Daniel Priestley
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3,037 appearances
10 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 16 Mar
Daniel Priestley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And those fonts became a huge differentiator on the first Mac.
And it was only because he had combined calligraphy with computers.
He created the font.
So maybe the future's owned by the wide, not the narrow in this regard.
Definitely.
Become more of a generalist.
Become more curious.
And go out of your comfort zones, right?
The industrial age asked us to simply specialize and do one thing over and over.
The grandfather of capitalism is a guy called Adam Smith, and he said ultimately efficiency is about doing one thing in the process over and over and over.
But he said it's going to destroy the human spirit.
He actually wrote about the fact that that destroys the human spirit, having to just twist this knob over and over.
That creates the most value in the economy, but it's horrible for you as a human.
And he recognised that problem from the very beginning.
What we've been trained to do is just twist the knob, twist the knob, twist the knob, do the same thing over and over.
What we need to relearn how to do is allow us to become more human and
and say, actually, I'm going to explore nature.
I'm going to explore this weird passion that I have for, you know, particular theatre companies and how they run.
I'm going to go and explore this thing about, like, entrepreneur accelerators.
You know, I'm going to combine things.
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