tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post4692689763504711264..comments2024-03-15T20:52:26.967-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Steve Jobs's SecretUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-31407870910098052342012-03-17T07:05:20.412-07:002012-03-17T07:05:20.412-07:00Jobs didn't know how to program, and had very ...<i>Jobs didn't know how to program, and had very little technical understanding of computers.</i><br /><br />Oh yes he did but you are too ignorant to know that a computer only needs 64Kilobytes of RAM.<br /><br />And it should go on fire. That is a very useful feature.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91039114441376528692011-11-10T09:11:01.315-08:002011-11-10T09:11:01.315-08:00EU's diversity recession. Northern Europeans w...<a href="http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/five-great-misconceptions-about-the-euro-crisis-6143" rel="nofollow">EU's diversity recession. Northern Europeans weighed down by Southern Latin and Greek lazies.</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71416372164425425282011-11-10T06:26:52.024-08:002011-11-10T06:26:52.024-08:00"An inventor makes things, he doesn't pic..."An inventor makes things, he doesn't pick them from a series."<br /><br />Okay, maybe he wasn't an inventor but he was an innovator in the methods of leading and guiding and pressuring inventors. And he knew how to coordinate all these different inventions. He was an interventor.Seismic Puppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17935462412957725540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4996294291619080782011-11-10T05:55:33.935-08:002011-11-10T05:55:33.935-08:00I can tell when someone is not a true connoisseur ...I can tell when someone is not a true connoisseur if, when asked what they like, they say "Everything." If you like every kind of music or every kind of food, you are not discriminating and thus do not have excellent taste. I always like it when people answer "Good music" or "good food" as if that weren't a tautology. If there is not some music that makes you physically cringe, then you are not an aficionado. Same for wine, or beer or philosophy or sports. If you don't hate a team, you aren't a fan.Antioco Dascalonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10617669156986603638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-25815313132657930422011-11-10T00:14:16.522-08:002011-11-10T00:14:16.522-08:00"To the extent that Jobs provided a general d..."To the extent that Jobs provided a general direction to his men and imbued them with his vision, he was sort of an inventor."<br /><br />No, he wasn't. An inventor makes things, he doesn't pick them from a series. Changing the definition of "inventor" to whatever it was Steve Jobs did (choose swatches) is not helpful.Udolpho.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12976984423336975944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51437054148025277002011-11-09T22:58:14.454-08:002011-11-09T22:58:14.454-08:00not a hacker: the Bellagio seems relatively pleasa...not a hacker: the Bellagio seems relatively pleasant-looking, not to an art critic perhaps, but most of modern LV is nauseating.Alcalde Jaime Miguel Curleohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11801154986193443160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72581223188034352762011-11-09T21:49:30.818-08:002011-11-09T21:49:30.818-08:00Windows 7 looks nice. It looks as good or better t...Windows 7 looks nice. It looks as good or better than OS X depending on your view. And Apple's software like Safari, iTunes, and QuickTime suck. That's why even people with Macs use Firefox and Chrome and VLC instead of the Apple stuff. <br /><br />The main reason to buy a Mac is to fit in and to avoid not looking uncool in certain social settings and industries. I know lots of people who bought and buy Macs after they became popular again in the mid-2000s after iPods became popular who admit to this. Most of their computer use is just to browse the internet anyway. To be fair though, this is a main reason why lots of different consumer brands are chosen. So it isn't unique to Apple or anything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57953499349037468932011-11-09T21:42:41.326-08:002011-11-09T21:42:41.326-08:00"Why such difficulty? Are people too stupid, ..."Why such difficulty? Are people too stupid, too ignorant, too sentimental... what?"<br /><br />Mostly ignorant, but also people are often stuck on a "Big Man" theory of history that says big important figures (that they are aware of) move events forward. It's much less exciting to think of history moving forward on the backs of many anonymous people who make important incremental contributions. Although obviously the latter is closer to the truth.Udolpho.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12976984423336975944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40971581091027886472011-11-09T21:17:51.331-08:002011-11-09T21:17:51.331-08:00Huh? How was the original iMac more minimalist tha...<i>Huh? How was the original iMac more minimalist than the PCs of the day?</i><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G3#Updates" rel="nofollow">No fan</a>, at least for the second-generation version. Takes a lot of hard engineering and someone in charge who hates ambient noise to pull off something like that.Anonymous No. 15.5noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89673625833585998832011-11-09T17:25:49.688-08:002011-11-09T17:25:49.688-08:00"Jobs didn't invent stuff, he managed peo..."Jobs didn't invent stuff, he managed people who invented stuff."