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		<title>Do something, not everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the spring of 2024, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), he met up with a group of General Magic alumni to discuss their proto-iPhone: It had been three decades since they went public—with no revenue—in Silicon Valley’s first “concept IPO.” […] On the day of the IPO, Sony’s investment in General Magic instantly [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The median salary for an aviation technician was $79,140 in 2024</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Graduates in aviation maintenance from the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics are in demand, NPR reports, due to a labor shortage: After shifting their tassels and hugging their parents, they head to a nearby building for one last test. &#8220;Every one of the 54 Maintenance students took their final test graduation day or the morning after,&#8221; [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Studying what, exactly, workers in a knowledge economy do all day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 11:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gloria Mark, David Epstein’s explains (in Inside the Box), has been at the forefront of studying what, exactly, workers in a knowledge economy do all day: Early on, this meant that she and her colleagues were shadowing office workers with stopwatches and logging all of their activity. […] The resulting paper was published in 2004, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop starting and start finishing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea that growth can come from a focus on limits, rather than limitless expansion, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), is at the core of a simple but profound idea: In the 1970s, Israeli physicist Eli Goldratt was working on algorithms to predict the behavior of atoms in heated crystals, when a friend [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The ideas that made an impact in the long run were those that embedded something new in something already established</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Shakespeare’s era, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), creativity was more associated with the ability to improve upon something that existed than with sheer originality: If the audience already knew the story, they could readily take in the unique aspects that each new creator brought to it. […] Robert McKee, in his classic [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>General Magic had a right to any IP developed by employees</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[General Magic was already in trouble, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), when a tech-support guy named Pierre Omidyar used his free time and personal website to start AuctionWeb: General Magic had a right to any IP developed by employees, so Omidyar dutifully showed the company’s lawyer that his site was generating traffic, connecting [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Businesspeople weren’t going to use the Newton unless it included a phone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 11:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Larry Tesler, who was leading Apple’s Newton group, hired an anthropologist named Eleanor Wynn, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), to test the theory behind their business plan: Wynn reported back that business&#173;people weren’t going to use the Newton unless it included a phone. But adding a phone at that point (as General Magic [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>For every person who needs more freedom, there are ten people who need more help in finding their way</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 11:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bell Labs is often remembered as the epitome of unfettered exploration, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), but that framing misses a crucial point: Eric Gilliam, who studies and writes about innovation history, coined the beautiful phrase “long leash, narrow fence” to describe the ethos at Bell Labs in its heyday. New researchers were [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Not too much time, not too much money, and not too many people on the team</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 11:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prior to his This American Life experience, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), he was apt to think of freedom as an absence of editing: It seems silly to me in retrospect, but it’s the same kind of “no limits” thinking that animated General Magic, and its failure left a powerful impression on those [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The costs only explode once a film moves into production</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 11:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Toy Story fulfilled Ed Catmull’s twenty-year dream, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), he turned his attention to creating a place that could do it repeatedly: The “Three Pitches Rule” required directors to pitch not one but three film ideas, so that they wouldn’t get stuck on one and fixate too early. Pixar [&#8230;]]]></description>
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