Isaacson. Jobs

  • Adoption. Identity. Independence and control
  • Eichler homes. Mass market. Inspiration for Apple design
  • His intensity. Whatever he was interested in he carried on to an irrational extreme
  • Stay hungry stay foolish
  • Frutarian. Leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight
  • Alan Kay: the best way to predict the future is to invent it
  • Good artists copy. Great artists steal
  • In the annals of innovation, ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important
  • Jobs on raskin: dreamer vs doer
  • Rebellion. Nietzche will to power.
  • Knows your weak points. Can crush you. Those not crushed = stronger.
  • Don’t compromise
  • Do you want to down the rest of your life selling sugar water or do you want to change the world
  • Think different
  • Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do
  • If you need slides it means you don’t know what you’re talking about
  • True creativity comes from closed systems
  • The journey is the reward
  • Focus. Intensity.
  • Zen training
  • People don’t know what they want until you show it to them. Our job is to read what’s not yet on the page
  • jobs – “That’s the ante for being in the room. You have to be able to be super honest. Maybe there is a better way. A gentleman’s club where we all wear ties and speak in this Brahmin language and speak in velvet code words. But I don’t know that way because I’m middle class and from California.”