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Daring Fireball's John Gruber joins us on this week's episode of The MacRumors Show to discuss Apple Intelligence and the future of the company. We talk through the reaction to John's influential “Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino" piece on Daring Fireball, which pointed out that Apple's credibility has been "damaged" by the delay in releasing key ‌Apple Intelligence‌ features such as personalized Siri. Subsequent reportsrevealed that Vision Pro chief Mike Rockwell has taken over the Siri team at Apple, which until recently was led by artificial intelligence chief John Giannandrea. Software chief Craig Federighi is also believed to have taken on more responsibility to turn ‌Apple Intelligence‌ around. The company has altered its marketing strategy away from the "Hello, ‌Apple Intelligence‌" tagline and the features are finally expected to launch sometime within the next year. With this recent context, we get John's thoughts on how the situation has evolved since he wrote his article, including on the proposed class-action lawsuits against Apple over false advertising. We also look at how Apple may present its suite of AI features at WWDC later this year. Moreover, we reflect on the Vision Pro almost two years after its announcement, and John explains why he believes that the headset avoided the mismanagement that has mired apple Intelligence. We also talk through rumors about the second-generation Vision Pro headset that is expected to launch between fall 2025 and spring 2026 as a minor spec bump, simply upgrading from the M2 to the M5 chip. We also explore the highly anticipated lower-cost Vision headset, dubbed “Vision Air," and how this could be positioned when it launches. We look at the state of Apple's smart home proposition and the HomePod amid rumors that the company's first smart home hub product has been delayed to 2026. The device is believed to be finished and was originally scheduled to launch in March 2025, but due to its reliance on ‌Apple Intelligence‌ its release has reportedly been shelved until next year. Finally, we discuss the long-rumored foldable iPhone, pondering on what Apple is likely to do differently when it launches the device next year. See more of John's work over on Daring Fireball and on his podcast, “The Talk Show." (00:00) - Breaking Down John's Article on Apple Intelligence/Siri Fiasco (20:56) - Apple Vision Pro 2 Expectations (37:18) - The Purpose of Apple's Smart Home Hub  (50:44) - Apple Foldable Rumors

Will OpenAI be fully open source by 2027? In episode 49 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Aaron Baughman, Ash Minhas and Chris Hay to analyze Sam Altman's latest move towards open source. Next, we explore Anthropic's mechanistic interpretability results and the progress the AI research community is making. Then, can Apple catch up? We analyze the latest critiques on Apple Intelligence. Finally, Amazon enters the chat with AI agents. How does this elevate the competition? All that and more on today's Mixture of Experts.00:01 -- Introduction00:48 -- OpenAI goes open 11:36 -- Anthropic interpretability results 24:55 -- Daring Fireball on Apple Intelligence 34:22 -- Amazon's AI agentsThe opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity.Subscribe for AI updates: https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120Learn more about artificial intelligence → https://www.ibm.com/think/artificial-intelligenceVisit Mixture of Experts podcast page to learn more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts

What to expect at WWDC, the horrible state of printing and getting rid of furniture.Please take our survey! Really!The dates for WWDC 2025 have been announced.Apple could have done a lot more to nurture good will with developers.Lex placed an ad on Daring Fireball.If you want to help out the show and get some great bonus content, consider becoming a Rebound Prime member! Just go to prime.reboundcast.com to check it out!Were you aware that you could buy things from us?! That's right! Shirts, iPhone cases, mugs, hats and one other type of thing are all available from our Rebound Store!

On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we talk about Apple's recent announcement that several of its most highly anticipated Apple Intelligence features are to be delayed. Last week, Apple quietly announced that it is further delaying some of Siri's ‌Apple Intelligence‌ features that it expected to release in iOS 18. The functionality includes wide-reaching enhancements to ‌Siri‌ that leverage personal context and onscreen awareness to take complex actions in apps. It was unveiled as a key part of ‌Apple Intelligence‌ at WWDC in June last year, but has yet to be seen outside of Apple's pre-recorded demo videos and a series of now-pulled TV ads. Yesterday, Daring Fireball's John Gruber penned a blistering attack on the missing features and Apple's management decisions, triggering a wave of subsequent criticisms and calls for Apple CEO Tim Cook to directly acknowledge the situation. We reflect on the delay and the unusual circumstances surrounding the features, pondering how this happened and what it means for Apple going forward. Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @shop.mando and get $5 off off your Starter Pack (that's over 40% off) with promo code MAC at shopmando.com! #mandopod #ad

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On this episode, we're diving deep into new ideas about old things. First, Framework CEO Nirav Patel joins David and The Verge's Sean Hollister to talk about Framework's new Laptop 12 and Desktop, plus the company's plan to bring its upgradeable, repairable ethos to other gadgets. After that, Daring Fireball's John Gruber joins the show to talk about the future of James Bond, now that Amazon has complete creative control over the 007 franchise. Do we want to live in the James Bond Cinematic Universe? Finally, we answer a question on the Vergecast Hotline about using smart glasses to replace your computer monitor. Further reading: Framework wants to fix the budget laptop with its first touchscreen machine Mint and pink: a closer look at the backflipping Framework Laptop 12 Framework's first tiny Desktop beautifully straddles the line between cute and badass Framework Desktop hands-on: a possible new direction for gaming desktops ‘We're nowhere near done with Framework Laptop 16' says Framework CEO Amazon now has creative control over the James Bond franchise Amazon buys MGM for $8.45 billion From David Smith: The Talk Show Bond Anthology From Daring Fireball: Amazon MGM Studios Takes Creative Control Over James Bond Franchise Xreal's new glasses are a surprisingly good TV for your face The smart glasses era is here — I got a first look Email us at vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The new iPad Pros are here! Jason Snell shares his thoughts on the iPad Pro, and Mikah unboxes his iPad Pro as Leo and Andy watch with excitement. Logic Pro gets updated for the Mac and iPad with new AI features: is this a prelude to this year's WWDC? Apple is working on revamping Siri to catch up to its competitors' offerings in generative AI. And people are mad at Apple's 'Crush' iPad Pro ad. M4 iPad Pro review: here we go again. Breaking down the iPad Hype: M4 and Tandem OLED! Apple releases Logic Pro for Mac and iPad updates with new AI features. Daring Fireball: The M4 iPad Pros. Apple will revamp Siri to catch up to its chatbot competitors. Apple working to fix iPhone alarm problem. Apple releases iOS 17.5 with cross-platform tracking detection, EU app downloads from websites and more. VMware Fusion Pro 13 goes free for personal use, here's how to get it. Hydraulic Press Channel reproduces the iPad ad for real. Apple apologizes for 'Crush' iPad Pro ad that sparked controversy. Apple still isn't done building its dream iPad Picks of the Week: Andy's Pick: Not Boring Habits Mikah's Pick: Morpholio Trace Jason's Pick: Ferrite Recording Studio Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Guest: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit wix.com/studio

The new iPad Pros are here! Jason Snell shares his thoughts on the iPad Pro, and Mikah unboxes his iPad Pro as Leo and Andy watch with excitement. Logic Pro gets updated for the Mac and iPad with new AI features: is this a prelude to this year's WWDC? Apple is working on revamping Siri to catch up to its competitors' offerings in generative AI. And people are mad at Apple's 'Crush' iPad Pro ad. M4 iPad Pro review: here we go again. Breaking down the iPad Hype: M4 and Tandem OLED! Apple releases Logic Pro for Mac and iPad updates with new AI features. Daring Fireball: The M4 iPad Pros. Apple will revamp Siri to catch up to its chatbot competitors. Apple working to fix iPhone alarm problem. Apple releases iOS 17.5 with cross-platform tracking detection, EU app downloads from websites and more. VMware Fusion Pro 13 goes free for personal use, here's how to get it. Hydraulic Press Channel reproduces the iPad ad for real. Apple apologizes for 'Crush' iPad Pro ad that sparked controversy. Apple still isn't done building its dream iPad Picks of the Week: Andy's Pick: Not Boring Habits Mikah's Pick: Morpholio Trace Jason's Pick: Ferrite Recording Studio Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Guest: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit wix.com/studio

The new iPad Pros are here! Jason Snell shares his thoughts on the iPad Pro, and Mikah unboxes his iPad Pro as Leo and Andy watch with excitement. Logic Pro gets updated for the Mac and iPad with new AI features: is this a prelude to this year's WWDC? Apple is working on revamping Siri to catch up to its competitors' offerings in generative AI. And people are mad at Apple's 'Crush' iPad Pro ad. M4 iPad Pro review: here we go again. Breaking down the iPad Hype: M4 and Tandem OLED! Apple releases Logic Pro for Mac and iPad updates with new AI features. Daring Fireball: The M4 iPad Pros. Apple will revamp Siri to catch up to its chatbot competitors. Apple working to fix iPhone alarm problem. Apple releases iOS 17.5 with cross-platform tracking detection, EU app downloads from websites and more. VMware Fusion Pro 13 goes free for personal use, here's how to get it. Hydraulic Press Channel reproduces the iPad ad for real. Apple apologizes for 'Crush' iPad Pro ad that sparked controversy. Apple still isn't done building its dream iPad Picks of the Week: Andy's Pick: Not Boring Habits Mikah's Pick: Morpholio Trace Jason's Pick: Ferrite Recording Studio Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Guest: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit wix.com/studio

The new iPad Pros are here! Jason Snell shares his thoughts on the iPad Pro, and Mikah unboxes his iPad Pro as Leo and Andy watch with excitement. Logic Pro gets updated for the Mac and iPad with new AI features: is this a prelude to this year's WWDC? Apple is working on revamping Siri to catch up to its competitors' offerings in generative AI. And people are mad at Apple's 'Crush' iPad Pro ad. M4 iPad Pro review: here we go again. Breaking down the iPad Hype: M4 and Tandem OLED! Apple releases Logic Pro for Mac and iPad updates with new AI features. Daring Fireball: The M4 iPad Pros. Apple will revamp Siri to catch up to its chatbot competitors. Apple working to fix iPhone alarm problem. Apple releases iOS 17.5 with cross-platform tracking detection, EU app downloads from websites and more. VMware Fusion Pro 13 goes free for personal use, here's how to get it. Hydraulic Press Channel reproduces the iPad ad for real. Apple apologizes for 'Crush' iPad Pro ad that sparked controversy. Apple still isn't done building its dream iPad Picks of the Week: Andy's Pick: Not Boring Habits Mikah's Pick: Morpholio Trace Jason's Pick: Ferrite Recording Studio Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Guest: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit wix.com/studio

The new iPad Pros are here! Jason Snell shares his thoughts on the iPad Pro, and Mikah unboxes his iPad Pro as Leo and Andy watch with excitement. Logic Pro gets updated for the Mac and iPad with new AI features: is this a prelude to this year's WWDC? Apple is working on revamping Siri to catch up to its competitors' offerings in generative AI. And people are mad at Apple's 'Crush' iPad Pro ad. M4 iPad Pro review: here we go again. Breaking down the iPad Hype: M4 and Tandem OLED! Apple releases Logic Pro for Mac and iPad updates with new AI features. Daring Fireball: The M4 iPad Pros. Apple will revamp Siri to catch up to its chatbot competitors. Apple working to fix iPhone alarm problem. Apple releases iOS 17.5 with cross-platform tracking detection, EU app downloads from websites and more. VMware Fusion Pro 13 goes free for personal use, here's how to get it. Hydraulic Press Channel reproduces the iPad ad for real. Apple apologizes for 'Crush' iPad Pro ad that sparked controversy. Apple still isn't done building its dream iPad Picks of the Week: Andy's Pick: Not Boring Habits Mikah's Pick: Morpholio Trace Jason's Pick: Ferrite Recording Studio Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Guest: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit wix.com/studio

