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Episode 078 — Bending Trees

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2016

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss how the world will change, how change happens in companies and society, and debate whether or not we have crossed the rubicon to a new world. Links Ben Thompson: Everything as a Service —  Stratechery Ben Thompson: Friction — Stratechery Farhad Manjoo: The Uber Model, It Turns Out, Doesn’t Translate — The New York Times Ben Thompson: Intel Restructures — Stratechery Daily Update Ben Thompson: Microsoft’s Mobile Muddle — Stratechery Max Wessel: Path Dependency, Infrastructure, and Entrepreneurship — LongLogic Too Much of a Good Thing — Economist Ben Thompson: Facebook and New Market Disruption — Stratechery … Continue reading Episode 078 — Bending Trees

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, James. Ben, how are you? I'm okay. How are you? I'm pretty good. I've had a pretty nasty eye

0:07.2

infection the last few days that's had me out, and I'm still recovering from a heck of a lot of

0:13.3

traveling last week. But my family's in town right now, and the eye's starting to feel a bit better.

0:18.8

So everything's looking up.

0:21.2

I feel really guilty.

0:22.3

And that I, in that I was on the verge of reemphasizing my, my mean to you narrative.

0:28.4

In that, I kind of chuckled when you said, you had an eye infection.

0:31.8

Because you're like a locking infirmary these past few weeks.

0:34.8

Well, it's possibly related, actually.

0:37.7

I was going to ask, yeah.

0:38.5

I mean, if you have surgery in your nose,

0:39.9

then your eye gets infected.

0:41.0

Right.

0:41.7

And so they're hoping it's not,

0:43.4

but they're not really sure.

0:44.7

And so I've been having some high core.

0:46.3

Now I feel guilty.

0:47.4

Oh, man.

0:49.6

Well, I hope you feel better.

0:50.8

Thank you.

0:51.5

I'm sorry for making you feel guilty. No, no, I brought it on myself.

0:55.7

I will, I will, I live feeling guilty.

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