <div><br /> Shane and Shrier discuss the real reason therapy is "bad," how we got to this point of acceptance as a culture, and what you can do as a parent to get back to normalcy. Shrier also shares her experiences with lifelong therapy patients, who should <em>actually</em> be in therapy, and the one thing that makes someone a successful parent.</div> <p><strong>Watch the episode on YouTube:</strong> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/theknowledgeproject/videos">https://www.youtube.com/c/theknowledgeproject/videos</a></p> <p><strong>Newsletter</strong> - I share timeless insights and ideas you can use at work and home. Join over 600k others every Sunday and subscribe to Brain Food. Try it: <a href="https://fs.blog/newsletter/">https://fs.blog/newsletter/</a></p> <p><strong>My Book! Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results is out now</strong> - <a href="https://fs.blog/clear/">https://fs.blog/clear/</a> </p> <p><strong>Follow me:</strong> <a href="https://beacons.ai/shaneparrish">https://beacons.ai/shaneparrish</a></p> <p><strong>Join our membership:</strong> <a href="https://fs.blog/membership/">https://fs.blog/membership/</a></p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong></p> <p><strong>Shopify:</strong> Making commerce better for everyone. <a href="https://www.shopify.com/shane">https://www.shopify.com/shane</a></p> <p><strong>Protekt:</strong> Simple solutions to support healthy routines. Enter the code "Knowledge" at checkout to receive 30% off your order. <a href="https://protekt.com/knowledge">https://protekt.com/knowledge</a></p> <div>(00:00) Intro</div> <div>(05:44) Inverse: How do we raise mentally unstable kids?</div> <div>(08:29) How we got to now</div> <div>(11:45) Bad therapy...or just social trends?</div> <div>(13:21) Being your kids' friend: good or bad?</div> <div>(15:55) The parenting type that raises the BEST kids<br /> (21:35) Is this all the parents' fault?</div> <div>(29:53) Is "Bad Therapy" a world-wide problem?</div> <div>(32:57) Talk to your kids' therapist about these things</div> <div>(42:09) The importance of facing adversity in childhood</div> <div>(47:06) Can we blame grad schools for all of this?</div> <div>(49:14) On technology and social media</div> <div>(51:03) Schools should "never" have gotten involved in mental health</div> <div>(54:43) Did COVID accelerate "bad therapy?"</div> <div>(56:07) How to return to normalcy</div> <div>(58:21) Why Shane shares negative YouTube comments with his kids</div> <div>(01:01:23) Shrier's experience being "cancelled"</div> <div>(01:04:13) On prestige media</div> <div>(01:07:47) Small steps parents can take to return to normal</div> <div>(01:11:02) Dealing with schools saying one thing and parents saying another</div> <div>(01:13:32) Why is the silent majority...silent?</div> <div>(01:16:32) If this continues, what happens?</div> <div>(01:18:19) What makes someone a successful parent?</div>
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#384 Force push lightly
<strong>Topics covered in this episode:</strong><br /> <ul> <li><a href="https://adamj.eu/tech/2023/10/31/git-force-push-safely/"><strong>Git: Force push safely with</strong></a><a href="https://adamj.eu/tech/2023/10/31/git-force-push-safely/"> </a><a href="https://adamj.eu/tech/2023/10/31/git-force-push-safely/"><strong>--force-with-lease</strong></a><a href="https://adamj.eu/tech/2023/10/31/git-force-push-safely/"> <strong>and</strong></a><a href="https://adamj.eu/tech/2023/10/31/git-force-push-safely/"> </a><a href="https://adamj.eu/tech/2023/10/31/git-force-push-safely/"><strong>--force-if-includes</strong></a></li> <li><strong>Thoughts from PyCon 2024</strong></li> <li><a href="https://github.blog/2022-05-02-friend-zone-strategies-friendly-fork-management/"><strong>Being friendly: Strategies for friendly fork management</strong></a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/gauge-sh/tach"><strong>tach</strong></a></li> <li><strong>Extras</strong></li> <li><strong>Joke</strong></li> </ul><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0eYTu1ab8" style="font-weight: bold;">Watch on YouTube</a><br /> <p><strong>About the show</strong></p> <p>Sponsored by Mailtrap: <a href="https://pythonbytes.fm/mailtrap"><strong>pythonbytes.fm/mailtrap</strong></a></p> <p><strong>Connect with the hosts</strong></p> <ul> <li>Michael: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@mkennedy"><strong>@mkennedy@fosstodon.org</strong></a></li> <li>Brian: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@brianokken"><strong>@brianokken@fosstodon.org</strong></a></li> <li>Show: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@pythonbytes"><strong>@pythonbytes@fosstodon.org</strong></a></li> </ul> <p>Join us on YouTube at <a href="https://pythonbytes.fm/stream/live"><strong>pythonbytes.fm/live</strong></a> to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too.