Entrepreneurship, Jobs, Big Data, and Investigative Journalism — What Do They Mean to You?
Listen to the Hacker Noon podcast to find out.
Yes. There was a time when you could be a Doctor, a Lawyer, or a Teacher and not care about technological advancements. This century, is not that time.
Today, technology pervades all aspects of our lives. From kids less than 2 years old to grandparents over 90, everybody has developed at least some semblance of familiarity with tech, and with good reason.
This created a plethora of new jobs, jobs that you have trouble explaining to your family and friends, due to the niche peculiarities involved. What exactly is an AI-assisted Healthcare Technician?
Entrepreneurship found its place under the Sun, in Silicon Valley to be precise. It gave more wings to technologists than Red Bull. So much so that technopreneur is largely accepted as a word in common parlance.
In this edition of the Hacker Noon newsletter, we bring to you a curated list of the Hacker Noon podcasts featuring movers & shakers of the tech industry.
Each of these podcast interviews contain insights to the market potential, as seen by the leaders of this space, the hottest skills to have when hunting for a job, the evergreen question of work-life balance, and much more.
These podcasts are available for a free listen on Youtube, iTunes, Google Play & Facebook. They can also be downloaded to view at a later time.
E47 — Building Technology that Augments Human Abilities with Amber Case (1:10:19) talks about technological innovation that enhances the abilities of humans in a positive manner. The podcast delves deep into the finer points of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and the distinction between the two. Amber Case, a cyborg anthropologist, has over 28,000 followers on twitter where she tweets about the impact of technology on our lives.
E48 — How You Can Achieve Startup Success with Cheryl Contee (51:34) talks about the essential stages of successful company building and how to combine the career of entrepreneur with motherhood. Cheryl is the CEO at Do Big Things and the author of Mechanical Bull. Her one big advice: Keep knocking on doors until you find the investors who get you.
E43 — A Look at the Current and Future Cryptocurrency Landscape with Writer Noam Levenson (43:56) discusses the happenings, impact, and developments in the cryptocurrency space. Noam writes about economic theories, decentralized technologies, and about their intersection. Noam bats for decentralization because the scope for monopolization is minimum when economies are decentralized.
E45 — The Data Behind the Stories with Jonathan Stray: Computational Journalism (51:23) tells us about big data and investigative journalism. In Jonathan’s words, “One direction might be using data science for investigative journalism. And the other direction might be, for example, looking into how machine learning is being used to decide who has to stay in jail before their trial.”
