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1 How To Replace A $100,000+ Salary Within 6 MONTHS Through Buying A Small Business w/ Alex Kamenca & Carley Mitus 57:50
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Alex (@alex_kamenca) and Carley (@carleymitus) are both members of our Action Academy Community that purchased TWO small businesses last thursday! Want To Quit Your Job In The Next 6-18 Months Through Buying Commercial Real Estate & Small Businesses? 👔🏝️ Schedule A Free 15 Minute Coaching Call With Our Team Here To Get "Unstuck" Check Out Our Bestselling Book : From Passive To Passionate : How To Quit Your Job - Grow Your Wealth - And Turn Your Passions Into Profits Want A Free $100k+ Side Hustle Guide ? Follow Me As I Travel & Build: IG @brianluebben ActionAcademy.com…
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Special guest Quinn Nelson joins the show to talk about Apple's rumored AR/VR headset, Apple silicon, and more.
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Manage episode 361781700 series 151259
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Special guest Quinn Nelson joins the show to talk about Apple's rumored AR/VR headset, Apple silicon, and more.
Sponsored by:
- Trade Coffee: Get a free bag of fresh coffee with any Trade subscription.
- Kolide: The cross-platform endpoint security solution for teams that value privacy and transparency.
- Backblaze: Backblaze makes backing up and accessing your data astonishingly easy.
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- Quinn's video on Apple silicon and the legacy of Gordon Moore.
- Quinn's video on VR headset and rumors regarding Apple's.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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1 421: ‘The Ratchet of Flippancy’, With Craig Mod 1:53:11
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Craig Mod returns to the show to discuss his splendid new book, Things Become Other Things . Other topics include creating with AI tools (including programming), social media permanence vs. ephemerality, and more. Sponsored by: Dekáf Coffee Roasters : You won’t believe it’s decaf. That’s the point. 30% off with code: DF. Squarespace : Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Notion : Try the powerful, easy-to-use Notion AI today. WorkOS : The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS — free up to 1 million monthly active users. Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good . Links: “Things Become Other Things”, Craig’s new book from Random House (!): Craig’s web page for the book . Random House’s page for the book . Purchase links: Amazon Bookshop.org Apple Books Barnes & Noble Craig’s home page . The Good Place — Craig’s write-up on designing and building (with Claude Code) his own custom Twitter-like ephemeral social network for members of his (fun, excellent) Special Projects website. Ulysses — Craig’s writing app of choice. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.…
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1 420: ‘The Best Hatched Plan’, With Glenn Fleishman 2:08:24
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Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show for episode 420 on 4/20, but everyone’s sober, I swear. Topics include Trump’s dumb tariffs and Glenn’s smart new edition of his book Six Centuries of Type & Printing . Sponsored by: Squarespace : Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Notion : Try the powerful, easy-to-use Notion AI today. BetterHelp : Give online therapy a try at BetterHelp and get on your way to being your best self. Clic for Sonos : No lag. No hassle. Just Clic. Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good . Links: Pre-order “Six Centuries of Type & Printing: New Edition” . My link to Glenn’s Kickstarter page . “.BLUE proposes to create an Internet space in which businesses, organizations and individuals can create an Internet identity tied to the color and the concept of blue.” . XKCD comic on open source dependencies . Pathmark’s “No Frills” Brand . This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.…
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1 419: ‘Podcasting Technology Cadence’, With MG Siegler 2:28:58
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MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about the drama surrounding Siri and Apple Intelligence. Sponsored by: WorkOS : The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS — free up to 1 million monthly active users. Check out their latest features from Launch Week . BetterHelp : Give online therapy a try at BetterHelp and get on your way to being your best self. OpenCase : MagSafe perfected that's thinner, lighter, and more secure. Save 10% with code TALKSHOW . Unofficial but surprisingly good transcripts . Links: Daring Fireball posts: Apple Is Delaying the ‘More Personalized Siri’ Apple Intelligence Features Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino Gurman: Tim Cook Has Put Mike Rockwell in Charge of Siri, Reporting to Craig Federighi A Postscript on the Singular Nature of Mark Gurman’s Reporting Posts from MG at Spyglass , which you should subscribe to: Apple Joins the Navy Siri’s Quixotic Swim to Hawaii The Siri Shuffle MG’s March 2011 scoop at TechCrunch, “ Legends of the Fall, Apple Style ”, which correctly called the iPhone 4S moving from an annual June ship date to the fall (where it’s remained ever since), and the first suggestion that “Siri”, a startup Apple had acquired the year before, would be a big part of iOS 5. AI labs that might, maybe, be acquisition targets for Apple: Anthropic (Claude) Perplexity Mistral Safe Superintelligence Inc. (easily the best / most confident website of the bunch) Thinking Machines (their website wishes it were SSI’s) Steve Jobs, taking Q&A at WWDC 1997 : “You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to try and sell it.” This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.…
