Welcome to 2021 with special guest Joel Spolsky

<p>You can find the first episode of the SO podcast <a href="https://soundcloud.com/stack-exchange/stack-overflow-podcast-77">here</a>. It was conducted over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterisk_(PBX)">Asterix</a>, open source telephony software that allowed for fancy operations like voice messaging and recording calls! </p><p>What would social software look like if we designed them to remove commerce and popularity? Are services like <a href="https://www.mightynetworks.com/about">Mightybell</a> an interesting example of where we might be headed?</p><p>If you want to build a model of something - say traffic patterns in your town or a hypothetical zombie invasion - you should check out a new project Joel is involved in, <a href="https://hash.ai/">Hash.ai</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p>