Episode 141 — The Mailbag Episode

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Ben and James answer reader questions. Topics include business school, career advice, the nature of strategy, creating the next Silicon Valley, and how governments should deal with the disruptions caused by the Internet. Presented by WordPress.com: Get 15% off on a new site by visiting WordPress.com/Exponent. Links Ben Thompson: Books to Blogs — Stratechery James Allworth, Karen Dillon, and Clayton Christenson: How Will You Measure Your Life? — ClaytonChristensen.com Ben Thompson: Strategy Credit — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Apple’s Organizational Crossroads — Stratechery Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel — W. W. Norton & Company Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens — HarperCollins … Continue reading Episode 141 — The Mailbag Episode

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0:00.0	Hi, James.
0:01.0	Ben, how are you?
0:02.7	I'm doing good.
0:03.4	Happy Chinese New Year.
0:04.4	Happy Chinese New Year to you as well.
0:07.0	Thank you.
0:07.4	It is the year of the dog, and we have a new dog, and it is just a pain in the rear end.
0:11.6	So hopefully there isn't any sudden interruptions of this podcast recording.
0:16.3	But we'll see how it goes.
0:17.4	What kind of dog?
0:19.0	It is a Bishan frisay or something. I'm not sure if I'm saying that
0:22.4	right. A puppy? She is white and fluffy and a puppy and she already peed and pooped on my office
0:27.9	four this morning. Oh, perfect. So yeah, so hopefully that's out of the way. So you'll need to worry
0:32.1	about it over the next hour or so. I'm pretty sure that's not how they work, but let's see how we go.
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0:47.8	some of the questions we have about society and what's going to happen going forward.
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