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1 418: ‘Putting a Stink on the Letter X’, With Craig Hockenberry 2:42:03
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Craig Hockenberry returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new hardware this week — M3 iPad Airs, A16 regular iPads, M4 MacBook Airs, and the M4 Max and surprising M3 Ultra Mac Studios. And we go deep on The Iconfactory’s years-in-the-making new app, Tapestry — a universal timeline for the Internet. Exclusively sponsored by: Google Gemini : Chat to supercharge your ideas. Unofficial but surprisingly good transcripts . Links: Daring Fireball posts of note: “ Apple Updates iPad Air (M2→M3) and Regular iPad (A14→A16), and Revamps Magic Keyboard for iPad Air ”. “ Apple Announces, With Little Surprise, M4 MacBook Airs ”. “ Apple Announces, With Much Surprise, Mac Studios With M4 Max and M3 Ultra (!) Chips ”. From January: “ Openvibe, a Multi-Social-Network App for Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads (Supposedly), and Nostr ”. Tapestry : “Weaving your favorite blogs, social media, and more into a unified and chronological timeline.” Craig, on the Iconfactory blog: “ Enter Tapestry ”. Cheryl Cicha, also on the Iconfactory blog: “ Tapestry: Past, Present, and Future ”. Tapestry Connectors — an open, easy ( documented !) extensions API. Fefes Blog — you’ll have to listen to the show to understand how this is a Tapestry-related link. But trust me, it’s a good story. It starts with this thread on Mastodon , which begins like a great novel: “It’s becoming clear that XML in RSS is the preferred tool of sociopaths.” Molly White: “POSSE” (“Publish [on your] Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere”). Technology Connections on YouTube: “ Algorithms Are Breaking How We Think ”. The Iconfactory : Linea Sketch — “a lightweight digital sketchpad for your iPad”. Wallaroo — fun new wallpapers every week, for iOS and Mac. Tot — we didn’t mention this brilliant little notes app on the show, but I use it every day. iPulse — a nerdy system monitor, with Iconfactory fit and finish. Runs in the background even on iOS. Project Tapestry’s year-ago successful Kickstarter campaign . Andre Torrez’s Tyke , the inspiration for Tot. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.…
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1 417: ‘Nothing Is Possible’, With Paul Kafasis 2:00:43
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Special guest: Paul Kafasis. Special topics: Siri/Super Bowl nonsense, “Gulf of Mexico/America” nonsense, the iPhone 16e gets announced, and a veritable Bond villain buys the rights to the James Bond movie franchise. Sponsored by: Listen Later : Turn articles into podcasts and listen on the go, with AI-powered narration. Unofficial but surprisingly good transcripts . Links: Super Bowl nonsense: Every play featured in the 1977 CBS "NFL Today" opening credits would be a severe penalty for violence in today's NFL. Video on YouTube ; story on Awful Announcing . Apple in 2017, [encouraged people to ask Siri questions about the Super Bowl]( https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/01/hey-siri-whos-going-to-win-the-super-bowl/ ). Paul's post at One Foot Tsunami: " Not So Super, Apple ". My post: " Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber ". "Gulf of Mexico" nonsense: Daring Fireball: " Golfo del Gringo Loco ". Paul, thoughtfully: " Do Not Obey in Advance ". " Thoughts and Observations on Today’s iPhone 16e Announcement ". Rogue Amoeba: " The Developers Who Came in From the Cold ". This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.…
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1 416: ‘A Professional Internet User’, With Vlad Prelovac 2:32:38
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Kagi founder and CEO Vlad Prelovac joins the show to talk about the business of web search, the thinking behind Kagi’s own amazing search engine, and their upstart WebKit-based browser Orion. Sponsored by: Squarespace : Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Memberful : Monetize your passion with membership. Start your free trial today. Unofficial but surprisingly good transcripts . Links: Kagi . Kagi Blog . Kagi Search Stats . Kagi Feedback, the Kagi Search issue tracker . Orion — Kagi’s lightweight WebKit-based native browser for Mac and iOS . Vladimir Prelovac’s homepage . Apple’s 1987 “Knowledge Navigator” concept video , which supposedly took place in the “future” of 2011. Wikipedia entry . Daring Fireball, 2011: “ The Type of Companies That Publish Future Concept Videos ”. Wikipedia: “ Essential facilities doctrine ”. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.…