</p> <p>Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to <a href="https://pythonbytes.fm/friends-of-the-show">our friends of the show list</a>, we'll never share it.</p> <p><strong>Brian #1:</strong> <a href="https://adamj.eu/tech/2023/10/31/git-force-push-safely/"><strong>Git: Force push safely with</strong></a><a href="https://adamj.eu/tech/2023/10/31/git-force-push-safely/"> </a><a href="https://adamj.eu/tech/2023/10/31/git-force-push-safely/"><strong>--force-with-lease</strong></a><a href="https://adamj.eu/tech/2023/10/31/git-force-push-safely/"> <strong>and</strong></a><a href="https://adamj.eu/tech/2023/10/31/git-force-push-safely/"> </a><a href="https://adamj.eu/tech/2023/10/31/git-force-push-safely/"><strong>--force-if-includes</strong></a></p> <ul> <li>Adam Johnson</li> <li>Using gentle force </li> <li>Avoid stomping on remote changes with a couple extra flags.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Michael #2:</strong> <strong>Thoughts from PyCon 2024</strong></p> <ul> <li>PyCon is special - the connections you make are always more than you expect</li> <li>Great to see many old friends</li> <li>Did a ”live” Talk Python episode that’ll be out in a few weeks.</li> <li>The talks look great, we’ll let you know when they land on YouTube.</li> <li>Masks were a mistake - universally heard complaints from fellow attendees. This is my two cents towards a more reasonable next PyCon.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Brian #3:</strong> <a href="https://github.blog/2022-05-02-friend-zone-strategies-friendly-fork-management/"><strong>Being friendly: Strategies for friendly fork management</strong></a></p> <ul> <li>That’s part 2. </li> <li>Part 1 is <a href="https://github.blog/2022-04-25-the-friend-zone-friendly-forks-101/">Being friendly: Friendly forks 101</a></li> <li>Lessley Dennington on GitHub Blog</li> <li>Examples of long running friendly forks <ul> <li>git-for-windows/git, microsift/git, github/git</li> <li>two public, one private</li> </ul></li> <li>Fork management strategies - when pulling changes downstream <ul> <li>merging rebase <ul> <li>git-for-windows/git uses this proactively and regularly</li> <li>fake merge + rebase</li> </ul></li> <li>new branch <ul> <li>microsoft/git uses this</li> <li>new branch from upstream major versions</li> <li>merge previous changes to new branch</li> </ul></li> <li>traditional merge <ul> <li>github/git uses this, conservatively, after a few point bug fix versions</li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul> <p><strong>Michael #4:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/gauge-sh/tach"><strong>tach</strong></a></p> <ul> <li>A Python tool to enforce a modular, decoupled package architecture.</li> <li>tach allows you to define boundaries and control dependencies between your Python packages. </li> <li>Each package can define its public interface.</li> <li>If a package tries to import from another package that is not listed as a dependency, tach will report an error. </li> <li>If a package tries to import from another package and does not use its public interface, with strict: true set, tach will report an error.</li> <li>Zero runtime impact.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Extras</strong> </p> <p>Brian:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://pydantic.dev/logfire">Logfire - new observability platform from the pydantic team</a> - free for now</li> </ul> <p>Michael:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://training.talkpython.fm/courses/getting-started-with-spacy">10% off the new spaCy course</a> throughout May</li> </ul> <p><strong>Joke:</strong> <a href="https://marketoonist.com/2023/01/evolution-of-smart-products.html">Evolution of smart products</a></p>
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How to train your dream machine
Ben and Ryan talk with Vikram Chatterji, founder and CEO of Galileo, a company focused on building and evaluating generative AI apps. They discuss the challenges of benchmarking and evaluating GenAI models, the importance of data quality in AI systems, and the trade-offs between using pre-trained models and fine-tuning models with custom data.
