Tim Urban
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2,102 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2023
last heard Feb 2023
Tim Urban’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The smart part's like, you're on your rug.
It's fine.
The dumb part of my brain is like, I'm not walking off the cliff.
So it's like, it's crazy.
Like honestly- Yeah, it's Steve Jobs' iPhone.
I mean, wasn't the 84 Macintosh like a moment when it was like, this is actually something that normal people can and want to use?
Because it was less than $5,000, I think it was $6,000.
And I just think it had some like Steve Jobs user friendliness already to it that other ones hadn't had.
I think Windows 95 was a really big deal.
I remember like, because I'm old enough to remember the MS-DOS when I was like kind of remember the command.
And then suddenly this concept of like a window you drag something into or you double click an icon, which now seems like so obvious to us, was like revolutionary because it made it intuitive.
So, you know, I don't know.
Yeah.
I moved to Mac around 2004, so I stopped.
No, so the first thing is I noticed a trend, which was like the centuries, the good is getting better every century.
Like the 20th century was the best century yet in terms of prosperity, in terms of GDP per capita, in terms of life expectancy, in terms of poverty and disease, every metric that matters.
The 20th century was incredible.
It also had the biggest wars in history, the biggest genocide in history, the biggest existential threat yet with nuclear weapons, right?
You know, the depression was, you know, probably as big an economic.
So it's this interesting thing where the stakes are getting higher in both directions.
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