Episode 130 — The 50,000 Foot View

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James walk through the history of Stratechery to explain why Facebook is inescapable for a podcast about tech and society. Links Ben Thompson: Tech Goes to Washington — Stratechery John Gruber: Blackberry vs. iPhone — Daring Fireball (note: I said on the podcast this was written in 2007; it was written in 2008) Ben Thompson: What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong — Stratechery Ben Thompson: The State of Consumer Technology at the End of 2014 — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Peak Google — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Revisiting Peak Google, Again — Stratechery Daily Update Ben Thompson: More Spectacles Mea Culpas — … Continue reading Episode 130 — The 50,000 Foot View

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0:00.0	Hi, James. Ben, how are you? I'm doing pretty good. How are you? Yeah, not bad. I, um,
0:07.4	that, that, that does not sound like the hesitant halting, not bad. It sounds like you are in
0:13.7	serious distress. Are you okay? I'm all right. There are a few things going on, but like,
0:18.4	occasionally it's fun to go read your reviews on iTunes or whatever
0:22.6	and see what people have to say about the show. And I logged on and on the date of my birthday,
0:28.2	no less, there was this review that was basically like, ah, these guys have just lost it. Like all,
0:34.4	like go back, listen to the first 40 episodes and then don't bother anymore.
0:38.4	All they do is talk about Facebook and Uber.
0:40.7	Like it's just, it's not worth it anymore.
0:42.5	I was like, oh, man, come on.
0:45.5	Don't read the reviews, James.
0:47.5	I mean, if you don't have critics, you're not doing something right.
0:51.1	That's that's the other thing to keep in mind, I guess, right?
0:59.1	I have not seen this comment because, well, which is funny. I did a whole thing about how important feedback is and all these sort of loops, but I guess I have not read the exponent reviews on
1:04.0	iTunes, but you can by all means leave them everyone. No, but it's funny because I've, I have to say
1:10.5	you kind of has a point. We've spent an awful lot of time on
1:13.0	Facebook on exponent I spent a lot of time Facebook on chatechere and it's actually it's pretty
1:18.8	interesting I mentioned a few weeks ago that like I sometimes feel like chichrequery goes in cycles
1:22.7	and this week I was kind of stepping back and thinking back like the overall trajectory.
1:27.7	So, I mean, it's 2017, November 2017.
1:31.1	It's almost 2018.
1:32.3	I started a trajectory in 2013.
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