Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href="https://www.ind.ie/">Aral Balkan</a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/aral">@aral</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="podcast-episode"> <div class="subtitle">Aral Balkan talks with Dave Rael about the motivation, "Spyware 2.0", altruism, selfishness, and building a better world for a better experience</div> <div class="podcast-summary"> <p>Aral Balkan is the founder and lead designer of Ind.ie, a social enterprise creating independent alternatives to Spyware 2.0.</p> </div> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave introduces the show and Aral Balkan</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The Web and Centralization</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Spyware 2.0</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Altruism, privacy, and selfishness</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Aral's definition of value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that "light Aral up"</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The character of our technology - design research, demonization of "the other", and ethical design</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Aral's story of failure, fear of failure, the difficulty of estimation when you haven't done it before</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Quotable quote - "Design is merely assumption."</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Aral's greatest success story, combining the ethos of free software with the ethos of experience design</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Aral's criterion for success</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The value of tinkering and experimenting</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Aral stays current with what he needs to know</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Aral's book recommendations</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that have Aral most excited about his present and future</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Disruption is not always constructive</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The greatest sources of pain in Aral's life and work</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Aral's top 1 tip for delivering more value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Keeping up with Aral</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Farewell</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <h6>Resources:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.ind.ie/" target="_blank">Ind.ie</a></li> <li><a href="https://ar.al/" target="_blank">Aral's Blog Site</a></li> <li><a href="https://ar.al/notes/spyware-2.0/" target="_blank">Spyware 2.0</a></li> </ul> <div class="podcast-book-recommendation"> <h6>Aral's book recommendation:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393244814/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World - Bruce Schneier</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1491534656/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty</a></li> </ul> </div> <h6>Aral's top tip for delivering more value:</h6> <p>1. Build the world you want to live in.</p> <p></p> <p></p> </div> </div>
