Episode 12: 12: Nothing Is So Perfect
Hypercritical
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4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2011
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin turn a critical eye towards last week's episode on criticism, then try to pick the single biggest challenge facing three different wildly successful companies: Google, Facebook, and yes…Pixar.
Links for this episode:
- Sexual Harassment and You - SNL skit, 2005
- "What company derives 96 percent of its revenue from advertising?"
- Horace Dediu's tweet about Pixar and Apple
- Ed Catmull on Pixar and success - It's long, but really, really worth watching
- Hayao Miyazaki - Wikipedia
- John Lasseter - Wikipedia
- Edwin Catmull - Wikipedia
- "Monkey Mind" - Wikipedia
- If you're not paying for it, you are the product being sold - MetaFilter
Sponsored by Sound Studio 4 and Worldview.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is hypercritical episode number 12. This is a weekly talk show |
| 0:07.3 | ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies |
| 0:10.8 | and businesses. My co-host, John Syracuse of Arst Technica and elsewhere, |
| 0:17.4 | insists that nothing is so perfect that he can't complain about it. |
| 0:20.7 | I tend to agree that that is true. I'm Dan Benjamin and John |
| 0:24.4 | we'd like to say thanks to two sponsors very quickly. We'll tell you more about |
| 0:28.9 | them later but the first one is Sound Studio 4 from Felt Tipp software and the second is |
| 0:34.8 | Worldview from campaign monitor. We'll get to those during the show. |
| 0:38.4 | Hi John. |
| 0:39.4 | Hi Dan. |
| 0:40.4 | How are you? |
| 0:41.4 | Just dandy. |
| 0:42.4 | Great. Been a long week. A lot of a lot has happened. Yeah, I think I've forgotten it all already |
| 0:49.7 | We don't need to talk about anything that's good. What we need to talk about anything. That's good. |
| 0:54.0 | Well, and we need to talk about. |
| 0:55.8 | People have been very, very speculative |
| 0:58.9 | about what the third company is. |
| 1:01.7 | But before that, there's follow-up. There's a lot of follow-up |
| 1:04.9 | There always is there's a good two three hours of follow-up |
| 1:08.6 | Well, I'll try to do it fast as usual |
| 1:11.5 | You ready? Yeah, I'm ready. I'm so ready. All right. So last week we were talking |
| 1:17.0 | about criticism online and off more or less. And I thought last week's show was kind of a microcosm of itself, sort of in an |
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