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John C. Dvorak has died
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#142i have spent nearly half my life listening to the voice of John C. Dvorak on a nightly basis as i went to bed. literally since i was in college – around 2008 – i started listening to the No Agenda Show. i'd play the podcast in one ear with the other on my pillow with a 30-minute sleep timer and play it over several nights until the next episode came out. my outlook, my ideology, my perspective on life was partly form…
I stopped listening to the no agenda show many years ago when I just decided that I didn't want to be worked up and angry about the world everyday of my life. Turn off social media, turn off the news. Even local news. It's never going to make you feel good about anything. I get a weekly newsletter digest of happenings around the world and that's all I need. My daily mood and outlook on life has increased immensely si…
RIP JCD.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
I enjoyed John and Leo butting heads. I agree that it was great. It's a bummer they haven't done that for a long time.
It was great until Leo went off the deep end and lost 99% of his audience.
I didn't stick around that long to see what became of it.
I see different people saying different things about Leo and John. What happened?
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#144In the early PC days back in the eighties the bible was PC Magazine. They had a number of really talented columnists but towering above all of them was John C. Dvorak. He wrote so well, he was at times opinionated and other times intensely funny. Whether you agreed with that weeks opinion or not you felt you were better for having read it and that is truly rare. Then along came PC TV and he got introduced to an entir…
> what was really going on with COVID Let me guess: a government conspiracy to push something pro-humanity
I didn't include the link but here is the last series part 1:
https://dvorak.substack.com/p/the-covid-decision-tree-part-o...
He wrote about COVID for six years. Someone should compile all those columns into a book or at least a single PDF.
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#145I'm 36, I've been an intense podcast listener and tech news reader since I was 14 years old. In 2005, I discovered This Week in Tech where John C. Dvorak was a frequent early guest. I liked his style and found other podcasts and websites where I could find his content. I really enjoyed Cranky Geeks. For fans, here is the No Agenda newsletter link with current information: https://mailchi.mp/nashownotes/rip-jcd-no-age…
Heh, my trajectory exactly.
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Dvorak hated that for decades wikipedia had the wrong birth year and refused to let him change it. He wrote at length about how wikipedia is the antithesis of the entire conception of a wiki. He was 80, born in 1946.
This is odd. So you are saying wikipedia kept getting it wrong for a long time but now the announcement has it wrong and wikipedia is correct?
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Most of what I know him for was coming on TWiT, driving Leo Laporte nuts, and making claims that ended up not coming true. He was a hilarious curmudgeon. He will be missed.
Curmudgeon is the perfect term to describe. He was a great part of TWIT. I liked his obscure software references (lotus Jazz was one I think). He also found this new thing is like that old thing. His non positive takes were a great addition to the show.
When Leo banned him is actually when I stopped listening to TWiT. Apparently he came back a few years later, but I never did.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dvorak hated that for decades wikipedia had the wrong birth year and refused to let him change it. He wrote at length about how wikipedia is the antithesis of the entire conception of a wiki. He was 80, born in 1946.
This is odd. So you are saying wikipedia kept getting it wrong for a long time but now the announcement has it wrong and wikipedia is correct?
I cannot imagine why you find the statements above odd but compare and contrast:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_C._Dvorak&ol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak
Enough scrolling through the edit history and you could determine when wikipedia finally got their shit together on his birthdate.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
I enjoyed John and Leo butting heads. I agree that it was great. It's a bummer they haven't done that for a long time.
It was great until Leo went off the deep end and lost 99% of his audience.
Both of them kind of lost the thread. I really enjoyed the show but they became increasingly polarized and unmoving in their opinions.