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June 13, 2026

The amazing story of what goes into a smartphone, this is a short November 2025 speech in San Francisco. It’s an adaptation of the principles expressed in the 1958 essay, “I, Pencil” by Leonard Read. The essay, “I, Smartphone,” is available on Amazon for about five bucks: https://tinyurl.com/yunb8jyx.

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