I have written about many lessons we should learn from Steve Jobs and how he ran Apple, but the single most important lesson I learned from him is this: be genuine. It is an incredibly simple phrase, but it is also incredibly meaningful. What I learned from Steve is I
Jobs didn’t like looking back: It’s the 25th anniversary of the Apple Macintosh, but Steve Jobs’ eyes are dry. At the company headquarters in Silicon Valley, where he was presenting a set of new laptops to the press last October, I mentioned the birthday to him. Jobs recoiled
Jon Siracusa (http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/10/steve-jobs-a-personal-remembrance.ars): In a post-Steve-Jobs world, there is no longer an excuse for large corporations to be less bold than start-ups. Elegance, character, artistic integrity, and ruthless dedication to design can no longer be
People are paying their respects to Jobs across the world (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204294504576613721276393938.html): In Chicago, Zack Martin bought a set of tea lights and arranged them in line in front of an Apple store next to a small bouquet that had been left by someone else.
Seth Godin argues we’re at a juncture in economic history, just like the rise of mass production in the twentieth century: The industrial age, the one that started with the industrial revolution, is fading away. It is no longer the growth engine of the economy and it seems absurd
During the GOP debate last night (is this a weekly thing now?), a gay soldier serving in Iraq asked (http://www.mediaite.com/tv/republican-debate-crowd-boos-steven-hill-gay-soldier-serving-in-iraq/) Rick Santorum whether, as president, he would re-implement restrictions on homosexuals in the military.
Greg Mankiw points out just how progressive our tax system is: If you can remember only one fact, make it this one: The middle class (middle quintile) pays 14.1 percent of its income in federal taxes, while the rich (top tenth of one percent of the population) pay 30.
It’s kind of silly, really. It’s a little band of silicone around my wrist, bright green. I wear it every day, though, to remind myself. A good friend of mine passed away this July, just a month before her twenty-second birthday. We met in speech-and-debate
I bought my first Mac in December 2005, just before Apple announced their transition to Intel processors. Before then, all I had ever owned were Windows-running PCs. Windows was a never-ending puzzle, where I had to figure out how to make something work the way I wanted it
Brent Simmons has a new app out, and it’s called Glassboard. Here’s how he describes it: Glassboard is kind of like social networking, in that you share messages, comments, pictures, videos, and locations. The difference is that it’s completely private: what you share doesn’t end up
The Economist’s Schumpeter blog (http://www.economist.com/node/21525839?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/ar/americanidiocracy): American companies are sitting on a gigantic pile of cash; Apple alone has $76 billion in the bank. Why won’t corporate America invest in America? It does not help that domestic demand
HP just announced they are discontinuing WebOS devices, including the TouchPad, and will “continue to explore options to optimize the value of webOS software going forward.” I suppose that means licensing WebOS. If so, I hope that works out, because WebOS is too nice an OS to fold so soon.