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Hope in Source

Henry Zhu

58 episodes

4 days ago

What are the parallels between faith and open source software? Join Henry Zhu for an off-the-cuff conversation between friends. Check out hopeinsource.com and nadiaeghbal.com/public-faith for the backstory!

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What are the parallels between faith and open source software? Join Henry Zhu for an off-the-cuff conversation between friends. Check out hopeinsource.com and nadiaeghbal.com/public-faith for the backstory!

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An Ordinary Walk (Laurel Schwulst)

Something NEW to listen for: the birds, dogs, cars, shoe tying, and even a lady asking us to take a picture! Laurel and I take a stroll through Central park on Memorial day: chatting about the idea of a walking podcast, sauntering, voice notes, memory, the romance of distance, physicality, screenshots, printers, embodiment, energy, perception, ultralight, ordinary time. I certainly felt both the messiness and the surprise of being outside!

Please check out the site https://sauntercast.henryzoo.com to follow our walking path!

- (00:00) The Birth of a Walking Podcast

- (03:01) Exploring the Concept of Footnote

- (06:09) The Role of Voice Notes and Memory

- (08:54) Capturing Ambience and Context

- (12:00) The Challenge of Finding Notes

- (15:04) Romanticizing Distance and Connection

- (17:48) Art, Memory, and Public Spaces

- (21:00) Desire Paths and Unplanned Journeys

- (23:58) Screenshots as Time Capsules

- (29:52) Exploring the Energy of Language

- (32:20) The Meaning Behind Screenshots

- (34:04) The Art of Printing Memories

- (36:52) The Journey of Receipt Printers

- (39:00) Layering Meaning in Screenshots

- (40:40) Walking the Internet, A New Perspective

- (47:40) Infrastructure and Awareness

- (51:01) The Energy of Open Source

- (58:50) The Evolution of Podcasting and Seasons

- (59:56) Understanding Open Source Philosophy

- (01:03:00) The Concept of Lightness and Ultralight

- (01:06:02) Art, Design, and Limitations

- (01:08:56) Games as a Medium for Creativity

- (01:12:03) The Importance of Rest and Time

- (01:14:59) Exploring Ordinary Time in Life

- (01:18:00) Creating Meaningful Spaces and Memories

4 months ago

1 hour 40 minutes 7 seconds

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The Façade of Control (Melody Kim)

Does technology give us control or the illusion of it? We explore how societal expectations, the nature of work, and AI challenge what it means to be human, contrasting the allure of self-sufficiency with the call to vulnerability.

6 months ago

46 minutes 13 seconds

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Unpacking Belief (Joseph Choi)

What does it really mean to call yourself anything? Joseph Choi begins to explore his ongoing journey of faith deconstruction, reconstruction, and whatever it is now. But we end up through about the anxieties around labeling one's beliefs, between commitment and optionality, and abundance and scarcity mindsets.

8 months ago

43 minutes 46 seconds

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Sacred Charity (Austin Chen)

How does rationality/ea and faith intersect? Austin Chen joins me to explore the overlaps between Catholic upbringing and EA principles. We discuss his car wash story, tithing/earning to give, the concept of utilons and fuzzies, creating secular liturgies like Taco Tuesday, the tension between being agentic and the savior complex, on rest and waiting, and seeing the uniqueness of each person amidst the systems we create. (Recorded May 2024) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/charity

(00:00) - Jewish Culture and Rationalism
(00:57) - Growing up Tithing
(02:16) - Car washing for missions to earn to give
(03:49) - Ebbs and Flows
(05:32) - How far does a dolllar go
(08:49) - Separate your utilons and fuzzies
(09:55) - Assumptions in value
(11:24) - EA as at it's best a meta-framework?
(13:18) - Friends vs Movements
(15:42) - Continual commitment
(18:56) - Babel and Pentecost
(20:16) - The Mystical Body and Taco Tuesdays
(24:23) - Agentic or Salvific
(26:08) - Humility of Sabbath
(28:22) - Efficiency and Waiting
(29:49) - Hope is trusting in people
(32:06) - Knowledge Progression, Loose Structure

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1 year ago

33 minutes 44 seconds

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Right Feeling (Sonya Mann)

How does faith call us to both right action and right emotion? Sonya Mann joins me again to discuss the layered meanings of biblical parables. Some themes I liked: the paradoxical nature of faith, the generousity of God, the interplay bt obligation and grace, freedom within constraint, the parable of workers in the vineyard and talents, lay utilitarianism, the nature of praise, phenomenology in faith, the metaphor of weddings, viserality and the flesh, specificity, sacred modes, acceptable woo, cheap grace. (Recorded October 2020) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/feeling