<br /><br />But couldn't one say McCarthur didn't win battles and that he only led men who won battles? <br /><br />To the extent that Jobs provided a general direction to his men and imbued them with his vision, he was sort of an inventor. <br />Consider Kubrick and Douglas Trumbull. It was Trumbull who actually did the technical stuff on 2001, but it was Kubrick who provided him with the vision. Without the vision of Kubrick(and later Scott with BLADE RUNNER), Trumbull's technical expertise wouldn't have gone far. And his collaborations with third rate directors didn't produce much of worth.Seismic Puppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17935462412957725540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85350603318002013742011-11-09T16:36:53.772-08:002011-11-09T16:36:53.772-08:00I think one big lesson is that if you have hundred...I think one big lesson is that if you have hundreds of millions by age 25, you can make a big impact in the world if you want to.<br /><br />Jobs wanted to be a somebody, unlike Wozniak or Allen.<br /><br />If Gil Amelio hadn't brought Jobs back into the fold, Jobs would have been another rich has-been.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84989711971663650932011-11-09T16:03:01.163-08:002011-11-09T16:03:01.163-08:00Being a bastard product of an unmarried white woma...Being a bastard product of an unmarried white woman an a nonwhite man seems to contribute to success. Perhaps there is a reason behind it and we can teach it at business schools.<br /><br />I think I know where he got the idea for his wardrobe:<br /><a href="http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a298/hot4mark/kith/PDVD_021.jpg" rel="nofollow">Hecubus</a><br /><a href="http://skeptisys.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/hecubus-786277.jpg" rel="nofollow">Evil!</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzR2Nt869tk&feature=related" rel="nofollow">Kids In The Hall - Simon & Hecubus: Gandar </a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/epicenter/2011/08/steve_jobs.jpg" rel="nofollow">Also</a><br /><a href="http://www.newlaunches.com/entry_images/0807/17/apple_ad.php" rel="nofollow">The Apple-1 for Only $666 - First Apple Ad (1976)</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49232783770945288782011-11-09T14:54:44.202-08:002011-11-09T14:54:44.202-08:00Anonymous 8:01—
Jobs didn't invent stuff, h...Anonymous 8:01—<br /><br /> <i> Jobs didn't invent stuff, he managed people who invented stuff. He was a salesman/manager. Nothing wrong with being a BS artist, but you'd better have someone who actually can do stuff. </i> <br /><br />He was always a good salesman. He grew into being a very strong manager of a sort by the time he returned to Apple through its acquisition of Next for it’s software, which became iMac’s OS 10 software more or less. Perhaps he was at Pixar too or grew into it there.<br /><br />What it always was most of all was someone with great design sense, and great ergonomics sense. I.e. he had great tech taste. He was also a market genius. He had a real sense what people really wanted. <br /><br />Steve’s review of the biography of Steve Jobs is great at making all that clear.Doug1https://www.blogger.com/profile/13948793969077395057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70518635025918555082011-11-09T14:01:44.734-08:002011-11-09T14:01:44.734-08:00Microsoft is the McDonalds of the computer industr...Microsoft is the McDonalds of the computer industry. <br /><br />Apple is the Starbucks of the computer industry. <br /><br />Google is the Google of the computer industry. That's why it will win.Cultnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-55035025777170118642011-11-09T12:24:50.664-08:002011-11-09T12:24:50.664-08:00Beavis and Butthead is truth.Beavis and Butthead is truth.Cultnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87465639841771515652011-11-09T12:07:14.012-08:002011-11-09T12:07:14.012-08:00"Hating the ugly comes naturally to those who..."Hating the ugly comes naturally to those who love the beautiful."<br /><br />Not really. While I have no use for gratuitous ugliness, ugliness in art can be a form of truth. GODFATHER is a beautiful epic, GOODFELLAS is a rather ugly sordid tale of thugs, but the latter movie is more truthful. <br />MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE features a lot of ugliness--and I don't much enjoy watching it--, but it is filled with so much truth about humanity, warts and all, that I can't turn my head away. Truth is a kind of beauty, maybe a deeper kind. <br /><br />"But it takes a cultured mind to know what is beautiful."<br /><br />Yes and no. Uncultured mind goes for easy thrills; in contrast, a cultured mind has an eye for 'higher' things. But more culture means also more complexity, a realization truth and meaning don't necessary equal beauty; and also that ugliness has its fascinating angles too. Take some of the paintings by Goya. Certainly not pretty but there's real power there, a kind of depth you don't find in works that are simply pleasant to the eye. <br /><br />To be sure, 'too much culture' can lead to a kind of decadence or avant-garde conceit where the tasteless and hideous are elevated and favored merely for its 'radical' or 'subversive' value, and it seems like most ulrtra-cultured people today are under that kind of conceit.Cultnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67877177780910754672011-11-09T12:01:12.923-08:002011-11-09T12:01:12.923-08:00Energy. Agreed. I was saying that focus and adapta...<i>Energy. Agreed. I was saying that focus and adaptability were going to be the abilities that pushed IQ off the top of the mountain of advantage, but energy may be a more precise way to look at it than focus.