Josh Miller
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And I do think as much as there are some things that may be power usury, there are other ideas in there that you talk to 10 out of 10 people in this demographic and they go, yeah, I have seven windows and 87 tabs and it's a mess and it's chaotic and I feel overwhelmed. And so we're going to be focused on trying to build an antidote to a few specific problems.
Honestly, it's going better than I expected, but I think we're going to hit a plateau. Because our ambition really is to change the way people use the internet and improve it. And if we really want to reach out to that early adopter crowd, we have to simplify. But I think one of the really exciting things is the most used text box on a Mac is the URL bar in Safari.
Honestly, it's going better than I expected, but I think we're going to hit a plateau. Because our ambition really is to change the way people use the internet and improve it. And if we really want to reach out to that early adopter crowd, we have to simplify. But I think one of the really exciting things is the most used text box on a Mac is the URL bar in Safari.
Honestly, it's going better than I expected, but I think we're going to hit a plateau. Because our ambition really is to change the way people use the internet and improve it. And if we really want to reach out to that early adopter crowd, we have to simplify. But I think one of the really exciting things is the most used text box on a Mac is the URL bar in Safari.
And so what we've realized is we kind of spread out, and we built all these new surfaces and all these new nouns and all these new spaces. But if we focus just in on a few points that people are familiar with and use a lot, like the text box, like the URL bar, there's a lot of power we can pack in that.
And so what we've realized is we kind of spread out, and we built all these new surfaces and all these new nouns and all these new spaces. But if we focus just in on a few points that people are familiar with and use a lot, like the text box, like the URL bar, there's a lot of power we can pack in that.
And so what we've realized is we kind of spread out, and we built all these new surfaces and all these new nouns and all these new spaces. But if we focus just in on a few points that people are familiar with and use a lot, like the text box, like the URL bar, there's a lot of power we can pack in that.
And actually, that Verge article shared a lot where, no, people don't really want to manually organize stuff into file systems anymore. They want to tell the computer what they need, and they want the computer to go get it for them.
And actually, that Verge article shared a lot where, no, people don't really want to manually organize stuff into file systems anymore. They want to tell the computer what they need, and they want the computer to go get it for them.
And actually, that Verge article shared a lot where, no, people don't really want to manually organize stuff into file systems anymore. They want to tell the computer what they need, and they want the computer to go get it for them.
And so I think you'll see us pack a lot of the ideas behind some of our power user features in a much more approachable and familiar interface, which is the command-t text box that you go to all the time to ask for things. Now you can ask for a lot more.
And so I think you'll see us pack a lot of the ideas behind some of our power user features in a much more approachable and familiar interface, which is the command-t text box that you go to all the time to ask for things. Now you can ask for a lot more.
And so I think you'll see us pack a lot of the ideas behind some of our power user features in a much more approachable and familiar interface, which is the command-t text box that you go to all the time to ask for things. Now you can ask for a lot more.
In the same way that your background as a copyright lawyer informs a lot of the work that you do, I want to take a minute just to talk a little bit about my origin story because it relates to the answer to the question. When I was a senior in college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I was a sociology major.
In the same way that your background as a copyright lawyer informs a lot of the work that you do, I want to take a minute just to talk a little bit about my origin story because it relates to the answer to the question. When I was a senior in college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I was a sociology major.
In the same way that your background as a copyright lawyer informs a lot of the work that you do, I want to take a minute just to talk a little bit about my origin story because it relates to the answer to the question. When I was a senior in college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I was a sociology major.
And I went to a lecture by a professor named Robert Putnam about his book Bowling Alone. And after the lecture, I went up to him. I said, Professor Putnam, what should I do with my life? He's like, I don't know you, so I have no idea. But if you like my book, there's an entrepreneur named Scott Heiferman that started a company in New York City called Meetup after he read the book.
And I went to a lecture by a professor named Robert Putnam about his book Bowling Alone. And after the lecture, I went up to him. I said, Professor Putnam, what should I do with my life? He's like, I don't know you, so I have no idea. But if you like my book, there's an entrepreneur named Scott Heiferman that started a company in New York City called Meetup after he read the book.
And I went to a lecture by a professor named Robert Putnam about his book Bowling Alone. And after the lecture, I went up to him. I said, Professor Putnam, what should I do with my life? He's like, I don't know you, so I have no idea. But if you like my book, there's an entrepreneur named Scott Heiferman that started a company in New York City called Meetup after he read the book.
Maybe you should go work for him. So I went to get a job at Meetup. And on my first day of the internship, Scott gets up and he says, we're going to turn away from the banks and we're going to turn to each other on Kickstarter. And we're going to turn away from big box retailers and we're going to turn to each other on Etsy. And he went on and on. And it was deeply inspiring.