The new iPad Pros are here! Jason Snell shares his thoughts on the iPad Pro, and Mikah unboxes his iPad Pro as Leo and Andy watch with excitement. Logic Pro gets updated for the Mac and iPad with new AI features: is this a prelude to this year's WWDC? Apple is working on revamping Siri to catch up to its competitors' offerings in generative AI. And people are mad at Apple's 'Crush' iPad Pro ad. M4 iPad Pro review: here we go again. Breaking down the iPad Hype: M4 and Tandem OLED! Apple releases Logic Pro for Mac and iPad updates with new AI features. Daring Fireball: The M4 iPad Pros. Apple will revamp Siri to catch up to its chatbot competitors. Apple working to fix iPhone alarm problem. Apple releases iOS 17.5 with cross-platform tracking detection, EU app downloads from websites and more. VMware Fusion Pro 13 goes free for personal use, here's how to get it. Hydraulic Press Channel reproduces the iPad ad for real. Apple apologizes for 'Crush' iPad Pro ad that sparked controversy. Apple still isn't done building its dream iPad Picks of the Week: Andy's Pick: Not Boring Habits Mikah's Pick: Morpholio Trace Jason's Pick: Ferrite Recording Studio Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Guest: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit wix.com/studio

The new iPad Pros are here! Jason Snell shares his thoughts on the iPad Pro, and Mikah unboxes his iPad Pro as Leo and Andy watch with excitement. Logic Pro gets updated for the Mac and iPad with new AI features: is this a prelude to this year's WWDC? Apple is working on revamping Siri to catch up to its competitors' offerings in generative AI. And people are mad at Apple's 'Crush' iPad Pro ad. M4 iPad Pro review: here we go again. Breaking down the iPad Hype: M4 and Tandem OLED! Apple releases Logic Pro for Mac and iPad updates with new AI features. Daring Fireball: The M4 iPad Pros. Apple will revamp Siri to catch up to its chatbot competitors. Apple working to fix iPhone alarm problem. Apple releases iOS 17.5 with cross-platform tracking detection, EU app downloads from websites and more. VMware Fusion Pro 13 goes free for personal use, here's how to get it. Hydraulic Press Channel reproduces the iPad ad for real. Apple apologizes for 'Crush' iPad Pro ad that sparked controversy. Apple still isn't done building its dream iPad Picks of the Week: Andy's Pick: Not Boring Habits Mikah's Pick: Morpholio Trace Jason's Pick: Ferrite Recording Studio Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Guest: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit wix.com/studio

The new iPad Pros are here! Jason Snell shares his thoughts on the iPad Pro, and Mikah unboxes his iPad Pro as Leo and Andy watch with excitement. Logic Pro gets updated for the Mac and iPad with new AI features: is this a prelude to this year's WWDC? Apple is working on revamping Siri to catch up to its competitors' offerings in generative AI. And people are mad at Apple's 'Crush' iPad Pro ad. M4 iPad Pro review: here we go again. Breaking down the iPad Hype: M4 and Tandem OLED! Apple releases Logic Pro for Mac and iPad updates with new AI features. Daring Fireball: The M4 iPad Pros. Apple will revamp Siri to catch up to its chatbot competitors. Apple working to fix iPhone alarm problem. Apple releases iOS 17.5 with cross-platform tracking detection, EU app downloads from websites and more. VMware Fusion Pro 13 goes free for personal use, here's how to get it. Hydraulic Press Channel reproduces the iPad ad for real. Apple apologizes for 'Crush' iPad Pro ad that sparked controversy. Apple still isn't done building its dream iPad Picks of the Week: Andy's Pick: Not Boring Habits Mikah's Pick: Morpholio Trace Jason's Pick: Ferrite Recording Studio Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Guest: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit wix.com/studio

Lawmakers Ignoring The LawIn her influential 2017 Yale Law Journal article, "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox," Lina Khan argues that the current antitrust framework, which primarily focuses on consumer welfare and price effects, fails to capture the full range of anticompetitive practices employed by digital platforms like Amazon. She suggests that the Sherman Act and other antitrust laws may need to be reinterpreted or updated to address these companies' specific challenges from an anti-trust point of view.Khan writes,"The current framework in antitrust—specifically its pegging competition to 'consumer welfare,' defined as short-term price effects—is unequipped to capture the architecture of market power in the modern economy."She argues that focusing primarily on price effects overlooks other ways digital platforms can harm competition, such as by leveraging their dominance across multiple markets or using their control over data to create barriers to entry.While Khan does not explicitly state that the Sherman Act is inadequate, her arguments suggest that the current interpretation and application of antitrust laws, including the Sherman Act, may not be sufficient to address the challenges posed by Big Tech. Her work has contributed to a broader discussion about updating antitrust enforcement for the digital age. But the harsh truth is - she cannot use current Law because her targets are not breaking it.The DOJ complaint that Apple is a monopoly (not a crime) and abusing its monopoly power fails if the Sherman Act is relied upon to judge criminality. Although the FTC is not bringing the case—it is run by Lina Khan—the DOJ is clearly on the same page as she is in bringing it. In July 2023, I argued, “Khan and Gensler Should be Fired.” The case for that is now even more convincing.As Jason Snell from Six Colors argues:Defining a “monopoly.” Before we get to some of the details of Apple's specific anti-competitive behavior, it's worth noting that this suit is charging Apple with violations of the Sherman antitrust act, which is meant to specifically regulate monopolies. Things that are legal for regular companies to do become illegal when monopolies do them.Part of this document, then, has to establish that Apple holds monopoly power over a specific market. Given that Apple's share of the U.S. smartphone market is about 60 percent, how can it be called a monopoly? The DoJ attempts to square this circle in a few different ways: It uses revenue instead of unit sales, pointing out that Apple and Samsung combined hold 90 percent of the U.S. smartphone market by revenue. It creates a new sub-market, the “Performance Smartphone,” which pushes Apple up to about 70 percent of the market in terms of unit sales. It accuses Apple of attempting to create a monopoly through its various business tactics, which is also illegal.Questions I would ask about this approach: Can you add in Samsung, find a number starting in ninety, and declare something a monopoly? Is revenue share how monopolies are defined? Can you draw borders on a product category in a beneficial way in order to declare it a new market?Apple's position in the U.S. market is certainly strong, but regardless of how you view its behavior, it will be interesting to see if the DoJ can make a convincing case that Apple is actually a monopoly, given the presence of Samsung and Google in the market. Jason Snell, six colorsBecause the law does not provide a solid case against Apple, the DOJ is attempting to redefine the meaning of words to allow its case. This alone should be sufficient evidence that the complaint is a political, not a criminal, decision. The case will fail before a judge and jury, and Apple's response indicates it plans to fight.Renowned former journalist Walt Mossberg had this to say on Threads:https://www.threads.net/@mossbergwalt/post/C41RaBuvrC0And Steven Sinofsky - his article is below - gives a damning appraisal of the DOJs chances.His first day X post is a great overview from somebody who - at Microsoft - has been down this path with the DOJ. Click the graphic for the full thread.https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/1770878948421059035?s=61&t=vSSPDgMsv3aFc2ctR_yOwwApple's multibillion-dollar investment in building a global software distribution platform benefits its shareholders. But it also benefits users, even Android users. Who in their right mind would have thought Eric Schmidt would have focused on mobile as much had Apple not started the mobile revolution in 2007?The intense competition for users (Android's many varieties have about 80% global market share) drives innovation on all sides.The essence of the DOJ case is that Apple should be forced to be as bad as Android, or there will be no equality. The essay By Kurt Vonnegut that Daring Fireball ‘typeset'—‘HARRISON BERGERON'—is therefore entirely appropriate—and hilarious, too. It's the first Essay of the Week. See below.This DOJ complaint is not for “the people.” It is for the DOJ and the FTC, who are increasingly attempting to hold back innovation, especially when the innovator is better than the competition. This makes it increasingly irrelevant as accelerated competition challenges all incumbents.OpenAI and its peers (now several) are a great example, seemingly driving two of the slower movers - Apple and Google - to partner on AI in the next version of iOS.Well, there you have it. Shame on the DOJ for filing this amateur complaint. And if we buy the DOJ case or fail to oppose it, Shame on us. ContentsEditorial: Lawmakers Ignoring the LawEssays of the Week‘HARRISON BERGERON' ★ (Fiction) United States v. Apple (Complaint) Apple slams DOJ case as misguided attempt to turn iPhone into Android The Department of Justice comes for Apple A few thoughts on the DOJ's antitrust case against Apple Two Roads Diverged: The Splitting of Venture CapitalVideo of the WeekThe Odds of Raising a Series A, The Latest in Venture Valuations, The AI Premium and More! - Jason LemkinAI of the WeekNvidia's Accelerating AI Strategy. 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John Gruber is the author of Daring Fireball. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a mega episode on the state of Apple. We cover: 1) The company's vibe amid revenue declines 2) The impact of its services business 3) Its position in China 4) How AI might change the user interface of computing 5) Can Apple keep up with the changes if we move beyond the screen 6) Gruber's reaction to the Vision Pro 7) The stakes of Apple's Vision Pro bet 8) Apple conflict with Meta and who is getting the best of it 9) Is Apple too attached to its App Store fees 10) Who might succeed Tim Cook? This is the longest episode in Big Technology Podcast history. But also a masterclass from Gruber on the state of a company he's covered for two decades. Enjoy! --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Questions? Feedback? Write to: bigtechnologypodcast@gmail.com

Welcome to Code Completion, Episode 137! We are a group of iOS developers and educators hoping to share what we love most about development, Apple technology, and completing your code! Follow us @CodeCompletion (https://mastodon.social/@CodeCompletion) on Mastodon to hear about our upcoming livestreams, videos, and other content. Today, we discuss: - Swift Evolution Updates: - Init Accessors (https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0400-init-accessors.md) - Remove Actor Isolation Inference caused by Property Wrappers (https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0401-remove-property-wrapper-isolation.md) - PSA: iOS 16.5.1 and friends released, fixing camera adapter: - Apple (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213814) - Reddit descends into chaos: - Apollo debunks Reddit claims (https://reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14dkqrw/i_want_to_debunk_reddits_claims_and_talk_about/) - Kee Hinckley (https://infosec.exchange/@nazgul/110568022092511807) - Kee Hinckley (https://infosec.exchange/@nazgul/110567606843018903) - A little Blackmail (https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/19/23765895/reddit-hack-phishing-leak-api-pricing-steve-huffman) - The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754780/reddit-api-updates-changes-news-announcements) - GitHub Dependency Graph now supports Swift: - GitHub Blog (https://github.blog/changelog/2023-06-19-dependency-graph-dependabot-alerts-and-advisory-database-now-support-swift-advisories/) - Google Kills Google Domains: - 9to5google (https://9to5google.com/2023/06/15/google-domains-squarespace/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon) - Mac Pro is super limited as we thought - Max Tech (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P84GO_1lpmI) - The Vision Pro SDK is now available! - Apple Developer Portal (https://developer.apple.com/visionos/) - Daring Fireball (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/21/visionos-apps) - Guest Mode (https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/110585195216226865) - Human Interface Guidelines (https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/designing-for-visionos) - Craig Hockenberry on NDAs (https://www.wired.com/2008/08/iphone-coders-feel-miffed-muzzled-by-apple-s-nda/) - Figma design resources now available: - Apple Developer Portal (https://developer.apple.com/design/resources/) - No plans for custom watch faces: - 9to5mac (https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/19/interview-watchos-10-third-party-apple-watch-faces/) - Code Completion Tip: Defer in init: - Błażej (https://mastodon.social/@icanswiftabit/110541618444385794) - Mini Review Corner: WiFiMan Wizard - Ubiquiti Store (https://store.ui.com/us/en/collections/unifi-accessory-tech-wifiman/products/wm-w) - AirPort Utility Wi-Fi Scanner (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203068) Your hosts for this week: * Spencer Curtis (https://mastodon.social/@SpencerCCurtis) * Dimitri Bouniol (https://mastodon.social/@DimitriBouniol) Be sure to also sign up to our monthly newsletter (https://codecompletion.io/), where we will recap the topics we discussed, reveal the answers to #CompleteTheCode, and share even more things we learned in between episodes. You are what makes this show possible, so please be sure to share this with your friends and family who are also interested in any part of the app development process. Sponsor This week's episode of Code Completion is brought to you by Johnny B's Bon Voyage eCommerce App course. Visit https://bon-voyage.app/course and be sure to follow Bon Voyage's instructor @jonnybcodes on Twitter to learn more and stay up to date with all his courses!

