Defective Detective

Aug 26 2023 6 ep. 49 mins 26

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A choose your own data adventure. Join Cakelin (a disabled, queer, nonbinary founder & scientist) as they share self-experiments and interview other makers and self-scientists. This is for the people who had their life game mode set to hard. Let's check out our stats and collectively wonder "wtf is going on with me?". Episode types LAB: Laboratory updates and miscellaneous, INTRO: Introduction to experiment topic, METHODS: Materials and methods, the "making of" a self-experiment, RESULTS: Self-experiment results for me and an experiment partner, DISCUSSION: Community results and what's next?

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#6 INTRO: Nudge Cards and Covid, Part 2

Aug 26 2023 78 mins

What kind of tools do we need to communicate our covid behavior and boundaries? What about our other access needs and disabilities?Is user interviewing better if it is one sided? Can you get the same level of helpful data for developing products from podcast interviews?📚 BooksThe Mom Test by Rob FitzpatrickDeploy Empathy by Michele HansenThis is Marketing by Seth GodinOther Reso

#5 INTRO: Covid and Nudge Cards, Part 1

Jan 28 2023 44 mins

This is part 1 of a convo with my sister Sarah about Covid Nudge Cards, discussing what's happening with Covid right now. The next parts will showcase user interviewing. How do we do user research to build a product that would help people with shared safety and accessibility? 📚 BooksWrite Useful BooksWhy Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the ObjectiveOther ResourcesIndieH

#4 LAB: Send Out Ripples

Aug 31 2022 75 mins

How do we live in reality right now?What are our reasons for the things we do? How do we align our actions with our values? How do we should up as our authentic selves? How do we practice sustainable activism? How do we form community? How do we work with internal and external chaos and uncertainty? How do we survive late stage capitalism?These questions all have a larger impact fo

#3 LAB: I Don't Think I Can Solve Problems

Jan 05 2022 39 mins

What being disabled and chronically ill has been like for me and how it's affected how I build a company. I talk about consistency, pain, guilt and shame, rumination, and struggling to create. I also include an update of Laboratory de Cake, which will be structuring the podcast like a science paper! I can't solve the problems we are facing with the pandemic and climate change, mayb

#2 LAB: The Process of Connection and Creation (audio quality lower)

Dec 16 2021 41 mins

My second psychedelic integration helped me redefine and accept concepts that have given me a different sense of freedom and ease in my life. Thank you to my dear friend Jenny for trip sitting, my psychedelic guide and tattoo artist Bear Cunningham, and my darling service pup in training Pepper Ann. I am grateful for the many teachers my life has been touched by. ***Audio lower qua

#1 LAB: Introduction

Nov 20 2020 18 mins

You're listening to Defective Detective, a podcast about using data to figure out your brain and body. So we can all do the things we want to. I'm your host Cakelin, a disabled and chronically ill founder and scientist. I'll be sharing my own journey towards "health" while interviewing other makers and self-scientists. Here's an introduction to what it's all gonna be about. Huzzah!