One thing that struck me about the death of Steve Jobs was that it came the very day after the new iPhone announcement. He has always had a knack for getting the timing right, from the smallest of the…
John Gruber quoting Philip Elmer-DeWitt:
The difference is that Apple actually invented the technology it accused HTC — and by proxy, Google — of “stealing” (to use Steve Jobs’ verb). One of the pate…
Wow!
6 minutes of Steve Jobs speaking about innovation and creativity in 1981, at age 26.
First, here’s the link. It’s in Quicktime Audio (.mov).
I guess I’m going to have to quote most of the thing, …
Ten years ago today, I’d just moved from New York to San Francisco.
We left New York on September 1st by plane, while our stuff was being hauled by truck by a moving company.
On the morning on Septemb…
Perhaps the difference between Steve Jobs and the “visionaries” at other great companies was his ability to not only see what the future of technology could be, but to wor…
Listening to Don Beck’s Spiral Dynamics Integral program. It’s fascinating work.
The core idea behind Spiral Dynamics is the realization that people are at different levels of development (called meme…
The criteria was that we had to have a room with no windows. They changed the locks on the door.
Apple needed to be able to drill a hole in the desk and chain the devices to desk…
Forbes is making a graphic novel about Steve Jobs’ relationship with his zen teacher:
Following his bitter split from Apple in 1985, Steve Jobs in tensified his study of Zen Buddhism with a priest na…
