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Biggest takeaway from this article: Steve Jobs had a grossly inaccurate recollection of how rock tumbling works.
by justinschuh 15y ago
Biggest takeaway from this article: Steve Jobs had a grossly inaccurate recollection of how rock tumbling works.
- atarian 15y agoCan you elaborate how his portrayal of rock tumbling is "grossly inaccurate"?
- justinschuh 15y agoReally? Well, I haven't used a rock tumbler since I was in elementary school, but it wasn't a matter of picking a few rocks up off the ground and letting it run overnight. The whole process took around a month. Each week you'd dump out the rocks, rinse off the grit thoroughly, and then start it back up with increasingly finer grit. At the end you do a burnishing run to get that final polished sheen. You also had to be informed in your selection of stones. Most random stones won't polish up at all. And you can't mix stones with significantly different characteristics (e.g. hardness) in the same batch or else you'll ruin it. Of course, none of that changes the intent of the metaphor. But, I think that's pretty weak too.