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Back in 1999 or 2000, shortly after Steve had rejiggered the cafeteria staff, I was walking back to my office in another building with an "afternoon doughnut" -
by salgernon 13y ago
Back in 1999 or 2000, shortly after Steve had rejiggered the cafeteria staff, I was walking back to my office in another building with an "afternoon doughnut" - that is, one that hadn't sold in the morning at the coffee place in the main lobby, and probably sold at a discount.
I passed Steve in the hall and he glared at me as I walked with my doughnut. Steve was in great health in those days while I was pasty and obese. (Still am, sad to say.).
But I was happy with my doughnut. Steve glared at me but didn't say anything. I slunk away.
The next day, there were no more doughnuts at any of the cafés on the main campus. I don't think it's a coincidence.
- donmelton 13y agoThat's a great damn story. And I'm certain it wasn't a coincidence.
- salgernon 13y agoMy only other story would be walking around a pillar in the cafeteria and smacking him face to face as he came around the other side. He said excuse me and moved aside!
- trevelyan 13y agoI'm confused. You suspect he stopped donut service for staff fitness reasons, or because there was no point to subsidizing them on-campus if people preferred to buy them elsewhere.
- beaner 13y agoI don't get it either and I have no idea why you're being downvoted.
- savv 13y agoOne time when I attended WWDC all the food served was vegan at the main social event. The impression here is Job's food preferences filter down as a mandate for all. At least in this instance.
- smlangley 13y agoThen there was WWDC in 2002 where there was a mound of Krispy Kreme donuts for the afternoon snacks.
- jarjoura 13y agoOMG, I remember that year! It was even worse in 2003 when they moved it to Moscone. Fresh made Jamba Juice and mounds of Krispy Kreme donuts galore. It was super gross to be honest. :-) I haven't eaten a Krispy Kreme donut since that year.
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- jimmaswell 13y agosounds unoptimal
- chris_wot 13y agoI can explain. a. It was bought on-campus. b. If he stopped all donut services because of one guy who looked unhealthy, then it again shows how capricious he was. One person who looked a little unhealthy ate a donut on one occasion and he removed donuts from every single store on campus for every single person for no reason other than he didn't like to see someone who looked pasty and obese walking around eating a donut. Because that's the sort of guy Steve Jobs was. A sociopath.
- thejosh 13y agoDo you think 14 years later is a safe time to admit it was you who causes the donuts to disappear?
- Tarang 13y agoI really had a great laugh at this, Thank you for that.
- grogenaut 13y agoand yet you're still alive and (I guess) obese... and he died of not paying attention to cancer. Donuts ftw I guess.
- lkd 13y agoHe paid attention, just the wrong kind of attention -- crackpot cuckoo crazy alternative medicine attention. If he had received the recommended surgery immediately upon the initial diagnosis, he very likely would still have been alive.
- dlsx 13y agoThis statement is so fucking debatable. You do not know that with even 10% certainty. People like you should properly fuck off with your blanket statements.
- drcube 13y agoDidn't he have pancreatic cancer? That's not the kind a little chemo can fix. It has a very high rate of mortality. Patrick Swayze died from it not too long before Jobs. I'm not defending the new age medicine he opted for first. But I don't think it's what caused his death. Might have hastened it a little is all.
- 2mur 13y agoSteve Jobs had a neuroendocrine tumor. These are generally fair better behaved than the more common and far more deadly type of cancer you are probably familiar with, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. While pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas have a dismal prognosis, most neuroendocrine tumors have a good survivability index.
- midas007 13y agoYeah, a hacker artist friend passed just last year from a pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
- _pmf_ 13y agoThat's fucking hilarious!
- galaktor 13y agoThis little story is great. It's anecdotes like this (and on the linked URL) that I would have liked to see in that Jobs movie. Paint a very interesting picture of Jobs, with fresh perspectives.
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- ianamartin 13y agoOh man. I haven't eaten a donut in years. I'm going to go get one now.
- sscalia 13y agosalgernon, Please check out the Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss. You can change your life, get in shape, get healthy. It's so important.
- sscalia 13y agoReally HN, you down vote this fucking comment? Unbelievable.
- PavlovsCat 13y agoLet me try then: http://www.crockford.com/pwl/ http://www.crockford.com/pwl/
- CalRobert 13y agoIf he's already aware of the idea that being fat and pasty is bad for him, he probably doesn't need people on HN telling him that. I used to be fat. I knew it was unhealthy. It was incredibly obnoxious and, frankly, unhealthy, to hear people tell me that I needed to get healthy like I didn't know better. What I needed was to get away from poisonous relationships (I eat to cope with sadness) and hellhole suburbs that make it impossible to walk or cycle anywhere. Moving to the city and going out more instead of keeping a freezer full of crap made a world of difference. The assumption that a stranger on HN knows more about health than he does is insulting and counterproductive.
- larrys 13y ago"What I needed was to get away from poisonous relationships (I eat to cope with sadness) and hellhole suburbs that make it impossible to walk or cycle anywhere." Agree with this. In many (but of course not all)[1] cases there is a root cause to overeating in order to mask pain or give you pleasure. The unfortunate part though is that not everyone can make a lifestyle change to remove the pressure or geography to allow them to make the needed changes. For example someone might be in a relationship and/or have children and need to work where they are or need a certain amount of $$. (But for sure that is not everyone.) [1] While it is definitely true that there are people that have body types that prevent them from losing weight when this is not the case it usually boils down to some other issue that is causing the overeating or lack of control.
- xpop2027 13y agoMy favorite Steve story.
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