This week, James and Jean look at that gaping maw that devours time and motivation that we call email. We’ve tried a couple of tools for clearing out our inbox, and we are pleased with the results.
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Apple’s iMac turned 20 this week, so there couldn’t have been a better celebration than to revive the retired podcast Ctrl-Walt-Delete for one more episode. Walt Mossberg and Nilay Patel reminisce on the introduction of Apple’s iMac, and how it influenced the open web and computers going forward. In spirit of the show, Nilay pulls up Walt’s original review for the product.
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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Benedict Evans, partner at Andreessen Horowitz, to answer five big questions about tech: One, How long will it be before self-driving cars take over (1:55), Two, Will cryptocurrencies replace the dollar, pound and other fiat currencies (8:40),Three, Is Big Tech too big (17:05), Four, How worried should we be about the march of the machines (28:15), Five, What is the next revolutionary technology (35:20).
Ever wondered what Richard Feynman was like on acid? Lanier can tell you.
https://www.vox.com/2018/1/16/16897738/jaron-lanier-interview
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In this interview, Cal Newport argues that focus is the new I.Q. in the knowledge economy and that individuals who cultivate their ability to concentrate without distraction will thrive. He provides practical examples to escape the being caught in the frantic blur of e-mail and social media.
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Fred Stutzman is the co-founder and CEO of Eighty Percent Solutions, the company which builds the innovative productivity software Freedom.
Freedom helps you to get more focused and improve your productivity by blocking your access to websites and apps.
The product is used by over 450,000 people and its users report gaining an average of 2.5 hours of productive time each day.
Freedom was founded in 2011 and was bootstrapped for the first 4 years. The product has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR and other publications.
"If you’re 80% good and 20% terrible, you can’t expect to have 100% results." - Charles Poliquin Charles Poliquin is back for another round of the podcast. Charles (@strengthsensei) is one of the best known strength coaches in the world.
https://tim.blog/2016/11/06/charles-poliquin-mass-building-program/
"The rule is: the basics are the basics and you can’t beat the basics." - Charles Poliquin Charles Poliquin (@strengthsensei) is one of the best known strength coaches in the world.
In this hallway-style podcast conversation, O’Reilly Media founder Tim O’Reilly and a16z partner Benedict Evans discuss how we make sense of the most recent wave of new technologies — technologies that are perhaps more transformative than any we’ve seen before — and how we think about the capabilities they might have that we haven’t yet even considered. O’Reilly has seen more than one wave of new tech make an impact over the last three decades in Silicon Valley. But this time, O’Reilly argues in his new book, WTF? What’s the Future and Why it’s Up to Us, is different, partly because of the combinatorial inventions now possible.
But we are also in the midst of so much foundational change happening so fast, that we as a society have some very large questions — and answers — to consider. What, for example, is the relationship between big tech platforms and the broader ecosystem they’re in? What strategic choices (and responsibilities?) do they make on behalf of those ecosystems? Why and how do some platforms compete with their own ecosystems? And finally, how are algorithms optimizing for economic culture and markets, and how aware are we?
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The VoiceFirst Roundtable podcast guest this week is Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Publishing fame. Mr. O’Reilly has been around since the..
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