Adrian Slywotzky writing for HBR (via Daring Fireball):
But the idea, so common in this week’s media coverage, that Jobs was an inspired savant who succeeded by taking big risks on personal hunches, …
The next time I met him was when our children attended school together. He sat in on back-to-school night listening to the teacher drone on about the value of education (wait, isn’t …
The longer this goes on, the more absurd it seems.
Today, Business Insider says the patents Google bought in the Motorola deal is crap, and that the reason Google bought them was the patents. Or so th…
Spectacular TED talk by Simon Lewis on the threats to consciousness, and how he was able to recover from coma to pretty damn smart and well functioning human being, and on how others can do the same.
…Sandra Czaja writing for Scientific American Mind (July/August issue page 57: Pop Star Psychology):
Many studies have demonstrated that exposure to sex, drugs and violence on-screen can make all thre…
Fortune, writing in 2000:
We entered 1999 with a feeling of having had tremendous success in 1998, what with the introduction of the iMac and all. And I was getting suggestions from people inside an…
What Would Steve Jobs Do?
It’s easy to fall into that line of thinking.
But I’m guessing one thing in particular that Steve Jobs woldn’t do, is worry about what some other leader, no matter how succe…
On Wednesday, Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple.
Not a huge transition from how things were a week ago, but it’s still a major symbolic shift.
It got me thinking.
What is it about Steve that’s so m…
I was supposed to write a long email to my Danish list tonight. I know pretty much what it’s going to say, it’s been mulling in my head during yoga and sleep and conversations with my wife for the pas…
