Make Something Wonderful – Steve Jobs in his own words
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Make Something Wonderful – Steve Jobs in his own words
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#2I read other book on Steve Jobs - "Inside Steve's brain". Good write up on his business Strategies and Apple revamping from late 90s
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#3It's amazing how much "mystique" is assigned to a man who's success can probably be at least 75% attributed to just being an enthusiast about his own products in a business world where it's usually limited to the founding members.
How many CEOs, product managers and the like have been caught promoting their own brand with a "tweeted from iPhone" tagline. Probably "efficient business people", but literally won't touch their own product while telling others to buy it.
In contrast, one of the stories that always sticks in my mind about Jobs is one of early iPhone production runs having plastic screens, which got scratched by his keys in his pocket, which Jobs found entirely unacceptable.
In a world where min-maxing cost to profit is all that matters, perpetual doubting of the efficacy of quality, all it took to cement Steve Jobs in the tech hall of history is some of the lowest hanging fruit left for him. Like hating crappy, easily scratched and degraded plastic screens.
For all his faults, in retrospect, it was kind of nice to see an enthusiastic founding member of a large company say "we can do better" and in many ways, succeed.
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#4It's amazing how much "mystique" is assigned to a man who's success can probably be at least 75% attributed to just being an enthusiast about his own products in a business world where it's usually limited to the founding members. How many CEOs, product managers and the like have been caught promoting their own brand with a "tweeted from iPhone" tagline. Probably "efficient business people", but literally won't touch…
Eric Schmidt famously got a lot of flack at Google because he insisted on sticking with his blackberry
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#5It's amazing how much "mystique" is assigned to a man who's success can probably be at least 75% attributed to just being an enthusiast about his own products in a business world where it's usually limited to the founding members. How many CEOs, product managers and the like have been caught promoting their own brand with a "tweeted from iPhone" tagline. Probably "efficient business people", but literally won't touch…
But the thing is, we all tolerate things which are sheer crap, if viewed through a different set of lenses. For example, you probably tolerate many things that I personally would consider rubbish, and vice versa. You say it’s trivial to have good taste, but it’s not trivial at all.
My point is, many of us would have thought the plastic screen was fine, and that wasn’t because we weren’t “enthusiastic” about our own products. The same goes for a whole range of tools that we use everyday. It’s likely that in several years time we’ll look back and think it was ridiculous we thought some of them were good or even acceptable.
Consider this website, the outdated interface is held up as some kind of filter against an “eternal September” of an influx of “normies” who can’t see past the terrible UI for the apparently sheer brilliance and sophistication of the content on this site, but to me, it’s just garish. This attitudes extends to so many different areas, especially in technology, where hostility to good taste and style is often seen as something to be lauded, with the idea that somehow, technical brilliance and design chops are inversely correlated and can’t co-exist. With that attitude in mind, it’s no wonder Apple became so successful, because they and Jobs actively embraced both.
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#6Steve Jobs' ideas and perspective continue to be relevant and valuable to anyone interested in technology, business, and innovation.
I built AskSteve (https://www.asksteve.xyz/) to provide a Q&A platform where users can ask questions and get relevant results based on his real-life speeches and interviews.
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#7It's amazing how much "mystique" is assigned to a man who's success can probably be at least 75% attributed to just being an enthusiast about his own products in a business world where it's usually limited to the founding members. How many CEOs, product managers and the like have been caught promoting their own brand with a "tweeted from iPhone" tagline. Probably "efficient business people", but literally won't touch…
But the thing is, we all tolerate things which are sheer crap, if viewed through a different set of lenses. For example, you probably tolerate many things that I personally would consider rubbish, and vice versa. You say it’s trivial to have good taste, but it’s not trivial at all. My point is, many of us would have thought the plastic screen was fine, and that wasn’t because we weren’t “enthusiastic” about our own p…
> Consider this website, the outdated interface is held up as some kind of filter against an “eternal September” of an influx of “normies”...
No. Hold up.
This interface has 1 obvious reason that I see that no fancy polished interface can ever come close to: loading speed.
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#8It's amazing how much "mystique" is assigned to a man who's success can probably be at least 75% attributed to just being an enthusiast about his own products in a business world where it's usually limited to the founding members. How many CEOs, product managers and the like have been caught promoting their own brand with a "tweeted from iPhone" tagline. Probably "efficient business people", but literally won't touch…
But the thing is, we all tolerate things which are sheer crap, if viewed through a different set of lenses. For example, you probably tolerate many things that I personally would consider rubbish, and vice versa. You say it’s trivial to have good taste, but it’s not trivial at all. My point is, many of us would have thought the plastic screen was fine, and that wasn’t because we weren’t “enthusiastic” about our own p…
Why is it garish? I see it as the opposite and I am curious to hear another perspective.
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#9From the outside looking in, founder CEO’s like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are enigmas. They are able to convince the most brilliant human beings to devote their lives to them. That’s their real talent. Their belief in their mission is so strong and their confidence is unshakable. I wonder what mix of nurture and nature produces human beings like this. Out of billions of people, a handful are born this way.
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#10With celebrities like Steve Jobs we have a lot of interviews, autobiographies and data available.
It would be interesting to finetune a LLM using all this data to act like him. Then you add TTS with his voice and voilà: Your personal Steve Jobs personal advisor running on your GPGPU or even phone, eventually.
Makes you wonder if there will be laws against doing this without permission eventually. It's kind of hard to stop it if it's relatively easy to do.