Episode 42: 42: The Wrong Guy
Hypercritical
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5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2011
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs. Topics include Isaacson's failings as an author and biographer, the technical cluelessness on display in the book, and Steve Jobs, Enemy of Progress.
Links for this episode:
- Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson - Amazon.com
- Triumph of the Nerds: The Transcripts, Part III
- Design by contract - Wikipedia
- Triumph of the Nerds - PBS.org
- Infinite Loop, by Michael S. Malone - Amazon.com
- Apple Confidential 2.0, by Owen Linzmayer - Amazon.com
- Insanely Great, by Steven Levy - Amazon.com
- Revolution in The Valley, by Andy Hertzfeld - Amazon.com
- The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, by Alan Deutschman - Amazon.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is hypercritical. It is a weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses nothing is so perfect cannot be |
| 0:14.3 | complained about by John Syracuse. And co-hosts this show with me I'm Dan |
| 0:19.9 | Benjamin today is November 11, 2011. |
| 0:24.8 | And this is episode number 42. |
| 0:28.2 | We would like to thank our sponsors, reinvigorate.net and Raven. I. |
| 0:33.0 | And in fact, the reinvigorator is also sponsoring all of our bandwidth this month. |
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| 0:41.0 | Tell you more about them as the show goes on. |
| 0:44.7 | Hi John Sir Cusa. |
| 0:47.3 | Hi Dan Benjamin. |
| 0:48.3 | How are you feeling? |
| 0:50.3 | All right. |
| 0:51.5 | You sound good. Yeah. |
| 0:54.0 | They're not that automatic game control. |
| 0:56.0 | It's what did it. |
| 0:57.0 | Oh, you sound so good. |
| 0:58.0 | You've been working out? |
| 0:59.0 | No, no, definitely not. |
| 1:01.0 | Okay. |
| 1:05.0 | All right. Do you know what today show is about, Dan? |
| 1:08.0 | Microsoft. |
| 1:09.0 | No. |
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