Episode 048 — An Exhausting Week

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

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4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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In this week’s episode, Ben and James discuss Dick Costolo stepping down as CEO of Twitter, Apple’s seeming war on Google, and the concerning launch of Apple Music. Links Ben Thompson: Dick Costolo Out as Twitter CEO, Costolo’s Key Shortcoming, Twitter’s Next CEO — Stratechery Daily Update (members-only) Ben Thompson: Twitter Needs New Leadership — Stratechery Chris Sacca: What Twitter Can Ben — Lowercase Capital Mary Meeker: Internet Trends 2015 (Slide 47) — KPCB Ben Thompson: Apple Enables Ad-Blockers — Stratechery Daily Update (members-only) Ben Thompson: Apple Music and Apple’s Focus — Stratechery Charlie Warzel: Apple’s Junk Drawer Problem — … Continue reading Episode 048 — An Exhausting Week

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0:00.0	Hi, James.
0:01.5	Ben, how are you?
0:03.6	I am exhausted.
0:04.9	Oh, really?
0:06.8	Yeah, so we'll see how this podcast goes.
0:09.0	It is at 10.58 p.m. on Thursday, on Thursday, I know, it's June 11th.
0:16.4	I will be getting on a plane tomorrow on the plane.
0:20.5	I will edit this podcast.
0:21.5	So it won't actually come out until Saturday.
0:24.6	And hopefully I will sound lucid.
0:27.9	Yeah.
0:28.2	So you're tired because when you say 1058, it's 1058 Pacific as opposed to Taipei time, huh?
0:35.2	Yes, exactly.
0:36.0	And so I, you know, I've been here this week and
0:39.7	WVC week in general, there's, it's useful to be awake at night. There tends to be, you know,
0:44.2	various social opportunities. And so I did this new sleeping routine because, I mean, usually
0:50.3	I can't like, okay, but you're always going to be tired at night, but obviously that's problematic.
0:54.5	So I scheduled a nap time in the afternoon.
0:57.7	And it worked well.
0:59.0	The only problem is I would take a nap and then I'd be awake at night and I'd be awake to like three or four in the morning.
1:03.8	But that's fine.
1:04.4	I would be ready on my daily update, which is thrilling.
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