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Exponent

Episode 130 — The 50,000 Foot View

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 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

Transcript

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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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