(00:00) - Right Feeling (Sonya Mann)
(02:30) - Come to the table: God's generosity
(05:21) - Orthopathos: a change of heart
(08:53) - Freedom and Responsibility within the Body
(12:42) - On obligation: asking something of you
(15:41) - The freedom of the woodcarver
(18:36) - formative moments of intimacy
(22:37) - integrating with tradition, Christian art, Kanye
(25:37) - Archaic on the outside, Alive inside
(27:34) - Fruits: the form of faith
(30:18) - Auras: acceptable woo and phenomelogy
(33:25) - Sacredness as a mode of being
(37:26) - Communities of praise
(40:05) - One can't help but laugh
(41:34) - cheap grace, coming prepared for the wedding
(44:09) - A vibration throughout the whole stack

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1 year ago

47 minutes 23 seconds

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Artificial Physicality (Drew Austin)

Why does everyone care about New York? Drew Austin explores the interplay bt digital/physical env and how tech values shape our lives. We discuss some of his past essays: fashion as public good, airport lounge-ification highlighting, and how digital paradigms reshape our physical spaces. Topics include: fake serendipity, lofi, gm, resilient systems, the commons as customs, postmodernist software, leaving a trace, Twitter as a waiting room. (Recorded October 2021) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/artificial

(00:00) - Artificial Physicality (Drew Austin)
(00:08) - So what's the weather in New York?
(01:58) - Even a pandemic becomes about NYC
(03:18) - We behave the same, online or in a city
(04:39) - Technology, Memory, and Depersonalization
(06:46) - Lofi, CDs, and Artifical Physicality
(13:19) - From Sharing Silence to gm
(15:58) - Worn Out: Fashion and Public Space
(21:39) - Modernist architecture and postmodernist software
(27:41) - Code isn't just code
(29:25) - Infrastructure requires resilience
(31:28) - The commons as customs
(33:43) - Airport Lounge-ification of Cities
(37:03) - McDonalds as the only third place
(39:51) - Reverse engineering bodegas
(41:31) - Fake serendipity vs the city
(44:17) - Can digital environments enable serendipity?
(47:12) - Leaving a trace, a legacy, provenance
(48:17) - Twitter as a waiting room

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1 year ago

50 minutes 27 seconds

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Everyone is "Protestant" Online (L.M. Sacasas)

How do we all act as protestants online? L.M. Sacasas joins Henry (4th time!?) to chat about material/digital culture, how we compensate for natural affordances in new digital interfaces, our inability to account for non-measurable losses, texture vs. frictionlessness, lofi, roguelikes, reality tv, ambient data capture, extracting our private life for gain, how digital space is more of a past rather a place. (Recorded August 2022) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/protestant

[00:00] Introduction
[04:15] The Everyday Texture of Material Culture
[07:11] Translated Affordances of Digital Interfaces
[09:11] The Burden of Note-Taking Systems
[10:36] No Accounting for Loss
[11:48] The Added Texture of Lofi
[14:54] Anchors of the Material World
[16:02] The Frictionless Life
[18:03] The Internal Motivation of Roguelikes
[19:42] The Language of Needs
[21:52] Liturgies and Mediums
[22:47] No Material Trace
[24:41] Compensating for the Losses of the Digital
[27:28] You can't capture me!
[29:11] Reality TV prepped us for the Very Online Life
[31:23] Ambient Capture and Surveillance Culture
[33:41] On the Terms of the Medium
[35:41] Extraction of Private Life into Public Benefit
[38:28] On Loneliness and Making a Living
[41:45] Negotiating The Terms of Technology
[43:45] The Gradience of Relationality in Sidewalk Life
[45:12] Artificially Reconstituting Our Being in a Built Environment
[48:07] A Gaze Turned Pastward

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3 years ago

50 minutes 14 seconds

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Finding Hope Amid Burnout (Alex Kim)

Where can hope be found? Alex Kim joins again to open up questions of responsibility, and our place in relation to times of weariness. He speaks out his experiences growing up and also shepherding a local church body as a youth pastor. We speak amidst the burnout on notions of time, the work of Charles Taylor through Andrew Root, work/play, and living out in hope. Maybe it's what this podcast is attempting to work towards! (Recorded June 2022) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/hope

3 years ago

43 minutes 49 seconds

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Digital Communion (Nick Ripatrazone)

Can our digitally mediated environment be spiritual? Nick Ripatrazone takes us through the lens of the Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan, focusing on his not well-known Catholic faith. McLuhan himself describes his testimony into the Church as, "I came in on my knees. That is the only way in." We discuss the topics around inter-textuality, the complexity of life, on form/function within mediums like poetry, concept/percept, ambiguity and paradox, and McLuhan's famous phrase "the medium is the message". (Recorded April 2022) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/communion