Muchas preguntas que surgen tras las presentación de las Vision Pro, y sobre todo, tras leer las primeras impresionas con ellas de algunos de quienes ya han podido probarlas. Ángel Jiménez en El Mundo: https://www.elmundo.es/tecnologia/2023/06/07/6480b02be4d4d8b2668b4575.html John Gruber en Daring Fireball: https://daringfireball.net/2023/06/first_impressions_of_vision_pro_and_visionos Jason Snell en Six Colors: https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/06/eyes-and-head-on-with-the-apple-vision-pro/ Loop Infinito es un podcast de Applesfera, presentado por Javier Lacort y editado por Santi Araújo. Contacta con el autor en Twitter (@jlacort) o por correo (lacort@xataka.com). Gracias por escuchar este podcast.

This week, as we catch our breath after The Next Stage, host Noah Nelson shares his impressions – and concerns – about the Apple Vision Pro announcement and then pivots to talk about two pieces in this year's Tribeca Immersive – The Pirate Queen: A Forgotten Legend and MONSTRORAMA – both of which are being showcased this at the festival through June 17th.SHOW NOTESFirst Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS - Daring FireballApple's Messi Vision - 500ishThe Pirate Queen: A Forgotten Legend - Tribeca ImmersiveMONSTRORAMA - Tribeca ImmersiveTribeca ImmersiveWhy You Need to Get Yourself to the Nearest Meow Wolf Portal and Jump In - io9 Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Code Completion, Episode 132! We are a group of iOS developers and educators hoping to share what we love most about development, Apple technology, and completing your code! Follow us @CodeCompletion (https://mastodon.social/@CodeCompletion) on Mastodon to hear about our upcoming livestreams, videos, and other content. Today, we discuss: - Swift Evolution Updates: - Tuple of value pack expansion (https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0399-tuple-of-value-pack-expansion.md) - Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad: - Apple Newsroom (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-brings-final-cut-pro-and-logic-pro-to-ipad/) - Leaks (https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/10/apple-leaker-sting-operation-source-fired/) - Correllium wins against Apple (https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/08/us-court-corellium-apple-ios/) - Apple headset coming very soon: - Daring Fireball (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/05/15/kuo-headset-wwdc) - Maryland Apple Store union wants employees to ask for tips: - Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-03/apple-s-unionized-store-workers-seek-tips-and-higher-holiday-pay) - Go compiler wants to add telemetry: - Michael Tsai (https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/05/16/go-compiler-telemetry/) - Code Completion Tip: - Comparable enums (https://emptytheory.com/2020/06/30/using-comparable-with-enumerations-in-swift-5-3/) - Mini Review Corner: - Breville Joule Toaster Oven (https://www.breville.com/us/en/products/ovens/bov950.html) - Commented Out: - “Nintendo doesn't make traditional Zeldas anymore” - How Nintendo Solved Zelda's Open World Problem (https://youtu.be/CZzcVs8tNfE) Your hosts for this week: * Spencer Curtis (https://mastodon.social/@SpencerCCurtis) * Dimitri Bouniol (https://mastodon.social/@DimitriBouniol) Be sure to also sign up to our monthly newsletter (https://codecompletion.io/), where we will recap the topics we discussed, reveal the answers to #CompleteTheCode, and share even more things we learned in between episodes. You are what makes this show possible, so please be sure to share this with your friends and family who are also interested in any part of the app development process. Sponsor This week's episode of Code Completion is brought to you by Pennant. Go to https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id622463230?pt=1765080&ct=CodeCompletion&mt=8 today to check it out!

Welcome to Code Completion, Episode 131! We are a group of iOS developers and educators hoping to share what we love most about development, Apple technology, and completing your code! Follow us @CodeCompletion (https://mastodon.social/@CodeCompletion) on Mastodon to hear about our upcoming livestreams, videos, and other content. Today, we discuss: - Preshow: - Dimitri made a clone. - Notifications always get in the way. - Dimitri finally found out why you sometimes can't click in Notes. - Swift Evolution Updates: - Freestanding Declaration Macros (https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0397-freestanding-declaration-macros.md) - Allow Generic Types to Abstract over Packs (https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0398-variadic-types.md) - Conform Never to Codable (https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0396-never-codable.md) - Ford is happy GM is being stupid: - WSJ (https://www.wsj.com/video/ford-ceo-on-apple-google-and-elon-musk/B6D8BC45-1C4A-45D3-97AC-933A57B76E31.html) - Twitter threatens to re-assign handles: - Daring Fireball (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/05/02/npr-musk-handle) - Rapid Security Responses are here to make updates faster: - The Eclectic Light Company (https://eclecticlight.co/2023/05/06/did-that-update-just-break-something-how-bad-updates-are-getting-less-likely/) - New Version Numbering (https://eclecticlight.co/2023/05/07/last-week-on-my-mac-all-in-the-numbers/) - Swift Foundation Package now available as a preview: - Swift Blog (https://www.swift.org/blog/foundation-preview-now-available/) - StateObject initialization now has better documentation: - Swiftjective-C (https://www.swiftjectivec.com/dependency-injection-with-state-object-swiftui/) - Registering Domains is possible directly in iOS Settings: - Daring Fireball (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/05/02/icloud-plus-domain-name-registration) - Apple wins against Epic Games, for realz this time: - Michael Tsai's blog (https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/04/25/apple-wins-antitrust-battle-with-epic-games/) - Slideloading might be coming in iOS 17: - Michael Tsai's Blog (https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/04/24/sideloading-rumored-for-ios-17/) - countryd (https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/04/27/countryd/) - Code Completion Tip: - Relative paths in Xcode (https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2234244) - Mini Review Corner: 5G Internet - AT&T Fiber (https://www.att.com/internet/fiber/) - Commented Out: - Tears of the Kingdom is 3 days away. Your hosts for this week: * Spencer Curtis (https://mastodon.social/@SpencerCCurtis) * Dimitri Bouniol (https://mastodon.social/@DimitriBouniol) Be sure to also sign up to our monthly newsletter (https://codecompletion.io/), where we will recap the topics we discussed, reveal the answers to #CompleteTheCode, and share even more things we learned in between episodes. You are what makes this show possible, so please be sure to share this with your friends and family who are also interested in any part of the app development process. Sponsor This week's episode of Code Completion is brought to you by Not Phở. Search for Not Phở on the iOS and macOS App Stores today to give it a try: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1525104124?pt=14724&ct=CodeCompletion1&mt=8

Welcome to Code Completion, Episode 129! We are a group of iOS developers and educators hoping to share what we love most about development, Apple technology, and completing your code! Follow us @CodeCompletion (https://mastodon.social/@CodeCompletion) on Mastodon to hear about our upcoming livestreams, videos, and other content. Today, we discuss: - Swift Evolution: - Observation (https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0395-observability.md) - for…in vs for…of (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/for...in#array_iteration_and_for...in) - C has true and false now: - Micheal Tsai's Blog (https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/04/13/c23-standard-sets-the-world-on-fire/) - Apple Savings accounts are here: - Apple Newsroom (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/04/apple-cards-new-high-yield-savings-account-is-now-available-offering-a-4-point-15-percent-apy/) - Unlike GM, Ford commits to CarPlay: - 9to5mac (https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/13/ford-carplay-support-commitment/) - Apple Glasses rumored to be coming in 2026: - 9to5mac (https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/13/apple-glasses-launch-2/) - Would you like to watch Max on your M2 Max MacBook Pro via your AirPods Max? - Daring Fireball (https://daringfireball.net/2023/04/warner_max) - Code Completion Tip: Private Underscore: - Swift Forrums (https://forums.swift.org/t/coding-style-for-internal-private-variables/2850/3) - Mini Review Corner: Surface Duo - Microsoft (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/surface-duo-2/9408kgxp4xjl) - GameExplain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgWaHEP1ewg) Your hosts for this week: * Spencer Curtis (https://mastodon.social/@SpencerCCurtis) * Dimitri Bouniol (https://mastodon.social/@DimitriBouniol) Be sure to also sign up to our monthly newsletter (https://codecompletion.io/), where we will recap the topics we discussed, reveal the answers to #CompleteTheCode, and share even more things we learned in between episodes. You are what makes this show possible, so please be sure to share this with your friends and family who are also interested in any part of the app development process. Sponsor This week's episode of Code Completion is brought to you by Super Easy Timer. Search for Super Easy Timer on the Mac App Store to give it a try: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1525104124?mt=12

Daring Fireball: Wavelength. Apple releases iOS 16.4 with new emoji, Safari web push notifications, beta changes, voice isolation for calls and more. Mark Gurman on Twitter: "When Apple set out to develop iOS 17, the initial thinking was to call it a tuneup release..." Cabel Sasser's blog: "Apple passwords deserve an app". Tim Cook praises Apple's 'symbiotic' relationship with China. China urges Apple to strengthen data security. Apple Pay Later is finally launching. At Apple, rare dissent over a new product: Interactive Goggles. Apple is threatening to take action against staff who aren't coming into the office 3 days a week, report says. Apple acquired a startup using AI to compress videos. Apple to spend $1 billion annually on movies, aiming for major theatrical releases. Picks of the Week  Jason's Pick: Whisper Transcription by Jordi Bruin Alex's Pick: Sony FX30 Andy's Pick: COB Mini LED light Leo's Pick: Infinite Mac Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Daring Fireball: Wavelength. Apple releases iOS 16.4 with new emoji, Safari web push notifications, beta changes, voice isolation for calls and more. Mark Gurman on Twitter: "When Apple set out to develop iOS 17, the initial thinking was to call it a tuneup release..." Cabel Sasser's blog: "Apple passwords deserve an app". Tim Cook praises Apple's 'symbiotic' relationship with China. China urges Apple to strengthen data security. Apple Pay Later is finally launching. At Apple, rare dissent over a new product: Interactive Goggles. Apple is threatening to take action against staff who aren't coming into the office 3 days a week, report says. Apple acquired a startup using AI to compress videos. Apple to spend $1 billion annually on movies, aiming for major theatrical releases. Picks of the Week  Jason's Pick: Whisper Transcription by Jordi Bruin Alex's Pick: Sony FX30 Andy's Pick: COB Mini LED light Leo's Pick: Infinite Mac Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Daring Fireball: Wavelength. Apple releases iOS 16.4 with new emoji, Safari web push notifications, beta changes, voice isolation for calls and more. Mark Gurman on Twitter: "When Apple set out to develop iOS 17, the initial thinking was to call it a tuneup release..." Cabel Sasser's blog: "Apple passwords deserve an app". Tim Cook praises Apple's 'symbiotic' relationship with China. China urges Apple to strengthen data security. Apple Pay Later is finally launching. At Apple, rare dissent over a new product: Interactive Goggles. Apple is threatening to take action against staff who aren't coming into the office 3 days a week, report says. Apple acquired a startup using AI to compress videos. Apple to spend $1 billion annually on movies, aiming for major theatrical releases. Picks of the Week  Jason's Pick: Whisper Transcription by Jordi Bruin Alex's Pick: Sony FX30 Andy's Pick: COB Mini LED light Leo's Pick: Infinite Mac Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Daring Fireball: Wavelength. Apple releases iOS 16.4 with new emoji, Safari web push notifications, beta changes, voice isolation for calls and more. Mark Gurman on Twitter: "When Apple set out to develop iOS 17, the initial thinking was to call it a tuneup release..." Cabel Sasser's blog: "Apple passwords deserve an app". Tim Cook praises Apple's 'symbiotic' relationship with China. China urges Apple to strengthen data security. Apple Pay Later is finally launching. At Apple, rare dissent over a new product: Interactive Goggles. Apple is threatening to take action against staff who aren't coming into the office 3 days a week, report says. Apple acquired a startup using AI to compress videos. Apple to spend $1 billion annually on movies, aiming for major theatrical releases. Picks of the Week  Jason's Pick: Whisper Transcription by Jordi Bruin Alex's Pick: Sony FX30 Andy's Pick: COB Mini LED light Leo's Pick: Infinite Mac Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Daring Fireball: Wavelength. Apple releases iOS 16.4 with new emoji, Safari web push notifications, beta changes, voice isolation for calls and more. Mark Gurman on Twitter: "When Apple set out to develop iOS 17, the initial thinking was to call it a tuneup release..." Cabel Sasser's blog: "Apple passwords deserve an app". Tim Cook praises Apple's 'symbiotic' relationship with China. China urges Apple to strengthen data security. Apple Pay Later is finally launching. At Apple, rare dissent over a new product: Interactive Goggles. Apple is threatening to take action against staff who aren't coming into the office 3 days a week, report says. Apple acquired a startup using AI to compress videos. Apple to spend $1 billion annually on movies, aiming for major theatrical releases. Picks of the Week  Jason's Pick: Whisper Transcription by Jordi Bruin Alex's Pick: Sony FX30 Andy's Pick: COB Mini LED light Leo's Pick: Infinite Mac Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Welcome to Code Completion, Episode 124! We are a group of iOS developers and educators hoping to share what we love most about development, Apple technology, and completing your code! Follow us @CodeCompletion (https://mastodon.social/@CodeCompletion) on Mastodon to hear about our upcoming livestreams, videos, and other content. Today, we discuss: - Preshow: HomeKit Woes - New Swift proposal: Custom Executors: - Swift Evolution (https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0392-custom-actor-executors.md) - Silicon Valley Bank went bunk: - CNBC (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/10/silicon-valley-bank-is-shut-down-by-regulators-fdic-to-protect-insured-deposits.html) - Daring Fireball (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/03/11/rubinstein-svb) - Samsung is cheating their moon photos: - Reddit Proof (https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_space_zoom_moon_shots_are_fake_and_here/) - Marques Brownlee (https://youtu.be/1afpDuTb-P0) - Everyone is getting in on ActivityPub and Mastodon: - Medium (https://blog.medium.com/medium-embraces-mastodon-19dcb873eb11) - Wordpress (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/13/wordpress-com-owner-automattic-acquires-an-activitypub-plugin-so-blogs-can-join-the-fediverse/) - Instagram (https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/meta-mulls-a-twitter-competitor-codenamed-p92-that-will-be-interoperable-with-mastodon-10223961.html) - Eugene Rochko, creator of Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/110001525647048508) - Apple released a new yellow iPhone 14: - Apple Newsroom (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/03/hello-yellow-apple-introduces-new-iphone-14-and-iphone-14-plus/) - Apple Music Classical is up for preorder: - “Preorder” (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apple-music-classical/id1598433714) - Code Completion Tip: Matching error codes - Ole Begemann (https://oleb.net/blog/2023/catch-error-code/) - Mini Review Corner: Hifiman Sundara - Hifiman Sundara (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088T14XB8/) - Headphone Tier List (https://crinacle.com/rankings/headphones/) - Linus Network Switch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMFQ3YvR3Eo) - Schiit Name Story (https://www.gearpatrol.com/tech/a519757/schiit-audio/) - Commented Out: Classic Gaming Woes - Why Wii U's are Dying (https://youtu.be/JHME4zLs6Qs) Your hosts for this week: * Spencer Curtis (https://mastodon.social/@SpencerCCurtis) * Dimitri Bouniol (https://mastodon.social/@DimitriBouniol) Be sure to also sign up to our monthly newsletter (https://codecompletion.io/), where we will recap the topics we discussed, reveal the answers to #CompleteTheCode, and share even more things we learned in between episodes. You are what makes this show possible, so please be sure to share this with your friends and family who are also interested in any part of the app development process. Sponsor This week's episode of Code Completion is brought to you by Pennant. Go to https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id622463230?pt=1765080&ct=CodeCompletion&mt=8 today to check it out!

