Dave Evans

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2,777 appearances 6 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 6 Jul

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Hidden Brain · Designing a Life that Matters · 27 Apr 2026 podcast

That's correct.

I was in charge of peripheral product marketing.

The two fun things I did was I did the mouse.

I made the first mouse for Apple.

I organized.

I didn't design it myself, but I organized the team of people who did.

And I got to work on laser printing and do this thing called desktop publishing before anybody knew what that was.

I mean, the work we were doing, which was at the beginning of a shift of how technology serves people, was a big deal.

But let's be clear, what I was doing was making stuff.

We were making, you know, plastic things with wires in them.

And so then I just thought, you know, and if I don't do it, somebody else will.

And I mean, some of the incredibly important things I worked on are long gone.

Not only are they replaced by later generation things, they're completely gone.

Nobody even does that stuff anymore.

It's like, what is that?

It doesn't even matter.

And by the way, it's not going to last.

So is that all there is?

Well, she really started with, what's wrong with my life and what did I do wrong?

And she described this success that didn't work out as she had hoped.

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