The Critical Path
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with Horace Dediu and Dan BenjaminUsing Apple as a lens to look at both telecom and traditional computing markets, we try to understand what it means to be great.
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Show Description
Critical Path is a talk show contemplating the causality of success and failure in mobile computing. Using Apple as a lens to look at both telecom and traditional computing markets, we try to understand what it means to be great.
History
The first episode of The Critical Path was release on June 7, 2011. Horace Dediu had previously been a guest on The Pipeline #52 in April 2011 and his work on asymco.com is regularly cited on The Talk Show as both exemplary and insightful analysis of Apple's business.
On June 9, 2011 with just the first episode released, The Critical Path reached #7 on the iTunes list of most popular audio podcasts, beating out perennial popular shows including The Moth Podcast, The Adam Carolla Show, and Car Talk. Dan announced the position by tweeting a link to a screenshot of the iTunes Podcast listing.
Schedule
The Critical Path is mostly on a weekly release schedule based on host availability and sometimes broadcasts live during recording.
Episodes
- The Five Year Plan
- Synchronized failure
- It's Good to Be King
- Acquisitions
- HP's Innovation Antibodies
- Black Boxes
- Genericized Trademarks
- In Memory of Robert Boyle
- Getting To Know You
- The Means of Production
- The Thermonuclear Option
- Back to the Future
- The Innovation Anomalies
- The Super-platform ecosystem
- The Theater of Disruption
- The Existence Proof
- Working with Clay
- Who's Paying for My Lunch?
- The hiring and firing of milkshakes and candy bars
- Below the (belt)line
- Negative Costs
- Asymconf
- Auteur Theory
- Spidey Sense
- Only the freshest Mountain Dew
- Zeitgeist
- Supernova
- False Profit
- The Consequences of Disruption
- Jetlag
- Greenlighting
- Mockumentary
- The Futility of Machinations
- Climax and Anti-climax
- Joys and Sorrows
- An Interview with Clayton Christensen
- Pathfinder I