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1 415: ‘A Good Duck Butt’, With Allen Pike 2:32:52
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Special guest Allen Pike joins the show to talk about the state of generative AI and how Apple Intelligence measures up (so far). Also: some speculation on Apple’s pending acquisition of the ever-difficult-to-pronounce Pixelmator. Sponsored by: WorkOS : The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS — free up to 1 million monthly active users. Links: Allen’s blog . Allen’s take on Apple Intelligence, so far: “ It’s Good for Apple, and Okay for You ”. (Includes the Image-Playground–generated derpy-looking images of Allen that we discuss on the show.) Forestwalk Labs — Allen’s new startup . Allen’s podcasts: Fun Facts with Arik Devens, now complete . It Shipped That Way . CGP Grey and Myke Hurley discuss how Apple Intelligence message suggestions feel “anti-human” on Cortex ep. 161 . Cursor — “The AI Code Editor”. Rich Sutton’s 2019 essay “The Bitter Lesson” (“The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin.”) AMC’s “Halt and Catch Fire” , which ran four seasons from 2014–2017. Ellen Cushing for The Atlantic: “ Thanksgiving Should Be in October ”. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.…
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1 414: ‘Annoying Friendliness’, With Joanna Stern 1:54:06
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Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about our new best friends, AI chatbots, and I chime in with how the Voight-Kampff test got it all wrong. Sponsored by: WorkOS : The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS — free up to 1 million monthly active users. Squarespace : Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Memberful : Monetize your passion with membership. Start your free trial today. Links: Joanna on YouTube: “ I Spent 24 Hours in the Woods With Talking AI Chatbots ”. Joanna’s excellent interview with Craig Federighi on Apple Intelligence , which is also on YouTube . My commentary linking to it. Ann-Marie Alcántara’s Wall Street Journal piece: “ When Did Apple’s Notes App Become an Extension of Our Brains? ” (also on News+ ) Larry David on Siri . Voight-Kampff Test . There’s a social media thing where people are posting ChatGPT’s illustrations from the prompt “Based on what you know about me, draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like.” Here’s mine : I’m all alone in a nice study with lots of books, a leather couch, and a manual typewriter. Here’s Joanna’s : Boy Scouts, basketball, cameras, computers, and lots of bagels. Here’s an alternate from Joanna . The Gruber and Coudal families, leaving Barack Obama’s election night rally in Grant Park in Chicago in 2008 . This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.…
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1 413: ‘Holiday Party 2024’, With Merlin Mann 2:52:16
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This again. Jiminy. Well, once more, let's talk around another election, and try, by doing so, to maybe express something about it. Sponsored by: Tiptop : A new way to pay that combines Instant Trade-In and Pay-in-4 at checkout. Squarespace : Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Memberful : Monetize your passion with membership. Start your free trial today. Links: Previously on The Talk Show, with Merlin: Holiday Party 2016 (the bad one) Holiday Party 2020 (the good one) Yours truly, on this week: “ How It Went ”. Seki Edge nail clippers: Panzarino at The Obsessor: “ The Best Nail Clippers You’ll Ever Use ”. The Talk Show, October 2022: ‘Big Booger Came After You’ , where Merlin first recommended these to me. Get them at Amazon for $16 . Buy two pairs. Kai scissors . Get a few pairs of these too. Merlin’s Wisdom Project . Read this if you haven’t. Read it again if you have. So good. Reconcilable Differences — Merlin’s podcast with John Siracusa. The kids call it “Rec Diffs”. Merlin’s Happy Place — a YouTube playlist, comprised of “Videos I watch pretty often when I need a little pick-me-up.” This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.…
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1 412: ‘His Most Pro Shirt’, With Dan Moren 1:41:42
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Dan Moren returns to the show to discuss this week’s introductions of the first M4 Macs: iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pros. Sponsored by: WorkOS : The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS — free up to 1 million monthly active users. Squarespace : Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Memberful : Monetize your passion with membership. Start your free trial today. Links: Yours Truly: “ In Defense, I Swear, of the Magic Mouse’s Charging Port Placement ”. “ Sidenote of the Week: All MacBook Air Models Now Start With 16 GB RAM ”. David Schaub’s chart of base RAM in Mac desktops since 1984 . His corresponding chart of base RAM in Mac laptops since 1999 . Dan, in a column for Macworld: “ The Truth Behind Apple’s Most Unpopular Decisions: It’s Not About You ”. M4 iMac: Daring Fireball: “ Apple Introduces M4 iMacs, With Updated Colors, a Nano-Texture Display Option, and USB-C Input Peripherals ”. MacRumors: “ M1 vs. M3 vs. M4 iMac Buyer's Guide ”. M4 Mac Mini, now even mini-er: Daring Fireball: “ Apple Unveils Mac Minis With M4 and M4 Pro Chips ”. Dan Moren: “ The M4 Mac Mini: Tricks and Treats ”. M4 MacBook Pros: Daring Fireball: “ Apple Unveils New M4 MacBook Pro Lineup, Including, Hallelujah, a Nano-Texture Display Option ”. All Souls Lost — Dan’s latest novel, a modern noir mystery. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.…
