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 184 Episodes.
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Episode 211: 90% of Everything Is Crap
December 3rd, 2020 | 53 mins 5 secs
android tv, bears, chat, chromecast, colossus, colossus: the forbin project, covid, covid-19, deepfakes, garbage bins, garbage cans, google home, google home assistant, google meet, google play music, google tv, hoopla, just watch, mmhmm, motorized roller skates, nvidia, park rangers, red hat enterprise linux, rhel, rhel 8, roller skates, rotten tomatoes, salesman, sassy justice, shoulders, skype, south park, spikey, sturgeon's law, vyzer, yellowstone, zoom
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about hacking faces, hacking locks, and hacking video conferencing
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Episode 210: The Opposite of ASMR
November 18th, 2020 | 50 mins 31 secs
blix, burnout, coffee table books, covid, google home, gpt-3, openai, presence awareness, shazam, snakes, spiders, the third day, unnecessary inventions, vika+, visualizations
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the upsides, downsides, and dark sides of GPT-3.
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Episode 208: Impact Mapping an SBAR
October 21st, 2020 | 34 mins 7 secs
1password, bluf, chewing, dental school robots, haircuts, hotp, impact mapping, necksense, pregnancy tests, sbar, teamwork, totp
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about pregnancy tests, eating tests, and teamwork tests
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Episode 207: From a Factory Mustang to a Shelby
October 13th, 2020 | 33 mins 24 secs
ai, dev technology, gsa, machine learning, open source, un e-government survey
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with John Janek about turning an AI loose on software license agreements!
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Episode 206: Let a Thousand Flowers Zoom
September 27th, 2020 | 33 mins 30 secs
cds, clockwise, college, documents, keyword-mashing, math, mirrors, sbar, school, zoom
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Zoombombing, keyword-mashing, and flagrant hypocrisy
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Episode 205: Soylent Vest
September 14th, 2020 | 36 mins 5 secs
bluf, bottom line up front, confessions of a public speaker, covid, digital detox, digital minimalism, email, emergency room, emergency room doctor, er doctor, man bites dog, midsommar, posthuman habitats, television, the hater, vegetable vest, vegetables, vests, video conferencing, wirecutter
This week Dave and Gunnar digital detox for 75 days, wear our own crops, and further up our video call and email games
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Episode 204: My Boss Is Making Me Walk Around in This Bubble
August 24th, 2020 | 40 mins 15 secs
accessibility, agile, agile family, aliexpress, bloons, bookcase coffins, compiler bombs, day one, disney, don't fear the reaper, earplugs, electric cars, face shields, fresh prince, hazmat suits, iceland, irish ballads, kandi, krispy kreme, mack's earplugs, podcasts, pods, ppe, screaming, virtual backgrounds, virtual meetings, widowmaker
This week Dave and Gunnar explore hazmat suit and Zoom background fashion, scream at Iceland, and set off compiler bombs.
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Episode 200: Ask for More
July 20th, 2020 | 32 mins 29 secs
after man, ask for more, hollywood, japan, netogitation, neural networks, photo albums, rhel, stars, supercomputing, zoology
This week Dave and Gunnar Ask for More to improve their negotiation skills
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Episode 199: One Episode Is a Tragedy. 200 Episodes Is a Statistic.
July 7th, 2020 | 34 mins 34 secs
cameo, end-to-end encryption, face masks, hellomasks, lamphone, light bulbs, listening devices, model y, nuclear semiotics, red bot chili peppers, semiotics, tesla, the thing, tool shed, viewer mail, zoom
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about communicating through masks, communicating through lightbulbs, communicating through tiny capacitive membranes connected to small quarter-wavelength antennae, and communicating through nuclear semiotics.
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Episode 198: Iron Skillets and Gummy Bears
June 30th, 2020 | 24 mins 32 secs
ads, bgp, border gateway protocol, cast iron skillets, cryptocurrency mining, deepfacedrawing, devo, energy dome, face shields, hiit, isps, microsoft, pants, penguin classics, safe meeting, smithey ironware
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about face shields thanks to your garbage, cryptocurrency mining thanks to your brain waves, and internet insecurity thanks to your ISP
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Episode 197: Masks Are Like Pants for Your Face
June 9th, 2020 | 40 mins 57 secs
99 percent invisible, brooks brothers, end-to-end encryption, hotels, keybase, larceny, masks, robocop, robocop dog, señor wences, social distancing, sole, the great influenza, thermometers, treadmills, zoom
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about masks with mouths, parks with robots, Zoom with security sold separately, and hotels with larcenists
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Episode 195: Space Marine or Flying Liquor Store?
May 10th, 2020 | 36 mins 42 secs
adomni, ai, air travel, aviointeriors, coronavirus, eliza, janus, jukebox, moomin, replika, uber, vocabulary
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI-generated music, AI-generated romantic interests, and looking ahead to travel and expanding vocabularies in a post-COVID world.
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Episode 194: Digital Minimalism
May 4th, 2020 | 39 mins 20 secs
blinking eye die, digital minimalism, duck death and the tulip, lead yourself first: inspiring leadership through solitude, pure, walden
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Digital Minimalism. That’s it.
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Episode 193: No Rubber Glove High Five for You
April 27th, 2020 | 28 mins 56 secs
avitarify, colornames.org, colors, cryptozoology, etsy, gartner, gartner hype cycle, kingdom, masks, mothman, oragami cthulu, parasite, quarantine, rutherford b. hayes, rutherford b. hayes museum, smash mouth, star trek, star trek tng, train to busan
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about colorful masks, colorful videoconferencing, colorful hype curves, and colorful colors
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Episode 192: The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
April 17th, 2020 | 49 mins 3 secs
allegheny shredders, amazon dating, apple, colors.lol, covid-19, goodrx, google, if you give a mouse a cookie, imisstheoffice, instacart, nonviolent communication, radiolab, robot cooks, sam's club, singapore, the meritocracy trap, word choice
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the pros and cons of virus tracking, health data tracking, robot cooks, and word choice
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Episode 191: On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a potato
April 6th, 2020 | 24 mins
404 pages, affetto, ai gregorian chants, color palettes, donotpay, financial times, gpt-2, mcdonalds, robot lawyer, robot pain, snap camera, standardtoilet, the prayer, toilets
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about robot prayers, robot law, robot pain, and people pain