On the podcast we talk with John about the far reaching implications of the European Union's Digital Markets Act, how app developers should be thinking about the opportunities created, and why Apple making so much money from the App Store might be bad for Apple long-term.Top Takeaways⚖️ The EC's DMA is set to shake things up in a big way — but how isn't completely clear

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings address the Twitter-sized elephant in the room, talk about how each of them use social media, and consider ways all of us can engage this part of our world in a healthy way.BEMA Poll/Survey“Twitter suspends @ElonJet plane-tracking bot after Musk pledged to leave it up” — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica“Elon Musk offloads another $3.6 billion of Tesla stock” — Dave Lee, Financial Times/Ars Technica“One More for the ‘Everything Is Going Just Fine at Twitter' File” — John Gruber, Daring Fireball“Musk brings back Twitter Blue with new features to prevent impersonation” — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica“On the Prevalence of Hate Speech on Twitter” — John Gruber, Daring Fireball“Goodbye, Twitter” — Ken White, SubstackBrent's Tweet on Sabbath“Platformer: Twitter Considering Making Personalized Ads and Location Sharing Mandatory” — John Gruber, Daring FireballThought of the Day: The Social Dilemma — Marty Solomon, YouTubeBrent's Tweet on Playback ControlsTweet Thread on Infinite ScrollingBEMA 2: Knowing When to Say “Enough”Thought of the Day: Social Media Beatitudes — Marty Solomon, YouTubeThought of the Day: Disagreement — Marty Solomon, YouTubeBEMA on FacebookBEMA on TwitterMarty on InstagramBrent on InstagramBrent's Mastodon Invite LinkTHINGS THAT TRANSPIRED BETWEEN RECORDING AND PUBLISHINGElon's Poll for Leadership of TwitterBrent's Tweet Commenting on How This Episode Quickly Became OutdatedDave Lee's Tweet on Linking to MastodonAaron Levie's Tweet on External Linking Policy

John Gruber joins us this week to take a closer look at new features in ‌macOS Ventura‌ like Stage Manager, Continuity Camera, and the redesigned System Settings app. We discuss the current state of the Mac lineup and our favorite models, whether the launch of new Mac models is delayed, and upgrades from next-generation MacBook Pro models. With Apple now passing the initial timeframe it set out to transition the entire Mac lineup to Apple silicon, we also take a look at what to expect from the upcoming Mac Pro. John is a technology blogger, UI designer, and the inventor of Markdown. He has written for his Apple and technology-focused blog, Daring Fireball, since 2002, and hosts The Talk Show Podcast, which has featured high-profile guests from Apple such as Phil Schiller, Eddy Cue, and Craig Federighi.  See John's work on daringfireball.net and follow him on Twitter @gruber. You can follow us on Twitter @danbarbera and @HartleyCharlton. Be sure to visit macrumors.com for all of the latest Apple news and rumors.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What is the most popular social media platform and how much should we trust them? That's one of the topics on this week's podcast. We also talk about Daring Fireball's anniversary and Apple showing ads on its iCloud platform even though you may pay for it. Dave and I also play the Notable People game, which almost derailed the podcast entirely. Brought to you by: Kolide: Is your Service Desk struggling with remote work and a mix of Mac, Windows, and Linux devices? Kolide can help. Learn more here. Show Notes: Daring Fireball is 20 Teens, the fall of Facebook, and social media Apple Finds Its Next Big Business: Showing Ads on Your iPhone The Notable People game Sidney. Apple TV+, Sept 23rd Five Days At Memorial, Apple TV+ The Greatest Beer Run Ever

Artist Adam Schwerner joins us to discuss Your (Un)natural Garden, currently delighting visitors to LA's Descanso Gardens. We talk about the interactive installations, botanical gardens as a canvas for art, and what he's learned about large-scale art as part of the executive team of the most iconic venue in themed entertainment.Plus: The Pick of the WeekHeadlinesApple Mixed Reality Device Details Begin To Emerge (Daring Fireball highlights The Information)Report: Apple Board Gets Mixed Reality Demo (Bloomberg)Two Bit Circus Announces Merger, New Venture (Blooloop)Hunt-A-Killer's New, More Mainstream Offerings (Press Release)Associate Producer: Parker SelaMusic: Chris Porter Headlines: Kathryn Yu, Executive Editor of No ProsceniumProducer and Host: Noah Nelson   Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our anchors start today's show with CNBC's Dom Chu breaking down the last volatile few days in tech trading, and Daring Fireball blogger John Gruber joins to recap Apple's recent product launch event. Next, Wall Street Journal reporter Dave Michaels discusses his latest article on a federal probe into trades by entertainment moguls Barry Diller and David Geffen surrounding Microsoft's acquisition of video game publisher Activision. Then, Sequoia Capital Partner Shaun Maguire talks crypto after President Biden signed an executive order addressing the regulation of digital assets, and CNBC's Morgan Brennan interviews Space Force Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond for his insight on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Later, former VMware COO Sanjay Poonen weighs in on the performance of several cloud and software names, and our Julia Boorstin covers Disney employees and shareholders criticizing CEO Bob Chapek for the company's response to Florida's “Don't Say Gay” Bill.

Hello everyone, Nicholas here. Your pals have taken the week off to celebrate Thanksgiving with their families, but rather than leave you hanging we've decided to re-run our interview with John Gruber from earlier this year. Have a great week, and we'll see you next week. -Nicholas **Original Show Notes Follow Below** Hello and welcome to yet another exciting edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are John, Victor, and Nicholas. Also joining us this week is fellow watch aficionado and longtime Apple observer John Gruber of Daring Fireball. We start this week with a quick wrist check: Victor's got an Ollech & Wajs C-1000, Nicholas has his gray CasiOak, and John has his Seamaster Chrono GMT. Gruber, who joins about one-third of the way through the episode, is wearing an Apple Watch (though he notes that he'd just as likely be wearing his Rolex Submariner ref. 14060M). Nicholas has a brief follow-up to a topic we discussed several weeks ago: whether or not the photos for the Hodinkee edition Oris (which we liked!) were shot on film or not. We now have confirmation that at least some of them were, and that the video was shot on Super 8. This leads to a mini rant from John on the state of media today and a critique of some very busy-looking Omegas. We then move onto some Apple talk, focusing on the newly released iPhone 13 and 13 Pro. Should you upgrade? That depends on where you're coming from, iPhone-wise, but certainly the macro photography mode of the 13 Pro would come in handy if you take a lot of watch photos. Instagram, here we come. Gruber then joins the pod, sparking a wide-ranging discussion of the Apple Watch, Rolex price creep, getting into "real" watches, and more. It's a great chat with some real watch geeks, so you're in for a treat! And that, as they say, is that. Big thanks to John Gruber for taking the time to hang with us this week. Be sure to read Daring Fireball, listen to The Talk Show and Dithering, and follow him on Twitter. Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for producing this week's episode. Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content. Thank you for listening, and have a great week! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-hourtime-show/support

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Hello and welcome to yet another exciting edition of The HourTime Show, the official podcast of WristWatchReview.com. Your hosts this week are John, Victor, and Nicholas. Also joining us this week is fellow watch aficionado and longtime Apple observer John Gruber of Daring Fireball. We start this week with a quick wrist check: Victor's got an Ollech & Wajs C-1000, Nicholas has his gray CasiOak, and John has his Seamaster Chrono GMT. Gruber, who joins about one-third of the way through the episode, is wearing an Apple Watch (though he notes that he'd just as likely be wearing his Rolex Submariner ref. 14060M). Nicholas has a brief follow-up to a topic we discussed several weeks ago: whether or not the photos for the Hodinkee edition Oris (which we liked!) were shot on film or not. We now have confirmation that at least some of them were, and that the video was shot on Super 8. This leads to a mini rant from John on the state of media today and a critique of some very busy-looking Omegas. We then move onto some Apple talk, focusing on the newly released iPhone 13 and 13 Pro. Should you upgrade? That depends on where you're coming from, iPhone-wise, but certainly the macro photography mode of the 13 Pro would come in handy if you take a lot of watch photos. Instagram, here we come. Gruber then joins the pod, sparking a wide-ranging discussion of the Apple Watch, Rolex price creep, getting into "real" watches, and more. It's a great chat with some real watch geeks, so you're in for a treat! And that, as they say, is that. Big thanks to John Gruber for taking the time to hang with us this week. Be sure to read Daring Fireball, listen to The Talk Show and Dithering, and follow him on Twitter. Thanks once again to Andrew Haworth for producing this week's episode. Keep it locked to WristWatchReview.com and @wristwatchreview on Instagram for more fun watch content. Thank you for listening, and have a great week! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-hourtime-show/support

A new zero-click exploit targets the iPhone, Russia fines internet companies for not storing user data in the country, and you'll soon be able to put a driver's license in Apple Wallet, but should you? Show Notes: Bahraini activists targeted with new iOS zero-click exploit WhatsApp, Facebook, and Twitter fined for not storing user data inside Russia Firefox follows Chrome and prepares to block insecure downloads Tom Cruise surprises starstruck British family by landing helicopter in garden Hundreds of thousands of Realtek-based devices under attack from IoT botnet Apple and Google must allow developers to use other in-app payment systems, per new South Korean law A Parent's Guide to In-App Purchases on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Daring Fireball on the South Korean in-app payment law Apple adds driver's licenses, state IDs to Apple Wallet Tweet from Nilay Patel This phishing attack is using a sneaky trick to steal your passwords, warns Microsoft Intego Mac Premium Bundle X9 is the ultimate protection and utility suite for your Mac. Download a free trial now at intego.com, and use this link for a special discount when you're ready to buy.

