Letter from Steve Wozniak to a high school student in Korea

Woz is such a generous, stand-up soul that he should be famous for that alone, even if he were just a mediocre engineer. The fact that he was also one of the greatest hackers in his time is just a bizarre, but welcome anomaly of tech history.

Love the Woz. A extraordinary combination of quiet genius, generosity and humility.

While reading 'Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days' I found out Steve W. gave some of his (very valuable) stocks while in Apple to fellow employees (some fresh out of college) just because he thought they deserved it for working so hard.

Great dude.

> ... never want to tell one story in different ways.

\tangent I know what he's talking about (spinning the truth), so the following is not addressing what he meant, it's just that the bald statement irks me so: when explaining something to somebody, it can be very helpful to express it in familiar terms and concepts that they already understand. You might need to customise the story for each person, and the change might be much more than just a few words, but premised on entirely different concepts.

It's more like: you have a map and you know their intended destination. It's not helpful to just tell them where they should be; nor even to just explain one way to get there (one story). Better to find out where they are, and then give them directions in terms of that. (from my stint as an ugrad tutor/demonstrator).

You really should.

Hearing that sort of thing doesn't get old. I'll bet he would appreciate it.