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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>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/05/the-costs-only-explode-once-a-film-moves-into-production/</link>
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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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		<title>The “think slow” part of Pixar planning started before Pixar even existed.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 11:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The “think slow” part of Pixar planning, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), started before Pixar even existed: Catmull was surprised then, in 1980, when a Lucasfilm competitor spent $10 million on a Cray-1 super&#173;computer. He and his colleagues wondered if they should chase that competitor, so they sat down and made specific estimates [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Even literal Moon shots aren’t “moonshots”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 11:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed Catmull, the cofounder and longtime president of Pixar, was watching the General Magic documentary with David Epstein when he headed to the bookshelf, Epstein explains (in Inside the Box): When Catmull returns from the shelf, he’s holding a laptop-size book with giant red letters splashed across the cover: By Space Ship to the Moon, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Think slow, act fast</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/05/think-slow-act-fast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 11:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Inside the Box, David Epstein explains how, since the 1990s, researcher Bent Flyvbjerg has kept a database that tracks giant undertakings: Only 8.5 percent of projects finished on time and on budget; 0.5 percent did that and delivered the prophesied benefits. Almost every major infrastructure project goes over budget, but at least not by [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>We have a deep-seated compulsion always to add</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/05/we-have-a-deep-seated-compulsion-always-to-add/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 11:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Inside the Box, David Epstein explains how General Magic exemplified the adage that more startups die of indigestion than starvation. “Overflowing with resources and talent,” he says “they were bereft of helpful constraints.” Another telling scene [in the General Magic documentary] features a young Darin Adler, who had already led a team that built [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>He called it the Pocket Crystal</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/05/he-called-it-the-pocket-crystal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 10:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned recently, I quite enjoyed David Epstein’s The Sports Gene and Range, so I went ahead and got Inside the Box the day it came out. He opens with the famous story of Dmitri Mendeleev seeing the periodic table in a dream and contrasts that myth with the reality that Mendeleev had a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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