Tim Berglund and Rachel Pedreschi introduce “Keyboard and Quill,” a new limited series narrative podcast exploring data and technology through time.
-- Story by Tim Berglund and Rachel Pedreschi Produced by Peter Furia, Noelle Gallagher, and Tim Berglund Edited by Noelle Gallagher and Peter Furia Original music and sound by Jeff Kite, keyboardist for The Voidz
Tim Berglund and Rachel Pedreschi introduce “Keyboard and Quill,” a new limited series narrative podcast exploring data and technology through time.
-- Story by Tim Berglund and Rachel Pedreschi Produced by Peter Furia, Noelle Gallagher, and Tim Berglund Edited by Noelle Gallagher and Peter Furia Original music and sound by Jeff Kite, keyboardist for The Voidz
(radio static whirring)(people chattering)- Okay.- All right.- Hi.(music whirring)- [Tim] And then you're-(people laughing)- One more time?(bright music)(pencil scratching)(bright music)- [Tim] You're listening to.- [Child] "Keyboard & Quill."- [Podcaster] From StarTree.- [Podcaster] Creators of the Real-Time Analytics Summit.- [All] And podcast.(bright music)- [Rachel] I'm gonna tell you a little story.- Okay.- I go on a walk, I'm listening to my favorite podcast, and I get this text message.- That's-- Ding!- [Tim] Real-Time Analytics Podcast, come on.- [Rachel] Yes, it... No, it wasn't actually, but it would be. And I get this ding, and I look down and it's Tim saying,"Hey, Rachel, you wanna do a podcast? It's gonna be kind of like Radiolab meets a techie history channel." And I'm like, okay.(text message whooshing)- [Tim] Yes, I remember that. It seemed like you took between 50 and 75 microseconds to consider it. You said yes. I'd barely given you any of the pitch, and you were in.- [Rachel] In like Flynn.- [Tim] That is what I like about you.(Rachel chuckles) So.- [Rachel] So here we are! We're doing the podcast.- [Tim] We're doing a podcast.(bright music) Hi, I'm Tim Berglund.- [Rachel] And I'm Rachel Pedreschi.- [Tim] And you are listening to "Keyboard & Quill."- [Rachel] A playful narrative podcast exploring data and technology through time.- [Tim] You know, what we do is you and I work with data.- All day.- Yeah.- [Rachel] Every day.- [Tim] You're once and future guest on the podcast, but, you know, there is a broader context to these things, and I think we all take for granted how much real-time data powers our smartphones and how much of our lives is mediated through them. We track our Amazon packages, meal through DoorDash, catching an Uber, Waze to get you through somebody's cul-de-sac to get where you're going on time. There's a lot of this.- [Rachel] Yeah. I think people take for granted the leaps in technology that have happened, and that it builds upon so much innovation. Holy cow! I mean, all you have to do is go down to the Computer Science Museum and see what led to the beginnings of the mainframe, which changed the world.- [Tim] I was just there actually on Saturday and I saw the 1401 demo. 1959 was when the 1401 was released. It just looks like an industry blinking in the light after just waking up. You know, like just stumbling around, making this thing that barely got the job done. 16,000 characters of memory and I don't know how many operations a second it could do. Not too dang many. That's an amazing achievement.- [Rachel] I think we have a really big story to tell there.- [Tim] Yeah, we do.- [Rachel] But the cool thing about the California life and being where we are in the Silicon Valley, we have access to so many different people who have done so many cool things, really even the last 20 years.- [Tim] Yeah, yeah. A lot of that work has been geographically isolated here historically. And so you'll have companies like Google, AWS, Microsoft.- [Rachel] DoorDash, Uber, LinkedIn.- [Tim] Yes. All of those. Those are key players in this space. And I'm looking forward to talking to as many of them as we can.- [Rachel] Yeah.- [Tim] But you know what? Those are our people. We know that, and that's kinda what we do normally. We're gonna have to talk to some other people, some academics, historians, authors, maybe some philosophers.- Yeah.- Because all the history of the innovation in technology and data that even led us to a modern society is, I think, really dang interesting. And Rachel, we can't forget our podcast team.- [Rachel] And who doesn't love our team?- [Tim] I certainly do. Helping us craft episodes and find stories will be our producers, Peter and Noelle.- [Peter] Hi everyone. Peter here.- [Noelle] Hi there. This is Noelle.- [Tim] And let's not forget our incredibly talented composer, music producer and mixer, Jeff Kite.- [Jeff] Hello everyone, this is Jeff.- [Rachel] Isn't Jeff the guy who made a song with Daft Punk?- [Tim] That is him, and now he's jamming with us.- [Rachel] Wow, I can't wait to see what he does with this.- [Tim] One word, Rachel. Soundscapes.(Rachel laughs) Soundscapes. Soundscapes. Soundscapes.(horse neighing)(hooves thudding) Anyway, to our listeners out there, we hope you'll join us for this at stree.ai/keyboardandquill. That's S-T-R-E-E.ai/keyboardandquill as we journey through history and learn about data, technology, and the systems that power our modern lives.- [Rachel] And I think we might just have some fun along the way.- [Tim] How can we not? Again, S-T-R-E-E.ai/keyboardandquill. You'll find links to the show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, all the places. You know what to do.- [Rachel] Ooh! But Tim, will you still keep doing the StarTree weekly podcast?- [Tim] Yeah, yes, I absolutely will! For our fellow software developers and data professionals specifically interested in real-time analytics, feel free to check out the Real-Time Analytics Podcast, which we launched in early 2023. New episodes every Monday. Link in the show notes. With that, I'm Tim Berglund.- [Rachel] And I'm Rachel Pedreschi.- [Tim] We'll see you soon on "Keyboard & Quill."(bright music)