David Epstein
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582 appearances
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 10 Sep
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To really
Ask those questions that make me the most curious and not worry about seeming smart to the person that that I'm talking to.
And it's not they don't care anyway, right?
And and if you really want to to understand what you're talking about, you wanna
Be willing to expose your own lack of understanding.
Yeah, I mean, without knowing more details about the problem of framing. 'Cause I'd love to hear more about that.
So i if you're willing to tell me a little bit more about the CEO and the CFO, were they trying to frame it internally, externally, or what was the problem they were having explaining it?
Externally what this thing is or internally so that the teams could cohere, or can you tell me a little bit more about that?
Interesting.
Okay.
That problem you're trying to solve issue, I think, tracks absolutely with General Magic.
So to give people a little quick background, General Magic, this is a story about the danger of too much freedom, the absence of constraints.
This was a company
conceived in the eighties, started in the early nineties, that was so visionary that Goldman Sachs took them public in the first concept IPO in Silicon Valley history.
They went public just with an idea.
Not a product, three former Apple employees.
In in one of whom who'd become the CEO.
Named Mark Pratt was
Y in the late eighties was making schematics.
That if I showed you right now, you would think were was the iPhone, right?
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