[Outliers] Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple
Lessons Steve Jobs wanted to pass on.
Written right before he died.
In his own words:
1. ON BUILDING A REAL COMPANY:
I hate it when people call themselves “entrepreneurs” when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup... See more
The innovative mindset of questioning everything, as exemplified by Steve Jobs, and how companies lose this vision.
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Steve gives some great advice on how to think about building great products. He says, your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them. It's a rare person who etches grooves that are other than a specific way of looking at
... See more“One of the reasons the tech industry is so creatively bankrupt is that people just focus on attributes you can measure,” said Jony Ive, when told of the insecurity Kushner had confided to Rick Rubin. “I was very lucky at Apple, because Steve [Jobs] showed me there was a way to articulate things like sensibility, intuition, taste, which all start... See more
The New World: Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American dream
Steve Jobs found lessons in *every* experience and brought those ideas back to Apple.
I found 4 surprising examples spread across 4 different books.
1. How to recruit talent from J. Robert Oppenheimer:
“At Pixar, it was a whole company of A players. When I got... See more