#26 Tax and Marriage | The Feminist Interviews

#30 Hiven.me | Work from Home, Anywhere

Christelle is a French engineer and co-founder of Hiven, a home-based coworking community which allows local professionals to work from a variety of conducive living rooms, revitalize the local economy, support local businesses, and build community. I sincerely cannot wait for the day I'm able to work from home from anywhere in the world on a whim through the magic of Hiven. This is truly the modern digital nomad's dream come true. At hīven, we are passionate about making cities more affordable for local residents and more flexible for local workers.  For the hundreds of millions of freelancers and entrepreneurs out there: forget noisy coffee shops, long commute, a boring desk, or feeling isolated alone at home.  Hīven creates the future of work with you, by building the largest network of home-based coworking communities. Every home, every co-worker, every day are unique.

#29 Humm (Skydeck F18) | Hack Your Own Biology for Productivity & Cognitive Enhancement

Ahmud is an Australian entrepreneur and cofounder of Humm, a new generation hybrid software toolkit for cognitive enhancement. He's worked in Australia's top finance firm as well as in racecar engineering before diving head first into the deep end of wearable tech innovation. We connected through a mutual friend upon learning about our mutual interests in terms of optimizing productivity and efficiency - a common dinner conversation topic around the Bay Area. In this episode we chat about: - Biohacking techniques and tools explored by the founders - Achieving a state of flow - Microdosing certain psychoactive compounds for productivity gains - What a potential future might look like where Humm is ubiquitous Humm is currently being incubated as one of 22 companies at Skydeck Accelerator's Fall 2018 cohort through its Global Innovation Partners' Program. Skydeck is UC Berkeley’s campus startup accelerator and incubator, boasting alumni with well-known exits, such as Caviar. Visit www.humm.tech to learn more about Humm, whether for career opportunities or just to try to get your hands on the new Edge device for esports gamers. https://www.humm.tech/esports Excerpt from the website: OUR MISSION Imagine a world where learning is effortless, where communication and control of technology are as simple as a thought and where every person has the power to expand their intelligence. This is our vision; A world where limitless brain power makes anything possible. In the last ten years, cutting-edge neuroscience has opened new horizons for the human brain. We believe the time has come for a consumer product that does the same.      We’re starting with a performance-enhancing wearable for a new class of cognitive athletes, in competitive esports.

#28 Mariel Goddu | UC Berkeley Developmental Psychology PhD Candidate

Mariel Goddu is a third year PhD student at UC Berkeley's Cognitive Science department. Her research is focused on developmental psychology - in other words, she studies how children think. In this episode, she sheds light on some of the latest developments in her research with causal reasoning abilities in toddlers, and then we get...just a little bit deeper. For more of Mariel's research, visit: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mariel_Goddu

#26 Tax and Marriage | The Feminist Interviews

Join us this week for a chat with UC Berkeley Professor and Economist Hilary Hoynes! We analyze the changing labor market, the break down of the cash welfare system, and...marriage? Lead writers on this episode include Ava Davis, Lina Craighill and Anna Zhao. Assistant writers include Alex Tellez, Alanna Zhang, Kaitlin Weinstein. Produced by Kaitlin Weinstein and Anna Zhao. Created, hosted, and edited by Lina Craighill.

#25 Reddit and the Women's March Walk into a Bar | The Feminist Interviews

We sit down with two UC Berkeley undergrad students of seemingly opposite political affiliations, to discuss topics surrounding feminism and how we participate in political discourse. Produced by Anna Zhao and Kaitlin Weinstein. Hosted, created, edited by Lina Craighill. Writers on this episode include: Kaitlin Weinstein, Anna Zhao, Alex Tellez, Alli Thibeault, Lina Craighill, Arely Ortiz and Alanna Zhang.