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My grandparents had an Advent when I was a kid. That thing probably spat out more radiation than I ever would care to research. It was a beautiful beast though and could heat a room.
It's interesting to see the toilet is in the center of the building. When Jobs took over Pixar the new campus development was planning to build three separate buildings: for creatives, for producers and for business people. But Jobs insisted that they be brought under one roof, with toilets at the centre — because that’s where everyone meets and talks.
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According to Isaacson's biography, it was Markkula who insisted that Jobs be heavily involved in the non-engineering areas of the company.
According to the same book, Wozniak specifically insisted at some point that he would prefer to be treated as an engineer and not be involved with high-level management. One could also say it would be interesting how things might have turned out if Wozniak was more ambitious.
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On the subject of counterfactuals, I recently finished reading Jobs' bio and Woz's autobiography and found myself contemplating how their lives would have turned out if they hadn't met each other. It seems easy to project the most likely outcome for Woz if he hadn't met Jobs - he'd probably still be an engineer at HP (assuming he didn't get laid off by one of their disastrous CEOs), his Apple ][ board a forgotten rel…
Here's a random theory: They would've met each other a little later, and done the same thing. Jobs and Wozniak orbited each other a few times before they really connected professionally. If you change one little thing so they wouldn'tve met each other, they would've met each other some other way. And if you change enough things so that they NEVER would've met each other, you'dve changed enough things that they wouldn…
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It might have something to do with the fact that marketing people are on the phone a lot and engineers have to focus a lot. Wherever I've worked the engineering team always locked the CEO away from themselves because he's a huge distraction.
Typically, the CEO is "locked away" in a spacious corner office and the engineers have to make do with cubes.
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According to the same book, Wozniak specifically insisted at some point that he would prefer to be treated as an engineer and not be involved with high-level management. One could also say it would be interesting how things might have turned out if Wozniak was more ambitious.
On the subject of counterfactuals, I recently finished reading Jobs' bio and Woz's autobiography and found myself contemplating how their lives would have turned out if they hadn't met each other. It seems easy to project the most likely outcome for Woz if he hadn't met Jobs - he'd probably still be an engineer at HP (assuming he didn't get laid off by one of their disastrous CEOs), his Apple ][ board a forgotten rel…
Makes me picture a variation of Kim Stanley Robinson's "Three Californias" trilogy based on your scenarios...
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According to the same book, Wozniak specifically insisted at some point that he would prefer to be treated as an engineer and not be involved with high-level management. One could also say it would be interesting how things might have turned out if Wozniak was more ambitious.
Interested in why you use the word "ambitious" there. Woz most likely wanted to remain in engineering. That was (and is) his love and his ambition. Senior management probably didn't interest him in the slightest.
Some people would argue that it was Wozniak's engineering mind that made him not want to pursue management. I would argue that the engineering mind is actually quite useful in management and that a lot of business leaders possess it (think Bill Gates). My hypothesis is that if Wozniak became as ambitious and controlling as Jobs was after the two met, the pair either would have fallen apart violently at some point or would have created an empire the size of Microsoft early on.
My grandparents had an Advent when I was a kid. That thing probably spat out more radiation than I ever would care to research. It was a beautiful beast though and could heat a room.
Youngen here: Might I ask what an Advent is? It's a hard thing to Google.
[1]: http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Vintage-Advertisement-1978-ADVENT-VID...
Funny how everyone is mentioned by their first name except Steve and Woz.
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