The Talk Show With John Gruber 362: ‘Grand Scale Foot-Shooting’, With Anil Dash
Nov 19, 2022
02:14:29
Prioritize Domain Experts For Policy
- Treat product and cultural problems differently and consult experts in each domain.
- Prioritize trust & safety specialists when policy impacts real-world harm.
The Genius Myth Misleads Decisions
- We overvalue the 'genius myth' from Steve Jobs and apply it wrongly to others.
- That myth hides when leaders are simply surrounded by sycophants, not skilled teams.
Twitter Safety Stopped Doxxing Harm
- Cable Sasser connected journalists reporting Saudi teens being doxxed to Twitter safety folks who acted.
- That intervention saved people from real harm and showed how platform staff do lifesaving work.
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
Barack Obama - The Most Popular Political Figure on the Left
02:04 • 2min
Democrats Did Very Well This Year for a Midterm
03:36 • 3min
The Best Thing That Could Happen to Republicans in a State or National Level
06:39 • 2min
The Supreme Court Dobbs Decision Leaked
08:30 • 2min
Is Scalia a Good Writer?
10:22 • 6min
Web Blog Zinc - Is That the Gawker Network?
16:05 • 3min
Steve Jobs - Is He a Leader?
19:23 • 2min
I Don't Believe Donald Trump Is Going to Be the Nominee for the Republicans in 2024
21:24 • 3min
Is Trumpism a Poison to the System?
24:14 • 2min
Is Trump a Loser?
26:06 • 2min
Collide - The Best Endpoint Security Tool Ever!
28:01 • 2min
Elon Musk - I'm Champing at the Bit, Cable Sasser
30:22 • 2min
Steve Jobs - Is Elon Musk an Unreliable Narrator?
32:16 • 2min
Is This Good for Elon Musk?
34:43 • 5min
Twitter
39:40 • 2min
280 Did Not Break Twitter
41:16 • 2min
I'm So Easier Than You Think
43:43 • 3min
Are You Using a Laser Printer?
46:47 • 2min
Is There a Denial?
48:18 • 2min
The Twitter CEO - Who's the CEO Before It?
49:51 • 3min
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
53:10 • 2min
Is It Possible That the Prague CEO Was Not the Person to Give Twitter the Shake Up?
55:37 • 2min
Apple CEO - It's a Bad Story to Tell
57:24 • 3min
Famously Did Very Little of It Really
01:00:15 • 2min
Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs
01:01:57 • 2min
Is Steve Jobs Next a Failer?
01:03:29 • 2min
The Story of Elon Musk and Twitter
01:05:38 • 3min
Trade Coffee Is a Great Gift for the Holidays
01:09:06 • 3min
The Inversion of Power in Venture Capital
01:11:49 • 5min
The Musk Era of Twitter
01:16:31 • 2min
Facebook and the Rohingya Genocide
01:18:53 • 2min
Is This Really the Right Policy for Twitter?
01:20:39 • 3min
You Never Want to Have to Do a Layoff
01:23:22 • 3min
Twitter Layoffs - It's Not Even Close, Right?
01:26:48 • 2min
I Did Not See This Coming
01:28:54 • 2min
Is Twitter the Next Big Thing?
01:31:09 • 3min
Why Tesla Is Not Similar to Twitter and Their Problems?
01:33:43 • 3min
The CEO CEO CEO in the Industry Saying, Totally Hardcore
01:36:31 • 4min
Is There a Direct Competior to Instagram?
01:40:57 • 4min
Squarespace - The All-in-One Platform to Build, Design, Post, Host and Manage Your Website
01:44:36 • 4min
Are We Going to Have a Hard Time?
01:49:04 • 3min
Elon Musk's Mismanagement of Twitter
01:52:12 • 2min
Organizing in an Ad Hoc Fashion, Right?
01:54:16 • 2min
Can You Reverse a Product Decision?
01:56:19 • 2min
Clubhouse Is a Failure, You Know?
01:58:26 • 2min
The Product Decision That Elon Musk Can Mandate That Would Permanently Wreck Twitter
02:00:03 • 2min
The First Twitter Developer Conference
02:01:58 • 2min
I Don't Think You Can Predict What's Going on With Twitter
02:04:17 • 2min
Is Twitter Still a Niche Product?
02:06:35 • 2min
Podcasting
02:08:54 • 4min
How Can I Tell a Story on My Own Website?
02:12:35 • 2min
Special guest: Anil Dash. A little about last week’s U.S. midterm elections, and a lot about what’s going on at Twitter under Elon Musk.
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Links:
- “Twitter Tumult” — me, on what’s going on at Twitter.
- Twitter Is Going Great — A rundown of everything during Twitter’s saga under Elon Musk.
- Fedifinder — “Search Twitter names, bios, locations, URLs, and pinned Tweets for fediverse handles and URLs.” Nifty tool for anyone moving from Twitter to Mastodon or just trying Mastodon out.
- Fediverse of Madness — a collection of Glitch apps related to the fediverse.
- Glitch.
- The Obama Foundation Democracy Forum.
- Anil’s prescient Twitter prediction from back in April.
- Anil’s blog.
- Dahlia Lithwick, SCOTUS columnist extraordinaire.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.