3 years ago

52 minutes 5 seconds

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History is Necromancy (David Cayley)

What is the place of history in our society? Who was Ivan Illich and how might he be a helpful voice, even in his passing? David Cayley shares about his new book, "Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey". It's not really a biography, and as Illich himself would say, "you can't capture me!" We talk about open source, big tech, and enclosure, history which gives you roots, how tradition and change are intertwined, the many myths/idols of society, on good vs. value, aestheticism, and much more. (Recorded in January 2022)

3 years ago

50 minutes 48 seconds

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Reality is Personal (Esther Meek)

What is the nature of reality? Esther Lightcap Meek speaks of reality as interpersonal, saying yes to life, everyday knowing. We discuss hope as a person-ed affair, how life is a sort of scrabbling together of clues, gift economies, covenant epistemology, on commitment, consent, belonging. (Recorded in November 2021) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/reality

3 years ago

43 minutes 41 seconds

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The Dorean Principle (Conley Owens)

Why is Christianity so commercialized? Conley shares about The Dorean Principle, his new book which explains this biblical concept of the Gospel being "freely given". We talk about being a colaborer vs. a customer, reciprocity vs. gift, Bible translation, Christian music, copyright and creative commons, and how it all relates to an open source ethos. (Recorded in October 2021) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/dorean.

3 years ago

29 minutes 2 seconds

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Attending to Silence (L.M. Sacasas)

How can we think about digital communication, let alone silence? Is it possible? L.M. Sacasas is back to chat about a few of his last newsletter posts: the nature of silence, attention not as a resource, on hope vs. expectations, the arms race of escalation, manufactured needs, askesis or discipline, the commons vs. the public, and trustlessness and codes of law. (Recorded in July 2021) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/silence.

4 years ago

58 minutes 33 seconds

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Ivan Illich (L.M. Sacasas)

Why read Ivan Illich today? In this episode, Madhu Suri Prakash and Dana L. Stuchul of Penn State University (and Journal of Illich Studies) interview L.M. Sacasas on his work as being a sort of bridge or interlocutor of Illich's thoughts. They talk about schooling and inequality in COVID, ways of thinking about technology, a life of planning vs. gift, convivial tools, redemption of work, and more. (Recorded in December 2020) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/illich

4 years ago

50 minutes 25 seconds

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Digital Disembodiment (Maggie Appleton)

How does the digital life shape our perceptions of ourselves? Maggie Appleton starts us off on a discussion of school in pandemic times which lead to a discussion of the disembodiment that technology can create, somehow bringing us further towards our thoughts on time and space? (Recorded in November 2020) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/disembodiment

4 years ago

28 minutes 2 seconds

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Software Tetris (Stephen Kell)

How is the state of modern software like losing at Tetris? Stephen Kell joins Henry to chat about Ivan Illich's thought (counter-productivity, radical monopoly, critique of institutions) applied to modern software culture! We talk about the software/hardware arms race, how our default is more is better, tech being all-consuming, the tyranny of updates. (recorded in Dec 2020) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/tetris

4 years ago

42 minutes 14 seconds

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TabFS (Omar Rizwan)

What happens when we open up browser APIs like a filesystem? Omar Rizwan joins Henry to chat about his latest project, TabFS! We discuss possible extensions, tinkering with scripts vs being a whole "project", writing it yourself, few dependencies, determining your 1.0, literate documentation, and maintaining a newly popular open source project! (recorded in January) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/tabfs.

4 years ago

27 minutes 32 seconds

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Essence (Sonya Mann)

How do we think about ourselves and the communities we move into? Sonya Mann and Henry continue a chat about the nature of conversion: about using jargon within a community, individuation, and transformation. Topics include the tools of a worldview, flavors of faith, the good of questions, essence and discovering yourself, hierarchies of reality, interwoven histories. (Recorded in September) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/essence.

4 years ago

44 minutes 45 seconds

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Reconversion (Sonya Mann)

How does one come to faith, let alone come back to it? Sonya Mann graciously shares some raw thoughts on her re-conversion to Christianity. We cover a lot of ground, going through doubt and spiritual malaise, the phenomenology of faith, fractal reality, "happeningness". (Recorded in September) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/reconversion.

4 years ago

34 minutes 36 seconds

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Approaching Advent (Alex Kim)

What is Advent anyway? Alex Kim joins Henry to chat about the season of waiting, memory, our loss and discovery of tradition, teaching ritual as meaningful, a Christian conception of time, and opening ourselves up to hope. Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/advent

4 years ago

35 minutes 47 seconds