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Re: Steve Jobs in Kyoto

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Post by suls »

sneak wrote: post #78
blimplab wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm having a difficulty fathoming (or believing) how this anecdote would be possible. When Steve Jobs' secretary picked up the phone, was it working hours? Brushing that aside, how could the secretary have called Nomura headquarters, reach the person who can grant access to the site, then have that person call the chauffeur within 10 minutes?

His personal secretarial staff was probably at least 5-10 people in total, with three shifts. Just having a megayacht[3] in a different time zone (e.g. in Europe) means you have to have three shift coverage to do management logistics for fueling/supply/HR/etc as it moves around between ports. They would already have his chauffeur’s number, and would be able to provide it to the people at the site (to enable a jp-jp c…

Yeah, this is very much in line with [1] (see Access under $1billion section):

> Access. You now can just ask your staff to contact anyone and you will get a call back. [..] Within 60 minutes, we had a call back. I was in B1's home talking to him the next day.

Truly amazing how the top 0.0001% operates.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2s9u0s/what_do_i...

Re: Steve Jobs in Kyoto

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Post by dreamcompiler »

staticautomatic wrote: post #47
suction wrote: post #33

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I lived in Japan for three years and would always prefer a (classy) hotel. As would most Japanese.

It’s a really neat experience but I wouldn’t go it again for more than a night. I hit my head on many doorways and am certain that if I’d stayed longer I would have eventually fallen through a wall.

Same here. Plus my knees were complaining about all the sleeping, eating, and sitting on the floor.

Re: Steve Jobs in Kyoto

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Post by easton »

quesera wrote: post #110
enraged_camel wrote: post #102

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He kept switching between all-fruit, vegan and pescetarian diets. His autobiography goes into it quite a bit.

> His autobiography s/auto// very unfortunately! Isaacson may have done the best job possible under the circumstances (authorized and rushed to publication), but I was disappointed.

Becoming Steve Jobs was a better book from what I recall. No talking to Steve, but gave a more fair look at much of the business stuff he was involved in. I liked it more.

Re: Steve Jobs in Kyoto

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Post by gonehome »

easton wrote: post #113
quesera wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> His autobiography s/auto// very unfortunately! Isaacson may have done the best job possible under the circumstances (authorized and rushed to publication), but I was disappointed.

Becoming Steve Jobs was a better book from what I recall. No talking to Steve, but gave a more fair look at much of the business stuff he was involved in. I liked it more.

I really liked Small Fry.

It’s written by his daughter and it’s more about her life and their relationship than his, but I think that’s the reason it’s really good.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/lisa-brennan-jobs-sm...

Re: Steve Jobs in Kyoto

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Post by schuke »

quicklime wrote: post #96

> Ohnishi started Jobs off with flounder sushi, then squid and shrimp...he served toro, the fatty part of tuna Was Steve Jobs not a vegetarian?

I remember reading somewhere that he was urged by his doctor to eat meat after his illness. And his family gave up being vegan as well.

Re: Steve Jobs in Kyoto

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Post by jptech »

glandium wrote: post #52
pazimzadeh wrote: post #9

> Oshima says he would even jokingly ask Jobs to name one of Apple's products 'Hiro.' That's not a bad alternative to 'Siri'

Fun fact: In Japanese there is no "Si" sound and the closest is "Shi", so "Siri" is pronounced "Shiri". You know what else is pronounced "Shiri" in Japanese? Buttocks (尻).

If you want to look at it that way, "Shiri" can also refer to 知り which is the noun form or the stem of the -masu form of the verb 知る ("Shiru") generally meaning to know.

Re: Steve Jobs in Kyoto

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Post by etempleton »

soperj wrote: post #54
johnwheeler wrote: post #48

It always frustrates me when techies have an irreverence for Steve Jobs, or let his brashness overshadow the value he bestowed upon the world. Jobs was once asked what distinguishes the ordinary from the great, and he said it boils down to "taste". he also described his job as being "an editor". instead of adding more and more, he decided what to sacrifice and what to focus on making great. that's a rare quality, esp…

He set back wages for techies for years, and was a prick to his family & friends (disavowing his daughter, screwing Woz out of money). I don't care if he was the brightest guy on earth, or what "value" he bestowed on the world. He wasn't a good human being. Same goes for Gates.

You have to take the good with the bad. Steve and Bill were able to accomplish what they did because of their unique personality quirks. Those same quirks make them not always compassionate or empathetic people. No one is perfect. Steve was who he was. A lot of people who were closest to him seemed very sad that he passed. He must have made a positive impression on them.

Re: Steve Jobs in Kyoto

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Post by onethought »

sneak wrote: post #64

> "I told him it would be impossible to enter but he said he might have a way," says Oshima. "He called his secretary in the US and ten minutes later, I got a call from the Nomura headquarters saying that we had a reservation for a personal viewing the following day." My favorite casual Apple flex like this is the aerial screensaver on the Apple TV that was very obviously shot in 120fps in 4 or 8K (the published vide…

I thought most of those overhead shots were composited 3D + Footage.

Not real live footage.

Re: Steve Jobs in Kyoto

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Post by etempleton »

fermentation wrote: post #6
carlosdp wrote: post #4

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He was actually fruititarian, for most of his life.

I didn't realize that this was actually real. I love fruit but I feel like all of the sugar would hurt me if it were the only thing that I ate.

Steve had a number of out there beliefs. At one point, before Co-founding Apple, Steve believed his fruit only diet would mean he no longer needed to shower, much to the dismay of his Atari coworkers. He also tried to fix his pancreatic cancer through diet.

I suspect he had many more out there beliefs, but was self aware enough to keep them to his self.

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