Show notes
Special guest Ken Kocienda, author of Creative Selection, joins the show to talk about his years at Apple and the creation of the original iPhone.
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Links:
- Up Spell — Ken’s iOS word game.
- “Wallaby” iPhone prototype hardware.
- Steve Jobs’s quote on the wall outside Town Hall at Infinite Loop: “If you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on for it too long. Just figure out what’s next.”
- Kim Scott’s books: Radical Candor and Just Work.
- DF’s 15-year anniversary post, with word counts.
- Stephen King’s On Writing.
- Andy Hertzfeld’s history of the original Mac:
- Humane — The totally secret startup where Ken is now working.
- Job openings at Humane.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.