Gunnar Hellekson
Co-Host of Dave & Gunnar Show
Gunnar Hellekson is the Director of Product Management for Red Hat’s Linux, Virtualization, and Atomic container product lines. Before that, he was Chief Strategist for Red Hat’s US Public Sector group. He is a founder of Open Source for America, one of Federal Computer Week’s Fed 100 for 2010, and was voted one of the FedScoop 50 for industry leadership. He was a founder of the Military Open Source working group, a member of the SIIA Software Division Board, the Board of Directors for the Public Sector Innovation Group, the Open Technology Fund Advisory Council, New America’s California Civic Innovation Project Advisory Council, and the CivicCommons Board of Advisors. He perks up when people talk about commoditization and the industrial mobilization of World War II.
Gunnar Hellekson has hosted 175 Episodes.
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Episode 180: Everything's Better with Googly Eyes
June 18th, 2019 | 34 mins 19 secs
barton springs pool, blood, dna, dui, dwi, fraud, googly eyes, rude boy, teschner's
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about blood, sweat, tears, DNA, and googly eyes
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Episode 178: Culture of Sincerity
June 4th, 2019 | 30 mins 14 secs
chernobyl, d&d, deadwood, facebook, karaoke, neighbors, online dating, ring, secret crush, social credit, social credit system, turing test
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fear of deadbeats, fear of karaoke, fear of secret crushes, and fear of doorbells
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Episode 177: The Big Clapper
April 30th, 2019 | 32 mins 24 secs
bigclapper, game of thrones, guts game, party questions, robots
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about robots that want to clap, robots that want to live, and robots that want to deliver coffee
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Episode 176: The Argument Dilution Effect
April 16th, 2019 | 41 mins 36 secs
ai-generated people, android, argument dilution effect, google, hipster effect, human blinders, interpretive dance, jabbrrbox, reading, the weeds podcast, todoist, vendor abandonment
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the risks of improperly testing malware, the risks of reading the wrong things, the risks of using Google services that haven’t been killed yet, and the risks of downplaying risk
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Episode 175: Happy Quit
February 26th, 2019 | 35 mins 34 secs
ad experience optimization, adam sandler, amazon, gmail priority inbox, happy quit, inbox infinity, inbox zero, propaganda, umbrella academy
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about old school propaganda optimization, new school propaganda optimization, new school ad experience optimization, and new school, new school email optimization
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Episode 174: Success Is a Powerful Excuse
February 12th, 2019 | 25 mins 46 secs
ai, amazon, animal bands, cleveland, fibonacci, lyft, monopsony, pufferfish, spanish, walmart
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Walmart, Amazon, Spanish phrases we should be using, and AI-generated phrases we should be using?
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Episode 172: My Favorite Things, Part 3
January 8th, 2019 | 39 mins 25 secs
1password, chromebook, dark sky, duolingo, firefox, google fit, google voice, just press record, lastpass, mi band, runkeeper, runtastic, sleep cycle, ublock origin, video speed controller
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about our favorite (technology) things that make us happy and productive! (Part 3)
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Episode 171: My Favorite Things, Part 2
December 18th, 2018 | 22 mins 1 sec
boomerang for gmail, eisenhower decision matrix, gmail priority inbox, google calendar, google inbox, grammarly, headspace, todoist
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about our favorite (technology) things that make us happy and productive! (Part 2)
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Episode 170: My Favorite Things, Part 1
December 11th, 2018 | 23 mins 24 secs
beyondpod, blogtrottr, day one, feedly, google home, ifttt, kornshell, libby, nest doorbell, overdrive, pocketcasts, remember the milk, the economist, todoist
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about our favorite (technology) things that make us happy and productive! (Part 1)
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Episode 169: Pushing the Envelope
November 19th, 2018 | 39 mins 12 secs
american airlines, china, fips, forbes, lawfare, malware, rhel, rhel 8, ups
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Chinese industry helping the Chinese government, the Chinese helping US state governments, some dude helping himself to UPS’s mail, and some other dude being no help to American Airlines
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Episode 168: #TrashCasket
October 31st, 2018 | 34 mins 54 secs
amazon, aws, bezos, browns, needles, rhel 7.6, signal, trashcasket, uber, whatsapp, worms
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Needles in stomachs, worms in faces, drunks in Ubers, and meetings in Amazon
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Episode 166: Manifesto at 30,000 Feet
September 20th, 2018 | 50 mins 31 secs
arnold bennett, cal newport, deep work, eudaimonia, eudaimonia machines, herbert a. simon, how to live on 24 hours a day, open office plans, the shape of automation
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about what works and doesn’t work when trying to do Deep Work
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Episode 165: If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it
August 23rd, 2018 | 42 mins 56 secs
billboards, broken windows theory, china, defragmentation, e-zpass, facial recognition, google my activity, ios, jaywalking, johnny got his gun, metallica, pig brains, sea slugs, social credit score, twitch
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about China. That’s all. Just China.
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Episode 164: The Fine Line Between Firefighters and Arsonists
August 14th, 2018 | 48 mins 12 secs
day one, google home, remember the milk, todoist
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Bob St. Clair about managing his time, managing his people’s time, and managing his managers who manage their people’s time
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Episode 163: Gaia Hypothesis, But for Email
July 19th, 2018 | 38 mins 31 secs
alexa, alexa for hospitality, d&i, diversity, email hygiene, facebook, giraffes, hippos, ibm, marriott, safaris, stow, surveillance, tracksmith, watson
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: discrimination paranoia, microphone paranoia, more microphone paranoia, and rhetorical paranoia. Finally: vacation message protocol.
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Episode 162: Salad Cream
June 20th, 2018 | 38 mins 31 secs
ai, bob ross, comma.ai, facebook, gdpr, golden gate taproom, home delivery, hpc, insomnia, metallica, mit, phone booths, psychopaths, rhel, salad cream, smart locks, tesla, thunder in the valley, usb fans
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about making things worse with technology: Metallica, AI, locks, and Salad Cream.