Episode Details

This is the first episode of a 10-part series on building a custom PC—but instead of jumping into hardware specs, the hosts discuss the critical art of catching planning mistakes. Joey has planned this build three separate times, and each iteration revealed errors caught through careful counting rather than luck or cleverness. This meta-episode teaches listeners how to recognize the shape of common mistakes before tackling the actual build. 00:00:00 - Welcome and introducing the 10-part series 00:03:45 - The gap between software and hardware expertise 00:07:20 - Overview of the full arc: from planning through building 00:12:00 - Three complete planning cycles and what counting reveals 00:16:30 - Why this episode matters: learning to catch errors --- Sources & further reading: • ComputerBuild repo — decisions/decision-log.md, entries D7 (fabricated-citation warning), P9 (budget rebuild), P13 (transcript recovery) • ComputerBuild repo — docs/build-recommendation.md, section 3 (re-priced build and the single-source-verification cause) • ComputerBuild repo — corpus/plan.md (Claude Code transcript gap, the history.jsonl correction, the 25x overcount) • ComputerBuild repo — workloads/workload-map.md (the "(measured)" legend) • ComputerBuild repo — inventory/machines.md (stale prior documentation, the 98GB-vs-931GB disk) • Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville — 18th-century maps of Africa, on leaving unexplored regions blank This podcast episode was fully generated by AI — research, script, voices, and production. Built with Claude, Piper TTS, and automated pipeline tooling.