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Mac Power Users

87: Workflows with John Siracusa

Mac Power Users

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2012

⏱️ 112 minutes

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John Siracusa joins David and Katie to talk about productivity, writing, Mac utilities, and gaming.

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0:00.0

Mac Power Users, episode 87, workflows with John Syracuse. Hello everyone this is David Sparks along with me is Katie Floyd. Hi Katie. Hey David and also we have John

0:27.4

Syracuse with us today. Hi John welcome to the show. Thanks for having me.

0:31.6

I'm so happy that you you agree to come the show. I'm a big fan of your hypercritical show on the 5 by 5 network.

0:38.1

I have to admit you have just warmed your way into my heart with your talks, your nerdy talks.

0:44.0

I love the way you think through everything,

0:45.5

and you've always got such an interesting opinion.

0:48.0

And I got thinking a guy like that

0:49.7

must have some pretty strong opinions about what stuff he uses to get work done on his

0:54.4

Mac so we thought we'd have you come in. I think you may be surprised exactly how

0:59.2

weak my opinions are but I guess I do have them. Yeah, well for instance, so your day job, you're a computer programmer.

1:07.0

That's right.

1:08.0

Famously in Pearl and you also write for Arst Technica some of the you know the legendary Mac operating

1:17.5

system review so that come out with every new operating system upgrade but you also

1:21.5

do other stuff for them as well and you blog right you also have a plug

1:26.0

Yeah, I used to do a lot I found I used to do a lot more writing before I started

1:29.5

podcasting and now I feel like the podcast plus Twitter gets a lot of the stuff I would have written.

1:36.0

Yeah, like and then it sort of bleeds it out of me.

1:38.6

So I still do occasionally post something to my personal blog and then ours I'll write something if I think

1:44.8

there's something significant for me to write and of course the operating system

1:47.4

reviews every year.

1:49.4

You had made a comment.

1:50.4

Every year now, yeah.

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