Arc & Dia’s Josh Miller on Trusting Your Instinct and Following Your People
Watch the episode
1 hr 55 min · YouTube
What they recommend · 4 picks
Bowling Alone
Books
"I found tech through a professor named Robert Putnam's book Bowling Alone... It was the first time I'd heard someone describe the world and this idea of social capital that expl..."
iMac
Gear & hardware
"I got an iMac when I was 10 and it changed my life. I wanted his blue see-through iMac to be the product we were making."
"We went on this rabbit hole. Walked her back to my apartment to give her Seeing Is Forgetting by Robert Irwin."
Made by someone on this episode
Optimizing for Feelings
· Josh Miller's
— Essay by The Browser Company describing its values of designing for...
Also mentioned
10:23
Chrome
· "We're just blind to how utilitarian Chrome is. What if we spice it up a little bit? You know, what if we..."
13:03
Thrive Capital
· "It feels like they're creative with capital in a way that I don't see elsewhere and it seems to be working."
13:45
Robinhood
· "E*TRADE is a public company, Charles Schwab, they couldn't really compete with Robinhood because their..."
18:32
Meetup.com
· "I interned at Meetup in New York City. As part of interning at Meetup, you have to go to meetups because..."
Ads in this episode
Notion. They're paid, so we keep them out of the picks above.
See what Dialectic recommends without being paid →
◎
Related episodes
Episodes covering similar topics
More from Dialectic