Welcome to the Virgecast, the flagship podcast, of really, really old computers.

I'm your friend David Pierce and I am currently sitting in my car out front of my house.

I've developed this morning routine over the last few weeks

when it's been like bitterly cold and snowy and icy on the east coast of the US where I live,

where instead of coming out and being a proactive person who you know

scrapes off my windshield and dusts off all the snow and gets everything ready and

just gets going for the day I instead come out turn on the, put all the heat up to full blast, and then just sit here for like 15 minutes until everything, you know, melts and goes away on its own, and then I'm safe to drive.

While I'm waiting, I listen to podcasts,

I drink coffee, I catch up on email.

I like to convince myself that this is like a meditative thing

I do to really get ready for the day and not just a thing that I do because I'm too

lazy and too annoying about my hands being cold to actually just get out of the car and get it ready.

Listen, it's not a great strategy,

but it's working for me,

and hopefully it's not gonna be this cold much longer.

So I'm going with it.

Anyway, we have an awesome show coming up for you today.

We're gonna talk about the 40th anniversary of the

original Macintosh, which launched this week in 1984. We're going to talk to Walt Mossberg, who has all the stories

you could possibly imagine about that computer and what happened in the interim 40 years.

Then we're going to talk to Ali Abdal, who is an influencer and creator and

YouTubeer that you might have heard of about a book he wrote about what it means to be a productive

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