Bryan and Jeff look at Steve Jobs and Tim Cook’s intentional decisions to make products that benefit their users instead of following the blind profit approach so many tech-bros follow. Jeff also tells Bryan about the ways he’s exploring music outside of Apple Music.
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Sources referenced in this episode:
- Cook commits to health and well-being as Apple Watch adds new programs to Fitness+
- Plex
- Plexamp
- soma fm
- Lofi Girl
- Bryan’s book Accidental Intelligence
- Bryan’s short story King Liam, First of His Name
- Mason Truman on Threads
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