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You have to have no trust in science to believe anything Paul Saladino and Joe Rogan say about it.

Tragic. I love my boosted. I’ve spent so many hours riding it and will until it dies.

Hahaha, that story really caught on but Pierre confessed it was made up for the purpose of getting people to relate to eBay. Netflix's story about late fees was same.

Thanks! The fascinating thing is I had been a geophysicist for 10 years before joining NeXT, so all my instincts were to approach this as a scientist. When I see Dr. Fauci speaking the best known truths despite the political winds, it resonates with all I know of science -- speak the truth as best you know it and history will forgive you later.

Good find. I wonder if Andy Hertzfeld said one of the first and I misquoted him.

Remember Victoria Taylor, Reddit famous for being in charge of AMAs? She joined Cake a couple weeks ago to get conversations going with fascinating people there.

Fascinating! I didn't know that. Telescript was the networking software and it's not even mentioned in the movie. I thought it was crazy when I worked there. It had the structure of a virus.

A film was made about General Magic that was a pretty big hit at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. There was a showing in a big theater in San Jose last week but it sold out. They have another showing at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View this Friday. Let's hope it gets on Netflix.

Doug Leone, the head of Sequoia, said during a Stanford keynote "if your first two engineers aren't A+, you're screwed, you will never recover."

Steve used to say that great engineers are 10x the average and there are a few who are 100x and crucial to hard projects. He did everything he could to find them.

It's funny, for a long time Avie had a calculator on his NeXT screen to show Microsoft stock and the cost of coming to NeXT. But Apple stock did okay later, so it wasn't the disaster it once looked to be.

That's a great find. I hadn't seen that. I didn't even remember him saying this. We did try to sell through VARs who were supposedly a higher-end channel. Sun had a lot of luck with VARs, I understand.