331: ‘John Was the Problem’, With Merlin Mann
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
3.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2021
⏱️ 190 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If the talk show was like your bowel movements, you'd have to go see a doctor, right? |
| 0:03.9 | I mean, because this show is like something like the haunted house that the |
| 0:08.5 | koanhas puts on and like put your hand in the bowl. It's eyeballs and brains and beetles. |
| 0:14.8 | Whereas Dithering is literally like a professional show where you can like |
| 0:18.9 | bank on it, you know Tuesday morning, there's going to be a 15-minute and zero second episode waiting |
| 0:24.3 | for you in your pod catcher. You know, there you go. And it's great, but part of the deal was, |
| 0:28.8 | okay, I love the idea, but how about this? I don't want to deal with any of the publishing |
| 0:34.5 | details. And then was like, that's great. I love doing it. And I'm like, you love doing it. |
| 0:39.0 | That's a standard cut. That's a standard cut. A soul in my contracts right now. I am off for |
| 0:44.1 | only. You can come to me and say, be on my podcast, but I cannot have to turn anything off to do it. |
| 0:50.8 | And it must require no work. So we do the Zencaster and the way that I do it, I'm not a chrome |
| 0:57.0 | user. But so I don't on any of my machines anymore. I've got the Valdi, which is chrome-ish, |
| 1:04.1 | but it doesn't have all the nasties that chrome. Yes, I use the Brave, which is chrome-wise. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah. I don't know anything else about it. I don't. I don't. I use Brave for two things. I use it |
| 1:18.2 | for recording Dithering, which is amazing through the Zencaster. And or at least from my perspective, |
| 1:23.7 | is not having to deal with deal with it when I'm done. And I stayed logged into Amazon |
| 1:31.2 | through my business, Daring Fireball account, which I seldom use, you know, for posting the |
| 1:38.4 | money-making affiliate links. But that's it. I don't use it for anything else, but it's kind of |
| 1:45.3 | amazing. But anyway, well, we got on to Zoom. And, you know, I don't have, it would be, it would be |
| 1:54.4 | very subtle for me to say I don't have a lot of affection for Zoom as a product of service and app |
| 1:58.8 | or company. Oh no, we accidentally installed another packet sniffing thing that you can't find. |
| 2:06.7 | Oh, now you've created a webric so people can run rails and mine Bitcoin. You're like, what? |
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