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10.06.2015 by M Donaldson // Leave a Comment

On the latest episode of Road Work, John Roderick has some deep thoughts about a culture where we are all artists and the difficulty of filtering the truly great works in a society where everyone is creating. The Peaches record store chain even gets mentioned. This particular discussion starts at around 23:00 … listen here via Overcast..



I also enjoyed this incisive discussion on The Talk Show about advertising, the philosophy of content blockers, and attitudes towards piracy … Marco Arment and John Gruber get into these subjects pretty much straight away. Listen here via Overcast..

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