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Ashton Kutcher annotates Steve Jobs' 1982 Academy of Achievement speech

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Sorry..what's the significance of this (I feel like I'm missing something)?

Ashton Kutcher is portraying Steve Jobs in an upcoming movie.

Right, I realized that. I guess I don't grok what RapGenius and these annotations are about.

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Ashton Kutcher plays Steve Jobs in the new movie and did a crazy amount of research for the role.

He listened to hundreds of Steve's talks, studied art & topics that influenced Jobs, read Jobs' favorite books, obsessed over him for months, ate Jobs' diet, even learned to walk like Jobs (who has an odd gait, likely due to years of walking barefoot).

I got to see a screening of the movie yesterday with subsequent QA by Kutcher. Even though he's humble and doesn't claim to be an expert, it was borderline freaky how well Kutcher seems to understand Jobs. At least, from the point-of-view of someone who wasn't friends or family.

I consider him an expert.

Related: I like when RapGenius branches out from rap. I wonder if it will always be called RapGenius for non-rap content, or if they'll come up with a more general brand name. I think it'd be neat if RapGenius became as broad as Wikipedia.

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'That seems to dovetail with their goal of annotating the entire internet, a notion that would seem to sit well with Andreesen Horowitz and other Rap Genius investors including Ashton Kutcher and budding venture capitalist Nas.'

http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2013/05/02/...

Re: Ashton Kutcher annotates Steve Jobs' 1982 Academy of Achievement speech

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Ashton Kutcher plays Steve Jobs in the new movie and did a crazy amount of research for the role. He listened to hundreds of Steve's talks, studied art & topics that influenced Jobs, read Jobs' favorite books, obsessed over him for months, ate Jobs' diet, even learned to walk like Jobs (who has an odd gait, likely due to years of walking barefoot). I got to see a screening of the movie yesterday with subsequent QA by…

He also talked about Jobs extensively on here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4GB-2l9_kc. It really looks like he studied everything Jobs had done, as well as he can. His reasons for accepting the role is kind of funny, but I liked that he was being honest about it.

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We got Ja Rule on the phone. Let's see what Ja's thoughts are...

For those that don't know this reference, from Dave Chappelle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo-ddYhXAZc

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