David Pierce

Oh, yeah. David, there's a new gadget. It's not an unreasonable explanation of my job. So that's fine. I'm not mad about that at all. Yeah, I think it's definitely shifted a little bit. We talk about gadgets as gadgets so much less than we used to. They're like cultural objects in a much more real way. And I think that's been a sort of natural shift of my career. But like...

Oh, yeah. David, there's a new gadget. It's not an unreasonable explanation of my job. So that's fine. I'm not mad about that at all. Yeah, I think it's definitely shifted a little bit. We talk about gadgets as gadgets so much less than we used to. They're like cultural objects in a much more real way. And I think that's been a sort of natural shift of my career. But like...

Do I look back on, like, my great enthusiasm for the first iPad and wonder if maybe I should have thought more about what it means that I'm just going to spend way more time sitting on my couch looking at this thing? Probably, yeah. I think we should have asked the, like, what if this takes over the world question a lot more often about technology over the years. But that said—

Do I look back on, like, my great enthusiasm for the first iPad and wonder if maybe I should have thought more about what it means that I'm just going to spend way more time sitting on my couch looking at this thing? Probably, yeah. I think we should have asked the, like, what if this takes over the world question a lot more often about technology over the years. But that said—

Do I look back on, like, my great enthusiasm for the first iPad and wonder if maybe I should have thought more about what it means that I'm just going to spend way more time sitting on my couch looking at this thing? Probably, yeah. I think we should have asked the, like, what if this takes over the world question a lot more often about technology over the years. But that said—

Like, new gadgets are awesome. Especially if we're going to get into this phase of how do we make these things not just attention sucks, but actually start to do useful things for us again. I think that's cool. Like, I think we might be at the end of a particular phase of the internet where... the whole idea of a social network is just dying.

Like, new gadgets are awesome. Especially if we're going to get into this phase of how do we make these things not just attention sucks, but actually start to do useful things for us again. I think that's cool. Like, I think we might be at the end of a particular phase of the internet where... the whole idea of a social network is just dying.

Like, new gadgets are awesome. Especially if we're going to get into this phase of how do we make these things not just attention sucks, but actually start to do useful things for us again. I think that's cool. Like, I think we might be at the end of a particular phase of the internet where... the whole idea of a social network is just dying.

YouTube and TikTok and Instagram, they're just streaming services now. We should talk about them more like Netflix and less like text messaging. And I think we're coming to that. And so the next question is gonna be, okay, It turns out people just want to hang out with each other in group chats all the time.

YouTube and TikTok and Instagram, they're just streaming services now. We should talk about them more like Netflix and less like text messaging. And I think we're coming to that. And so the next question is gonna be, okay, It turns out people just want to hang out with each other in group chats all the time.

YouTube and TikTok and Instagram, they're just streaming services now. We should talk about them more like Netflix and less like text messaging. And I think we're coming to that. And so the next question is gonna be, okay, It turns out people just want to hang out with each other in group chats all the time.

So how do we make that stuff more useful instead of trying to disrupt that and put ads next to it? Maybe there is a next turn that is like, okay, we spent 20 years pushing everything into our phones. Can I build better stuff if I build outside of it again?

So how do we make that stuff more useful instead of trying to disrupt that and put ads next to it? Maybe there is a next turn that is like, okay, we spent 20 years pushing everything into our phones. Can I build better stuff if I build outside of it again?

So how do we make that stuff more useful instead of trying to disrupt that and put ads next to it? Maybe there is a next turn that is like, okay, we spent 20 years pushing everything into our phones. Can I build better stuff if I build outside of it again?

And if all that starts to happen, we're going to get this really weird boom in weird gadgets, and we're going to figure out how to make things work again instead of just shoving everything into my pocket so that it can notify me 100 times a day. And that I'm very excited about.

And if all that starts to happen, we're going to get this really weird boom in weird gadgets, and we're going to figure out how to make things work again instead of just shoving everything into my pocket so that it can notify me 100 times a day. And that I'm very excited about.

And if all that starts to happen, we're going to get this really weird boom in weird gadgets, and we're going to figure out how to make things work again instead of just shoving everything into my pocket so that it can notify me 100 times a day. And that I'm very excited about.

Thank you very much. Hell yeah.

Thank you very much. Hell yeah.

Thank you very much. Hell yeah.