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Episode 411: It's Not Butt
DISCUSSED: Dan's fighting his computer and explores font corruption; Merlin hates pebbles in his shoe; Dan has an anecdote about massages; Merlin has an anecdote about the FaceTime exploit; this leads to discussion about how big companies deal with huge-scale, unexpected problems; some thoughts on The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect; the problem with journalism about stuff we actually know about; remembering Michael Crichton; Heartbeeps!; a clever way to reduce damage from careless delivery; is there a new Browser War underway?; and answering a question from Listener Stephen about life after Editorial.
Links for this episode:
- Gell-Mann amnesia effect - Wikipedia
- Why This Bike Company Put a TV on Its Box
- Microsoft exec riles Firefox faithful by telling Mozilla to embrace Chrome - CNET
- Runaway (1984 American film) - Wikipedia
- Duracel Plastic Family & Creepy Parrot - YouTube
- The Hudsucker Proxy - Wikipedia
- 5by5 | Back to Work #372: Hole That Rabbit
- Drafts: How Merlin uses it and what Greg's doing next | iMore
Drafts is developed by Greg Pierce and used the hell out of by Merlin Mann. They sit down together to talk direction, workflows, and what's coming next.
Bear is a beautiful, flexible writing app for crafting notes and prose.
In a move that angered customers and generated waves of online pique, Amazon remotely deleted some digital editions of the books from the Kindle devices of readers who had bought them.
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FreshBooks (To claim your month long unrestricted free trial, go to FreshBooks.com/backtowork and enter BACK TO WORK in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section).
Hopsy (Go to tryhopsy.com/backtowork and use promo code BACKTOWORK to get the SUB home draft machine, 2 mini-kegs of beer (equivalent to 2 six packs), 2 Hopsy glasses and free membership in the monthly beer Club for $99).
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DISCUSSED: Dan's fighting his computer and explores font corruption; Merlin hates pebbles in his shoe; Dan has an anecdote about massages; Merlin has an anecdote about the FaceTime exploit; this leads to discussion about how big companies deal with huge-scale, unexpected problems; some thoughts on The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect; the problem with journalism about stuff we actually know about; remembering Michael Crichton; Heartbeeps!; a clever way to reduce damage from careless delivery; is there a new Browser War underway?; and answering a question from Listener Stephen about life after Editorial.
Links for this episode:
- Gell-Mann amnesia effect - Wikipedia
- Why This Bike Company Put a TV on Its Box
- Microsoft exec riles Firefox faithful by telling Mozilla to embrace Chrome - CNET
- Runaway (1984 American film) - Wikipedia
- Duracel Plastic Family & Creepy Parrot - YouTube
- The Hudsucker Proxy - Wikipedia
- 5by5 | Back to Work #372: Hole That Rabbit
- Drafts: How Merlin uses it and what Greg's doing next | iMore
Drafts is developed by Greg Pierce and used the hell out of by Merlin Mann. They sit down together to talk direction, workflows, and what's coming next.
Bear is a beautiful, flexible writing app for crafting notes and prose.
In a move that angered customers and generated waves of online pique, Amazon remotely deleted some digital editions of the books from the Kindle devices of readers who had bought them.
Brought to you by:
FreshBooks (To claim your month long unrestricted free trial, go to FreshBooks.com/backtowork and enter BACK TO WORK in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section).
Hopsy (Go to tryhopsy.com/backtowork and use promo code BACKTOWORK to get the SUB home draft machine, 2 mini-kegs of beer (equivalent to 2 six packs), 2 Hopsy glasses and free membership in the monthly beer Club for $99).
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