Steve Jobs RIP 1955-2011

sorry

I had no idea Steve Jobs and Mona Simpson were siblings! Weird.

― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Monday, November 14, 2011 10:47 AM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark

in all fairness, neither did they

MONASIMSON_REAL

lol

Think Jobs was listening in on my Sunday School when I was six:

But what I've always felt that a team of people doing something they really believe in is like is like when I was a young kid there was a widowed man that lived up the street. He was in his eighties. He was a little scary looking. And I got to know him a little bit. I think he may have paid me to mow his lawn or something.

And one day he said to me, "come on into my garage I want to show you something." And he pulled out this dusty old rock tumbler. It was a motor and a coffee can and a little band between them. And he said, "come on with me." We went out into the back and we got just some rocks. Some regular old ugly rocks. And we put them in the can with a little bit of liquid and little bit of grit powder, and we closed the can up and he turned this motor on and he said, "come back tomorrow."

And this can was making a racket as the stones went around.

And I came back the next day, and we opened the can. And we took out these amazingly beautiful polished rocks. The same common stones that had gone in, through rubbing against each other like this (clapping his hands), creating a little bit of friction, creating a little bit of noise, had come out these beautiful polished rocks.

That's always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they're passionate about.

yo thanks for the link

I work at a software company, Apple products are great, but I don't want to be one of those rocks!

Moral: when a scary-looking guy says "come on into my garage I want to show you something," follow him

lol AA

http://i.imgur.com/DyuvZ.png

ILU, Jedward. Never change.

And people think I'm irreverent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2C2oCsrqcM

yo mh this looks good

this is the event that that clip of gassee i linked to a couple of days ago is from -- just found it

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/379824_10150352571516721_362474601720_8394224_2131142578_n.jpg

did i just blow your minds or

http://fun.resplace.net/Emoticons/Uncategorized/Amazed.gif

that malcolm gladwell piece was 100% horrible

^^ it was like a book report

like, he was working off the same facts from the biography that were AVAILABLE TO EVERY OTHER SINGLE PERSON WHO HAD READ THE BIOGRAPHY. + some bullshit half-baked tweaked shit about tweakers.

did you read the biography

+ some bullshit half-baked tweaked shit about tweakers.

the other stuff where jobs yelled at everyone around him and stole ideas i knew about. . . the tweaker stuff was half baked, even for gladwell

if you read the biography and want to hear someone smart talk about it, this is good: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/42

part two drops later today

i listened to that and it was not very good. computer people don't know how to talk on air. so many awkward gaps. and the interviewer kept asking stupid questions.

and the guy's main points were completely unsupported, and then he went on to do some really trivial nitpicking.

dogg, dayo... thats what book reviews in the nyer basically are

the tweaker stuff is basically right but havent people been saying that about jobs for like... decades now?

it wasn't a book review tho, it was "annals of technology"

i havent read this article but im assuming "tweaker" isnt referring to meth?

I read the nyer for the articles, man

oh i thought it was in the critics section

heres the article slock

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/14/111114fa_fact_gladwell

I meant 'book report' in the sense that it was just a summarization of facts - what irked me was that gladwell was trying to push his specific interpretation of those facts as if they were something revelatory and not at all self-evident from the biography when it was basically just what every single other review of the book out there was saying

like he was trying to pass it off as some brilliant insight that he garnered from his own investigative sleuthing and in depth research when really he got the book on release date same as everybody else and was busting ass to get this article out so he could collect $50k from the nyer, because he's maclolm gladwell

at least he may have stopped pretending to be a scientist

xp he didn't even tell us which washing machine steve ended up getting.

"We ended up opting for these Miele appliances, made in Germany."

markers do you have that page bookmarked

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=steve+jobs+german+washing+machine

its pretty well known that miele makes the best washing machines

you could ask any person on the street

yeah its basically common knowledge

I'm pretty bummed that there are like 10 separate articles that talk about steve jobs and washing machines, thanks for ruining my day markers

^^^^^^^

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.02/jobs_pr.html

Design is not limited to fancy new gadgets. Our family just bought a new washing machine and dryer. We didn't have a very good one so we spent a little time looking at them. It turns out that the Americans make washers and dryers all wrong. The Europeans make them much better - but they take twice as long to do clothes! It turns out that they wash them with about a quarter as much water and your clothes end up with a lot less detergent on them. Most important, they don't trash your clothes. They use a lot less soap, a lot less water, but they come out much cleaner, much softer, and they last a lot longer.

We spent some time in our family talking about what's the trade-off we want to make. We ended up talking a lot about design, but also about the values of our family. Did we care most about getting our wash done in an hour versus an hour and a half? Or did we care most about our clothes feeling really soft and lasting longer? Did we care about using a quarter of the water? We spent about two weeks talking about this every night at the dinner table. We'd get around to that old washer-dryer discussion. And the talk was about design.

We ended up opting for these Miele appliances, made in Germany. They're too expensive, but that's just because nobody buys them in this country. They are really wonderfully made and one of the few products we've bought over the last few years that we're all really happy about. These guys really thought the process through. They did such a great job designing these washers and dryers. I got more thrill out of them than I have out of any piece of high tech in years.

and yet he wore the same dumpy clothes his whole life

I don't know if you needed to link to that markers, everybody knows that miele washing machines are the best, it's common knowledge

i thought japan made some kinda AI washing machines that would figure out how dirty you were gonna get next week or something

that quote is from the february 1996 issue of wired

maybe those weren't out then

so malcolm gladwell summarized a 1996 article for wired for a 2011 article for the nyer

malcolm gladwell, ladies and gentlemen