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1 411: ‘An Acoustic Nightmare’, With Tyler Stalman 1:53:03
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Tyler Stalman joins the show to discuss the iPhone 16 lineup’s cameras, and the state of iPhone photography. Sponsored by: Squarespace : Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Memberful : Monetize your passion with membership. Start your free trial today. Links: Tyler Stalman on YouTube: iPhone 16: A Photographer's Review . What's on his iPhone 16 . Tyler’s recommended Photographic Styles recipe : Undertone: Amber Tone: -50 to -60 Color: 20 Palette: 100 JPEG XL . Steven Soderbergh has shot two feature films on iPhones: Unsane -- shot on iPhone 7 in 2018 . High Flying Bird -- shot on iPhone 8 in 2019 . Robert Rodriguez: El Mariachi — his debut feature film, shot for just $7,000 in 1992. Desperado — his big-budget 1995 sequel, starring Antonio Banderas and Selma Hayek. Rebel Without a Crew — Rodriguez’s book on the making of El Mariachi . Benedict Evans: “ The Best Is the Last ”. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.…
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1 410: ‘Shipping vs. Shipping’, With Jason Snell 2:12:58
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Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss Apple’s September product announcements, and Meta’s Orion prototype AR glasses. Absolutely no baseball talk, almost. Sponsored by: WorkOS : The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS — free up to 1 million monthly active users. Squarespace : Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Memberful : Monetize your passion with membership. Start your free trial today. Links: Ten years of Six Colors . Take Control of Photos (updated for iOS 18 and MacOS 15 Sequoia) . KQED: Fans Flood Coliseum to Bid Emotional Farewell to A’s at Last Game in Oakland . A’s fan who was at their first game in Oakland in 1968, and their final game last week . This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.…
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1 409: ‘The Dynamic Paradox’, With Nilay Patel 2:43:09
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Nilay Patel returns to the show to consider the iPhones 16. Sponsored by: Tiptop : A new way to pay that combines Instant Trade-In and Pay-in-4 at checkout. Squarespace : Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Links: Nilay’s review of the iPhone 16 Pro . Also from Nilay: “Let’s Compare Apple, Google, and Samsung’s Definitions of ‘a Photo’” . Yours Truly’s iPhones 16 review . Also from truly: “The Things They Carried” (thoughts and observations on Apple’s event) . This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.…
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1 408: ‘Good Enough to Be Pesky’, With Taegan Goddard 1:40:45
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Special guest Taegan Goddard, longtime writer and founder of Political Wire , joins the show to talk about the past, present, and future of independent media. Sponsored by: WorkOS : The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS — free up to 1 million MAUs. Squarespace : Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Links: Political Wire . Greymatter — open source blogging software by Noah Grey, released in 2000. Greymatter 1.8.2 User Manual . Slashdot, 2022: “ How The Internet Saved the Home of Blogging Pioneer Noah Grey ”. Mark Pilgrim, back in 2002: “ History of the RSS Fork ”. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.…
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1 407: ‘Pinkie Swear’, With Chance Miller 2:18:11
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Chance Miller, ace reporter (and editor-in-chief) for 9to5Mac, joins the show to talk about the latest changes to Apple's DMA compliance plans with iOS, expectations for the September Apple event, and more. Sponsored by: WorkOS : The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS — free up to 1 million MAUs. Squarespace : Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Links: Chance Miller on Threads . Apple's August DMA compliance tweaks announcement . iOS 18 adding default app controls for messaging, phone calls, navigation, and more in the EU . Everthing Chance knows about the iPhone 16 "capture button" . 9to5Mac report on expected iPhone 16 colors . Preview of expected announcements the September Apple event . 9to5Mac Happy Hour's 500th episode . Becca Farsace's great day-in-the-life profile of iJustine . This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.…
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