“I think I do my best work when I can really see whatever passion or expertise someone has in their creative field. That really inspires me to do things as well as I can.” – Dan Frommer  Dan Frommer (@fromedome) is Founder and Editor in Chief of The New Consumer, a publication about how and why people spend their money. Dan has written for Forbes, The Atlantic, and Recode from Vox Media, and he helped create Business Insider as its second team member. Dan's Consumer Trends Report in collaboration with Coefficient Capital is a fascinating look into recent spending trends.  Show notes with links, quotes, and a transcript of the episode: https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/dan-frommer2-outlier-academy-show-notes  Chapters in this interview: Dan's daily habits and writing routines Tools Dan uses for daily work and focus, including the ReMarkable tablet and the Earnings Calls app Dan's superpowers and struggles Dan's influences and inspirations, including Daring Fireball, Stratechery, and Anthony Bourdain On favorite failures and the definition of success Sign up here for Outlier Debrief, our weekly newsletter that highlights the latest episode, expands on important business and investing concepts, and contains the best of what we read each week. Follow Outlier Academy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/outlieracademy. If you loved this episode, please share a quick review on Apple Podcasts.

Long time friend of the show Gil Tayar joins us again this time to discussing using JSDoc for JavaScript type annotations instead of TypeScript. Turns out that you can now get all of the benefits of TypeScript types without having to adopt the entire TypeScript workflow. Gil describes the benefits of this approach, and how it could impact the future of Web development. Panel Aimee Knight Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Gil Tayar Sponsors JavaScript Error and Performance Monitoring | Sentry DigitalOcean Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Use JSDocs: Index JSDoc - WIkipedia JSDoc typings: all the benefits of TypeScript, with none of the drawbacks JSJ 441: The Present and Future of JavaScript Bundling and Delivery with Yoav Weiss | Devchat.tv Twitter: Gil Tayar ( @giltayar ) Picks Charles- Ruby Rogues | Devchat.tv Charles- Built Bars Charles- Back Market Dan- Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied - Infrequently Noted Gil- Daring Fireball Gil- Stratechery by Ben Thompson Steve- Why You’re Christian - David Perell Steve- My Favorite One Liners | Muhammad Contact Aimee: Aimee Knight – Software Architect, and International Keynote Speaker GitHub: Aimee Knight ( AimeeKnight ) Twitter: Aimee Knight ( @Aimee_Knight ) LinkedIn: Aimee K. aimeemarieknight | Instagram Aimee Knight | Facebook Contact Charles: Devchat.tv DevChat.tv | Facebook Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Steve: Twitter: Steve Edwards ( @wonder95 ) GitHub: Steve Edwards ( wonder95 ) LinkedIn: Steve Edwards

Long time friend of the show Gil Tayar joins us again this time to discussing using JSDoc for JavaScript type annotations instead of TypeScript. Turns out that you can now get all of the benefits of TypeScript types without having to adopt the entire TypeScript workflow. Gil describes the benefits of this approach, and how it could impact the future of Web development. Panel Aimee Knight Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Gil Tayar Sponsors JavaScript Error and Performance Monitoring | Sentry DigitalOcean Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Use JSDocs: Index JSDoc - WIkipedia JSDoc typings: all the benefits of TypeScript, with none of the drawbacks JSJ 441: The Present and Future of JavaScript Bundling and Delivery with Yoav Weiss | Devchat.tv Twitter: Gil Tayar ( @giltayar ) Picks Charles- Ruby Rogues | Devchat.tv Charles- Built Bars Charles- Back Market Dan- Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied - Infrequently Noted Gil- Daring Fireball Gil- Stratechery by Ben Thompson Steve- Why You’re Christian - David Perell Steve- My Favorite One Liners | Muhammad Contact Aimee: Aimee Knight – Software Architect, and International Keynote Speaker GitHub: Aimee Knight ( AimeeKnight ) Twitter: Aimee Knight ( @Aimee_Knight ) LinkedIn: Aimee K. aimeemarieknight | Instagram Aimee Knight | Facebook Contact Charles: Devchat.tv DevChat.tv | Facebook Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Dan: GitHub: Dan Shappir ( DanShappir ) LinkedIn: Dan Shappir Twitter: Dan Shappir ( @DanShappir ) Contact Steve: Twitter: Steve Edwards ( @wonder95 ) GitHub: Steve Edwards ( wonder95 ) LinkedIn: Steve Edwards

Long time friend of the show Gil Tayar joins us again this time to discussing using JSDoc for JavaScript type annotations instead of TypeScript. Turns out that you can now get all of the benefits of TypeScript types without having to adopt the entire TypeScript workflow. Gil describes the benefits of this approach, and how it could impact the future of Web development. Panel Aimee Knight Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Gil Tayar Sponsors JavaScript Error and Performance Monitoring | Sentry DigitalOcean Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Use JSDocs: Index JSDoc - WIkipedia JSDoc typings: all the benefits of TypeScript, with none of the drawbacks JSJ 441: The Present and Future of JavaScript Bundling and Delivery with Yoav Weiss | Devchat.tv Twitter: Gil Tayar ( @giltayar ) Picks Charles- Ruby Rogues | Devchat.tv Charles- Built Bars Charles- Back Market Dan- Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied - Infrequently Noted Gil- Daring Fireball Gil- Stratechery by Ben Thompson Steve- Why You’re Christian - David Perell Steve- My Favorite One Liners | Muhammad Contact Aimee: Aimee Knight – Software Architect, and International Keynote Speaker GitHub: Aimee Knight ( AimeeKnight ) Twitter: Aimee Knight ( @Aimee_Knight ) LinkedIn: Aimee K. aimeemarieknight | Instagram Aimee Knight | Facebook Contact Charles: Devchat.tv DevChat.tv | Facebook Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Steve: Twitter: Steve Edwards ( @wonder95 ) GitHub: Steve Edwards ( wonder95 ) LinkedIn: Steve Edwards

Con Javier Lacort hablamos sobre las iniciativas de Podcast de pago de Apple y Spotify y la vuelta de los ordenadores de Samsung a Europa. Enlaces de interés: Loop Infinito, el podcast diario de Apple de Javier Lacort. Emilcar Daily, podcast diario de Emilio Cano. Daring Fireball, de John Gruber. Los ordenadores de Samsung vuelven a Europa a lo grande.

The latest iOS 14.5 beta adds features to Shortcuts, the Music app, plus 200 new emoji. Rumors of an always-on display for ‘iPhone 13’, LastPass is limiting its free tier, we discuss the future of Apple TV hardware and highlight PDF tools for iOS and Mac. If you have questions or comments on the show, tweet at @stephenrobles and @Hillitech, or email us here. Find us in your favorite podcast player by searching for "AppleInsider" and support the show by leaving a 5-Star rating and comment in Apple Podcasts . Sponsored by: Headspace: Get a FREE one-month trial with access to the entire Headspace library! Visit headspace.com/appleinsider to learn more. Amazon Pharmacy: Amazon Prime Members can save on prescription medication when not using insurance and get FREE 2-Day delivery! Learn more at: amazon.com/appleinsiderrx to learn more. Masterclass: Get 15% off an annual membership to Masterclass when you visit: masterclass.com/appleinsider Links from the show Exclusive: Eve Systems Tim Both talks Thread on HomeKit Insider Video: Everything new in iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5 Apple releases second public beta of iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, tvOS 14.5, watchOS 7.4 Mention of 'battery pack' in iOS 14.5 beta stokes rumors of new MagSafe accessory See all the new and updated emoji coming to iOS 14.5 'AirTags' & new iPad Pro still on track for March release, leaker says Apple inks animated feature films, TV series deal with Skydance Animation Why Does the Apple TV Still Exist? - Daring Fireball Lastpass limiting free users to either computers or mobile apps in March Always-on 'iPhone 13' display could show persistent clock and battery icons Advertisers banding together to adapt to Apple's iOS privacy plans Facebook developing smartwatch with health, messaging features Brydge debuts $129 Max+ keyboard with trackpad and case for 10.2-inch iPad First Apple Silicon M1 malware discovered in the wild Apple jumpstarting 6G development with new hires OWC unveils truly universal Thunderbolt 4/USB-C cable PDF Extra comes to iOS with productivity tools and free storage ‎PDF Extra: Scan, View & Edit Steve Jobs job application valued at $175,000 heads to auction gPodder: Media aggregator and podcast client Those interested in sponsoring the show can reach out to us at: steve@appleinsider.com

Multitouch Macs?! Get CuriosityStream AND Nebula for less than $15/y (26% off!) https://curiositystream.com/reneritchieI think Apple should bring multitouch, capacitive touch screens to the Mac and that, post-iPhone, any screen that doesn’t respond to touch is just going to feel broken. John Gruber of Daring Fireball and The Talk Show fame thinks macOS and Mac hardware just aren’t optimized for touch and adding it would only make the Mac worse.So, we’re going to argue about it. From macOS Big Sur to iOS apps on the Mac to Apple Pencil support. For you. Right now.

