Great interview with author Malcolm Gladwell ("Outliers"). Jump to around 9:00 minutes for the more interesting parts:
Great comments on Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, etc. Really worthwhile and fun to watch.
Great interview with author Malcolm Gladwell ("Outliers"). Jump to around 9:00 minutes for the more interesting parts:
Great comments on Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, etc. Really worthwhile and fun to watch.
Amir
Founder, Madrona Digital Audio, Video, Home Automation
Contributing Editor, Widescreen Review Magazine
A fair amount of business wisdom there, but I'll have to check him off as one more analyst who doesn't get Apple. Yes, Jobs was obsessed with design, and the oxygen mask story is amusing. But design is not what makes Apple products what they are -- a superior, integrated system of products and services or a frustratingly closed one, depending on your POV -- what makes them what they are, and has made them wildly succeed where their predecessor products (he's right that they didn't do much of anything first) floundered, was Jobs' even greater obsession with the user experience. And when someone doesn't get that, the rest of their business wisdom, smart as it may sound, becomes suspect, because the user experience is almost everything.
Tim
In high-end audio, you can't even fight an opinion with the facts.
Well, for me the realization was that Jobs took his money to the grave with him. Now a bunch of relatives are rich beyond their wildest needs. Bill used his IQ to realize this and changed his course of action. Jobs was so focused on his success that he did not. He lacked sensibility in that regard. Just like the oxygen mask story....
Amir
Founder, Madrona Digital Audio, Video, Home Automation
Contributing Editor, Widescreen Review Magazine
Gladwell's term was amoral, not immoral.
I don't think Jobs accepted the reality of his own death. Giving away that kind of money is a full time job to do it right. Jobs just wanted to keep doing what he wanted to do.
It was surprising to hear that he probably shortened his life by ignoring medical advise and pursuing some kine of holistic hocus pocus at critical junctures of his illness, but then maybe not, that kind of ego would trump any kind of advice.
He didn't "probably" shorten his life - consensus is that he DEFINITELY shortened his life. When you are offered potentially curative surgery at an early stage of your cancer, you take it. By refusing surgery, he signed his own death warrant.Originally Posted by cjfrbw
Classical music enthusiast. System photos here.
-----This is called 'ego', a derivative function of narcissism.
...Or a lack of touch with true reality. ...A mind lapse ....
* And professional psychiatrists/psychologists are not sure of a cure for them people.
...Because them people exactly think that they don't need a cure, a treatment, as they are already perfect; and they simply would refuse such treatment, and walk away and go back to their own demise.
Last edited by NorthStar; 06-07-2012 at 09:50 PM.
All the Very Best, - Bob --------- "And it stoned me to my soul" - Van Morrison
Jobs never retired. Had he lived long enough to do so, we don't know what he would have done with the next stage of his life. Perhaps he never would have retired. Running a business for the passion for the products, making money as a result, is a bit harder to walk away from than chasing winning for the sake of winning. In spite of the obvious parallels, I think Gates and jobs had careers that were very different, and necessarily came to very different ends. And I don't think Gates' predictable exit into atonement is at all surprising. It probably will make more history, though.
Tim
In high-end audio, you can't even fight an opinion with the facts.
I don't think so. I think Gates has contributed far more to the well-being of mankind, whereas Jobs has contributed to the well-being of his closed cult of followers. Ultimately Jobs will be viewed as the greater man, simply because people are vapid and shallow.
Classical music enthusiast. System photos here.
Just count me as one not overly impressed by the ruthless businessman's December transition into philanthropist. It is what it is, and I'm glad to see anyone take a turn toward the light, but it's an old, predictable, story. I'll bet the robber barrons turned philanthropists of the 19th century are still pleading their cases at the gates of heaven.
Tim
In high-end audio, you can't even fight an opinion with the facts.
-----Something rings wright on that ....
All the Very Best, - Bob --------- "And it stoned me to my soul" - Van Morrison
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