</i><br /><br />Adaptability, or at least the cognitive component thereof, is IQ. Intelligence is the mental ability to adapt. The ability to learn, think flexibly and apply information to new situations is what allowed humans to adapt to ever corner of the globe. Now there may be aspects of intelligence that are not well measured by IQ tests and these may contribute to success; ablities such as executive functioning, frontal lobe reasoning etc. I suspect a lot of high IQ people who fail in the real world have some sort of executive/frontal lobe disability.<br /><br />As for energy, this seems easy to quantify. The amount of cleaning you can do in a day could measure physical energy. Number of super easy math questions (2+1) you can answer in day could measure mental energy.Catpersonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83179862928967205992011-11-09T11:49:07.982-08:002011-11-09T11:49:07.982-08:00Jobs is the rare perfectionist with good judgment,...Jobs is the rare perfectionist with good judgment, which comes through both in the Isaacson biography and in the comma-ed "i, steve" quotes book (Jobs undoubtedly sought to improve on the cover photo aesthetics of "i, steve" in contributing his photos to the front and back covers of "steve jobs", evidently favoring a front view and a slight downward looking head tilt; he was not, however, back-lit). <br /><br />It's a less appreciated general issue in management of technical firms that the technical wonk personality (which Jobs was not) has a lightly regulated capacity for fascination which almost precludes the sort of good judgment Jobs demonstrated in his design/business career. There may be some species survival value in having a handful of people with good judgment directing a much larger group with little capacity to pick what's crucial out of the sea of ambiguities, but able to apply strong attention to trivial tasks. Jobs seemed to grasp the crucial factors and keep people on track: (p. 351) "He went around the table assailing everyone...You know we're trying to save the company here, and you guys are screwing it up!" <br /><br />Jobs had the balls to be psychologically manipulative, lie, unfairly accrue credit to himself, etc. in istevian application of Roissian tenants to the business sphere. Apple products and product releases, Jobs' death and the biography release, and so on reflect alpha-esque ego-oriented attention seeking statements. As a hard knuckled character capable of cruelty internally and in business dealings (while turning out charming consumer friendly products), he receives the highest accolade for businessmen: "a hard man in the world". Et chateau, he boffed Joan Baez a few times, too, for whatever that's worth. <br /><br />Jobs worst decision was in delaying traditional therapy for his cancer, due to an ideological cali-hippie natural therapies mentality, but even the best can err. Michael Milken, another cali-character with good judgment, also attributed his cancer to stress in his early 40s but self-directed his diagnosis and aggressive therapy and is still with us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18563324837096373482011-11-09T10:40:41.498-08:002011-11-09T10:40:41.498-08:00"'In contrast, I don't have outstandi...<i>"'In contrast, I don't have outstanding taste because I'm not a good hater.'<br /><br />You seem to hate the Mexicans pretty well. ;)<br /><br /><br />I know they're trashing your neighborhood, but every single one of your essays ends with a plea to limit immigration."</i><br /><br />You know what I hate? This kind of disingenous remark. <br /><br />First, you are a liar. Not every one of Steve's essays ends with a plea to limit immigration. Secondly, you are deliberately conflating hatred of something with hatred of the deleterious effects that something produces, which Steve himself never does when discussing immigration. <br /><br /><br /><i>"It's sort of as if Beethoven ended all his symphonies with the opening of the Fifth."</i><br /><br />Apparently, you've opened a fifth, and downed it, too, if this is your idea of a cleverly snarky remark.<br /><br />Oh, and no, it's not.Kylienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30699511214908816532011-11-09T10:23:42.550-08:002011-11-09T10:23:42.550-08:00When I have the bad luck to be in Las Vegas, I can...When I have the bad luck to be in Las Vegas, I can't stop looking at the Bellagio hotel. Breathtaking architectural beauty. Hardly anyone shares my awe.not a hackernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41713591057386980792011-11-09T09:53:36.899-08:002011-11-09T09:53:36.899-08:00Good point. That must be why most women have such...Good point. That must be why most women have such execrable taste in jewelry - they're lousy haters. No, wait, their hatred is actually quite easily triggered, isn't it? Oh well.helene edwardsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35922463690711434202011-11-09T09:44:51.775-08:002011-11-09T09:44:51.775-08:00What matters is not so much how one sees the glass...What matters is not so much how one sees the glass but who gets to drink whatever's in it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84301713846239893462011-11-09T09:43:52.026-08:002011-11-09T09:43:52.026-08:00Given the state of art it is in, the problem is po...Given the state of art it is in, the problem is poorism, not purism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20957672740910847832011-11-09T09:43:23.194-08:002011-11-09T09:43:23.194-08:00Steve jobs. Brilliant,obsessive,driven,dominantcou...Steve jobs. Brilliant,obsessive,driven,dominantcourageous,unstoppable.A visionary. A leader. Who today can compare to him? One name leaps to mind:Herman Cain.joshnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-64580209149156395842011-11-09T09:42:34.483-08:002011-11-09T09:42:34.483-08:00"Lots of people love beautiful things"
..."Lots of people love beautiful things"<br /><br />But what they find beautiful is usually ugly or vapid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com