An extra long show as a surprise guest drops by. We talk about Mark's unfortunate week. Apple and their remarkable and unprecedented revealing of future product plans. Apple/Microsoft/Android “market share/user base”, the Samsung Dex Dock and, well, anything else that catches our attention deficit disordered minds! This and other episodes are available at iTunes | Opinion | Overcast | Google Play| RSS | FireSide.fm On this week's show: Mark's terrible week in tech… Apple patents anti-shock 'bumper' that could spell the end of cracked iPhones The spring-loaded bumpers would deploy automatically if your dropped your iPhone – Mirror Online Simon – Looks like Mark could have made use of that earlier in the week! Simon and the TWS Mini Twins BT Earbuds Read all about it over on the Essential Apple site Mac Pro isn't dead and Apple do care about Pros Apple meet with Gruber and a few others and spill the beans on the Mac Pro, plans for a new one, iMac Pros and more – Daring Fireball and Tech Crunch Apple Admits Microsoft Windows 10 Is Four Times More Popular Than Mac In a recent statement, Apple has admitted that there are around four times as many Windows 10 users as there are Mac users The statistics show that Apple's macOS operating system is not lagging behind as initially expected, even though it is miles behind Microsoft's Windows 10 in terms of user base. According to a briefing with TechCrunch, Apple's Phil Schiller admitted that the company's Mac platform had been adopted by nearly 100 million users. “Schiller shares some numbers he says are meaningful to Apple. The Mac user base is nearing 100 million users. As a business, it's also nearing a $25 billion run rate and is close to being a Fortune 100 company on its own. Apple now ships computers at a ratio of 80 percent notebooks to 20 percent desktop computers, a stat they haven't updated the public on in some time. MacBook Pro sales have been strong, with 20 percent growth in fiscal Q1 y/y.” At the same time, Microsoft announced earlier on that its Windows 10 user base was standing in at 400 million users, showing the dominance of the company's desktop OS. – Techworm Simon – In my eyes that's good - I remember when it was more like 19 to 1 because Apple held about a 3-5% share of the market! If they're saying 4 to one that means Apple is holding somewhere around 20% of the market - Perhaps that is why... Microsoft Has A New App To Help Mac Users Switch To Windows Microsoft recently released an app called “Mac to Surface Assistant” which in case the name did not already give it away, is an app designed to help Mac users port their data and files over onto Windows in an easier fashion. Users will still be required to have an external hard drive if they want to make the move, especially if they have bigger files, but the app is designed to help make the process more streamlined – Clotheshorse Android overtakes Windows to become the internet's most popular OS StatCounter reveals web traffic from Android has topped that from Windows PCs – Wired UK Simon – Strikes me - as they say too - this is more about the shift to mobile and MS's failure to get a proper stake in that game than it is about a “decline” in Windows Nemo's Hardware Store Vava Voom Model 21 Speaker – Amazon Vava Voom Model 20 Splashproof Speaker – Amazon Clips is released Clips is a new app for making fun videos to share with friends, family, and the world. With a few taps you can create and send a video message or tell a quick story with animated text, graphics and emoji, music, and more. Videos made easy • Clips lets you create videos in real time using simple controls — no timeline, tracks, or complicated editing tools • Shoot live video and photos or add them from your library • Easily mute audio, adjust the length of your clips, and reorder them • Clips looks and works great on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Live Titles • Create animated titles and captions using just your voice • Captions are generated automatically as you speak and match the timing of your voiceover • Mix and match different styles throughout your video • Tap your title to adjust text and punctuation or add inline emoji Fun effects • Give your photos and video clips a comic book look with color and black & white filters • Drop in animated speech bubbles, arrows, and banners • Add emoji on top of any photo or video clip • Use full-screen posters with animated backgrounds and customizable text to help tell your story • Drag and pinch while recording to add smooth pan and zoom animations to your photos and videos • Add a music track from your library or use built-in soundtracks that automatically adjust to the length of your video Smart sharing • Clips suggests people to share with based on who is in your video and whom you share with most often • Tap a person in the share sheet to instantly send your video via Messages • Send directly to Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and other popular social media sites Clips is on the App Store info here From Rob Rait Walt Mossberg is retiring in June Thanks for reading, watching, listening – The Verge Rob Rait – I've always liked Walt Mossberg, he'll be missed. Ctrl Walt Delete is a great podcast. Samsung's DeX Dock Samsung's DeX dock makes most old home PCs look anachronistic The dock that turns your mobile into a desktop PC – now that's a good idea – Wired UK Simon – Is it a good idea? (commercially I mean) - I know techies like us find the concept appealing, but is it really a viable concept? Is it viable in the future but not yet? Would you want a $150 Dex, a screen, a keyboard and a mouse that basically sit idle 99% of the time because your phone is in your pocket. I'd say it is more “interesting” than “great” - I could see it perhaps working for some sort of “hotdesking” environment Feedback via email From: Richard Gregory Subject: Head's up on a weird iOS upgrade issue Hello all and thank you for sharing your ramblings, I had a major issue that is probably rare but worth sharing with anyone who will listen and uses an ad blocker on iOS. I'll keep it short - after having hangs on all my devices when upgrading to iOS 10.3 I figured out what was happening. The install was hanging at the iCloud account info screen regardless which option I selected (enter my password or skip). It turns out that I had set a proxy server up because that's how weblock app works on iOS both on my phone and iPad. For WHATEVER reason this was blocking traffic to Apple's iCloud servers only after the update to 10.3 as everything worked fine before the upgrade. I tested this theory and contacted futuremind (the dev) and received a nice reply saying they are working on fixing this issue. Here is their reply to my email describing what happens- Hi, we are hard at work to investigate and fix issues with iCloud and other Apple services while Weblock is enabled. We'll introduce a "allow apple" rule at the end of Filters section once we test it thoroughly. Kind regards, Kamil Palczewsk This cost me a LOT of time on the phone with Apple's support (which was helpful). It's a very oddball issue that will really tick off those it affects. To me this was even worse than having an EarPods set that doesn't work properly. I'm kidding, I feel your pain as my nearest Apple store is 100 miles away, a trip I have made more than once. Also - the new iPad has a teardown now that seems to confirm it's aimed at keeping costs low for both Apple and the owners, for example the screen replacement is cheaper not being laminated IIRC. Your podcast brings up some good points that aren't fully explored at times, I enjoy hearing these being re-capped and updated in the next podcast. Keep things positive, I hope all is well with everyone, Richard Listener Product Review MacJim sent us a review of the 595Strapco camera strap, and gets the award for being the first person to send in a Pages file! It will be up on the Essential Apple as soon as we get a chance to catch up Jim we promise! This week's “App-session” [obsession.. geddit?] Clips Just Broadcaster for Facebook and YouTube Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: EssentialApple.com / Twitter / Facebook / Google Plus / Slack – ask us for an invite any way you can get hold of us If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Shawn Blanc is a writer, small-business owner, productivity coach, and creative entrepreneur living in Kansas City with his wife and their three sons. Shawn has been teaching and learning about creativity, diligence, and focus for over a decade, and his online courses have helped thousands of people do their best creative work while learning to thrive in the midst of life's tensions. A while back, Shawn sent an email that caught my attention. He wrote about the importance of creating a customer avatar and developing a content strategy to connect with them and help them achieve their goals. I liked the email so much that I emailed him back and asked him to come on my show to talk about his journey to making a living through writing online and what he's learned about growing an audience. Shawn also shares my passion for productivity and deep focus; so much so that he's gathered 12 incredibly smart people for a free 5 day online summit about the power of focused life. In this episode, Shawn shares how he was able to make a full-time living by writing online, and we discuss how you can grow your audience by creating a customer avatar (your ideal listener) and creating content that addresses their needs and desires. Highlights, Takeaways & Quick Wins: Interview your customers to get a real life picture of your audience. Start selling products as early as possible. Your customer avatar is a real person that exists out there. Use the language of your customer avatar in your content to create a deep connection with them. Be in people's weekly cycle at a minimum. Your niche is going to draw your audience but your ancillary interests will keep people interested. Show up consistently to earn people's trust and create an anticipation of future value. Do guest-based podcasts to grow your audience. Reach people that are far outside of your social circle by connecting with the people you can connect with right now. Show Notes Aaron: Shawn Blanc is a writer/small business owner/productivity coach/creative entrepreneur living in Kansas City with his wife and their three sons, and Shawn is a member of our Community. He's been teaching and learning about creativity, diligence, and focus for over a decade now. His online courses have helped thousands of people do their best creative work while learning to thrive in the midst of life's tensions. A while back, Shawn sent an email that caught my attention. He was writing about the importance of creating a customer avatar, that's knowing who you're creating for and what you want to help them achieve, what kind of person you want to help them become. I thought it was really interesting, so I sent him an email right back. I said, “Shawn, do you want to come on the show to talk about this? I think podcasters need to hear about this idea of customer avatars and also content strategy.” Shawn agreed, and he also shares my passion for productivity and focus, so much so that he has gathered 12 incredibly smart people for a five day online summit about the power of a focused life, and that's going to be starting, I believe, as this episode comes out. If you're listening to this in your podcast player, it's starting today, I think. I'll give you that link later. In this episode, I want to talk with Shawn about why you as a podcaster need to create a customer avatar, know who you're creating for, develop a content strategy, and then also the benefits of deep focus, what we call deep work. A few small changes in your daily habits can lead to big improvements in your productivity and creative output. Shawn, that's one of the longer intros I've ever done. Thanks for joining me today. I really appreciate you being here. Shawn: Thanks, Aaron. I love it. Super excited to be here. Shawn Blanc Aaron: I think of you, Shawn, as a writer and as the creator of an online course called The Focus Course, which is great. You're so much more than that. Do you want to give everyone a quick introduction, how you got here and where you came from? I would also like to hear what your biggest struggles have been over the years of getting to the point where you're at right now. Shawn: Absolutely. I'm in Kansas City. Originally, I'm from Denver. I'm a Colorado guy at heart. I've been married for going on 12 years, and my wife and I have three boys. It's insane at our house. We used to call the first two the Twin Tornadoes, but we just had our third eight or nine weeks ago. Aaron: Congrats! Shawn: It's awesome. Love it. I love being a dad. I used to be a drummer. I know that we have a lot of musicians around here. Sean McCabe plays a little bit of music, I think. Aaron: Yeah, he used to write music, just like he used to do lettering. I still play drums. Shawn: I used to play drums for a large ministry here in Kansas City, and I ended up transitioning out of that. It's a long story, but I ended up becoming a marketing and creative director. I ran a team, an in-house design team, with about 17 people—web developers, print designers, web designers, writers, editors, project managers, whatever. We did a bunch of stuff. One of our huge things was that we would host a conference at the end of the year that I was running. 25,000 people would come out for that. I did that for several years, and then my wife and I got pregnant with our first kid. I was like, “I don't want to do this work as a dad.” Part of it was just super demanding. Anyone who has experienced working in the corporate design scene knows that it's a very demanding spot. Everything is urgent all the time. I was doing like 80 hours a week, and I really enjoyed it. I had a lot of fun, but I was like, “There's no way. I don't want to do 80 hours a week as a dad.” I had that, plus I had this little blog on the side, where I had been writing about marketing stuff. I felt like, “This would be a good opportunity to quit what I'm doing and take a leap, see if I can take my website full time. Could I blog for a living?” That was the thought. I was doing about $1,000 a month in advertising and some affiliate stuff. I figured that if I could give it 40 hours a week, I could get the revenue up to a spot where it could pay the bills. I figured that it could grow from there. Aaron: How old were you at this point? Shawn: I was just about 30, not quite 30, like 29, when I made that jump. I asked everyone that was reading on the site. I said, “I'm quitting. I'm going to do this thing full time.” I asked people if they would be interested in supporting me to write the site for a living. I was like, “If you like what I'm doing, I'll write more if you want to give me some money to do it.” I did this little membership drive. I was going to charge $3 a month for membership. I was doing a daily podcast as a perk of membership. Aaron: You aren't still doing that, are you? Shawn: It's on hiatus at the moment. We'll see. I'm going to be diving back into the podcast scene starting early 2017. I miss podcasting. It's fun. Aaron: You decided to ask people to support you, give you $3 a month, to go full time with your writing? Shawn: Basically. I figured if I could get 500 people, at $3 a month that's $1,500, plus the other $1,000 I was doing, and that would be $2,500 a month. That's not a ton, but I figured that would be enough to cover the bare necessities. I figured that things could grow from there. People signed up, and I hit the 500 person mark by the end of the month before I had even quit. I started my new job, April 4th 2011, basically fully funded as an independent blogger. Aaron: I bet that was exciting. Shawn: It was really exciting. I felt like I got this permission slip from my audience to go for it. As a creative person, sometimes you need that. Sometimes you want to be like, “Do you guys care? I'm here. I'm making this stuff.” A lot of the work we do as creative entrepreneurs is for your audience. I know that we're going to talk about this in a little bit, the customer avatar profile. It's for these people that you really want to serve. When you hear back from them and they go, “Hey, we like what you're doing. Let's keep the relationship going,” it's like having a DTR with your audience. There's something cool about that kind of permission slip moment. It's like when you sell your first product, or whatever it is. People are interested. You get your first positive review on iTunes or whatever. Obviously, there's going to be the junk that comes later, but whatever. Aaron: Some of the haters that come later? Shawn: You forget about that stuff and you keep moving on. Aaron: That's awesome. Asking for Money Aaron: When you think back, do you remember any big struggles or hurdles that you really had to overcome about that period in your life? Shawn: There were so many. It's hard to say, “If I could do it differently, I would do it this other way,” because who knows? If I had done things differently, maybe it wouldn't have turned out the way I thought it would. One of the biggest struggles for me was asking for money. It was a huge challenge related to the membership drive. I was asking folks to support me on a regular basis to write for a living. I was like, “Who am I? What kind of a dork says, ‘Give me money so I can blog for a living.'” Aaron: Nobody pays for things online anymore. Nobody wants to pay for writing. Shawn: Exactly. That was a huge challenge. It has continued to be a challenge for years. I have been doing this for almost six years now, full time. When I came out with my first book, it's called Delight is in the Details, and it was an eBook package thing. I did some interviews. I charged $29 for my book, and I felt like this huge hypocrite. It was this feeling of, “This is information. Information should be free on the internet. Why would anyone ever buy this?” I felt like there was no value in this thing that people would pay for. I was like, “I have to do it. I'm going to charge for it.” Aaron: Sorry to jump in, but at the time, did you really feel like $30 was a lot of money? Shawn: Oh my gosh. I woke up feeling sick to my stomach the day I was going to launch it. I was like, “I can't believe how much I'm asking for this.” Aaron: What did you think was going to happen? Shawn: I thought that people would buy it because they trusted me, and then they would read it and come and burn my house down because I had ripped them off so bad. I charged so much money for something. Aaron: It was your first time launching a product, right? Shawn: It was. It was my first product launch ever. It ended up bringing in like $5,000 in that first 48 hour launch window. It made $5,000 that first couple of days. In hindsight, it was this huge inflection point for me. I think I spent about 100 hours building the thing, made $5,000 from it in the first week, and I thought, “Woah, that was a great return on my time investment! Now I have this product that I can continue to sell.” Since then, in the last four or five years that I've sold it, I want to say that it's sold $50,000 over the years. That's awesome. There's something great about creating a product, and it changed a lot. Producing and selling a book changed my relationship with my audience. Now I'm creating products for them to buy. That initial hurdle was huge. $29 was so much money. I think that was probably the biggest struggle, of being able to properly identify how much value I'm providing people and to price it correctly. That's just hard. I think that's why you should start selling stuff as early as possible, because you have to learn. There isn't a formula for how much value you're providing and how much you should charge for it. You can't just plug your stuff into a worksheet and get a number back. You have to feel out the market, your market, your audience, your skill level. How much polish are you doing? How much depth of information are you providing? Whatever skill, service, or product it is you're providing, you have to learn how to make money and price your stuff! It's hard to do it when you're starting. The biggest challenging for me at first was becoming comfortable asking for money and learning to accurately price my products. Aaron: The other thing is that once you launched that book and got familiar with all that stuff, that was a stepping stone to your future products, your future books and courses, and everything else that you're doing. I'm sure, at that point, you felt like, “Okay. I've done this once before already. Now it's like riding a bike. I just need to get back on and keep peddling, keep going.” Shawn: Yeah, absolutely. It really was a huge stepping stone. One thing I loved about creating and launching a product was that there was a start and an end date to it. This thing has to ship. I worked on it, and I was done. I put it out there. Boom, now it's there. I'm done. It's out in the world. Obviously, you iterate on it. A year later, I added some new interviews. I added some new chapters. I created some videos. I remastered all of the audio for the audio book. Product Launch Hiccups Shawn: Super random story related to this. It was the relaunch of Delight is in the Details, a year after it had come out, and I put it out there. People are buying it during that relaunch period. I get an email from someone going, “I was just listening to the audio book, and the last chapter sounds like it's not edited correctly. Something is weird about the last chapter. You should check it out.” I recorded the audio book and edited it by myself. I go and I open up the audio book for the last chapter and I'm listening to it, and it is the original take that I did of the book. The way I did the audio book, I'm reading it into my microphone in GarageBand. If I goofed up in the middle of a paragraph, I would just take a pause, say, “Okay, again,” and then I would start talking again. That was my marker. The last chapter of the book was that track, the whole thing. The audio track should have been 10 or 12 minutes for that chapter, and it was 30 minutes because of all my edits, retakes, and pauses. The whole thing. What's worse is, it was there from the very beginning. For a year, I had been selling that thing. I was mortified. For a year, I had been selling my book with the last chapter all messed up, and I was mortified. Aaron: Nobody said anything?? Shawn: They didn't. Either no one listened to it, or when they listened to it, they just assumed… I don't even know. I was so mortified. There you go. What worse thing can happen? Earlier, I had been so concerned about selling something that people weren't going to consider valuable. Here's this huge, huge mistake. What a goof! Aaron: I need to remind everyone that this audiobook is called Delight is in the Details. Shawn: The irony, right? That was one of the selling points of the book, too. I was like, “If you buy this book, it's a case study in sweating the details itself. You'll see all the areas where I've sweated the details in this product.” Whatever. Oh man. I was mortified. Aaron: Thankfully, no one came and burned down your house, and it was over a year before anyone even said anything. A lot of us are so curious about people who do such good work, so when a mistake does happen, it's almost humanizing. It's like, “Now I can relate to this person, because they're not 100% on top of everything all the time, either, like I struggle with. I make a lot