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A good friend nailed issues via the following points : - if it's a symbiotic herding then nobody cares - people smarter than [ insert cunning entrepreneur / b
by Hitchhiker 15y ago
A good friend nailed issues via the following points :
- if it's a symbiotic herding then nobody cares
- people smarter than [ insert cunning entrepreneur / biz expert ] may be smart enough to realize that they don't really need to be in a greater position of power, or have more money than you
- offer superb scientists / engineers a position that is at the optimal trade-off between work satisfaction and compensation.. they'll take it
- they are smart enough not to take on the responsibility of directly negotiating with VCs / investors
Here are some really interesting points from Mr.Ive
" Ive said in a 2006 speech that his goal is not self-expression. It’s to make something that looks like it wasn’t really designed at all -- because it’s inevitable.That’s been the case since his college days, according to Clive Grinyer, who went to school with him. Grinyer recalled visiting Ive’s apartment, and being shocked to see hundreds of foam models of a single product. Each one was good enough to have been the final product "
" The British native is known to travel to Asia for weeks, studying intricacies of metal-bending equipment, according to former Apple designer Thomas Meyerhoffer. The result is that Apple’s products have unique shapes, textures and thinness. The solid feel of products such as the iPhone is due in part to Ive’s insistence on minuscule tolerances -- the tiny gaps around each part and screw in a product. "
" Ive lacks operations, marketing and sales skills, something he doesn’t regret, according to his 2006 speech. "
" Victories from your ability to sell are very short- lived," Ive said in the speech. " Victories from things you’ve really worked hard at can have a lasting impact. "
source: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/10/05/apple_design_chief_ive_to_lead_product_vision_in_post_jobs_era/ http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/10/0...
I think Steve and his colleagues were acutely aware their own strengths and weaknesses. Here's an interesting video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRoHtUjIkmY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRoHtUjIkmY
- chris_dcosta 15y agoGreat video in fact. But here's the thing, what if you have the energy and passion to persevere - it’s just part of who you are - but nothing happens. I’m sure there have been many great people out there who were “insane” as Jobs put it, but just didn’t find that idea that maded it happen. I know you make your own luck and all that, but there has to be an element of “right-time-right-place” to all this, a chance event that changes the person’s status. Jobs could have been just another “brilliant but wierd tech guy” who maybe tried a few things. But he wasn’t, and something else took him to the big league. Citing products is one thing, but to my mind it’s not enough. Combine it with personality, tenacity? Is that all it takes? I’m still not convinced.
- Hitchhiker 15y agoSure, think you're on the dot. Here are other plausible ways of looking at it: http://www.amazon.com/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Markets-ebook/dp/B002RI9BH6 http://www.amazon.com/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Markets-ebook... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevenient_grace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevenient_grace
- Jage 15y agoI'm sure Steve would appreciate people citing Christian theology on a page about him, seeing how he was a Buddhist
- Hitchhiker 15y agoI'm sure Steve would appreciate the parent link painting him as a liar and manipulator. ergo, observe the word "plausible" and humbly suggest that you missed the point. Mr.Jobs had strong Christian colleagues / friends and so am fairly certain a deep theological idea wouldn't be beyond the scope of appreciation.
- Jage 15y agoI "humbly" agree with the point that Jobs was apple to appreciate deep philosophical ideas; unfortunately, prevenient grace is not one of them Not trying to make any value judgements on Christianity in general, but prevenient grace is an Augustian idea, and as such is one of the more repressive ideas of Christian theology It directly contradicts Buddhist teachings of Karma
- Hitchhiker 15y agoIf memory serves correct, he advised* us not to follow dogma.. so paying my respect to Steve as you suggested and avoiding a dogmatic discussion. Here's a track from another remarkable thinker: " Is it possible to communicate not by "making known" but by "making understood how little we know"? If we can recognize that we know so little, a method for finding out little we know will become clear as well. As the Greek philosopher Socrates remarked, " The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing ". There are infinite number of methods to attain knowledge; finding the right method is up to the individual ". This single idea throws conventional communications methods into reverse. I call this method "exformation", as a counterpart to "information" ( pg. 376 , http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Design-Kenya-Hara/dp/303778105X http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Design-Kenya-Hara/dp/3037781... ) * - not to follow dogma, if you think clearly, is a faulty recursive function