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Happiness Through Generosity : Liz Dunn on The TED Interview
<p>Liz Dunn is a regular guest on The Happiness Lab, but in this extended interview with TED's Chris Anderson she take us on a deep dive into her research. It shows that by increasing our generosity and by giving to others we can significantly boost our own happiness. </p> <p>Listen to more episodes of <a href="https://www.ted.com/series/the-ted-interview">The TED Interview</a> wherever you get your podcasts. </p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>
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Extra: Car Colors & Storage Units
Presenting two stories from "The Economics of Everyday Things": Why does it seem like every car is black, white, or gray these days? And: How self-storage took over America.
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Considering Accessibility & Assistive Tech as a Python Developer
What's it like to learn Python as a visually impaired or blind developer? How can you improve the accessibility of your Python web applications and learn current guidelines? This week on the show, Real Python community member Audrey van Breederode discusses her programming journey, web accessibility, and assistive technology.
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OverflowAI and the holy grail of search
Product manager Ash Zade joins the home team to talk about the journey to OverflowAI, a GenAI-powered add-on for Stack Overflow for Teams that’s available now. Ash describes how his team built Enhanced Search, the problems they set out to solve, how they ensured data quality and accuracy, the role of metadata and prompt engineering, and the feedback they’ve gotten from users so far.
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588. Confessions of a Black Conservative
The economist and social critic Glenn Loury has led a remarkably turbulent life, both professionally and personally. In a new memoir, he has chosen to reveal just about everything. Why?
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Funding Open Source - Jeff Triplett
Jeff is a partner at RevSys, a former Director and Vice Chair of the Python Software Foundation, and co-founder/former President of DEFNA. We discuss recent Django third-party packages, djangopackages.org, function-based and class-based views, the current state of Tailwind, and more.
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#383 Why aren’t devs shipping faster?
Topics include I asked 100 devs why they aren’t shipping faster. Here’s what I learned, Python 3.13.0 beta 1 released, A theme editor for JupyterLab, and rich-argparse.
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Spreading the gospel of Python
On this episode: Al Sweigart is a software developer, developer advocate, and author of ten Python books. He tells Ben and Ryan why he’s such a fan of the language, why it’s a great programming language for beginners, and how it became the default for so many data science and backend AI projects.
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Unlock Your Hidden Potential with Adam Grant and Maya Shankar
<p>A chance to hear a recent episode of A Slight Change of Plans in which Maya Shankar asks psychologist Adam Grant about his new book "Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things". They talk about how to filter out unhelpful feedback, the benefits of imperfectionism, and why we need to give soft skills more respect. </p> <p>Listen to more episodes of <a href="https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/a-slight-change-of-plans">A Slight Change of Plans </a> wherever you get your podcasts. </p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>
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Querying OpenStreetMaps via API & Lazy Evaluation in Python
Would you like to get more practice working with APIs in Python? How about exploring the globe using the data from OpenStreetMap? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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Between hyper-focus and burnout: Developing with ADHD
Eira and Ryan talk with Chris Ferdinandi, a front-end developer and ADHD advocate, about his diagnosis experience, the importance of accommodations for neurodivergent folks, and some advice for devs looking for the best tools and tactics for managing ADHD at work.
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587. Should Companies Be Owned by Their Workers?
The employee ownership movement is growing, and one of its biggest champions is also a private equity heavyweight. Is this meaningful change, or just window dressing?
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