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Steve Jobs’ Vision of the World (by gocarlo)
When you grow up you, tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.
You know, one of the things that really hurt Apple was after I left John Sculley got a very serious disease. It’s the disease of thinking that a really great idea is 90% of the work. And if you just tell all these other people “here’s this great idea,” then of course they can go off and make it happen.
And the problem with that is that there’s just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product. And as you evolve that great idea, it changes and grows. It never comes out like it starts because you learn a lot more as you get into the subtleties of it. And you also find there are tremendous tradeoffs that you have to make. There are just certain things you can’t make electrons do. There are certain things you can’t make plastic do. Or glass do. Or factories do. Or robots do.
Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways to get what you want. And every day you discover something new that is a new problem or a new opportunity to fit these things together a little differently.
(Source: whereisthecoool)
(Source: whereisthecoool)
This is amazing, Jenna.
This photograph, taken of Steve Jobs in his living room in 1982, is one of my favorites. At the time he was quoted as saying “This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that’s what I had.”
It’s impressive.
When Steve visited the Times last spring when the iPad first came out, the effect was electric, exactly as Carr describes it. The morning of our meeting, he was already in the building, but we didn’t see him. He waited until we were all seated in a conference room and then he made his entrance. Not one second sooner. I was too nervous to ask too many questions, but at the end of the conversation, I hesitated, then walked over to shake his hand and say hello.
I wasn’t even a year into my job at the paper and I felt shy, anxious, unsteady. Unworthy of being included in that room. Steve was thin, thinner than we expected, but even so, his eyes were flinty, sharp and curious, his lips curving into a mischievous half-smile. I introduced myself and his ears perked up. “I’ve read your stuff,” he said. “It’s good!” It was a tiny moment in time, lasting no longer than a few minutes, and it would be silly to say that I never looked back after that. But it would be even sillier to downplay the mark that it left, the boost that it gave me at that point in my career as a business and technology journalist. Others have said it better, but I’ll tack mine on anway: RIP, Mr. Jobs. You will be missed.
“If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
(Source: news.stanford.edu)
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
(Source: whereisthecoool)
(Source: whereisthecoool)
