340: ‘Billionaires Have Beefs’, With Tom Watson and Daniel Agee
The Talk Show With John Gruber
03/09/22
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Special guests Tom Watson and Daniel Agee join the show to talk about Glass, their upstart photo sharing app and community.
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- Glass on the web.
- Glass on the App Store: “No ads, no algorithms.”
- Tweet thread between Marques Brownlee and Adam Mosseri on the lack of an iPad app for Instagram.
- Image viewing comparison between Glass and Instagram.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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February 28, 2022
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Special guest Ken Kocienda, author of Creative Selection, joins the show to talk about his years at Apple and the creation of the original iPhone.
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Links:
- Up Spell — Ken’s iOS word game.
- “Wallaby” iPhone prototype hardware.
- Steve Jobs’s quote on the wall outside Town Hall at Infinite Loop: “If you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on for it too long. Just figure out what’s next.”
- Kim Scott’s books: Radical Candor and Just Work.
- DF’s 15-year anniversary post, with word counts.
- Stephen King’s On Writing.
- Andy Hertzfeld’s history of the original Mac:
- Humane — The totally secret startup where Ken is now working.
- Job openings at Humane.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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341: ‘A Cold Glass in Hell’, With Casey Liss
March 26, 2022
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Special guest Casey Liss joins the show to talk about Apple's new Studio Display and what makes a good martini.
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- Studio Display:
- Apple’s $40 0.8m Thunderbolt 3 cable and $160 3m Thunderbolt 4 cable.
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- The Martini FAQ, by Brad Gadberry.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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