{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechpod.content.town%2Fepisodes%2F356-small-team-big-thinking-KA5JM2Uj","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"356: Small Team, Big Thinking","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/369e8282-bab3-4f89-8844-5a60aee0d43c/d90bd310-313d-40a6-bde1-90d859cf614b/cropped_1789234959127.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/18c479b6-214d-4d4c-aa21-99f7572fd6e3\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"356: Small Team, Big Thinking\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"This week we sat down with the 2018 documentary General Magic, about the early '90s startup of the same name that was full of Macintosh veterans who were way ahead of their time about mobile computing, online communications, and a lot of other stuff. Were they really trying to make the iPhone more than a decade before the iPhone? Did they seriously invent early precursors to USB, Java, and emoji long before those things became commonplace? Why did they fail so catastrophically? Join us as we discuss the movie to ponder these and other questions about a really heady, innovative era of computing."}