of mistakes, so it's kind of nice when you see a really awesome musician on stage mess up a part and then jump back into it. You're like, “Oh, they are humans, too.” That's really cool. Nobody burned your house down, thankfully. Shawn: That's why it's so helpful to ship early. You get stuff out the door and you start learning. I love it. Aaron: I tell people this a lot, too, when it comes to podcasts. If you're thinking about making a podcast, there are so many things you can tweak, improve, or work on forever, but it's so much better to say, “What's the minimum I have to do? I want to try and do a good job, but let's do this, ship it, and iterate and improve on it every single week.” If you don't ship something, you'll just pick at it and tweak it endlessly. Before you know it, it's been a year and a half, and you've got three or five episodes you recorded 18 months ago that you're still working on. In the meantime, nothing has happened. Start Moving Shawn: As well, we have this picture of what we want something to look like and what we want it to be, but we have zero experience. I like the analogy of those lifesize mazes. Especially around Halloween and Thanksgiving, there are those corn mazes. They're these giant things. Imagine someone standing at the entrance of this life size maze, staring at the entrance to it, and in their mind, trying to figure out how to get to the end so they can get straight to the end the fastest way possible without making any mistakes along the way. Impossible! Not going to happen. You have to go in the maze and go left to realize that you should have gone right. Then turn around. You have to go through the thing to make it through. I like the phrase, “Action brings clarity.” Action brings clarity. You're waiting for clarity before taking action, and it's not going to happen—you have to start moving. You just have to get going and you adjust course as you go. You start to realize what you should major on and what you shouldn't. Aaron: That's an incredible analogy. I'm totally going to use that in the future now. It's perfect. You sit there and you imagine yourself being at the end of the maze. That's where you see a bunch of other people. Your friends have gone through the maze and they're at the end, so you're like, “I have to get to the end fast. I can't make any mistakes. I can't take a wrong turn, because that's where all my friends are, and that's where I want to be.” You do have to go through it. That's really incredible. Creating a Customer Avatar Aaron: Shawn, you sent out an email and you were talking about this. I want you to explain how you think about customer avatars, and then if you did something like that for yourself when you were just starting, or if this is something that evolved over time. Customer avatar and content strategy, go! Shawn: This is great. When I first started as a writer, I was doing ShawnBlanc.net. My entire job was publishing articles and links on my website. I didn't have a customer avatar or a customer profile, what I had was an ideal reader. I think, in terms of podcasting, it's very similar. Who's your ideal listener? For me, I actually had a person who was my ideal reader, who's name was Shawn Spurdee. He was a really good friend of mine. He and I had become friends through the blogging Twitter-sphere back in the day. When I wrote articles or links, I had him in mind. I thought, “Is this something he would find interesting? Is there a story in here that he's going to want to read? Is this a link to something he would like?” You had that ideal reader. John Gruber wrote about this for his site, Daring Fireball. He talked about his ideal reader, and he called it “a second version of himself.” He goes, “This person is interested in all the same things I'm interested in, and he cares about what I care about. All the design decisions I make on the site, all the articles I choose to link to, the stories I choose to tell, all of that stuff is with this ideal reader/listener in mind.” It was instrumental for me to have an “ideal reader” for all of the work I was doing. You know who you're trying to target. I'm still the writer for sure, but we've switched a lot more of our focus onto direct sales, building a customer base, and selling products to our audience. I still don't have that ideal reader. Who am I writing this for? Who is this product being created for? It has gone beyond just an individual person that I know. We did a customer profiling thing. I have a guy who works for me full time, and his name is Isaac. We took a couple of big, giant sticky pad things, two feet by three feet, they're huge, these giant sticky notes. Aaron: Where do you get those? Can you get those on Amazon? Shawn: You can get a lawnmower on Amazon, so I'm sure you can get sticky notes. We got ours at Office Max, an Office Depot kind of thing. It's weird. You drive to this store, and you can walk in, and they sell products on their shelves. You have to pick it up with your hand and drive it home yourself. Aaron: It seems like a waste of time. Shawn: For this customer profiling session or whatever, basically, we had these four quadrants. What do they think? What do they feel? What do they want? What do they say? Something like that. You're trying to get this picture of this person. Who is this person? What are the things that they say? Like, “I love my family. I like to watch Netflix.” Whatever. Aaron: “I want to learn how to make a podcast.” Shawn: Exactly. It's not just business, it's just life. What are the kind of phrases they might say? If you ask them what they care about, what things would they list? What are their pain points that they're feeling in life? For us, creating this customer avatar, we named him Brian. We found a random picture of somebody and stuck it up there to begin to humanize the person. Your customer avatar is a real person that exists out there. We talked about, “Here's Brian,” and we came up with this stuff. Brian has a job that he kind of likes, but he's got these other creative ideas that he really wants to pursue. Maybe he wants to take it full time. Maybe not. That's not really the most important thing for him. The most important thing for him is getting his best creative work out there and being able to do it and feel like he's making progress on the areas of life that matter to him. He's also a dad and a husband, and he cares about his family quite a bit. He cares about his kids. He still wants to be available for them. When he comes home from work, he's really tired, so the evenings don't feel like a good time to do his creative work, but he's not a morning person either, so he doesn't know when he's going to get the time. These are some of the scenarios, the stories, that begin to emerge as you begin to write stuff about this person. What are the pain points that they feel? When they look around, what do they see? What kind of car does Brian drive? Does he like minivans? Does he have a minivan? How many kids does he actually have? You really kind of start to come up with this stuff, and there's a lot you can do to get to a higher level of doing these customer profiles. You can actually do interviews with your customer base. Aaron: I do this! I try to meet people and talk to them, especially when it comes to podcasting. When you interview your customers, you can actually begin to get a real life picture of your real life audience. Creating an Empathy Map Shawn: There's this thing that we did, an empathy map, and you take the empathy map to create your customer profile. We ran this survey to our email list, and we ran a separate one to our customer list. It was, “When it comes to focus, what's your single greatest challenge?” It was just this open-ended question where people could write stuff down. Some people say, “Time.” Or, “I can't focus. I'm distracted.” Then you get some people who go, “I'm trying to build my photography portfolio website on the side because I love photography and I'm trying to grow it. I'm working this other job, and when I come home in the evenings, family is first. I spend time with family, so by the time the kids are in bed, I've only got about an hour left in the day. I'm so tired, and I don't want to spend time trying to work on my photography website, so I don't know where to get started.” The person who gives an in depth answer to the challenge like that, vs. someone who just says “time”, they're really in touch with their pain point. There's a book called Ask by Ryan Leveque, and you can find it on Amazon. He teases out, “You ask these questions, and you separate the people with the longest answers. You put their answers up at the top.” You cut the list at 20%. The bottom 80%, forget about those people, and look at the top 20%, these “hyper-responders.” What are their challenges? What are their pain points? Aaron, you could do this. You could say, “When it comes to building a podcast, what is your single greatest challenge?” You'll probably have someone who says, “Building my list.” Or, “Building my audience.” Or, “Technical stuff.” But then you might have someone who really gives this heartfelt, in-depth answer. If someone gives you a heartfelt, in-depth answer, they're hungry for a solution. That person is going to pay for a solution. That person is going to digest this, and when you give them something, they're going to check it out. Look for these hyper-responders and cater your response to them. That's what we did. That's how we figured out that our biggest pain points for people who go through the Focus Course are one of four primary buckets, so to speak. It's time management, getting traction on their business or side projects, finding clarity on what's important to them and what they should be doing about it, and a lot of people also feel overwhelmed by all that's already happening in life. Or, they look at the thing that they're trying to make progress on, and they feel overwhelmed. They don't even know where to start. Really, all of these things feed off of each other. When one is in a rough spot, the others start to be in a rough spot as well. We go, “Okay, these are the main challenges we're going to address as part of the Focus Course, in all of our writing. This is it.” The people that fit within these four buckets are the ones who are willing to pay for a solution. Use Your Audience's Language Shawn: Read the actual responses, the answers, and take the language that people are saying and use it in your articles. Answer their actual questions in podcast episodes. You use it in your marketing language. The landing page for your product, or your podcast, or your sign up, or whatever—use the actual language of your hyper-responder customers. Now, not only are you listening to them and you know who that ideal customer is, but you're also even speaking their language. A) it's going to be cool because hopefully you'll do more sales, but B) you'll actually get to connect with the people you want to connect with. That's the whole point. That's why we're here. That's one of the huge benefits of having these customer profiles. It can help you stay focused on who you're trying to talk to and what it is you're trying to talk about, to help them. Aaron: That's mindblowing. That's fantastic. At the core, I kind of know this stuff, but hearing you explain it made it even more clear to me. I love that. I want to take it in this direction. How to Grow Your Audience & Create Deeper Connections Aaron: One of the most common questions I get about podcasting is about growing an audience. It's always, “How do I get more attention? How do I get more listeners? How do I grow an audience?” I love what you said right here. Use the language of your customer avatar in your content to create a deep connection with them. That's where listeners come from. So many people think that they'll magically get 100,000 people to listen to their podcast, and they won't have any idea of who these people are. They're nameless, faceless avatars on the internet. No! Especially in the beginning, you start small. You develop relationships with people who care passionately about the thing that you're talking about. By investing in them, getting to know them, and asking them questions—regardless of whether you're doing some kind of business thing or not—by just talking to them and getting to know their language, that's how you're going to resonate with them and even more people. What methods have you found effective for growing an audience and developing deeper relationships? Shawn: I think that's a great question. Everyone wants to know the answer to this. For me, there are three primary keys to growing an audience: Consistency Honesty and transparency Relationships. 1. Consistency Shawn: Consistency is core. This is a phrase in the seanwes Community, and it's a phrase I like to use, and that's this: show up every day. That's consistency. We're just people of habit. The internet is a thing of habit, so you have to have that consistency where you're in people's regular cycles. Sean McCabe talks about this a lot. You want to be in people's weekly cycle at a minimum. Show up on a regular basis. Also, that's how people know you're going to be there. There's something about that consistency. One of the ways you develop an audience where people are tracking with you and paying attention when you're showing up consistently. When you show up consistently, not only do you earn people's trust, but you create an anticipation of future value. You want to have that. That's huge. People are like, “I want to know what's next. I want to follow this story and be here.” Consistency is huge. 2. Honesty & Transparency Shawn: This comes out in a lot of ways. In some ways, you want to have the transparency like Nathan Barry talks about, to “teach what you know.” Share what you know. Also, there's a human element, passion and persona, who you are as an individual. Humanizing yourself is so helpful. We don't want to connect with brands, we want to connect with people. As indie entrepreneurs or indie creative folks, when you are running your own thing, you are a brand but you're also a person. You've got to keep the person aspect of it, the human aspect of it, you have to keep it there. Allow your mistakes to show through. Allow your passions to show through. For me, at ShawnBlanc.net, I cut my teeth and grew my audience originally by writing about Apple stuff. I wrote tons of product reviews. It was super nerdy, gadgety stuff. I would also write about coffee, camera gear, books I was reading, music, and things like that. Aaron: Stuff you cared about. Shawn: Exactly. Other interests that were related to Apple gear because it was my site, and I can write about whatever I want. That humanized the work that I was doing. So many people came to my site because of the Apple stuff but they stayed because of the coffee stuff. Your focus, your niche, is going to draw your audience, but your ancillary interests will keep people interested. You're a real person with real interests who is not just this robot spinning off the same thing all the time. 3. Relationships Shawn: This is huge. I stink at it, but I'm trying to reply to emails. When people email me, replying back to them. Also, here's a prime example, having me on your show, Aaron. The practicality of it is that when this show goes live, I'm going to tweet about it. I'm going to link to it. I'm going to point the people that track with me over to your stuff. That's a way for you to grow your audience, but it's also a way for me to grow my audience. Your listeners, a lot of people, don't know who I am. Now, hopefully, some of them will come check me out and sign up for our stuff. There's a really cool dynamic here of introducing your group to someone else. Hopefully, that person will also introduce their audience to who you are. Doing guest-based podcasts is an awesome way to grow your audience. I did some back in the day, when I was first starting my site. I did interviews, blog interviews. The whole thing was conducted over email, and it was just this back and forth email. I did one with Daniel Jalkut, who used to work at Apple and then started Red Sweater. He has the best blogging app on the planet for Mac, MarsEdit. It's a super great app. I emailed him and did an interview with him. I did an interview with John Grubar. I did an interview with Brett Simmons, all these people who are super famous Apple people. I'm going back and forth with these guys and posting their interviews. They link to me on my site, and I get this influx of new readers. Or you find software that's awesome. I would do super in-depth reviews about this stuff, and then people would link to those reviews. Honoring other people, connecting with other people, and doing stuff that's worth talking about. Then the word will spread. That consistency, being transparent and honest about who you are, having that passion and that human dynamic to the work that you do, and then just trying to connect with other people. Do things that people are going to want to talk about. Another example is the summit that we're doing, the Focus Summit. I'm punching way above my weight class here with some of these folks, and it's a chance to hopefully get some of their audience to discover the work that we're doing and visa versa. I hope that people who sign up for this summit will get introduced to some new people and that they'll find some incredible resources. It's just fun. We're all just folks trying to do our best work, right? Aaron: Absolutely. I love that. That's one of the best answers for building an audience that I've ever heard. The Importance of Investing One-on-One Time in Your Listeners Aaron: The thing that I'm working on, and I just want to share this, is investing more time in my listeners. It's hard sometimes, because you can spend all the time in the world talking to people on the internet, as I'm sure you know, Shawn. I'm sure people are constantly emailing you, asking for your thoughts, your advice, and your feedback on stuff, and you try to stay really focused. Something I've wanted to do is spend a little bit of time every day, like on Twitter, reaching out and telling people that I appreciate what they do. Or, if somebody emails me, having a conversation. In depth, giving them 15 or 20 minutes of focus time to reply, and even asking them questions. Someone says, “Hey, thanks for doing your show. I really appreciate this thing.” I'll reply and say, “Thank you so much. How is your podcasting journey going? What are you working on right now? What do you want to get better at?” Some great conversations have come out of that. I'm trying to invest a little bit more in my listeners. I'm at the point now where I've started inviting some of them on the show. “Hey, you sound like you'd be a cool person to talk about podcasting with. Would you like to come on the show?” It just spreads. It's the building of community that will eventually attract people to you. When I started, I had 30 or 40 friends, maybe a couple hundred followers. Every new person that finds my show and gets to know me as a person, who respects the work I do, they might have 200 people that follow them, and they share my show with those people. It just spreads out from there. It becomes this big net. You can eventually reach people that are far outside of your social circle just by connecting with the people you can connect with right now. Let them do the work of sharing your stuff with their people, too. Shawn: Yeah, exactly. Focus Summit & Products Aaron: That's fantastic. We're getting close to the end of the episode. We need to wrap it up. I told everyone in the beginning that I would get you to talk about this Focus Summit that you've got coming up. What's the deal with this? Tell us a little bit about that. Shawn: The summit! I'm so excited about this. We have Jocelyn Glei, who just wrote this book called Unsubscribe, which is a fantastic book. It's about email distractions and stuff like that. We've got Josh Kaufman, who wrote The Personal MBA. Anyone who is trying to do anything related to business, you need to read The Personal MBA. It is a bargain. Aaron: So much good advice. Shawn: It's like a $35 book, and that book is so packed. Excellent, excellent stuff. Sean McCabe is on it, and Sean and I talk about how quantity leads to quality, which ties right into this stuff on showing up every day. The summit is going to be really, really cool. When this podcast drops, the summit is going to be kicking off. Here's the link: The Creative Focus Summit. After the summit wraps up, we're opening up registration for our Focus Course. That has become my flagship product. It changed everything for me, in terms of what I was focusing on. I came up with this course as the next product in a series. I had done Delight is in the Details, and I wanted to write a book about diligence and productivity. I wrote the book, and then, long story short, I realized that it needed to be a course. I felt like the way that I wanted to get these ideas across wasn't a book that someone would read, highlight, think was cool, and then puts back on their shelf and returns to life as usual. I want something that's really going to effect change. I knew that a book would probably go farther, broader, and reach a total number of more people. I would rather fewer people go through the course but have a higher number of them really get real impact. For me, the book ended up turning into the Focus Course, and we've had close to 1,300 people go through it. It's basically productivity training for creative people and entrepreneurs and leaders. It's way, way more than that. It's not tips and tricks. It's what I call “meaningful productivity.” It actually gets to the core, the heart, and the foundation. What do you really care about? How are you really spending your time? This is not a “Five Life Hacks That Will Help Me Go Through My Email Inbox Better.” It's hard questions that will make me challenge my assumptions about my family, my work, my down time, and my rest time. Anyone that thinks that taking a nap will improve productivity, the Focus Course is for you. Aaron: That's me! You have to have a healthy life to do your best work. Shawn: You can't sprint this. This is a marathon, so you have to have that breathing room. The Focus Course opens up after the summit is over, and I'm super excited about it. We're going to have a whole group of people cruising through in January. We're doing a winter class for it. We've got some forums, so everyone can share their progress. It's going to be a blast. I'm really excited about it. The summit is free, and the Focus Course itself is going to be something we charge for, obviously. Aaron: You have to charge for things, or else people won't take it seriously. Shawn: It's so true. Aaron: You have to invest. Shawn: That's something else. We didn't get into that earlier when we were talking about the pricing stuff, but that's another reason to charge for your work. Someone is actually going to have skin in the game. They're going to find value for it. Aaron: They have to ask themselves, “Okay. Do I think this is going to help me enough in my life journey to actually put money towards it?” If they answer that question for themselves and then make the choice to give you that money, they are going to say, “I told myself, I believe, that this is worth my time, so I need to invest my time in it.” Shawn: Exactly. Very true. Aaron: Where should people go if they want to follow you, connect with you, or ask you questions? Shawn: Twitter is a great spot. I'm @shawnblanc on Twitter.

