Mark and Adam take a look back at three years of podcasts to reflect on their favorite episodes—and the friends they made along the way. They discus Metamuse’s origin story, walk through the production process, and wax nostalgic on some of their favorite episodes. Plus: a look at what the future holds for our hosts and the podcast.

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• NPR
• The future of iPad
• Ferrite
• Hello Internet, Gastropod, Lexicon Valley
• This American Life, Gimlet Media
• Most downloaded episodes: Computers and creativity with Molly Mielke, Sync, Growing ideas with Andy Matuschak
• Mark’s favorite episodes: Local-first software with Martin Kleppmann, Local-first one year later, Hiring, Cities with Devon Zuegel
• Adam’s honorable mentions: Progress with Jason Crawford, Rich text with Slim Lim
• Metamuse podcast guest handbook
• lossless audio
• Riverside
• Audio editor Mark Lamorgese
• Post-producer Jenna Miller
• Podcasting Microphones Mega-Review
• XLR microphone
• pro sound dampening material
• RØDE Podcaster
• Pop filter, plosives
• John Michael Greer

Bittersweet news is the topic of this episode. Adam Wulf and Adam Wiggins discuss the end of an era for Muse, leadership transitions, and what the future holds for Muse 3.0 and beyond.

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• An end, and a beginning
• Ink & Switch
• Adam Wulf
• Loose Leaf
• Here, File File
• prosumer
• Industrial research with Peter van Hardenberg
• Netlify proxy, Webflow, Hugo
• Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change

Is virtual reality useful for productivity software? Yiliu is the founder of Softspace, a VR/AR tool for thought. He joins Mark and Adam to discuss the human brain and body as inherently spatial systems; the question of whether information is fundamentally 2D; and why social comfort is the biggest challenge facing VR today. Plus: how to avoid a dystopian future.

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• Yiliu Shen-Burke @softspaceninja
• Softspace
• Wim Hof breathing method
• Studio Olafur Eliasson
• The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces
• Oculus
• Oculus development kit
• heads-up display
• Scott Greenwald’s Media Lab thesis
• Beat Saber
• A Beautiful Mind
• Softspace demo
• force-directed graph
• Steven Johnson on DevonThink
• Google Glass, Magic Leap, Vision Pro
• Supernatural
• vergence
• history of VR
• PlaneVR: Social Acceptability of Virtual Reality for Aeroplane Passengers

Quotes from famous people or books can turn a feeling or a concept into a memorable chunk of text—how can we do the same for our own ideas? Stephan is the CEO of Obsidian, and he joins Mark and Adam to discuss notes as personal memes, the balance between freedom and cohesion in plugins, and why it's so hard to be messy in digital tools. Plus: why “tools for thought” rubs Stephan the wrong way.

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• Stephan Ango @kepano @kepano@mastodon.social
• Obsidian
• Pillowy Swedish cinnamon rolls using the tangzhong technique
• Lumi
• Erica Xu, Shida Li
• Growing ideas with Andy Matuschak
• Evergreen notes turn ideas into objects that you can manipulate
• Apple Notes, Apple Journal
• Zettelkasten
• stream-of-consciousness writing plugin
• Obsidian developer docs
• Launchers with Thomas Paul Mann
• Infinite canvases with Steve Ruiz
• Obsidian Canvas
• Excalidraw, ExcaliBrain
• .canvas format

Planning might have a reputation for being boring, but Adam and Mark believe it can be one of the most exciting moments in your team’s work. They discuss the importance of inspiration and collective knowledge; the musical rhythm of planning cycles; and how to “draw the line” when prioritizing. Plus: the importance of revisiting the plan in times of doubt.

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• Muse for Teams beta announcement
• Against boring planning
• agile methodology
• ticket trackers
• Gantt charts, burndown charts
• Pivotal Tracker
• kanban board
• Jesper Jørgensen
• V2MOM, OKRs
• effort to impact chart
• Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
• Amazon’s “working backwards” approach
• go slow to go fast
• Zoom fatigue
• shared knowledge vs common knowledge

How can software improve the practice of reading? Tristan and Dan are the founders of Readwise. They join Adam to talk about the history of read-later apps like Pocket and Instapaper; the difference between reading for betterment and reading for entertainment; and the cat-and-mouse game of web parsing. Plus: how the personal knowledge management explosion in 2020 affected digital reading.

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• Tristan Homsi @homsIT
• Dan Doyon @deadly_onion
• falconry
• My Side of the Mountain
• Readwise
• Anki
• Dan and Tristan meeting on Hacker News
• Reader
• Pocket, Marco Arment, Instapaper
• Mozilla acquires Pocket
• Why We’re Bootstrapping Readwise
• Alan Kay on computer science as pop culture
• Readability.js
• web standards acid test
• Reader browser extension
• RSS
• Explorable Explanations
• offline first
• JSON Patch
• Second Brain
• commonplace book, marginalia
• etymology of “document”

It's been a year since Muse 2.0 launched. To help commemorate this anniversary, Adam Wulf once again joins Mark and Adam Wiggins to do a technical deep-dive on Muse's sync architecture. They discuss the benefits such as less ops burden and good developer experience; and challenges such as event vs state based data, handling different app schema versions, and the tradeoffs of a content-aware server.

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• Developer Duck
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• Metamuse episode 56: Sync
• Muse 2.0
• Muse for Teams
• Local-first software
• Pingdom
• Local-first software with Martin Kleppmann
• Text blocks
• innovation tokens
• Replicache, LiveBlocks, PartyKit
• Automerge 2.0

Twitter has created a whole new generation of internet writers. Francesco is the co-founder of Typefully, and he joins Adam and Mark to talk about the evolution of blogging, the importance of diversifying your platforms, and how Twitter can be used as a beacon to invite like-minded people into your conversations.

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• Francesco Di Lorenzo @frankdilo
• Typefully
• Calm companies with Tyler Tringas
• Atomic writing
• Evan Williams and Blogger
• Mastodon, Medium, Substack
• Geoffrey Litt
• Platforms with Joe Wadcan
• Twitter acquisition
• So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
• Farcaster