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Changing Minds with Owen Fitzpatrick by Owen Fitzpatrick

Aug 24, 202619:18Science & Medicine

In the early 1980s, Steve Jobs asked an engineer to save 10 seconds off the Macintosh boot-up time. The engineer found 28. His skills never changed. The story he was working inside of did. This episode brings together ev...

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