This being a holiday week the guys chose to air a special episode on substance abuse. This was originally part of the Mental Health episode but BJ went "Full Med Student" on the notes and produced a few shows. As many of us gather with our families this week we can see issues with substance abuse come out more than at other times. Part of this is from not having the responsibility of getting up and going to work and part from the stress that usually comes with travel and large gatherings. In this episode Will and BJ discuss some of the signs and symptoms of substance abuse as well as what to do if you suspect you or someone you know may need help. They begin by defining Substance Abuse as an over-indulgence in or dependence on an addictive substance, especially alcohol or drugs. Next Will reviews physical, behavioral, and psychological warning signs of a substance abuse disorder. They guys then delve into the medical signs and symptoms of substance abuse and how they may appear different within the development community. Next they take a look at specific workplace behaviors and how drug abuse can effect the workplace, coworkers, and job retention. In the end they provide information on where to look for help if you or someone you know may be suffering from a substance abuse disorder.LinksOracleJava DefinitionLearn Java OnlineNational Council on Alcoholism and Drug DependenceAlcoholics AnonymousNarcotics AnonymousAl-AnonEmployee Assistance Programs (EAP)Markdown PadDaring Fireball Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Gruber is either the world's biggest Apple fanboy or the most nuanced explicator of Cupertino's smoke signals, depending on whom you ask and on what day. In a more objective reality, John's Daring Fireball is the place you go to if you want to have a bigger-picture understanding of the universe in which Apple is firmly in the center. We talk about how he turned Daring Fireball from a side project into a heavily visited and deeply satisfying outlet for his writing. Sponsored by Launch Center Pro: Launch actions, not just apps! Kiwi is a full featured App.net client in a super simple package built just for OS X.

In Episode No. 80 of The Big Web Show ("Everything Web That Matters") host Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Daring Fireball author John Gruber about his background in computer programming and journalism; the joy of designing print layouts with QuarkXPress and the transition from print to web; why investors who are angry at Apple have it wrong; why some web standards geeks who once passionately disliked Apple have grown warmer toward the company; and the secret story behind the name, "Daring Fireball." Links for this episode:Daring Fireball