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Mac Power Users

99: Workflows with Marco Arment

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

🗓️ 20 August 2012

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

David and Katie sit down with Marco Arment to discuss developing Instapaper, his Mac setup, development workflows and more.

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0:00.0

Mac Power Users, Episode 99, workflows with Marco Arment. Hello everyone this is David Sparks along with me is Katie Floyd. Hi Katie

0:18.8

Hey David and we have a special guest today Marco Orment, one of my very favorite people on the internet.

0:26.1

Welcome, Marco.

0:27.1

Thank you.

0:28.1

Hi, nice to be here.

0:29.1

You know, it's, to me, the reason for the existence of the iPad is insta paper.

0:35.8

You know, that's great. Thank you.

0:37.2

You know, when it, before the iPad existed, I was thinking, boy, the one thing I would want this

0:41.9

iPad for or at that time the tablet

0:44.3

whatever they were going to call it is insta paper and it's such a big part of my

0:47.6

life it's kind of funny at the Sparks house you know we kind of have this evening

0:51.6

ritual of laying in bed with our iPads like

0:54.5

nerds and going through the daily insta paper catch. Yeah that's what I do on

0:59.4

Sunday mornings is I gear up everything from the week that's that I've been meaning to read and

1:03.8

Sunday mornings I sit down in my big comfy chair with my cup of coffee and

1:06.7

insta paper so it's really changed my weekend.

1:09.5

Yeah it must feel really good to to create something that's just so useful to so many people.

1:16.4

Thank you. You know, it really, I'm very, I'm very fortunate to, to be in this position where I you know I was in the right place at the

1:25.6

right time and had the right idea to do something that succeeded in in this new

1:29.9

App Store world and I'm doing it in a way that I can be proud of.

1:34.6

Like I'm very, a lot of people don't really care, but I'm very, very happy that I can do something every day as my living that I don't feel like is taking

1:47.3

advantage of anybody or ripping anybody off or doing anything illegal or unscrupulous like it's really just like a nice honest living and I'm extremely

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