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 190: Calendar bankruptcy, or when was the last time you got good news in a telegram?
March 31st, 2020 | 38 mins 32 secs
airplane window, biometrics, blood pressure, calendar, coronavirus, covid-19, dancing, dancing biometrics, email, gps, stained glass, voight-kampff, zuckerbot
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about location identification, dance identification, and blood pressure identification
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Episode 189: Marlie Moxinspike
February 27th, 2020 | 39 mins 52 secs
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about doomsday bunker timeshares, cops, robbers, and moldy bread
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Episode 188: Lemonade Stand for Plagues
February 6th, 2020 | 30 mins 50 secs
airpod carrying straps, beria, bulletproof hoodies, buskill, civilization and capitalization, corona beer, coronavirus, haiku, lacroix, lemonade stand, meetings, openstreetmap, pet masks, pharmasim, plague inc., pocket, pro-time, proactive time, udev, venture capitalists, welsh
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Wearables. Literally.
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Episode 187: Empathy at Scale
December 10th, 2019 | 43 mins 46 secs
ai, cangaroo, cognizant, content moderation, electric scooters, face scanning, facebook, fantastic mr. fox, great courses, h.p. lovecraft, helmet, job interviews, pogo sticks, repo men, the spy
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Facebook content moderator jobs, scooter repo man jobs, AI job interviews, and a pogo stick franchise opportunity?
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Episode 186: The Gig Economy of Dead Drops
November 21st, 2019 | 27 mins 26 secs
ai, ai faces, air travel, armrests, beastie boys, dadbag, east cleveland, folding laundry, gig economy, middle seat, mugshots, neighbor, rhel, rhel 8, sabotage, self-storage, sketching, skin-on interface, warshipping
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about reinventing the human-computer interface, reinventing self-storage, reinventing wardriving, and reinventing the middle seat.
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Episode 185: In Your Brain, Nobody Can Hear You Scream
November 14th, 2019 | 35 mins 42 secs
airplane mode, brainex, china, concepts, gun-shaped cell phone cases, human-monkey chimeras, makeup, pig brains, robot blood, robot fish, the great courses, this war of mine
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about reviving pig brains from the dead, making human-monkey chimeras, and whether we should be doing either
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Episode 183: Failure Is an Option
September 20th, 2019 | 25 mins 56 secs
amazon, antivirus, apollo, bitcoin, cpap, emma long metropolitan park, facehugger, microsoft teams, public relations, ring, samsung, slack, slackification, zip bomb
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about failing with public relations, failing with smart TVs, failing with zip files, and failing with collaboration tools
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Episode 182: Stochastic Fakery
August 13th, 2019 | 27 mins 54 secs
8chan, ai, artificial intelligence, censorship, china, dominance, espionage, fake news, hov, neflix, speech2face, stochastic terrorism, unnecessary inventions, video conferencing
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about faking faces, faking friends, faking holes, faking dominance, and faking work
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Episode 181: Freedom Is Slavery
July 9th, 2019 | 35 mins 33 secs
ai, amazon basics, calljoy, camping towels, centaur, dark, duplex, google, holsters, pockets, quake, recaptcha, rhel 8, structurelessness, telegram, uber, uncaptcha, user inyerface
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI vs. AI, people vs. AI vs. people, AI vs. people, and people vs. people (in that order)
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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)