David Pogue is one of my most favourite Davids.
Really looking forward to this.
More episodes need singing.
I enjoyed that. Thank you gentlemen.
Will do, more coming 
Glad you enjoyed it! Surreal speaking to Pogue after many years of following his work
So when Pogue said, “I don’t know if any of your audience are power users…” Was that a joke? Did he forget which interview he was doing? Haha.
Also laughed at his surprise at Bear having another user.
He was an engaging guest; I wouldn’t have guessed him to talk like that, for some reason.
I thoroughly enjoyed the episode. I used to follow David when he was at the New York Times; I always enjoyed those videos.
While listening, for some reason I kept thinking of one of my favorites of his, so I did a YouTube search and found it (linked below).
I checked the date on it, and now I feel old…
He’s doing sqazillions of promotional interviews just now, so it wouldn’t surprise me if didn’t really know exactly who he was talking to. A bit like a rock star with the name of the city they’re performing scrawled in big letters on a piece of paper that’s taped to the stage floor - “Hello Philadelphia!”
Fascinating that he’s using an old MacBook Pro and doesn’t feel the need to upgrade. I wonder what that feels like 
We had people using 2009 iMacs in 2018. At least some of them only had 4GB of RAM but that was plenty for people running a couple of browser based programs and email.
I use an iPad as my main computer. But if Apple allowed me to utilize an external monitor with my iPhone, the way I can with my iPad, I wouldn’t need anything else.
This was great to see pop-up in my podcast player today. I really liked Pogue’s take on Siri and the general state of chat services, which is just okay and not fully something that is reliable, yet. One or two of the LLMs for GenAI are getting close and can work in other areas to assist users, but not really make a solid Siri.
There were a lot of little gems and fact checking some of the common Apple and Steve Jobs memes.
This is a pure gold episode.
I had never heard of David Pogue before this episode, but I really enjoyed him as a guest. I am going to buy his audiobook!
Laugh out loud funny when he asked :“Are any of your users power users? I use Keyboard Maestro,” and he wasn’t really kidding, asking that.
I just made the same comment about the power user comment, I think it was serious…
Psyched for this. It is supposed to arrive today.
I’ve enjoyed Pogue’s writing for years, but this episode surprised me—it became clear that he really isn’t much of a Mac power user.
Depends on how you define “power user”. I agree that his tech stack is nothing exotic, but I feel like a lot of very productive people (and I would number David Pogue among them) just stick with a simple set of tools and just… do the work
I thought that his heavy use of text substitution, basically his own defined shorthand, qualifies him as an extreme power user for writing, which is his occupation.
Apple enthusiasts, especially folks here at MPU, seem to update their devices constantly just because they want the latest device. It rarely seems to be driven by actual need but entirely gadget lust for the new shiny. Not good for global resource use but also it speaks to depersonalization of devices that we no longer fully appreciate.
My current devices:
- 2012 Mac Mini and 2018 ThinkPad, both running GNU/Linux, fully update with latest OS. Unless there’s some sort of hardware failure these both should continue to serve for 5+ years. Both used for: Document layout using Scribus (Free Software equivalent to Affinity Publisher), InkScape (Vector design/layout replacement for Affinity Designer), LibreOffice, website coding with Kate, and then all the usual day-to-day stuff with web browser.
- M2 iPadPro used for Affinity apps for a client that requires Affinity files. I also use the iPad for a mix of day-to-day tasks when I feel like using a tablet. I expect this device until it stops booting.
- iPhone 13. I still get a full day of battery life and will use till it no longer boots. My least used device. It’s just a phone and I rarely do phone calls. Most of my audio calls are via Signal on other devices.
I thought this was a delightful episode, and it convinced me to order his book (as well as Apple in China).