207. Lisa Brennan-Jobs (writer) – on growing up without, with, and in spite of her dad
Think Again - a Big Think Podcast
Big Think / Panoply
4.6 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Huh. Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like? |
| 0:04.3 | Not much to it, is there? |
| 0:06.2 | Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich. |
| 0:10.9 | Mmm, that is good. |
| 0:12.9 | Now that's what Asani should sound like. |
| 0:15.8 | Go all crisp in with walkers. |
| 0:19.0 | Delicious. |
| 0:20.1 | Hi there, I'm Jason Gatz, and you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast. |
| 0:29.4 | The first computer I ever had was the Apple Macintosh back in the mid-80s. |
| 0:33.8 | I can still remember the sense of friendly reassurance from that smiling little icon that popped up on the screen when you turned it on, a cute, tiny computer smiling back at you. |
| 0:43.3 | This device, it suggested, knew you, understood you, was someone you could trust. |
| 0:47.3 | Since then, we've come a long way, baby. The cold black, addictive rectangle in my pocket, a gleaming window into all the hopes and |
| 0:54.8 | terrors of the known world, is a far cry from the early, friendly promises of that smiling |
| 0:59.6 | machine on which I could magically paint things at the touch of a button. |
| 1:03.1 | My guest today, in a very different way, grew up in the long shadow of that same cultural |
| 1:07.4 | trajectory. |
| 1:08.6 | Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, was her dad. But like our relationship |
| 1:12.6 | with the machines, he helped unleash on the world. Hers with him was deeply complicated. |
| 1:16.6 | In Lisa Brennan Jobs' beautiful memoir, Small Fry, she writes about his indifference, his attention, |
| 1:23.6 | and her struggle to find herself in and outside of his shadow. |
| 1:27.9 | Welcome to think again, Lisa. |
| 1:29.2 | Thank you so much for having me. |
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